on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. lebanon's prime minister and government resigned over the beirut port explosion but public fury is growing with a political system that's failed the country. allow i maryam namazie watching al-jazeera life from london also coming up on the program serious concerns of press freedom in hong kong after media tycoon jimmy lie is arrested under a controversial security law. the opposition protesters back on the

streets of belarus following a contentious election that's returned alexander lukashenko to power for a 6th term and a race against time off the coast of new russia says volunteers work to stem the flow of oil spilling from a stricken japanese fans. governance president michel aoun is accepted the resignation of his prime minister's government this follows mounting public anger over last week's explosion in the capital beirut which left more than $200.00 people dead thousands injured and hundreds of thousands homeless demonstrators have once again taken to the streets to voice their anger at the ruling elite and its press reports just now from beirut . lebanon's government has finally caved in what the shock to buildings along

beirut's waterfront it took an explosion of $2700.00 tons of ammonium nitrate to bring down the prime minister and cabinet. today we followed the real of the people to hold accountable those responsible for this disaster that has been in hiding for 7 years and their desire for real change from the corrupt destructive state state of brokerages and turfed to a state of law and justice and transparency to a country that respects its people. they'd only been in power as in january sworn in to replace a previous administration forced out after lebanon's banking system and currency collapsed now they have a new crisis to add to all the others. but justice minister was asked if she was running away from her responsibilities which i think if you let anyone put themselves in opposition no one wants to be in power under such circumstances when facing everything a financial collapse the current virus this national disaster we're facing so

police it's nothing like running from responsibility. but even one of the biggest non-nuclear explosion since hiroshima might not be enough to bring significant political change here the country's parliament an election system is controlled by a political elite the divided up power and influence after the civil war this best and this crisis is not enough unfortunately for them to be convinced because most of them were the actors of the war. and they do not think properly peacefully and a civilized way in order to get the people and it's the power they want to keep the power in their hands. many people in lebanon describe their circumstances as like being held hostage. here and as a manager if the government resigned then there is hope to be able to build the

country and live our lives like we want to we wanted to become a proper state we do not have a country and we're not able to live in one. of the. what who will a national unity government do after just restriction blood and death we can change your many educated people who are suitable to run a country. that frustration with a government that seems to have left the cleanup operation to its citizens exploded near parliament on monday evening. possible names for new prime minister include saad hariri he held the post until january but was forced out when the banking system collapsed it's not the sort of break with the past people here are looking for and the cabinet has just resigned was dominated by the iran backed hezbollah group and its allies international donors will expect to see members of the opposition in the new cabinet before they consider releasing billions of dollars in reconstruction aid bernard smith al-jazeera beirut meanwhile the united nations

office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs has been meeting to discuss the situation in lebanon u.n. chief antonio terrace has called for a credible investigation into the cause of tuesday's blast on sunday world leaders an international page nearly $300000000.00 in aid to the country it is important that the spread of the investigation of the serving the cause of the explosion and bring about the accountability demanded by the lebanese people. these also report the reforms the source that's the needs of the lebanese people for the longer term . indian authorities have seized $740.00 tons of ammonium nitrate the chemical responsible for the deadly blast in beirut has been stored at a freight station in a channel city in the country's east since 2015 it was confiscated for alleged violation of import rules oakleigh media reports at least $281.00 tons of it been moved to hyderabad the rest will follow soon.

police in hong kong of made the highest profile arrests so far and a new national security lawyer imposed by china pro-democracy media tycoon jimmy lie has been detained accused of colluding with foreign forces critics say it's an attack on press freedom in hong kong as sarah clarke reports. police made the arrests on monday morning detaining jimmy lie at his home encounter in 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 delis 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 in in for it well cities and countries but but we never expect that that would have happened in hong kong but you did 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 legislation including the united states united kingdom astray and canada but the government here has defended the new law stating it's crucial to restore order to a city that's been plagued by months of protests sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong . in the last half hour a us president donald trump was forced to interrupt a press conference because of a shooting at the white house. minutes into the news briefing president trump was is quoted out by

a secret service agent he returned shortly afterwards and said the situation is now under control and that a suspect had been shot i secret services so for more on this mike hanna is in washington d.c. mike what are you hearing. well president trump has now resumed his news conference picking up where he left off just stop for a few minutes he suddenly left the stage after having had somebody whisper in his ear now when he came back president said that he had only gone as far as the oval office with secret service to suit him that the situation was secured he then told assembled reporters on his return that there had been a shooting on the corner of 17th street and pennsylvania avenue that is right outside the white house you said he doesn't know at this stage whether it has anything to do with me he said these were his words as well that it is apparently the secret service agents that fired the shot one person has been injured it is not

