world news like we do we revisit the state and says there are really invests in that and that's a privilege as a journalist. i maryam namazie in london a quick look at the headlines now lebanon's government has declared a 2 week state of emergency after a massive explosion devastated the port area of beirut at least 235 people were killed and about 5000 injured and many more people are still missing the explosion was the most powerful of a sufferer by the city beirut is still scarred by civil war 3 decades ago this satellite image from planet lab was taken of beirut's force in may and this is the same view today showing that devastation at the blast center with a large chunk of the main doc gone governments around the world offering assistance

to lebanon greek and kasuri planes arrived in beirut on wednesday carrying medical supplies turkey france and germany also plan to send help and the french president emanuel will travel to lebanon on thursday to meet with its leaders earlier i spoke with dr i mean could see from the american university hospital in beirut he told me about the patients the hospital was treating on tuesday. we. had the opportunity the fortunate the fortitude to train for the mass casualty instance so most of our associate get sent to the hospitals have gotten some extent experience and the plans for deployment getting such incidents over certainly has. an excellent one that's one that we've discovered and published internationally so however yesterday's mass casualty incident was peculiar when the blast happened we went immediately into for activation for explore the disaster plan and

automatically all our faculty and their sis and stat activated then mobilize and showed up on scene without making phone calls we just showed up and by the time we were there within half an hour we already had had deceived. no less than $100.00 casualty followed by another wave of more seriously injured people usually the work 'd of the 1st wave 'd tends to be the less injured they drive themselves over there the 2nd way within the 2nd hour is the one that is sickness so anyway we received within 3 hours more than $400.00 casualties and no less than one of. that patients when they got exploding in the the either in the recent this edition room or into the guardian on the couple who were declared that but upon their arrival. a spokesman for the u.n. said the damage to they would support presents a major humanitarian challenge now by 3 lebanon and the parts of the region. we

expect that the damage the port will significantly exacerbate the economic and food security situation in lebanon which imports about 80 to 85 percent of its food. our colleagues at the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs also expect that this will of affect our ability to provide aid to syria because the port in beirut 'd was one of the ways that we should be in aid and of course we also use the airports so we'll need to find alternate plans but 1st we'll need to do a damage assessment and see what is needed. to repair the port and to go about our operations well turning to other stories we're covering in the number of people have died from the corona virus around the world a surprise now past 700000 over the past 2 weeks one person has died from the disease every 15 seconds according to new research by the boy says the u.s. brazil india and mexico have been leading the rise in fatalities officials in latin america struggle to control the spread there on tuesday it passed year up as the

region with the highest death toll with more than 206000 fatalities the united nations is saying more than 50000 people have been affected by flooding across the don't thousands of homes have been damaged in the interior minister says at least 5 people have been killed and sure lankans have been turning out in big numbers to vote in their twice a parliamentary election it's the 1st come 1st country in south asia to hold a general vote during the pandemic in march president got to buy at rajapaksa dissolved parliament 6 months early and called a snap election he's hoping to install his brother as prime minister. what is coming up next rainmakers of the outback which looks at an australian indigenous ritual i'll be back with more news a bit later. when

i with a lot. of profits are present i'm one of many one of a crop of left on a name is what a body. cut from. i grew up in a place called christmas creek it's in a western australia. as a child i remember stories about the past i had about a life in the great sandy desert i'm a family go. stories about doro and help them sell by.

economy jealous or living laura. i have never seen them. for them of the level can approach their war from the desert. their parents or their prayer of love confinement in an ever olympic. christmas creek or the callistemon where my family were working. my father. it was the headstock when it was the sun a bit of a watch station owner and that's how i got makoni our name earl forgot. one day you and i was 10 my family took me to a cattle station. people have said abroad to stop mining on desolate good land. that. you see that kid into our jeans. that's me. it was the 1st time i went this my people fighting for their country.

