pandemic frustrations bubble over on the streets of belgrade chaos erupted as thousands of protesters battles with police and try to storm the parliament they're angry over the president's handling of the coronavirus. the main reason we are here is to support the protesters during these abnormal times when the country is falling apart. cases have spiked across the balkan country in recent weeks serbia recorded its highest coded 1000 death toll on tuesday it forced president alexander to take action announcing a weekend curfew for belgrade the protesters have pushed him to backtrack. just as what i considered it but the crisis team thinks there's still hope to slow the spread so we may introduce harsher measures but without introducing a curfew. that hasn't been enough to keep the peace as police and demonstrators face off with flares fireworks and tear gas. demonstrators say they want to return to normal and for the president to resign. the latest from journalist ferry he's following the protests and joins us now from the serbian capital it grow give us a quick update how bad were the

serbia's fury shows no sign of cooling clashes erupt on the 4th night of anti-government demonstrations in belgrade with protesters trying to enter parliament also coming up. lifesaving and just syria hits 8 you add roadblocks russia and china veto security council efforts to continue sending food and supplies to civilians in rebel held territory in syria aid workers warn this will spell just soft stuff for millions. and is the iconic highest afia is turned into a mosque the president's everyone says full faith also to welcome international critics describe the move as a provocation. to the philippines biggest t.v. network loses its broadcast license mike is supposed to games for new in a b s c b s 25 year franchise following a following his frequent clashes with presidents for they go to texas. welcome to the program clashes have broken out in the serbian capital belgrade on a 4th successive nights of protest demonstrate just attempted to storm the parliament and police force them back this week has seen the worst violence in the southern european country in 2. decades of protests started as a res

large protests defy the new ban on gatherings in belgrade but they remained largely peaceful thank the preceding 2 nights when rioters attacked the parliament building these are scenes the serbian government hopes have subsided now president alexander called the protesters hooligans while addressing the nation during an official flight to paris. i promise you that we will be able to preserve peace and stability despite the criminal hooligan violent attacks we are all shocked by. surging all our people in belgrade and in other cities not to confront the hooligans themselves we will do that as a state we will do it and we will win. the privilege of. earlier this week had announced that a new coronavirus lockdown would be imposed protests erupted just hours later many serbians accuse the autocratic much itch of being the one who allowed the coronavirus crisis to spin out of control in the 1st place in june here prepped the east previously strict measures in order to hold an election that tightened his grip on power since then serbia has experienced a surge in new coronavirus cases of the

the idea again precedent which journalists interest the theory in belgrade thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. hunting vote counting is underway in singapore where the long governing people's action party is some course to retain power. the sample of ballots showed the opposition workers' party gaining parliamentary seats in what could be their best ever performance final results are expected later today. ethiopian authorities have arrested 2 suspects in the killing of the popular political singer charlie condesa whose death sparked protests in which more than $160.00 people killed the arrested men are alleged to be the shooter and an accomplice as a suspect is still at large. for the 1st 2 years prosecutors have filed a new indictment against elaine maxwell the former girlfriend of longtime and longtime associate of the late financier jeffrey epstein at the end dykeman's in new york accused her of 6 criminal counts assigned maxwell has been charged with recruiting and grooming underage girls so epstein could sexually

fury shows no sign of cooling clashes erupted on the 4th night of anti-government demonstrations in belgrade the protesters trying to enter parliament coming out life saving aid to syria hits a u.n. roadblock to russia and china veto security council efforts to continue sending food and supplies to civilians in rebel held territory in syria paid workers more than this will spell disaster for millions. plus. is a free man after the president trying to move to the sentence of his former aide could face prison for lying to congress. goes on the show then is test out it's much too late the defense system critics say the engineering model may be doomed to fail. a more welcome to the program clashes between police and demonstrators have broken out in the serbian capital belgrade on a 4th successive night of protest defying a ban on mass gatherings of protesters started earlier this week as a response to coronavirus restrictions but has been mounting of what the protesters say is an autocratic state. right toward anger on the barricades as bill great a game boy. or group of demonstrators attempts t