known at this particular stage how seriously obviously there were a blizzard of questions directed at president trump he took on a little bit about how the world is now a dangerous place senate has been for centuries he took a few more questions reasserting the fact that he was not shaken that he had just gone to the oval office he had not taken refuge in a bunker of any kind he was only absent for maybe 3 minutes before returning to the podium and now as i said that regular news briefing is going on after that sudden interruption all right thanks for the update mike mike hanna in washington. police in belarus are saying a protester has died after a bomb exploded in his hands during a 2nd night of anti-government rallies thousands of people are demonstrating again in the capital minsk after early election results showed a landslide victory for president alexander lukashenko with more than 80 percent of the vote the question can look set to win

a 6th term in office extending his already 26 years in power or the main opposition candidate embarrasses disputing efficient election results so that on a ticket off sky it says she is 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 up poll stations so we are starting to actively work on this and right now i'm going to the central election commission to see that we don't accept results of the elections. meanwhile president bush and co has warned that he will crackdown on opposition protesters who challenge the results. of the $32.00 around $25.00 police officers have been injured they have their legs and hands broken ribs they were deliberately hit so they replied why are you crying no the

response will be adequate we will not allow you to tear the country apart earlier i spoke to from charkha better russian journalist and political commentator he said this could be a historical turning point for the country and the international community needs to act. there is no much information coming from men's can the original because there is internet shut down and only several messenger ups are available we know more or less what's happening millions clear us leaks and the hot spots where clashes between grew up police soldiers and protesters are happening they're real police and soldiers are use and rubber bullets attacking with but also. all protestors independently of their female or male elderly or kids there are many reports that under-age guys and girls are rested does well and harshly beaten

the k.g.b. spetznaz all of our group which is like elite to department of k.g.b. they did a type of a group of journalists today and one of them that is a wonder to use and jerked shoes in the hospital right now and we don't know yet what's her condition unfortunately i must say that the situation is escalating costly and it's very important for the west community to give a clear signal to question that function started that sanctions will fall or if they're violent will not stop watching out as their ally from london also had fully on the program a u.s. court issues a summons for saudi crown prince mohammed bin cell none of the allegations he ordered the killing of intelligence agencies. in the kleck did use the war in yemen the famous painted homes of some as old city a damaged by weeks of flooding. hello

the rough weather on the new south wales coast cause some flooding south of sydney is still causes a warning of strong winds damaging winds potentially and maybe flash floods that's all its way out on the causation is now on its way to new zealand to cause a bit of damage i think for far north of north island in this big winter storm opening up in the by tales was only brought rain to western australia is it's continuing was windy weather in the southwest perth and to the south of that and then the front itself brings an increasing amount of rain and strengthening winds to adelaide and probably melbourne with more showers in to do south wales queensland's looking pretty dry i have to say and sydney's enjoying a nice change to the weather 30 degrees in the sunshine on wednesday pretty quick traveling storms the this one with here jangly is going up something like 55

kilometers per hour zipped through the korean strait left briefly big waves strong winds and rain on top of the ground but didn't really interrupt the flow of the monsoonal rain although you have got their fun tuesday there's an increase in the showers in southern japan you'll notice and equally virtually anywhere in china including beijing. exploited he's the killer. learning i would think to make the charcoal that feels like fantasy that forge this deal which didn't make sure that the trade that exploits them and. savage penetrates global markets slavery a 21st century evil continues to charcoal slaves on al-jazeera.

the and the the earth. welcome back our top story the president has accepted the resignation of his prime minister's government as follows mounting public anger and days of protest over the beirut explosion which left more than 200 people dead and thousands more injured hundreds of thousands have been left homeless and all the headlines police in hong kong of made the highest profile arrests so far under a new national security law imposed by china pro-democracy media tycoon jimmy lies been detained accused of colluding with foreign forces several others have also

