it's for the select few who are able to make the political system what. these impressive new skyscrapers are a good example a staggering eighty percent of lebanon has been privatized but activists say much of this development is illegal civil society campaign and. takes us on a trip to explain why. one of the controversial developments is this resort recently despite several legal rulings against it.

so. the result is just one of many enterprises spreading along the coast. home with. government. tells us that insult to injury the resorts and restaurants routinely pump their waste into the sea in. the light can walk. along. a kid then lead. the twenty fifth.

lebanon's problem with waste management is not new but in demick corruption and gridlock a for which party has responsibility meant it remains a highly sensitive political issue. here on the shoreline it's fishermen like now who are most affected he tells us he now struggles to earn a living from these contaminated water as. he was so much on think he was so much so you. think it was. i mean over the sound. take us to a stretch of coast where it seems there's almost as much plastic as sand with anomaly and i had a fear the radio is developing. really . unimpressed by the noise and.

now you're. going to vomit real. good he said. inevitably anger is boiling over. to send a message to the government the fishermen hold a protest at one of the new coastal landfill sites. these were the government's response to the rubbish crisis but the fishing community says that toxins leaking into the sea and now poisoning the water. that is what we've got at least thank god you're looking to go back to life. when she was in movie. because that was true. with the police trying. to limit the protest.

but the presence of the civil society candidates who win a seat in the recent elections. turn up gives them pools today they're asking for their rights to fish at least but instead of fishing all they're getting is garbage from just. about i'm thinking. about giving the majority of my time with them was sold to market something but they're there and they're in the hospital again. but no no one is responsible this is one of them in the government and on the same table and everything we're going to the other is responsible not me i would say every minister in this government and our name the president because they run the country. yet the question of who actually runs the country is a contagious spirit and subject to geopolitics lebanon's position between more

powerful neighbors has always made it fun to outside influences. you have israel on the once in a civil war you have. fighting proxy wars all over the middle east. and north of iraq also fighting because you have the u.s. and russia for acting for free so the part of. this. today the dominant external players in the country are iran which supports the shia muslim party hezbollah and its allies and saudi arabia which supports most sudanese and such and christian policies against hezbollah. things came to a head in news but twenty seventeen when prime minister. was visiting saudi arabia and to the shock of his fellow citizens it's something the appeared on t.v. to make a statement for. the. or

she had. or doing more wrong left. femur. what. one hundred many in lebanon believe that was how the hostage by his saudi patrons and forced to resign because he was losing ground to hezbollah after international pressure had easy returned home and said he wasn't giving up office off the rule but he has yet to explain exactly what took place and we both know what happened to the president announced that our prime minister was a person in saudi arabia then the prime minister came back after a month he said ok i'm not resigning anymore and then business as usual. what's that. this is this it's not normally the people who are in charge of the

country i'm not in charge of that and they are protecting iran or saudi arabia by sitting in the parliament with a stick that they are supposed to let you. distort the politics we tried repeatedly to get an interview with the prime minister for this film but our requests were declined his opponents to have their patrons and the leader of the hezbollah party say it. does not shy away from his reliance on iran not. much more. for. me i fear. the flows. the fuse. hezbollah and its allies including the president michel long's party were the biggest winners in the recent elections we try to speak with has been listening to

ship which we're told that they too were not giving interviews even filming from a car in a hezbollah controlled area is problematic security is tight and outsiders are quickly spotted you know you never leave. your house was always a. memory but never mind that there are. some of us right now because michael doesn't palestine. and to israel is one of hezbollah's defining characteristics the polish he did agree to show us the museum . close to the border with israel built on a former battleground the place is a showpiece of hezbollah's resistance to his radio tax. we are hearing sort of bunker. used by fighters or for this during the war in one thousand nine hundred ninety s.

. the first. iranian funs we're told gave has the means to fight israel more effectively than the last equipped lebanese army it's why for years now proposals that hezbollah's paramilitary wing should give up its weapons have to follow both the government and public opinion for its supporters hezbollah is seen primarily as a resistance movement and. why don't. more but the existence of a separate armed force under one political party worries many in lebanon if hizbollah has missiles that can defend lebanon was to stay with his blog why not

transfer these arms into the lebanese army just that is handing over office today and leaving the political world where he has served for the last nine years as a parliamentarian for the lebanese forces. a right wing christian party which gained in the elections the aspirations of the. shi'ites from iran to iraq to syria to lebanon is obvious. to the democratic system in the economy of this country this country cannot sustain if hezbollah maintains what they're doing they've had their impact. on the economy of lebanon and the proper governance of the system. i don't feel personally threatened by possible that's for sure but i know that my country is threatened by their presence and surprisingly hezbollah refutes such claims. well i mean. i don't know how him can live tisha and the doctors will love iran.