serbia's fury shows no sign of cooling clashes erupt on the 4th night of anti government demonstrations in belgrade with protesters trying to enter parliament also coming out. lifesaving aid to syria holds pits and human rights groups russia and china veto security council efforts to continue sending food and supplies to civilians in rebel held territory in syria workers warn this will spell disaster for millions. just so is a free man after person president from commuted the sentence of his former aide could face prison for lying to congress. welcome to the program clashes between police and demonstrators have broken out in the serbian capital belgrade on a 4th of successive nights of protest defying a ban on mass gatherings the protests started earlier this week as a response to coronavirus restrictions has been mounting of what the protesters say is an autocratic state. why toward anger on the barricades as bill great again boils over. a group of demonstrators attempts to enter the national assembly police are briefly forced onto the back foot before mustering for a counter offensive. it's becom

coronavirus response to the peaceful demonstration follows 2 days of violent clashes we'll go live to belgrade also coming up coronavirus testing stations in israel that were once shut down for lack of use are now running full tilt the country was once a model for its pandemic response but no more and remembering the victims of the srebrenica genocide 25 years ago. it was the men who were taken away even little boys from the age of 8 even 90 year olds. w. hears from survivors of the massacre who will never forget the pain or the brutality 8000 muslims killed the images on toes who lost their loved ones. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program there's been a 3rd night of protest in serbia against the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic that's despite an official ban on gatherings of more than 10 people the protest began earlier this week after the government proposed a 2nd lockdown due to a sharp spike and covert 1000 cases which some blame on the serbian president's decision to hold elections. large protests defy the new ban on gatherings in belgrade but they remained largely peac

the situation in belgrade is alarming and it's serious in food cities in serbia but belgrade is really in a critical situation the capitals hospitals are almost full so the military has been building temporary facilities gatherings of more than 5 people and now banned and the u.k. feed this weekend before the game the anger against the church means the crowds are unlikely to stay at home of the bride al-jazeera where we can speak to somebody who is at the protest last night at god so let's have a talk with her and the video he joins us on skype from belgrade ed thanks for joining us here on the program and so you were working on the streets last night taking pictures of what was happening what's your sense of the extent of the discontent well and the extent is very serious i mean it's very hot in belgrade now and both literally and figuratively tempers are really running high and. yet there's many reasons for that part of it i think is that serb serbs because of coronado borders are close and they can't get to the sea to cool down so everything is high temperature ok what curfew has be

to be honest we have to see different layers of the protests that are happening now in belgrade one in a larger portion is related to the measures that are introduced suddenly reintroduced and the some uncertainty that part of serbia society's feeling but the violent scenes that u.s. soil and that your reporter brought across it are linked to who quite a lot of small groups of holy guns who are deployed on the streets we also are posing the question whether security forces can control. can they be a bit more preventive so that we do not see the violent scenes on the on belgrade and whether these behind those those groups there are also a statement. that some of the security services are. foreign security services are behind those violent parts of the protests but i believe that the serbian public and the larger should know more on that what are. the reasoning for such a. such an a conclusion that we have so we had yesterday the 1st the 3rd day i'll have the protests where we didn't see any violence on the streets so there is a possibility with the larger control of the protesters who c

you have noted to some of this is not just about belgrade and belgrade's patients it is also about patients being sent here from all over serbia one who took what you seriously be. in april serbia imposed one of the world's strictest lockdowns despite this the government pushed ahead with plans for june's parliamentary election. during the campaign officials declared victory over the coronavirus and normal life resumed without any restrictions. the opposition boycotted the poll and turnout was low. but his party won by a landslide. since the election frustration with the government has been growing as it became clear the coronavirus crisis is far from over deflected blame on to the public as to true. pseudonymity opposed to sure it was our decision to relax the measures but if i wanted to be mean i could remind you that it happened on your insistence. that the people were banging pots and pans saying it was time to end my dictatorship saying i was using restrictions on movement and curfews to make normal life impossible please excuse not to quit malls preaching one out of the city and not a

