explores the impact of a are accessing vast amounts of our personal data for data on al-jazeera. lebanon's prime minister and government resign over the bearish explosion but the fury persists over a broken political system. rather from doha everyone came out santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera. t.v. . news president donald trump's coronavirus briefing is interrupted by a shooting outside the white house also the escalating protests in bolivia revive memories of last year's violence which led to the resignation of former president

evo morales. and volunteers do what they can to scoop up the oil that's blackened the pristine waters of malicious. well over one lebanon's prime minister has resigned along with the entire government saying he is stepping back in order to stand with the people this is after the beirut explosion which says was the result of a corrupt political system the protesters though are unmoved by his words they've been back out on the streets protesting the blast on tuesday killed more than 200 people injured thousands more and left huge numbers of people home from beirut ben smith has our report. lebanon's government has finally caved in like the shattered buildings along beirut's waterfront it took an explosion of $2700.00 tons

of ammonium nitrate to bring down the prime minister and capital. today we followed the will 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 turkey. it to a state of law and justice and transparency to a country that respects its people they'd only been in power since 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. the justice minister was asked if she was running away from her responsibilities which i don't know if you can let anyone put themselves in our position 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. 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 in 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 managed 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 minute when i. remember what houla national unity government do after just destruction blood and death and 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 the. 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 around 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. also the head of the un food

agency says he is worried lebanon could run out of bread in about 2 and a half weeks everybody's these in beirut assessing the damage spoke during a u.n. briefing on the humanitarian situation 85 percent of lebanon's grain came through that now devastated orse beazley says though it is possible enough of the port could be salvaged quickly to resume sufficient imports. your president donald trump's coronavirus briefing was interrupted by a shooting outside the white house a secret service agent quickly ushered him out of the briefing room the president then resumed his coronavirus briefing within minutes to talk about the controversy around children going back to school mike hanna has been. president trump was minutes into the news conference giving rosy predictions about the economy when he was suddenly interrupted. as the door closed behind him journalists in the briefing room turned to their pones to try and find out what was

happening and it was reported that there'd been a shooting outside the white house involving secret service agents the secret service issued a statement saying an agent and what it calls a male subject were injured and taken to hospital it adds that at no time during the incident was the white house complex breached or were any protectee is in danger. president trump returned to a bare arch of questions and confirmed he'd gone back to the oval office for the duration of the incident not to the underground bunker it might not have anything to do with me then post back to business with a baseless claim that children are less affected than adults by the buyer it's the i think that for the most part they do very well i mean they don't get very sick it will catch it easily they don't get very sick and according to the people that i've spoken to they don't transport. or transfer it to their people or certainly not very easily so yeah i think schools have to open. schools have begun to open in

a number of states some are conducting in person classes but a greater number are defying the president by continuing the remote education that was started at the beginning of the pandemic. and another questionable claim about the quality and extent of testing in the us to great record to have in many ways we have tested i guess close to 65000000 people right now and nobody is even close to that number in hard hit states like california and florida there's widespread concern about the delay in test results i haven't talked about and microsoft founder bill gates has sharply criticized what he calls the testing insanity in the u.s. adding and i quote it's mind blowing that you can't get the government to improve the testing because they just want to say how great it is as is interrupted news conference continued out president trump finally confirmed he would postpone the g

7 gathering until after the u.s. election in november and repeated an earlier statement that what he called certain people who are not in the g 7 would be invited raising again the possibility that president putin would be asked to attend this despite the fact that his own intelligence agencies state russia is actively planning interference in the american voting process mike hanna al-jazeera washington. meanwhile the number of recorded corona virus infections worldwide has now surpassed 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared this is coming from the johns hopkins university tracker it shows the number of white global deaths more than 700000 but 12000000 people are known to have recovered as well the u.s. brazil and india remain the worst affected countries with more than 10000000 recorded cases between. in australia

a side effect tory which is the epicenter of the country's resurgent out right there been another 19 deaths reported in 24 hours there are also more than $330.00 new infections for tory announced its biggest one day rise in deaths on monday it began a 6 week blocked on last week including a nightly curfew in melbourne a steady 2nd biggest city. the us health secretary says taiwan has been excluded from various international organisations such as the w.h.o. for political reasons alex is the highest level u.s. official to visit taiwan for decades he praised the island of more than 23000000 people for its successful fines against cove of 19 china taiwan which china considers a renegade province reported fewer than 480 cases i've been a witness to the harmful and counterproductive results of excluding taiwan from these international studies in the spring of 2800 for instance the world health