a lot of the want. in the absence of effective states well for hezbollah like most other political parties office services to its supporters including providing food for the poor. of the land. was. nothing much harder. the problem is that it was like. over if. not i'm on the ballot now i'm lucky if one fifty i now from our side of the f.b.i. got brought in for a lot. of banks to defer i don't think. anybody with all due respect

the lebanese experts that work in the middle east in general in the gulf in particular bring into this economy the local economy six billion dollars a year on this i don't know what contribution to my economy iran has done. given hezbollah's recent election successes it's made look like iran is winning the proxy war against saudi arabia. yet the history of lebanon is all about no one side ever becoming dominant and just question where we are living it's always going to be this balance between these. because when i was one other you have civil war but maintaining this delicate take will librium through lebanon's confession the system has long been seen here is both a blessing and curse it's about identity it's always been a lot of them to love them i mean you still have just communities you don't have one living on have liked in the ones you don't have one for the future you have

nineteen of them while the power sharing that somebody age in the current constitution might have kept these different visions of life or at least prevented lebanon from returning to the dark days of sectarian conflict its critics say it's also led to stagnation clanton ism and corruption at the hands of an entrenched elite the government is stuck in gridlock the economy struggles and mismanaged public services failed to deliver few places to put somalis the stagnation better than the country's once proud railway system which used to connect three continents lebanon. rains stopped running during the civil war more than forty years ago and to party squabbles over responsibility and budgets have stopped them moving ever since although ludicrously this rusting network is still officially in receipt of public funds in reality it's now just a relic of better times a victim like so much in lebanon of

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technology went from humble beginnings to the world's most valuable company. and all the way to the top a driver for a full time minister is key to uncovering a corruption scandal. anderson has been declared the winner of zimbabwe's presidential election but the opposition m.d.c. alliance says it rejects the result and has evidence of electoral fraud of the day since monday's ballots have been marred by protests and violence that have killed at least six people. who became president after the removal of robert mugabe is the leader of the ruling zanu p.f. party he won six of the ten electoral provinces taking over just fifty percent of the vote that's enough to win the presidency without the need for

a runoff rival nelson chamisa who is president of the movement for democratic change alliance won forty four percent my god was won the popular vote and zimbabwe's rural areas. was more popular in urban areas how much ass are reports from harare. after days of tension the winner of zimbabwe's presidential election is finally declared. for. zanu p.f. party is therefore julie declared elected president of the republic of zimbabwe with effect from the third of august twenty eighth. opposition supporters are not happy some try to announce their own results saying they have evidence the election was rigged. jets. that election officials deny the allegations of fraud so to do supporters of the

ruling party it's unfortunate that raising these claims because there are procedures that they have that are state. law that if you claim that you have been rigged you can operate the courts the streets of our area car by tens after violence on wednesday when soldiers dispersed opposition supporters who say the vote was stolen some. shops and businesses will close of the day as people waited to see what would happen next the police have taken away opposition supporters who had been staying at the party's headquarters they say they want to question each person to see if they're committed any crimes. it was absolutely there was nothing . the day vision people should be focusing on the. results now rather than. just the army and police are still patrolling the streets of harare and guarding important is jewish and western diplomats election observers and human rights workers say the military used

unnecessary force to disperse protesters who had been accusing election officials of vote rigging the police had cordoned off the area outside the opposition party headquarters in harare for a while people weren't allowed to go inside or outside the building that's changed now the doors have been opened but opposition supporters say it should not happened in the first place. international observers say if political leaders aren't happy with the result they should take their grievances to the courts and not resort to violence. mali's presidential election is set to go to a runoff after no one candidate secured fifty percent of the vote election commission announced provisional results was present. when forty one percent rival somalia came in second with seventeen percent millions of people cast their ballots on sunday but the vote was marred by violence and thousands of polling stations and

some election convoys were targeted by government. the health ministry of democratic republic of congo says it has identified the strain of a boner in the country's latest outbreak they say it's the zaire strain which has been successfully treated in the vat by a vaccine in the past and sash is in the town of benny in north kivu the outbreak was detected on wednesday twenty people are confirmed to have died from the disease and four others are ill. saudi that coalition in yemen has denied carrying out an asteroid can have data that killed at least twenty six people the strike hit a fishing port and fish market near the main hospital who the rebels say fifty five people died meanwhile the u.n. special envoy for yemen is convening a new round of talks in the latest bid to end a three year civil war muslim jordan reports from the united nations the families of at least twenty six people who data yemen are now planning their funerals the victims were killed in a saudi coalition air strike near the hospital in the city center on thursday this

