you campaigned with on wavering rezone for an official apology for this morning chapter in history. the apology. lebanon and crisis of 4th minister resigns as the capital needs to discuss early elections. although i'm a very unforgiving this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the highest profile arrest yes on the hong kong's controversial security law media tycoon jimmy lie is accused of colluding with foreign forces. on the streets of better roosts off to a presidential election with the opposition says it was rigged. this technology

used in true or untrue things worse i did it 3 people color facing wrongful arrest will take a look at how the use of facial recognition software impacts black asian abates of american people in the u.s. . we begin in lebanon where the government is facing increasing pressure to step down following last week's explosion for members of the cabinets of the resigned the finance minister is the latest to go he joins the ministers for justice the environment and information in bowing to public pressure the remaining members of the capital are currently meeting with early elections expected to be on the agenda let's go live now to beirut of zeros bernard smith is the latest.

well we know the cabinet meeting is still going on adrian but the local speculation in the media here in alive and on is that the prime minister has on the out will resign no confirmation of that when he does resign he'll go to the presidential palace an offer is resignation to 11 on the president's now when he does that if that is. the local speculation is we've got a couple of options essentially either they will become a cat take a government ahead of elections so the prime minister will stay in as a caretaker prime minister and his cabinet will stay in as a caretaker cabinet polman must approve those elections an alternative is the parliament go to try to appoint some sort of national unity government some sort of national unity cabinets that is the preferred scenario of the international community led by emmanuel macaroni he wants i mean to a representative as much as possible governments i'm cabinets wholesale even

consider giving lebanon any way at the moment the cabinet is mainly is hezbollah and it's how it is any of that vote but it going to be enough to quell the anger of the people who've been out on the streets. well the trouble for all of the people who've been out on the streets there are people here in martyr square activists and protesters and not just people who were out here in martyr square but lebanese all over the country that you can spoken to what they want is a new political system but it's going to be extremely hard to get them out because the current electoral law creates eat in such a way that the political elites who run this country control who gets to sit down and mentally elections and in parliament and then when they win those elections

those representatives represent a little elites and there is no way of changing that electoral law unless the parliament agrees to do it and the elites of coal control those parliamentarians i'm not going to let them do that so it's extraordinarily difficult to change the system in that middle age. many thanks i was there as part of smith reporting live from beirut police in hong kong have made their highest profile arrest yes under a controversial national security law imposed by beijing the media tycoon of activist jimmy lai has been detained with 6 others linked to his pro-democracy apple daily they're accused of colluding with foreign forces hong kong journalists association says that it's a worrying development for media freedom of 07 o'clock reports. police made the arrests on monday morning detaining jimmy lie at his home in callin the founder of the pro-democracy newspaper apple daily is well known for his criticism of china's communist party he's been arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion under the

national security law imposed by china last month this morning at around $945.00 together with our colleagues on the criminal investigation department and military staff we got a warrant to conduct an operation to search for evidence i wasn't the only arrest on monday 2 of life sons were also arrested more than $200.00 police raided apple dudley's headquarters detaining senior executives including the tabloids chief executive officer detective search computers and interviewed staff many are shocked and horrified including myself and i think this is send out a very very negative message and of course it must have a chilling effect on people who want to speak out and particularly on the news media so this is a very very disturbing development long the national security legislation targets acts of subversion terrorism secession and collusion with foreign forces the

maximum penalty is life in prison critics say the legislation is being used by china's leaders to silence the opposition and crackdown on democracy in the semi autonomous region the hong kong journalists association says it's a worrying development for media freedom it never happened before in hong kong in reason perhaps at that case we've seen that perhaps sent in for well cities and countries but but we never expect that that would have happened in hong kong. happen causing direct and indirect threats through press freedom and journalists monday's arrests of the most high profile under the national security law which was introduced just over a month the guy a number of countries have condemned the legislature. including. the kingdom and canada but the government has defended its crucial to restore order to a city that's been plagued by months of protests clock al-jazeera hong kong.