back to us a mining company and not drilling at no one. but for us it was still a victory. it put on a fine for a man writes on the map. i am one as a kid i remember the excitement of being there and being out of something big i am glad that back. when we return christmas craig my father as usual was away working and mustering camps. but i never felt out alone. we had big mobs of all people good enough for us. for me it was like having a big extended family. literally my grandfather from my mother's side was very special to me. is

a man of. no urgent matter no it fundamental wisdom and that is if you want him to fail to catch up with what you don't. or spider. brother what he was always a grandfather to me. he was different. he told stories all the time. together with his wife julie but now they're living in fisher a crossing for millions are you going to get a letter that. ever since i was a young boy spawn i was always singing. singing and dancing or not community festivals. it was always about going up in the great sandy desert. the country he

was forced to leave after the county came the white men on my. golly and spotter always dreamt about getting the land in the desert back. for many years we had been fighting for land rights. and 9092 things began to happen. where he took them for additional lands and smash them for additional wildlife where he brought the diseases and the off the home. where you committed the murders where you took the children from their mothers for the 1st time australia has recognized the legal existence of aborigines prior to white settlement the high court has recognized there were people here and their descendants have rights. the mabo decision showed us that we could legally claim our land back. to claim it back we have to prove we have

a continuing relationship to a country. in 1994 my grandfather where only a spotter. took me to day country. and been bank there for 40 years. it was my 1st trip to a country. i decided to shoot a video it was a new way of showing evidence for land claim all i had with be a guest camera. we took a lot fellow with us just to name is jalen a guy there called him daniel. the land council asked me if i would be interested

in conducting a lamb klein under the new native title act. one of the 1st people that i met was wider who told me that is his country was. when they were going to go there. i read you know how to get to where he wanted to go and he drew maps of his country on the sand in fitzroy crossing and really it wasn't done to scale i'll tell you about. no one goes in this part of the great sandy desert no one travels in it it's almost inaccessible. like it was like a different world for me. i had to see the dams. and know as i think.

things began to happen i knew they were getting closer because people were starting to burn the spinifex. i always hear stories about that snake spirit living in the water but i didn't believe it i followed don't feed us with my camera. it was hard to keep up. the running and shouting but coming to visit the admit we have family. we are not bothered by that if. they did they took us to a small wet spot in the desert who was just this small puddle this small patch of wetness and this was this very important place that i've been telling us about for the last 5 days. were numbered there are dead and i don't want to put some of the young fellows that we're with and myself we started on what do you know

. now yeah. you know what i want to get out of it you know what. i didn't get anything i'm going to let you know because we came in. and under orders come fed up. they were going to. come out of it oh no we're going to be like i thought i'd rather not going to get it i never saw my grandfather with ari so happy. to hear. about it no longer will you what are. you going to shut out. the 1st few years. that.

week. is not only the night that you're. sitting around a lot of but no grandparents a man and me up to stories told me as a kid. i really want to go understand what was going on here. is a man's area. man bringing woman now after take a nap the world. only to find his wife she leaves the woman. that is for a war and a woman so that just makes no wood ai. and that damn visitor. activity yeah you. took the woman back to camp but then i could see that something else was happening. but i was using the good and the money

pulling out. to make this got jacked around a want to get to that. told me that it represents the dog that. same thing goes for that colon. see there could have been a day owning it represent a trout and water that tip it over that's the rain is coming down. there without the. load. then what of it are all over on our own. that we're headed. for the 1st time i understood when the grandfather's dams came from. and the meaning of his headdress. the. being in

a place where spot it literally grew up was really emotional. and you know they like it like going back to a place. that laid. on country. oh no you didn't leave going home. not. literally inspired or were talking to something else with a feeling a lot of times they were doing it. alone they said we had to go we had to go now like right now. ok so we packed up the camp and headed off a spider and literally really can only get as far from that place as possible and we drove and we drove and we drove and looking out into the west where the water hole was located were all these storm clouds and lightning right.

and then i realized that is the rain making plays that was what already our spado were doing today. they brought the rain. ritually made rain to her driest parts of australia and they were known widely as the as the rain makers. but i want to 1st find out there with my grandfather literally. i saw something that changed my life without any person on the trip. and the own people and a trusted me all believed in me to carry on this responsibility. i mean it's a big it's a big thing big job. but to get a good day fitting for more people at the trust from our people. that make you feel good inside. the from.

that confessional causing. daniel to get a damage because from the trip. he started to run in a bottle with. for me a trip that we're not. going to find out more. i wanted to learn about our history. when one fellas came into our country in 80 and 80 they want to water. they drove us off our land and turned our country into a huge cattle station. and then alfred canning camel he wanted us $101.00 or they cattle. at