organization put out an urgent call for funding to respond to an ebola outbreak in the western democratic republic of the congo taiwan offered a $1000000.00 for this important fight no strings no conditions but the political bullying over taiwan status at the w.h.o. ended up making this donation impossible especially during a pandemic but at all times international organizations should not be places to play politics especially on health care surprisingly taiwan's foreign minister thanks the united states for all that support katrina you has more from beijing. he really painted a contrast in picture comparing taipei to beijing saying that taiwan's approach its government was completely open democratic transparent and said that this really was the best form of government when it came to fighting a problem as big as the current virus pandemic and joseph who also had quite

a defiant message for beijing let's have a listen i want to know stranger to such troubles all i've become increasingly difficult as china continues to push it i want into accepting political conditions from patients that would turn into the next phone call however we are fortunate to have good friends like the us and it's and to see i think members like secretary is are who was always there supporting each and every side one or international space so china the chinese leaders are definitely watching this meeting very closely it's the 1st significant and the the highest level official meeting to take place between u.s. and taiwan officials since 1989 when taiwan when the u.s. recognize china instead of taiwan officially in a diplomatic sense but at the same time this meeting is not really going to achieve too much in practical terms but it's definitely symbolic it's designed to get under the skin of beijing china's foreign ministry has said over and over again that

taiwan is a single more sensitive issue when it came to us china relations and says that this visit really risks harming regional stability and further deteriorating of the relationship between the u.s. and china u.s. national security adviser robert o'brian says he is deeply troubled by the arrest of hong kong media tycoon jimmy line he was picked up by police on monday under the controversial national security law imposed by beijing 6 others linked to his pro-democracy newspaper the atl daily have also been arrested they are accused of colluding with foreign sources. in the news ahead they're on course for a showdown with greece turkey pushes ahead with its plans to drill in disputed waters in the eastern mediterranean and we find out why a u.s. court has issued a summons for the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some of. the

. how of that moisture that came across the from the arabian sea into a modest just a pat dissipated nasser back to the standard state which is hot dry and quite often dusty the orange represents the dust of the breezes coming out of iraq it's not very hot in baghdad it's come right down to 40 degrees and oh well things being relative the still 46 in kuwait and approaching that in their hearts 48 on sunday which is the high side this time of the year but apart from this damp breeze across a large part of a man being overcast and drizzle a it is hot and dry throughout the middle east and to get right up into the caucasus with a few showers sparked off there the same is true for most of the horn of africa the cloud is an ethiopian highlands west was there's been a cloud on the coast of kenya and somalia but not very much to be quite honest and

you wouldn't expect very much to happen from this point size was now in winter apart from the passing winter storms that catch the cape as you can see if there's something is brewing we might have a frontal system go through on tuesday south of cape town the wind will be in the west 16 degrees and that cold and it will rain for a time but more rather not rain spread right across developed it probably won't it will just disappear south was again in the sun returns. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on hand will online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic violence that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way tickets human way to

business if we're going to adapt to climate break down this street on out is there a. herd. the top stories this hour on al-jazeera lebanon's prime minister has resigned along with his whole government in the wake of the beirut explosion that hasn't stopped protesters that have been back on out on the streets demanding change because president donald trump's coronavirus briefing has been interrupted by a shooting outside the white house secret service agent i should trump out of the room the president did return a few minutes later. and the number of recorded corona virus infections worldwide a surprise 20000005 months after the pandemic is declared that is according to the

johns hopkins university tracker which shows global deaths at more than 700 levels . bolivia's government has called in the military after violence broke out involving protesters are angry about elections being delayed supporters of the former president evo morales set up roadblocks around the country and stories about reports. clashes on the streets of cochabamba once again these young people are known as the resistance may play a crucial role in the protests that forced the former president will morales out of office. members of bolivia's workers center and supporters of moralists have taken to the streets in the past week anger has been on the rise since he lectured tribunal and ousted would postpone elections in the country for a 3rd time you know what i mean but this man says protesters are trying to generate