hong kong police made several other arrests approach a police source said the pro-democracy activist agnes chyle is one of a total of 10 people detained charles fellow activist nathan law tweeted that she's being held under the new special security law he said that he was still trying to get information on her arrest and added that it was a horrible day china has imposed sanctions on 11 well known americans that include senators marco rubio and ted cruz it reciprocates u.s. action because of china's crackdown in hong kong the u.s. has frozen the american assets of hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb as well as 10 c.d.'s chinese officials the main opposition candidate in better russa's presidential election is disputing early results that show a landslide victory for alexander lukashenko with more than 80 percent of the vote

it would extend his 26 years in power into a 6th. took of sky sky rather says that she's gathering proof of the poll was raked. i mean yes we don't agree with the election results we have absolutely opposite information we have official protocols from many polls stations where a number of votes in my favor i'm many more times than for other candidates are gathering proves of falsifications we have people who are officially ready to confirm falsifications up all stations so we are starting to actively work on this and right now i'm going to decentralization commission to see that we don't accept results of the elections these. united nations holding a meeting about the humanitarian situation in lebanon following last week's explosion in beirut secretary general antonio gutierrez she is speaking right now from the cyst listening from a to war sustained substantial damage dozens of other house facilities for damage

and those that remain 8 overwhelmed with cast. the blast produced the colossal toxic cloud that was visible for miles and the shock waves were felt across the city and the indians across needs arranging the economic social and other reverberations will be felt for some time to come united nations as and then go on a swift and wide ranging response to office because the nation of humanitarian affairs helped to organize the point of the experts from the international search and rescue advisory group and united nations these ups that assess the coordination system well 1st responders in beirut's blake getting 20 pounds the world also going to ization how supplies landed in beirut on wednesday cover 1000 job interventions and 1000 surgical interventions for people suffering from injuries and burns as a result of the blasts. if you know of the past there's of course united and

humanitarian coordinator for lebanon released 9000000 from the level of humanitarian funds to address the immediate needs and on friday that is if it is the further 6000000 us dollars from the central purpose be response funnels united nations is supporting the lebanese red cross and other partners in providing temporary shelter for this place. and the world food program is importing which floor and aids are bakeries and meals well protect against full chart that is across the country even at the ports at all hours let them stone the measure grain silo united nations system will continue to support lebanon in every possible way students emergency the blast this government an already difficult time for lebanon with the country already facing economic hardship and impacts of the qana vitals violence in the face of multiple challenges the people of lebanon have remained

generous hosts lots palestine and syrian refugee communities and the legendary sense of the lebanese people not places an additional tests. in gaza today we have this is care or no it is our neighbors helping neighbors people clearing their states of truck. there's i call for robust international support for all people we need in lebanon especially women and girls who are most vulnerable in times of rise and i think those countries that are already providing plenty of financial material and specialized assistance i urge the owners to give speedily and generously at this time of all sorrow and prolongs 1st question the anger at the lebanese people is probable their voices must be heard it is important that the gravel and suspend of the investigation determine the cause of the explosion and bring about the accountability demanded by the

lebanese people. it is also important that reforms be implemented in source that asked the needs of the lebanese people for the longer term exodus is the 1st built on the initiative of president michel of france we look united nations yesterday called convene the international conference on support to beirut and the lebanese people the conference generated much needed financial supports and they affirm the commitment of lebanon's many partners including will be averse into that from with that in organizations and you have thrones regional financial institutions we had assessing the results and that it could meet its too quick and effective follow up the catastrophe is you know. the sense of loss and even disbelief is profound but lebanese resilience lebanon as events did it and we'll but i guess most of all lebanon is not alone united nations will stand with lebanon well believe it is

suffering and supports its recovery these are moments for solving their needs and it is the chime to change things for the better and i think thank you general thank you very much indeed. u.n. secretary general until the turnover show there speaking at the united nations i was here as such kristen salumi is at the u.n. in new york she was listening to the secretary general there what do you make of what you heard kristen. well this is the 1st briefing of the secretary general to member states at the united nations giving an assessment of the situation on the ground in lebanon he's calling for more international support for this hard hit country a credible investigation into what went wrong and also government reforms but most of his update was really about the situation on the ground there and what the un's response has been so far the u.n. when and right away with that search and rescue experts and disaster assessment