as the u.n. special envoy for yemen announced he will host talks between the government and who think rebels in geneva on september sixth these consultations will provide the opportunity for the park is among other things to discuss the framework for negotiations to agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific plans for moving process forward griffith's argument keeping her data open to delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis is important but it's much more important to end the war the un's humanitarian chief describe just how bad the situation has become for ordinary people three years of conflict have left two million people displaced from their homes eight point four million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and the worst cholera outbreak in the word occurred in yemen last year with one point one million cases. the humanitarian situation is

indeed shocking both in scale and severity and these figures they represent a call for urgent action the saudi coalition which backs the government of president abdulla robbo monsour hadi and iran which gives the who these military support are not invited to griffiths talks but they'll probably go to geneva to keep an eye on things and then there's the u.s. under fire for giving military support to the saudi coalition and a critic of tehran support for the who these the us ambassador used her security council remarks not only to chastise iran for destabilizing yemen but also to send a message to riyadh about its air war against the who these we've hit a new day now in yemen and we've had a new sense of urgency and u.n. and that if this is what started to happen civilians are at risk infrastructure is at risk but in the last three years at least ten thousand people have been killed

in yemen another forty thousand injured the risk for civilians already a reality. jordan al-jazeera the united nations. is the head of the fisherman's union and hyundai did he accuses the coalition of targeting civilians say that. the targeting of fishermen was not expected the poor in market were full of people and there was a massacre at least twenty five people were killed and forty others were injured we believe more fishermen were killed in the sea near the port fishermen were targeted by the coalition everywhere the gate of the hospital in the fishing port are not a military target and there was no military presence in the area normally men were around at all the targeting was aimed to spread fear and terror in the tech giant apple has become the first company to have a valuation of one trillion dollars on the u.s. stock markets that's a million million mark was raised when apple's share price tipped over two hundred

seven dollars is the second company worldwide to hit the trillion dollar value petro china did it very briefly eleven years ago on the shanghai exchange market analysts expect amazon and alphabets the company that owns google to be the next person salumi has more from new york. there was some concern that apple a company known for its hardware had little room to grow given saturation of the cell phone market but its latest earnings report put that worry to ras apple posted earnings of fifty three point three billion dollars in the third quarter an increase of seventeen percent over the same time last year and that is driven by strong demand for its most expensive phone the i phone x. but it's not just hardware behind the company's success the tech giant is also seeing growth in its services business which includes the app store apple music and apple pay sixty percent of the company's sales are international in every region except japan reported double digit growth this is the fourth quarter in

a row of double digit growth for apple pushing it into trillion dollar territory at a time when. other tech stocks like facebook and twitter have struggled up with a good quarter so they sold yet again fifty million phones and if the phone sales were a little soft why unit number the average price rose because the axis was very high average selling price so apple continues to be the most profitable company in the world now apple may be the first trillion dollar company in the united states but others are hoping to follow suit including amazon and google zoner alphabet to manson as the c.e.o. of social flow which advises social media companies is also a commentator on social media and technology he says these results are a reflection of the loyalty of apple users but also the strength of the tech market the tech sector surely has been performing phenomenally the growth in these tech companies had a few bumps lately with earnings releases the past couple of weeks but still you're

talking about companies that are worth more than half a trillion dollars and now for apple to get to this one trillion dollar mark is certainly it's the best of the best all of these tech companies are being rewarded for stellar growth and sometimes they're punished when we saw what happened to facebook you know facebook had record earnings a couple of weeks ago when it was punished pretty badly because the growth was not quite what was expected you look at apple's numbers and the growth was there and so clearly the market loves when the tech companies continue to grow they know they know how to turn that growth into profit you think about it you and i could reasonably say wow that's a lot of money for a phone i'm not sure i want to spend it i'm not sure our opinions matter so much that consumers clearly have voted with their wallets and their pocket books and they're buying those phones and apple ever since steve jobs came back you know when after he had been booted out of the company really honed in and made its products have a very sleek sense of design and have a whole lot of consumer appeal and that clearly hasn't changed people still want to own i phones and other apple devices and we see the result. the trump

administration is seeking to scrap even more environmental regulations setting its sights on fuel efficiency standards for american cars and trucks activists warn that this will be bad for both consumers and the planet brunell's has more from. the proposals would freeze fuel efficiency at the level mandated for twenty twenty discarding higher standards that would have gone into effect in two thousand and twenty five the standards were negotiated between the obama administration and the auto industry environmentalist say the move would cost consumers money harmed public health and increase climate changing emissions rolling back or or freezing feel economy and and weakening pollution standards for cars will drive up oil consumption it will drive up climate pollution the real winner in that scenario is the oil industry because they'll be selling more product to consumers taking money out.