2000 kilometer trek through our tribal lands. they call it the coming stock route and it destroyed the traditional way of life. itself there's 3 solar cells but. given your. theory you would want to. be used as a good water holes to make 51 wells for de kalb. on a problem that can infer that he didn't there were any clue other water was so he kept it out as a people. come up in time so it meant stop them a water. only let them go if one of the tracks as they ran to get water. they imprison no one inside metal and wood folks. and wells were closed and several more people around trying to get down because they want to. most of my

people had to move away on their traditional way of life. among them well my grandparents spot i was a young man when he left the desert to find only his promise wife. she was working as a housemaid and i got a station up my white grandfather. now better over the. didn't like desert people because they you just various cattle. when he seems bad or better over it take him off if i was going to him just to frighten him so as bada ran down to aruba and he climbed up a creek. bed rover he went dead documented on the tree. or he was on top when he seen the fire coming over he jumped down and he landed like on him and on more force that's why his name is padda.

spot and danny ended up working on christmas gray color station. you know urging them to clap. their horn stop and let you know there were billions in the state you know have been more than answers and they're made the station folks to what they're doing. we're finally became citizens and got a kharaj after the $967.00 referendum. but even the station owners refused to pay more people equal wenches. after decades of working there they were loaded on to trucks and dumped on the banks. that was to build place a bus ride crossing. fisher i went from a population of 60 people to a refugee camp up to

a 1000. they had nothing to do no work no nothing. while you lou laughs. what can. prove that. was drug. drug and only kept their country alive by learning to paint. it comes naturally because of ceremonies and painting up on bodies and sand brings. it was the beginning of good interest never you know not the. straw they became famous artists and the paintings sell around the world used to be in to new york london you name it they've been everywhere. this is one of spotless

paintings the only paints gordo. i want to hold your left in the desert. am back a. spider and a mama bone paper from the ground sandy desert came up with a b. plan to get their country back. they were going to paint their country for evidence. they travelled opinion on the edge of the great sandy desert with more than 50 people from 4 different language groups. upon you and you know that i love my. first name that was painted on the lawn or a canvas represents the canning stock route it was to have to come here i want fellas. it was important for don't people to paint their country because

think on coca-cola they're no speak english and they can't read or write. the canvas is like a map a bird's eye view of their country that shows the printout of stories and where people used to walk. and it's a pretty damn good map. it took nearly a week to finish the painting. and then came the time to use it as evidence and came. along. told fred chaney from the native title tribe you know all about. what our. country. club up and about i want to live never ending battle i mean that this war or this. you know every word of.

it and i don't then i know or not. what friends. do you know not me and then you know. this is for your students. that i get that. feeling today. this is. right. in order to land hammer on young people to canvas to camera i wanted to show the politicians that their country belongs to us. and. we're not going to be with. my sister nearly she was just. this is our country it represents our songs and i

dance in our culture and not only that but as you can see with the you know the vastness of this map it's a link up between all the different tribes in great sandy desert trying to explain aboriginal society you know aboriginal background not a region people is is a task in itself. and i have. a cord out of the surrender so we hope you don't get rain yeah after this every time. i did i'm a man and my. writing the people are not good but the politicians interested. so the national gallery borrowed the canvas for an exhibition. it was like leaving our country was strangers.

no family to look after it. there were a canvas i spent the last 2 years at the national gallery and something like a 1000000 people stored. by door people who wanted it back and sent me to canberra to pick it up. and. that's my little cousin brother buster was spotted. this is his 1st glimpse of big chill out. here and work on that. when they stand on it it's just like standing on your homeland it's like going home. most of them

will never see in the country. they too old. it makes them sad and they cry. they cry for the answer. and home today but. let me know how that man or not. the leader of the profile of those who we met with terrorists in 2017 people in power investigated why trinidad and tobago became a ripe recruiting ground for i saw. your feelings so there's no hope for most in 2020 we returned to uncover the fate of those who left their homelands to join conflicts in iraq and syria or caribbean to caliph it on. paper have come to expect