situation is very bad specially in belgrade we have more than 4000 people in hospitals and there are only today and 13 people died this is the highest number of that in one day so what is happening right now and for a several hours. that the people gathered to hear they're very angry because of their new measures they think this is not to do the right way to deal this situation. they are saying that the situation in hospitals are very bad that this is the way to spend the money in the hospitals not on the elections and also they're afraid their numbers of. people are much bigger than those numbers out or it is are saying so this is what is happening those protests there really fast become really violent and police is here they are pushing away the people in small groups they're all over the city i also saw police on the horses and never have seen something like that in belgrade police on horses they're used in some peaceful. manifestation but never like these to run to 2 people to try to push them away so this is the situation in belgrade right now and the protesters here and i espec

i am surging all our people in belgrade and in other cities not to confront. the hooligans themselves we will do that as a state we will do it and we will win it your people village. earlier this week blue chips had announced that a new coronavirus lockdown would be imposed protests erupted just hours later many serbians accuse the autocratic much itch of being the one who allowed the coronavirus crisis to spin out of control in the 1st place in june here brought the east previously strict measures in order to hold an election that tightened its grip on power since then serbia has experienced a surge in new coronavirus cases what they mean i don't have a problem with these measures but i do have a problem with shutting them down just because of the elections and then reimposing them. what is the need our government is simply looking after its own interests the people are just collateral damage. is that. serbia went back 5 centuries under president putin. that thousands of people who gathered in belgrade and other serbian cities in defiance of the new ban made

he said he would reinstate measures in belgrade. many angry belgraders gathered at parliament. there were about 5000. they were not angry at the fact -- at thvivirus. presisident is the making all these d decisions rerelated to c covid. he's bebeing a accused of being rise inble for a recent covid numbers. j june,th, the 21st of there was an election. there turned out was a truly the government. the end of the confinement started in early june [inaudible] there was a political meeting. covidmber of new kb cases was [indiscernible] by the government. the increasesee was related to the fact that the president t wanted the election held last month. that is why they are angry at him. course, the protesters were thesed of being members of coalition as early as this morning. >> thank you for putting things into context for us. apologies for the quality of that connection. china opened a new national security office in hong kong a week after passing a law by the same name. a law that gives beijing broad powers to crack on a variety of political crimes. was inaugurated this wednesday.

said his decision to reimpose coronavirus restrictions responding to angry protests in the capital belgrade demonstrators accuse the president of his own to future of reopening the economy too early for political gain he's now announced a weekend curfew after the country reported its worst day of the pandemic with 13 deaths like sam brown has this. process does and police battle on the streets around say b. as parliament. crowds try to storm the building some briefly managing to get inside before being pushed thank . god they're angry at president aleksander of the church and his decision to re-impose coronavirus restrictions. some chanted calling him a thing. others demanded his resignation or government trying for the 2nd time. the cyclone. to impose current thin far reaching it is only a serious possibility because they made all the mistakes. the mistake they say was lifting what was one of europe's strictest lockdowns. earners we gathered here to protest because our president lifted the state of emergency because of the election and now he wants to impose it again. critics say the presi

and government rallies have filled capitol belgrade for the 2nd day with protesters angered over what they see as the government's mishandling of the pandemic after a surge in covert 19 cases after peaceful march in the daytime protests have turned violent for a 2nd night demonstrators throwing flares and bottles of police in riot gear president aleksander of which it appears to have bowed to public pressure and backtracked on his decision to reintroduce a curfew this weekend critics say the shop spike in infections was caused by a series of politically motivated decisions by. pandemic frustrations bubble over on the streets of belgrade chaos erupted as thousands of protesters bounce with police and try to storm the parliament there angry over the president's handling of the coronavirus. the main reason we are here is to support the protesters during these abnormal times when the country is falling apart. cases have spiked across the balkan country in recent weeks serbia recorded its highest coded 1000 death toll on tuesday it forced president alexander to take action announcing a wee