teams and found a very dire situation on the ground right now the world health organization has already supplied 20 tons of emergency mel thing health and medical supplies to the country including a 1000 trauma kits for hard hit hospitals and medical facilities 3 hospitals have been completely destroyed there making the response to this catastrophe very dire and difficult the united nations itself has already released 15000000 dollars to help with the efforts there and it's partnering with other organizations crucially on food and shelter which are the most immediate and dire needs for the country right now a grain silo at that port was destroyed and the food situation in lebanon is already quite insecure so that is a very deep and worrying concern for the united nations humanitarian teams there they're working with the word world food program to assess those shortages already

grain and week is being sent in to help deal with that but that is going to be a very long term concern shelter as well we're hearing some 300000 lebanese have been made homeless in the midst of a coronavirus epidemic pandemic no less people being forced to live with others great demand for housing the u.n. on that front is partnering with the lebanese red cross and other organizations which gets to another concern here at the united nations where there's concern about the low. people in desire to help there's concern about the credibility of where country's money is going where these donations will go and if they'll actually be used to help the people so we heard secretary general antonio tears making a very impassioned plea to not only help the lebanese people but for the lebanese government to be reformed for there to be a credible investigation and for the situations to improve in order to help the people on the ground the un's office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs

briefing member states on the situation in lebanon we heard at the start of that meeting at the u.n. secretary general mcchrystal we'll let you get back to listening to that meeting we'll bring you any developments here on out of here as when we hear about the many thanks kristen a u.s. course has issued a summons against the saudi crown prince in relation to former intelligence agent sadal job the court order also covers 13 other people including residents of the u.s. jobbery filed a lawsuit accusing saudi crown prince mohammed been solved on of sending a hit squad to kill him 2 years ago he's now in canada where police and private security guards are reported to be giving him increased protection crucified is a former u.s. associates deputy attorney general he says that the summons is an important step in the case. the summons delivers the complaint to the various defendants that obligates them under our federal rules to answer within 20 days so it means that

now the case is gearing up 20 days is not a long time. but i think having myself litigated many cases under the torture victim protection act that it signals that m.b.a.'s will now vigorously lobby president trump in secretary of state might pump a 0 to issue what's called a letter of suggestion of immunity it's rather an odd. realm of law but they simply it asked the court to dismiss a case because it would interfere with the foreign relations of the united states in relations with a head of state or high level officials it is not required that a court accept a suggestion of immunity by the state department but the cases i've litigated they've given great deference to it but that means that november will be critical

for saudi arabia. under that doctrine president biden could revoke any suggestion of immunity and reinstate the cakes but i can guarantee you right now saudi arabia and the crown prince are talking his head off with pump a 0 in trying to get me out of this conundrum an armed group attacked a shopping center in the democratic republic of congo at least 19 people have been killed the army has been sent to the troubled northeastern province of a tour to respond faces from the political and religious sect but as protocol attacked people with machetes more than 200000 congolese a fled attacks in the province since march this year. prosecutors in france have launched an investigation into what they're calling a terrorist mudda after the killing of 8 people who were working for a french aid group in the format and 4 women were attacked during a tour of the west african giraffe reserve near the town of coeur raped on sunday

there's just a fence minister says the gunmen on motorcycles opened fire it's not known who was behind the attack greece says the turkey's planned to conduct exploratory drilling in the eastern mediterranean is an illegal action that threatens peace and security the turkish navy announced that a survey vessel would operate in a disputed area between cyprus and greece for the next 2 weeks it follows a deal between greece and egypt on drilling rights in the east mediterranean which contains oil and gas reserves in greece at least 8 people have died in flash flooding water engulfed the 2nd largest city thessalonica police said the many roads were made impossible authorities estimate that 3000 homes have been damaged. and in yemen months of heavy rate of flash floods of course significant damage to the ancient walled city of the capital sanaa the roofs of hundreds of buildings in