been arrested and protesters in belarus have taken to the streets for a 2nd night demanding a change of power main opposition candidate has rejected sunday's official election results saying president alexander lukashenko is landslide victory was raked. a u.s. court has issued a summons against the saudi crown prince and relation to former intelligence agent saddle jobbery a jobbery filed a lawsuit accusing him of been soundman of sending a hit squad to kill him 2 years ago is now in canada weaponless and private security guards are reported to be giving him increased protection a solid benj of aid has more the saudi crown prince is again implicated in allegations of a hit squad sent to murder a dissident former saudi intelligence agents are the job is accusing mahomedan salon of trying to have him killed in canada 2 years ago government and private security has been stepped up in toronto real job breeze reported to be in hiding he was advisor to the previous crown prince and the saudi government has attempted to

have him extradited several times a driver is launched a lawsuit in the us which says an elite team called the tiger scored tried to enter canada in october 28th in canada reportedly denied entry to been sold months worth of mercenaries. a u.s. court has issued a summons to the sound the royal to acknowledge the legal proceedings against him 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 victims protection act that it signals that m.b.a.'s will now the gristly lobby president trump and secretary of state like pump a 0 issue what's called a letter of suggestion of immunity the alleged tiger squad attempt is reminiscent

of what happened to some of the journalist tim i have also in 2018 international investigators including the cia concluded been solomon was involved in the murder of the washington post columnist in istanbul jobby says the murder attempt on him was within 2 weeks of a shock he's killing and he has implicated the same saudis named in the turkish operation so i wouldn't have thought he was good if very famous person will be close to him because of gender those middle scottish cycle was used to be they'd all over his personal courts and the few others who are who probably have the same names and because of cultural. and tool for the wealth of persons on our residents will be united states and that will be. dangerous for him the u.s. president has stood by his middle eastern ally despite the cia's conclusions 4 senators have written to the state department about the persecution of a job recently members in saudi arabia the department responded by calling the job

a valued partner to the u.s. government and requests have been made to the saudi government about the whereabouts of all jobbies son and daughter the saudi government hasn't issued a response this isn't say it is becoming difficult for trump to can. a new different in the next in line saudi king you can see that good malaysian. bad behavior that effect no let's take it from the american side like you can see the cysts and look at that political hold in america against the soldier would see it so that congress is more. active when it's come july shoes were in sight so they are a job he says into border addicted soviet aggression of corruption is being politically motivated prosecutors suspect the saudis will ignore the summons but court cases involving yet more murder allegations don't bode well for the successor to the saudi throne is on the government there. at least 900 people have been killed

after an armed group attacked several villages in the democratic republic of congo the army has been sent to the troubled northeastern province of a tertiary fighters from the political and religious sect known as cadet coast slashed people with machetes in the raids on sunday attacks by the various groups as forced more than 400000 people to flee the region since monch. french president emmanuel macron is denouncing what he calls a cowardly attack which killed 8 people in southern asia 7 french aid workers in a local guide wittering a west african wildlife reserve near the town of curry when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire at them troops backed by the french military is searching for the killer as an antiterrorism prosecutors in paris have opened an investigation into the attack now molly's constitutional court has sworn in 9 new judges in a bid to complet tensions in the country the judges 6 men and 3 women took office in a ceremony attended by battle president abraham but because over the past few months

he's faced a series of protests from opposition supporters who have demanded his resignation. volunteers in the richest are racing against time to empty as stranded japanese ship of 2000 tons of oil a prime minister says the leak has stopped right now but with cracks spotted on the vessels haul he expects the ship to fall apart more than a 1000 tons of fuel has already leaked from the carrier polluting coral reefs protected lagoons and the shoreline catherine sawyer reports. conservationists in more issues are calling it an ecological disaster the wost in the country's history from above the scale of the spillage is obvious. to a casual read onto our roof a couple of kilometers offshore from the town of maple 2 weeks ago but it's only in recent days that it started seeping more oil into the shallow waters of the indian

ocean are under 1000 tons of fuel has so far spilled the japanese bark caria had around 4000 tons on board the ships operators have apologized and vowed to help clean up the mess. some mauritians are blaming the government for its slow response to what it calls and environmentalists state of emergency government was acting on the advice of the company on their experts without taking the best interest of the people and the best interests of of what should be done to protect our country our . potential it was a potential. and vicious gross negligence by gov and. thousands of volunteers have come to help all booms made from sugar cane leaves are being billed to stop further spoiling of the beaches. are the volunteers and government workers are pumping the remaining fuel off the stricken ship to prevent further