the story same like last night that you're not shot bombs and tear gas is going on in many streets of belgrade there in front of the parliament but also in small streets the police is fighting to spread the crowd but things change since last 23 hours especially units of serbia are here right now trying to take over the control of the practice. of peace will tilt. in the evening but then practice to stoke the fans and throw stones on the police to intervene but you to help us understand what's going on there are people angry and becoming violent because of this new lockdown or is there something else going on well i have mixed feelings about what is going on because we have nationalistic groups also people say they are not happy that the reggie marseilles on the roof just calling him you know ray i'll talk practic president who has been leading for 8 years with serbia but took over the control of media and everything else in this country so they started because of come didn't i but they say now they are unhappy with the situation we know the president has blamed foreign agents when he calls the

thousands of protested for a 4th day in the serbian capital belgrade they're calling on the president alexander to resign in part due to his handling of the pandemic crisis and what they say is his increasing authoritarianism. the outbreak occurred in 19 in less than america and the caribbean is getting worse several countries now rank among those with the highest per capita infection rates anywhere in the world as cases that saw at least 3 leaders have now come down with the virus manuel or apollo as the story. with few exceptions the coronavirus pandemic in latin america is worsening deaths in the region and now account for nearly half of daily coronavirus deaths worldwide and a pandemic is not scaring regional leaders. on thursday libya's interim president janine and yes announced that she along with 3 cabinet members had tested positive for the virus. or yet that i would remain in quarantine for 14 days until a take a new test to see how i'm doing i'm feeling fine strong i will continue working remotely in isolation. she's not the 1st in the region to become infected last month hu

listen hygene nicholas is joining us live now from belgrade we were talking about an hour ago and you were saying that there were some protests that that were expected round about this time is there any indication that people are turning out for those protests. yes the protests the are about to start here in the red again today it expected a lot of people would gather around downtown belgrade yesterday everything was very violent and there was a very much of rioting around the streets of belgrade police was very unprepared for what happened nobody expected that something like what happened yesterday could happen nobody expected compacted does because the president who treats yesterday none of the curfew could be imposed this weekend and shortly after that people started to gather around in front of the national assembly 1st about some 100 people and then in the next couple of hours thousands arrived in front of the national assembly and then everything's sparked out and the riots started in their losses on field some 3 am so very along the yesterday today it was announced as protests

pandemic frustrations buffalo for on the streets of belgrade chaos erupted as thousands of protesters battled with police and trying to storm the parliament there angry over the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic balsa redoubtable the main reason we're here is to support the protests that are happening during these abnormal times when the country is falling apart. cases have spiked across the balkan country in recent weeks serbia recorded this highest code with 19 death toll on kids day president alexander who checked originally announced a weekend curfew for belgrade but now his government says it won't re impose a lockdown. but no one is quite sure whether that will be enough to appease the demonstrators and keep the peace. let's get some analysis on the story now we have with us he's the southeast europe expert for the german institute for international and security affairs thank you for joining us how do you explain why we've seen such violence in serbia over the government's handling of the pandemic. the reason is not only that there mix is a deeply divided society

thousands of people have protested for a 4th day in serbia as capital belgrade over the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic what they say is the president's increasingly or thora tarion rule. demonstrators through firecrackers and police who responded with tear gas protestors define a ban on gatherings a more than 10 people called on president alexander to church to resign ronnie's began on tuesday after attempts to reimpose lockdown instructions on friday in serbia swords highest daily death toll. is in belgrade she describes how friday night's protest descended into violence everything started when a group or for protesters tore down the security fence in front of the national assembly building and they were provoking police officers they were throwing stones on the police but police officers kept calm and they didn't respond until a couple of minutes ago and now the situation is quite similar with what we've seen a couple of days ago 2 days ago police officers responded with tear gas and that is happening now and the protesters are are persistent they are still in fr