the u.s. go world heritage sites have collapsed serious priyanka gupta reports. dark clouds over yemen's old city of sanaa where ancient homes lined ruins parts of unesco world heritage site has been damaged by months of heavy rain and floods the roofs of more than $100.00 homes have partially collapsed yemenis such as mohammad ali say they have nowhere to go let me i'm not the much to the water where i want to we call all the organizations to save us may god save us from this hell we call on everyone to save us 6 women and 6 children live in the south we don't have anywhere to go. son are famous for its unique burn to break towers and you metric patton's is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities many buildings were already in disrepair after years of war poverty and neglect the wait

weather means they're now even more fragile. we had 129 red flag buildings and now the number has grown and is likely to grow even more because the weather hasn't stabilized yet and the consecutive rainfall and the negligence by homeowners have all contributed negatively we could see up to 200 homes destroyed or even up to 500 if we count the harms with cracks and other issues while people in the capital struggle to save their heritage homeless yemenis in the port city of what they there are fighting for survival rising floodwaters washed away their makeshift shelters mohamed amadou irish is one of the many who had so little of now lost everything. why get as near as the flood came at midnight while we were sleeping in our homes suddenly we felt a strong flood we only took our children with us and the ones who stayed at home a swift away by the flood lifts nothing behind the war between the who these and

saudi backed government forces is into its 6th year the fighting has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis 24000000 yemenis need aid water fuel and medicine shortages are widespread the u.n. says yemenis are again on the brink of a major food crisis then there is the threat of the current virus which health workers suspect is spreading undetected with more really likely soon more outbreaks of diseases such as cholera and military or are feared. could go out as here. a bomb blast in pakistan's political stand province has killed 6 people and injured at least 15 others the explosion targeted a vehicle from anti drugs forces in the city of challenge near the border with afghanistan there's been no claim of responsibility pakistan's government is

lifting partial lockdown measures that been enforced since march as part of its coronavirus response while the number of confirmed infections is falling in recent weeks it's fear that official figures could be an accuracy of 0 same bus rather reports style from corruption summer rain storms in pakistan's most populous city did a better job of keeping most people indoors than the partial lockdown being lifted this week the port city of karachi has been the hardest hit by the coronavirus the government says infection rates have dropped nationwide and it's safe to resume public life. but not everyone agrees resigned a bill some use a teacher when they called 900 outbreak closed schools he began a free service to supply coronavirus patients with oxygen cylinders to help them bleed ground realities. exist at extreme level in pakistan pakistani community population of pakistan the people are not taking it seriously

rather they are not taking it as that reality. he normally has dozens of tanks but in the last week they've all been sent out he's down to his last to a sign he says that people are still getting sick and it's too soon to lift the lockdown but months into the crisis even partial restrictions on public life seem impossible to enforce and easy to ignore the government push to ease restrictions is politically popular i want to normally go here and people whose livelihoods have suffered say it's also necessary you know no honest. measures taken because of the coronavirus have completely shut down business i don't have the words to explain how much loss there has been for poor people it's been devastating it's a view many customers share but they call on immediate countries viddy to c.b.i. from a country everything depends on the economy. i agree that the do not buy this is also a tract but if you take precautions along with good enough i think the economy should

open and we should allow people to look during recent public holidays precautions were not a priority and now people are gearing up for another major public event the country's independence day markets like this are all over the country pakistan's government says for the sake of the economy it's important to keep them open but it's part of health experts are concerned crowded public areas where people are not worrying about where there is no social distancing these are the perfect places for the virus to thrive pakistanis are quick to say years of hard living has made them more resilient to the virus than most but there is also the fact that there are too few tests and too many people and with so many taking the threat lightly medical experts say the real number of covert 1000 infections is likely much higher than official tallies. corruption. australia has recorded its highest number of corona virus in a single day all 19 were in the state of victoria which is at the center of

a new wave of infections most are connected to care facilities for the elderly the state capital melbourne also saw the lowest daily number of u. cases since last month. it's been more than 2 months now since the killing of george floyd at the hands of police in the u.s. as protests continue the message is no longer just about specific instance incidences of violence but about what demonstrators say is systemic racism in policing one of the most obvious example since the widespread use of facial recognition systems that have been proven to misidentify people of color al-jazeera shopper tons of pools. 1 when black lives matter activists take to the streets that clip they're not protesting against a few bad apples in police departments but a system of policing that's wittingly or unwittingly targets people of color and they say needs to be completely overhauled the widespread use of facial recognition software by police forces apparently unconcerned by the technologies in accuracy is