pollution. in the yellow must mauritians are coming embers to help us make the opens this booms are taken by a volunteer boat the boat men of my who broke have voluntarily put their boats at our disposal to go and place this all booms at sea thanks to this the booms are managing to retain the oil spilled from waukesha. mayberg has a marine park with coral reefs forests and other endangered species as well as several tourist beaches the area safety now depends on the many help is working to make sure that the oil doesn't spread father cathryn soy oil to 0. turkey is saying that it's resumed energy exploration work in the eastern mediterranean sea accusing greece of not keeping its promises regarding a disputed gas reserve gas reserves in the region the turkish navy announced a research vessel is conducting seismic surveys in a disputed area between cyprus and greece for the next 2 weeks greece has called

the exploration illegal and a threat to peace the deployment comes just days after greece signed a maritime border agreement with egypt designating an exclusive economic zone between those 2 nations in the east mediterranean and more than 97000 children in the united states tested positive for covert 1000 in the last 2 weeks of july according to a report published by the american academy of pediatrics and children's hospital association data shows the child cases of corona virus over that period rose by 40 percent it comes during back to school season as health officials try to understand the effects of the virus on the younger population at least 86 children have died since may according to the report meanwhile the u.s. city of chicago is offering people coming from corona virus hotspots to quarantine for 14 days on like many other parts of the country it succeeded in flattening the curve and getting the outbreak under some control john hendren has more. i'm

standing in illinois and those boats behind me are in wisconsin normally that's a frontier people don't pay a lot of attention to unless you're talking about football rivalries but wisconsin has a relatively high rate of coronavirus cases in illinois has a relatively low rate so now wisconsin is one of the more than 20 states from which one must quarantine if you go to chicago so if you cross that border and you come back down the coast about an hour to chicago you have to spend 14 days in quarantine and for many people on both sides of this frontier that's a nuisance it's a good idea if it can help. bring the number of cases down. and if you've been kind of quarantined with family i don't think you should be you know have to quarantine yourself for 14 days it just doesn't make a lot of sense as the 3rd largest city in the u.s. chicago attracts a lot of business and tourism travelers and it is in forcing its quarantine unlike

new york city which actually has some quarantine checks at the city limits chicago's using social media so if you come on the city's radar either through contact tracing say or perhaps by testing positive the city will look through your social media and if there's a recent picture say from disney world in florida you will be fined the fine start at $1.00 to $500.00 a day and it's $7000.00. now to yemen when months of heavy rain and flash floods have significantly damaged the ancient walled city of the capital sana'a the roofs of hundreds of buildings in the. site have collapsed 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 get me i'm rather much. 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 burnt brick towers and your metric patterns 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 flagged 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 behinds 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 ama the irish is one of the many who had so little of now lost everything. the flood came it didn't and while we were sleeping in our homes suddenly we felt a strong flood we only took our children with us 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 of diseases such as cholera unbeliever riya are feared plunker could go out to sea or we could always had to our website for analysis that takes you behind the headlines there's live streaming there as well is there a dot com. quick recap of the headlines before we go at lebanon's president has accepted the resignation of his prime minister's government it follows tuesday's explosion in beirut which left more than $200.00 people dead thousands more injured and hundreds of thousands homeless demonstrators have been calling for the complete overhaul of what they describe as lebanon's corrupt political elite. has been asked to stay on

his head take a leader in till a new cabinet is formed. at this particular moment we have to go back to the people to fight with them against corruption we need to open the door to national salvage national rescue we need to be part of the people so i declare today the resignation of this government god bless lebanon. police in hong kong of made the highest profile arrests so far under a new national security law imposed by china media tycoon jimmy lies been detained accused of colluding with foreign forces several others have also been arrested including pro-democracy activist agnes chow critics say it's an attack on press freedom in hong kong meanwhile china has imposed sanctions on 11 high profile americans including senators marco rubio and ted cruz in response to the us freezing the american assets of home kong's chief executive kerry lamb and 10 other senior chinese officials washington says beijing's crackdown of on pro-democracy opposition voices in hong kong is tailing political freedoms china has accused the

united states of interfering in its affairs anti-government protesters in belarus have taken to the streets for a 2nd night now demanding a change of power the main opposition candidate is disputing early election results saying president alexander lukashenko landslide victory was raked. and in the last hour u.s. president donald trump was forced to pause a press conference because of a shooting at the white house. minutes into the news briefing trump was a score to out of the room by a secret service agent he return shortly afterwards and said that a suspect had been shot by officers on the edge of the grounds trump says the situation is now in the control slavery a 21st century evil is the program coming up next. a global pandemic mass

protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. to 300 years the most powerful nations honest group rich and strong go on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children would be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a law if it is thriving and it is bigger than ever.