on a virus is a very bad and the worst is here in belgrade that we have more than 4000 people in the hospitals just to day 13 people died over the coronavirus this is the highest number in one day so what happened today is that people were very angry of this situation and with this kind of measures to why because serbia was already has already been in the state of emergency before and then out already said it took a now things are going better let's have an election so we had the parliamentary elections and the day after numbers started to increase and today the situation is even worse than before so people are angry. they think that the money should be invested in hospitals and not in the election and this is what happened tonight. where a. very. police is on the streets already i have never seen policemen on horses before in this kind of situation you can see police on horses in some peaceful manifestations or ceremonies but nothing like these policemen on horses are. walking into damascus and the tear gas and the shock bombs. for every few minutes we had to run because of the tear

thousands of people are back on the streets of serbia's capital belgrade angry at the way their president has handled the coronavirus and. at least one person has died as chaotic protests rock mali's capital bamako demonstrators have blocked roads attacked the parliament and stormed the premises of the state television channel which has now gone off air. a group of al jazeera journalists have been questioned by police in malaysia over a documentary on migrant workers they all 40 say they want to one east documentary focusing on people being locked up during the pandemic could have broken sedition laws al-jazeera says it has serious concerns about developments in media freedom in malaysia bernard smith has more. the broadcasting of this video of handcuffed and documented migrants being loaded into police vans in kuala lumpur seems to have hit a raw nerve with malaysia's government several officials have accused al-jazeera of trying to tarnish malaysia's image one i want to east investigates why so many foreigners of being locked up in malaysia's lockdown. on friday the police called in the

is alarming and it's serious in 4 more cities in serbia but belgrade is really in a critical situation. the capital's hospitals are almost full so the military has been building temporary facilities gatherings of more than 5 people are now banned and the u.k. few this weekend before they and the anger against the church means the crowds are unlikely to stay at home. brian al-jazeera coronavirus cases continues to climb in the u.s. the number of dead has passed 130000 infections are surging in states that push to reopen early but president trump is still downplaying the pandemic and insists he won't schools to reopen after the summer break like how the reports now from washington d.c. . texas is one of the 1st states to use its mitigating measures responding to pressure from president trump in mid april who insisted he wanted states to open up to restart the economy. now with stealing with a massive increase in infections joining florida and reporting more than 10000 cases in a day a figure matched only by new york state in the early stages of the pandemic in the next 2 weeks we're prob

they're all around the center all the belgrade and they're coming in buses so there is going to be a lot of police and probably the police today will be better organized than they were yesterday because yesterday they weren't prepared for what happened last night so today they are going to be prepared to clash with the demonstrate their state of the demonstrators decide to clash with the police so we're expecting something. today but we have to say that the president of serbia today unknowns that there will be no curfew despite that the opposition parties who bought it bought the elections because they were afraid of a coronavirus and the rise of the cases of the coronavirus here in serbia. boycotted the elections they're not there today organizing that protest and they said that they will go all the way that brought this if the curfew is revoked or if the curfew is imposed so we're going to see what will happen tonight everybody hopes that the things will not be so violent as there were last night but you know having in mind how many police officers and police is today in dollar a d

him of lifting measures in june to hold elections which he then wanted to set out sunni colleges in belgrade he says police have managed to clear most of the protesters from the streets. we could say that the police was better prepared tonight than they were the last last night yesterday so they had a better tactics tonight so they sort of attack the demonstrators they try to disperse them around the national assembly because it's bigger than the truth or is he thousands of few 1000 of them gathered in front of the national assembly and they hold them away through the surrounding streets so they may have sort of a small pockets of demonstrators around the national assembly does making them easier to remove them a free to roam the streets so most of the demonstrators went home and there is nobody in the streets but there is also still a group of demonstrators some i don't know 500 meters away from the national assembly in front of them it is a huge amount of police who they there know in some kind of a standoff. the police is a strong units of police special and there is the unit of of police