a clear example of this robert williams was interrogated having been arrested and taken into custody by detroit police the day before and it soon became clear he had been mis identified a look i said not us not me. he tells another paper always say i guess this not julian that. i picked that paper up and hold it and they said this is not me and i hope ya don't think all black people look alike and then he says the computer says you study after study including a federal government report last year has shown facial recognition software mis identifies black native american and asian faces $10.00 to $100.00 times more often than white faces in understand there this technology is. worse i didn't find people are still using it. he gets

it wrong 96 percent and there's also the fact they were using this technology for over a year and have. no knowledge of its implementation. because the officers who interrogated williams mentioned a computer how to identify him we know in accurate facial recognition software and callous police work what to blame for his arrest but there are no nationwide records about how often people are wrongly arrested as a result of recognition software even though according to the american civil liberties union the software has been used hundreds of thousands of times by the f.b.i. for example we do know from the detroit police forces records that this software proven to be unreliable in identifying african-americans is overwhelmingly used on african-americans facial recognition software has been used 70 times as of june 22nd by the department in 68 of those cases the photo was of a black person taken from social media or security cameras and joy. you in new know

why daddy got arrested because. they have my girls out there and seen that you know their 1st interaction with the police and for that to be what it was and then take their dad like we're always going to wonder now how much did this affect them civil liberties groups are calling for bans at the federal and local level of the use of such software in a cedar tree is. it recently emerged from bankruptcy there is no justifiable reason that you should still be in. or. knowledge even you could meet. the police's use of technology that has been proven to misidentify black people is just another example of why so many have mobilized not to reform the police but to restructure policing entirely even when there are multiple empirical studies proving race discrimination in software that

is routinely used some police departments still reluctant to change. al-jazeera. you can see more long form reports like that along with the latest news analysis and comment at the website at al-jazeera dot com. terry with us hello adrian forget here in doha the headlines from al-jazeera the government in lebanon is facing increasing pressure to step down following last week's explosion 4 members of the cabinet have resigned the finance minister is the latest to go he joins the ministers for justice the environment and information and bowing to public pressure the remaining cabinet is currently meeting with early elections expected to be on the agenda hong kong media tycoon jimmy lai has been arrested on the china's new national security law his company says that he's being

held on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers the main opposition card that it's in belarus presidential election is disputing early results that show a landslide victory for alexander lukashenko with more than 80 percent of the vote it would extend it to his 26 years in power into a 6th the opposition leader says that she's gathering proof that the poll was raked . we don't agree with the election results we have absolutely opposite information we have official protocols from many poles the sions were a number of votes in my favor are many more times than for other candidates who are gathering proves of falsifications we have people who are officially ready to confirm falsifications of polls so we are starting to actively work on this and right now i'm going to the commission to see that we don't accept results of the elections a court in the united states has issued a summons against the saudi crown prince in relation to

a former intelligence agent sadal job is now in canada file a lawsuit accusing principle had been sold on of sending a hit squad to kill him 2 years ago. an armed group has attacked a shopping center in the democratic republic of congo at least 19 people are dead the army has been sent in to respond in the troubled northeastern province of a tory faces from the political and religious sect kotoko attacked people with machetes prosecutors in france of last investigation into what they're calling a terrorist but up of the killing of 8 people who were working for a french aid group in asia the 4 men and 4 women were attacked on the top of the west african giraffe 1st of those the headlines when i bore news for you here on al-jazeera after told 120 next as protests rage over police brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to

take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the votes follow the u.s. elections on a. little. bit. because of it 19 pandemic force governments worldwide to impose lockdowns earlier this year . as 1000000 stayed at home for months normal life grounds were virtual holds. that meant a major reduction in air and water pollution some animals even reclaim their stolen habitats. but if some countries start to ease emergency restrictions and governments implement plans to rescue their economies many are concerned the clear blue skies won't last forever how will the post lock down surging greenhouse gas emissions affect the climate crisis.