chaos was you know there's a little they're waiting for us with explosive devices and barbed wire firearms and a lot of cocktails which we have destroyed the bolivian people are no longer afraid of them it's not the same as before the resistance is here to care for its citizens citizens come out to raise the roadblocks citizens the bolivian people and the youth are here for the. jennie 9 years has been bolivia's interim president since morales was forced to leave the country november elections were originally scheduled for may but with the spread of covert 19 in this and a nation elections were postponed until september 6th and once again until october 18th. over 85000 people have been infected in bolivia including the interim president. social movements accused of trying to hold onto power and they have been blocking roads to demand her resignation. we are not going to go back and

we want the resignation of the president she cannot solve our problems and needs to resign. these people denounce the groups that are trying to clear the roads accusing them of being the government's paramilitary force 1st of all on the us what the girls are persecuting us and torturing those people on the motorcycles it's unconstitutional my brothers and sisters blood will be spilled because of the government's incapacity to solve the economy our health and education. there are over 100 roadblocks across the country and they having an impact on the distribution of oxygen and medicines to cope with a pandemic blockades the government says have killed at least 31 people but protesters say the government wants to blame them for political purposes. bolivia has been caught in a political crisis that has polarized the country since last year for many elections seem to be the only way to control the situation but the repeated delays

have generated frustration and distrust. and. police in belarus say a protest has died after a bomb exploded in his hands during a 2nd night of anti-government unrest. things like this have been going on in minsk the since the official early results showed long time ruler alexander lukashenko had a landslide election victory that outcome though is been rejected by his main rival who describes it as a sham. but u.s. court has issued a summons against the saudi crown prince in relation to former intelligence agents saddle job is filed a lawsuit accusing mohamed bin salman of sending a hit squad to kill him 2 years ago our job is not in canada where police and private security guards are reported to be giving him increased protection some of binge of it has been 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 mohamed bin

salon of trying to have him killed in canada 2 years ago government and private security has been stepped up in toronto with all 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 has launched a lawsuit in the us which says an elite team called the tiger squad tried to enter canada in october $2800.00 canada reportedly denied entry to bin solomons perth and mercenaries a us court has issued a summons to the sound the oil 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 journalists. also in 2018 international investigators including the cia concluded been solomon was involved in the murder of the washington post columnist in istanbul gobby says the murder attempt on him was within 2 weeks of which obvious killing and he has implicated the same saudis named in the turkish operation so i wouldn't have thought he was but it's very famous person will be close to him because so gentle those model a scottish cycle who is used to be they'd all over his personal courts and the few others who will probably have the same names and because of. unto all of them all the 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 valid. apartment 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 continue defending the next in line saudi king you can see that come away said. bad behavior that's a fake now let's take it from the american side like you can see the shifts and more than that political more than american against the soldier would see it so that congress is more. active when it comes to issues with insights or the right job he says interpol rejected some of the allegations of corruption as 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 some of the government there the inspector general of u.s. state department says an arms sale to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates did not break the law made last year the trumpet ministration issued an emergency declaration to push through an $8000000000.00 deal without congressional approval from find the department's then inspector general steve lineker who was looking into it let's hear from mark fitzpatrick now former deputy assistant secretary of state who says little is really known about the full report. well i think we have to really wait until we can see the full report all we know is one finding that secretary powell did not break the law that's a low bar. you know he soon the report is very critical of him in other

respects breaking the norms breaking the rules breaking the congressional understanding spent ok he didn't break the law i'm not so surprised by that i think when we see the full report we're going to see a much more critical. explanation of the investigation and what he did linnik was investigating several things that were problematic for secretary of state trump the arms sales to the saudis in the united arab emirates was not the most troubling one there was a investigation ongoing of pompei it was use of assistance for personal aarons which is a violation of the law if proven and then there was an investigation of the political appointee embassador to the united kingdom trying to prevail upon the british authorities to hold the british open in one of trump's golf courses