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similarities of cultures across the world and a matter of when you will be in the news and current affairs that matter to you. oh i maryam namazie in london our top story lebanon's government has declared a 2 week state of emergency giving the military full powers a day after a massive explosion devastated the port area of beirut a number of beirut port officials have been put under house arrest pending an investigation into those responsible for the blast at least 135 people have been killed but officials say the death toll is likely to rise as rescue efforts are still ongoing well a spokesman for the u.n. said damage to the to beirut airport presents a major humanitarian challenge for the country now both lebanon and for other parts of the reach him. we expect that the damage the port will significantly exacerbate

the economic and food security situation in lebanon our which imports about 80 to 85 percent of its food. our colleagues at the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs also expect that this will of affect our ability to provide aid to syria because the port in beirut was one of the ways that we should be in aid and of course we also use the airports so we'll need to find alternate plans but 1st we'll need to do a damage assessment and see what is needed. to repair the port and to go about our operations on all the stories we're following the number of people have died from the corona virus around the world a surprise 700000 over the past 2 weeks one person has died from the disease every 15 seconds according to reuters news agency on tuesday latin america passed europe as the region with the highest death toll with more than 206000 fatalities the u.s. brazil india and mexico have been leading the rise in fatalities so far meanwhile

afghanistan's health minister is saying 10000000 people in that country might have been infected with the virus that's almost a 3rd of the population figures of based on a nationwide antibody survey though in reality i thought the higher united nations says more than 50000 people have been affected by flooding across it done thousands of homes have been damaged in the interior minister says at least 5 people have been killed. and lankans amid turning out in big numbers to vote in their twice delayed parliamentary election it's the 1st country in south asia to hold a general vote during the pandemic president got to buy rajapaksa is hoping to install his brother to hinder as prime minister. which is continues now but i'll be back with the news hour at about 25 minutes time do join me at 2100 g.m.t. i'll see you then. and because 50 percent of all debts children.

go. it was a sad day in the late nineties when my gabby passed away. my grandfather never saw his country and when one really passed away i wish. i was drinking so much and i didn't care about what was happening in my life. span i was worried. he already lost 2 grandsons to group and was desperate to help me. and. it was important for the langley to take or not more young people so they can learn on a country. with the youngest one on the trip. it

felt good to be out there no pomp and no destruction. spada told me to or not fires or not know we are coming that's part of us like spiderman up to the closer we got to go down the faster you get them fires. what are you going to do is want to everywhere it was flooded out. i 1st got on it was good plenty of warning. but then i saw my dad he was upset. over your. god. but. i don't know your mother ever made. it.

or not it was over coming up with water when i am going to be out of my. the little patch we cleaned out bring up no ground water it now was covered. but only on the. left. the course. would you have to do. a lot for. your. problem that margaret of i never never let go. why don't i know. that having already got a lot of. data is determined to make for listen to.

what. he does there would be new nose value flyers and singing. enough or sign that he's alive that. purple. it's good to see the rain it means. whatever. a day.

or night and he has bought a scene or not. 6 the next morning. yeah there is you know no one there now i know that will let everyone i mean. not a lot of not. a lot about. you

know our. own people i mean been back there for a long time it's like meeting someone you haven't seen a long time. his own people like spot and only will boehner. and then the spurs come back you go and then some. credit. 2 get out of the.

the ladder a country's reputation is spreading in the wind and. we are getting ready to go on the road. to business festivals everything. on the tommy. yet again i mean that it really. is no more noble the. force if it. were. a little bit of it. was great being on the road meeting new people. it was not so free rock and every night not

a party. but i felt like rocks come. home on a better. path and that's one of the most part for me thank you. our land claim took nearly 15 years to get through the cold and many of the are people of god on the way. but it looks like the big day has finally arrived. we having the determination yet been any whether one or a canvas was painted. kaberle or vise the core. of it. will have to do. the number that are so much. looks quite fit.

with your because you've got your bra on or 3. feet of plants on it you're going to put 3 was. right. there it was stolen. and every year. the law says to all the people of syria. this is your last you know. that it always has been you know i. don't have who i want to. thank. is bad thanks i'd meant i had a feeling something was wrong. why did. the judge called out spiders name.

and. some people got their country pretty. much but you got nothing. and i got a guy here in ireland. that every few minutes i learned that you're not. all that hard work and for nothing was all gone. and. it took them weeks to find out their problem was the boundaries the glen claim. asked the old people when your country is going to hear just gross trendline on a map. ground was that's not a boundary. spider

can understand what the confusion is all about it's his country and always has been his country in his mind he never lost it in the 1st place. the problem is the one federal law it's written on paper and it only changes. the book for or is written in the. underground and on the countryside and it is never changed. ever since the determination. the time was running out to possibly known it was there that i love them that i meant that i never they are very. very good idea that. that got that got.