she's in belgrade she describes now how friday night's protests descended into violence. everything started when a group of for protestors tore down the security fence in front of the national assembly building and they were provoking police officers they were throwing stones on the police but police officers kept calm and they didn't respond until a couple of minutes ago and they're now the situation is quite similar with what we've seen a couple of days ago 2 days ago police officers responded with tear gas and there is happening now and the protesters are are persistent they are still in front of the national assembly building so police is not still fighting the main entrance but they are spread all over the city center and i have to say that from today in belgrade every gathering of more than 10 people is forbidden and there is a new measure against the coronavirus ok let's get more on top story that decision taken by the u.s. president donald trump in the past 2 or 3 hours to commute the prison sentence handed down to his former campaign advisor roger stone the 67 ye

rocks flares and insults at the government protesters gathered 1st 2nd night across the serbian capital belgrade. i security forces best outside parliament came to avoid a repeat of choose day's chaos when some protesters managed to storm the building. but the tensions remain high with more tear gas from police some in the crowd and taint on forcing their way inside again. there's an accumulation of dissatisfaction the majority of people here don't have exact demands that most of them feel in justice protesters blame president aleksander for a sudden spike in coronavirus dates and infections after it lifted a strict lockdown just weeks before last month's elections demonstrations began on tuesday when virtue announced the restrictions would be coming back to de lay said he said he had advised the government not to introduce a curfew but refused to take responsibility for the outcry. the political rally was well organized a part of the security services on the before md and was saying there was an involvement of various not only criminal groups but also international intelligence services. the ch

regular police the police cavalry every every single part of the police is on the streets of belgrade and they're still clashing wind with the demonstrators so we will see where will this go this evening for their own. can see live pictures there and you will of course be monitoring developments for us for the moment to show that's uniquely live for us in belgrade thank you. still ahead in this half hour why the u.s. denying is that release of a lebanese. businessman charged with financing hezbollah isn't a prisoner swap. hello on tuesday this thin line of cloud here with a lot of lightning strikes and it produced hail and he up to 5 centimeters in diameter in western russia ukraine and that was the black sea now it's more described the way it stationary now that side of it is still nice and hot this side that it's cool down it's not cold by any means it's disappointing for july that's almost the european plane it is still hot from romania south of through turkey and greece and back through italy spain and portugal least in part the blue suggests where it's raining in the construct ra

the capital seen a drop a dramatic rise in cases this unhygienic allege has more from belgrade. today it was announced as protests their position partisan and pro announced protests because they don't want that curfew to be imposed a thing that the government he's now going poorly with a covert crisis and that is why they want to gather people on the on the 3 to today but before that president hu just today ed today said that the curfew will not be probably will not be imposed that the prime minister and the health minister will decide about that tomorrow but nevertheless the opposition parties have decided together and down the bell downtown belgrade and there and as we speak there the people are arriving into downtown belgrade and it is announced at the 1900 hours local time there will also again gather around the national assembly we will see what will happen there because a lot of police came to the serbian capital today to the outskirts of the center of the city if i can say like that a lot of police buses came rightfully special police there married to cavalry everybody fr

thousands turned out for the second day of protests in belgrade despite the u-turn. he tried to reinforce measures that the serbian highest day death total of covid-19 -- protesters say he is actually partly responsible for the spike, accusing him of lifting the measures in june for the election, which he then won. police are said to have managed to have cleared most of the protesters from the street. they were last night, yesterday, so they had better tactics tonight. they sort of attack the demonstrators and tried to , 2000 of them gathered in front of the national assembly, and they pulled them away to the surrounding streets, so they made a focus of demonstrators around the national assembly, to remove them. most of the demonstrators went the, and there is nobody on street, but there is also still someup of demonstrators, 500 meters away from the national assembly, and a huge amount of police, who say they are now in some kind of a standoff. the police, a strong unit of police, a unit of the police of serbia, the regular police, calvary. they are all at that site