that's a clear ethical violation if if proven so those 2 investigations were causing a lot of trouble not just for the pump ale but the the british one for the president and you know they couldn't stand it so they fired the inspector general. turkey has resumed the energy exploration work in the eastern mediterranean sea accusing greece of not keeping its promises regarding disputed gas reserves and the turkish navy announced a research vessel will conduct seismic surveys in this disputed area between cyprus and greece for the next 2 weeks greece says the exploration is illegal and a threat to peace now last month german chancellor angela merkel held talks with the country's leaders looked like they were close to issuing a joint statement but then on thursday greece signed a maritime border agreement with egypt designating an exclusive economic zone greece is this not a fire as a rival deal reached last year between turkey and the internationally recognized

government in libya the talk is president says there is still time though for everyone involved to settle their differences. gillan we say let's come together as all countries of the mediterranean let's find a formula that's acceptable for everyone that protects everyone's rights unless we are always there and ready for the solution of disputes through dialogue and on a fair basis we will continue to implement our own plans in the field and in the field of diplomacy until common sense prevails in this regard. at least 8 people have died in flash flooding in greece in the 2nd largest city thessalonica as many as 3000 homes and damaged this report from neve barca the. storm battered greece's eastern coastline over the weekend causing 2 rivers on the island of every year to burst their banks. surrounding homes were flooded roads filled with. among the dead an 8 month old baby that died after floodwaters

engulfed the ground floor apartment the parents were unharmed. a man or woman in their eighty's were found unconscious in separate houses and pronounced dead in hospital. search efforts are continuing for several others reported missing locals say they did what they could to escape the deluge. but we have been in the mud since 6 in the morning there was nothing i could do i climbed up onto the table to save myself i was alone. dozens of people have been evacuated from affected areas and rescue workers used helicopters and trying to lift some stranded residents to safety. the region is a popular holiday destination for athenians businesses hit hard by coronavirus now face a costly cleanup he farka al-jazeera and volunteers in the riches of

rush to the beaches with buckets after an oil spill in what were pristine waters more than a 1000 tons leaked from a japanese ball carrier which ran aground 2 weeks ago and the currents a widening in the hull that's catherine so in other words. conservationists in more issues are calling it an ecological disaster but washed in the country's history from above the scale of the spillage is obvious. your casual read on to 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 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. i thousands of volunteers have come to help all booms made from sugar cane leaves are being billed to stop further spoiling 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 oil booms this booms are taken by volunteer boats the boat men of marquis book have voluntarily put their boats at our disposal to go and place this all booms at sea thanks to vase the booms are managing to retain the oil spilled from waukesha.

mabe org has a marine pact 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 catherine softly. half past the hour and al-jazeera and these are the headlines lebanon's prime minister has resigned along with the whole government in the wake of the explosion in beirut last week didn't stop protesters though who headed back to the streets to demand more change the blasts killed more than 200 people. 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 lebannon of the headlines and u.s. president ellen trumps coronavirus briefing was interrupted by a shooting outside the white house a secret service agent i should trump out of the room the president returned a few minutes later to dismiss concerns about children going back to school there was a report published by the american academy of pediatrics and children's hospitals association last week which said more than 97000 children are tested positive for covert 19 in the last 2 weeks of july meanwhile the number of recorded infections worldwide is now up about 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared this coming from the johns hopkins university tracker which also shows global deaths at more than $730000.00 the u.s. brazil and india remain the worst affected countries. police in bellary say a protesters died after a bomb exploded in his hands this was during a 2nd night of anti-government unrest seems like it's been going on in minsk since

official early results showed the long time xander looked at sanker had won the landslide. u.s. courts issued a summons against the saudi crown prince in relation to a former intelligence agent. is now in canada he filed a lawsuit accusing mohamed bin salman of sending a hit squad to kill him 2 years ago inspector general of the u.s. state department says an arms sale to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates did not break the law last year the trumpet ministration issued an emergency declaration to push through an $8000000000.00 deal without congressional approval president trump fired the department's then inspector general steve linnik who is looking into it. brings up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the latest edition of the story is next. every generation. hours straight.

i have to be ok and you are watching the stream today we're going to take you to 1988 was a turbulent time for us around relations the shah of iran was living in the united states he'd fled iran in our run american hostages have been grabbed from the u.s. embassy in tehran and has to take a 2nd we are not giving back these americans until you give us the shah because we want him to stand trial for human rights abuses diplomacy wasn't working so in the midst of this back and forth president carter was president at that time for the united states he essentially and a rescue mission for the hostages into iran that operation was known as operation eagle claw.