only a little boston and when i was made to seem interested in oh spider. spot i won't be here for long. i don't think they'll be any more for him. one thing i knew i had to help him. 'd if i. were going to lay out your neck about. iowa lies are well. known people from the knowledge.

that. if. i decided that long commo grandfather would only let me die. when somebody dies you can say the name they used to be. it's a big thing in the family decides it's the right answer.

this time we really want to nail on the boundaries of the next game. that we're going to different rain could a southern counting stop what. we have to map the boundaries properly on the car. once again. was happy to join us.

over into the minima did you. and i weren't out of his growth all this out now david and i are going to follow that it is going that would seem good or were thrown out of any good yeah yeah. yeah i know about it read up what it learned about money out of that period. coming was hot and frustrating. spy was always insisting he knew the best way to go i think a lot of all that right when i leave that that would have i believe that he in that event that we got to go that route. big vitamin that i live in and yet i do when they will double what is going on i ever heard of them learn to play where they are what you would have under what don't but then claim. to love the fun of the right to do any good at any gun and then let me i'm a member you've been victim if you. ever do any one of the right that what i will

not go down on one foot again today or when we have looted i do not. have the room . for now and then. for not a. minute more reform or better more. and i. did not have any of that with any of my number go. down to them and. were. right. there that led to it i didn't know you were going to were going to go down

or everybody i know what i would kill people are going to do it we really. weren't able to finish but where they are by the way war relied on our hero when we are landing on our half carrier landing. she whining about court. if we did not. go in there. country than. they used to seed before i had left them. and he was going to. clean in the west in a little darker arm of the country. and now it is. really me. just like my soul. we're gonna. who i'm john. donvan i go.

oh. i love i did not urge. * for the right. you're right that i don't. love the mugger no way never got anybody.

oh but he blew it in pretty good the way. you. kept busy can focus on my attention on the spot of land came and a final trip. you know who the legend of. concrete and. all of the. i'm. going to teach strong. if. i did it and. then times of the. day showed a country that gave us back

a country. we got to. go and what. 20 years ago only and do dances on but be canvassed. credits and. fast in 1st and then again. only angered me and she penned it last. week. we finally arrived at or not after 5 hot days. and it was dry.

never to. me and my one of my. game. ever. read to her and or her.

i knew it was the last time spada would ever say good on. he was here to say goodbye to one all loved his whole life. and hand it over to us telephonist. am. young as.

we walk beyond our people. following in their footsteps. i'm holding out cause just drove. and or more people. will be to make bread make it up the desert. it's like a circle of life the own people deposit down to us and we're going to pass it on to our children and they're going to present today children. i also became a grandfather for the 1st time out of gotos i finally had

a grandson. it helped me understand my grandfather's. i would be able to take in my bush like they did for me. as for what happened to that one i can be. in a dollar metal box at the center in fish on a crossing. it's just like our land clean. is fighting to be free carlow god. you're gonna let him get caught up and leave him like that you're going to dig him out. so that the water can be free.

from. places that's going to warm up the southeastern parts of australia just a touch as we go through the next couple of days you still dragging in that cold air for man taught to care but we're not going to say anymore that significant snowfall that rest now that we still across the likes of tasmania east and parts of victoria have got some west of weather just pushing through the knowledge all that's going to make its way across south australia right up into the interior actually it'll run up to war sets western side of queensland as we go on through thursday to weather for the eastern side of us for a time wetter weather pushing over towards new zealand as we go on into friday that right. up across much of new south wales significant rainfall coming through some wet weather also affecting a good possible fit toria and then to some rather heavy rain in play there across

sets of eastern side of queensland. for putts habitus coast. western australia route 18 degrees celsius not too much trouble in the forecast for a good part of the korean peninsula i'm afraid lots of clouds still draped across the area here it will stay dry for japan but we have got wetter weather once again across those that affected parts of the korean peninsula more wet weather spilling across the eastern parts of china towards south korea. but. history has called it the great in the 1st episode conscription draws hundreds of thousands of our route troops into both sides of the conflict their story is rarely told but had a huge impact on the course of the. world the war. on al jazeera. a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective

of our networks journalists on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. allow i maryam namazie are watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes a route to reeling after tuesday's devastating blast which has killed at least 135 people overwhelmed hospitals and left hundreds of thousands homeless. as shock turns to anger several course officials involved in the storage of a highly explosive chemical a put under house arrest. also coming up afghan.