century evil continues the charcoal slay. announces in. lebanon's prime minister and government resign over the beirut explosions but the fury persists over a broken political system. and come out santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera. president obama trance 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 one person is killed in bellerose where protests continue against president look at this victory and election denounced as a sham. so lebanon's prime minister has resigned along with the government saying he is stepping back in order to stand with the people and says after the beirut explosion which. has said was the result of a corrupt political system protesters though are unmoved by his words they are as you see have been back out on the streets after that blast on trees there which killed more than 200 people injured thousands more and left huge numbers of people so this report is from when it's with in beirut. lebanon's government has finally caved in like the shuttered buildings along beirut's waterfront it took an explosion of 2000. $1700.00 tons of ammonium nitrate to bring down the prime

minister and cabinet. today we followed it 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 theft 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 then if you didn't 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. 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 their power in their hands. many people in lebanon describe their circumstances as like being held hostage. here and. 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 a. 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 ever more discussions held at the united nations about the situation in lebanon u.n.

secretary general has called for a credible investigation into the cause of the the disaster on sunday the u.n. and several countries promised nearly $300000000.00 in aid. on to other news in the u.s. 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 briefing within minutes to talk about the controversy around children going back to school if health from mike hanna. 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 protect t's 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 and then reports back to business with the baseless claim that children are less affected than adults by the virus i think that for the most part they do very well i mean they don't get very sick that it will catch it easily they don't get very sick and according to the people that i've spoken to they don't transported 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 read. i 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 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 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 as we look at the johns hopkins university tracker it also shows the global deaths that upwards of 736000 about 12000000 people are known to have recovered the u.s. brazil and india remain the worst affected countries 10000000 recorded cases between them let's look at australia the state of victoria the epicenter of the country's research an outbreak which is reported another 19 deaths in 24 hours there are also more than $330.00 new infections the tory announced its biggest one

day rise in deaths on monday it began a 6 week lockdown last week including a nightly curfew in australia's 2nd biggest city melbourne. and having earlier largely brought its outbreak under control cuba is reimposing lockdown measures that seem its highest daily infection numbers since march with almost 100 registered on sunday beaches and restaurants have been closed and there are further restrictions on international travel. the bolivian government called on the military after violence broke out involving protesters who are angry about elections being delayed 'd supporters of the former president evo morales they've been setting up roadblocks around the country that's to rise above. 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 a former president it will more or less out of office. members of bolivia's workers

center and supporters of morales have taken to the streets in the past week anger has been on the rise since he lectured a 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 horse you know there's a little there 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 here for this. journey 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 as a small girl cell 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 the 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. a check on the world weather is next and then with rising crime economic trouble and a spike in coronavirus cases voters in trinidad and tobago voting in parliamentary elections. and why new constitutional court judges in mali may help resolve the impasse with the president those demanding his resignation.

however that moisture that came across the from the arabian sea into a modest just dissipated nasa 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 on a wall 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 over 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 no in winter apart from the passing winter storms that catch the cape because you can see there's

something is brewing we might have a frontal system goes through on tuesday so if the cape tat the window 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. on counting the cost of russia's 2nd war planes and that's christa seems control of libya's biggest oil field last $11.00 on the economic analysis of the devastating explosion is it time from awful fun plus weaponized in place and this information to manipulate elections counting the costs of al-jazeera when you see big groups of people walking through europe they're all individuals with children the lowlights you have to be or all of them and to treat them with something that in respects. to. the way.

the top stories this hour on al-jazeera lebanon's prime minister has resigned along with the whole government in the wake of the beirut explosion it's not stopped protesters though have been back out on the streets demanding more change. is president on trump's coronavirus briefing was interrupted by a shooting outside the white house a secret service agent trump alpha of the room and he did return a few minutes later. a number of recorded corona virus infections worldwide has passed 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared that's according to the johns hopkins university trying to which also shows global debts up above the 700000. u.s.

national security adviser robert o'brian says he's deeply troubled by the arrest of the hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie 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 apple daily have also been arrested they are accused of colluding with foreign forces. now the u.s. health secretary says taiwan has been excluded from the world health organization for political reasons. is the highest level u.s. official to visit taiwan for decades and praised its successful fight against code 19 in a joint news conference taiwan's foreign minister accused china of turning the island into the next hong kong 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 slow stranger to such troubles all i become increasingly difficult astride a computer is to push it into accepting political conditions competition that would turn into the next phone call however we are fortunate to have good friends like the us and its and to see us the members like secretary is our who is always there supporting each and every one or international space so china the chinese leaders are definitely watching this meeting very closely it's the 1st significant and the highest level official meeting to take place between u.s. and taiwan officials since 1979 when taiwan when the us 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. police in belarus say a protester has died after a bomb exploded in his hands during a 2nd night of anti-government on wrist seems like there's been going on in minutes since official early results showed the long time role alexander lukashenko had a landslide election victory that outcome those been rejected by his main rival who describes it all as a sham. they're saying he has promised to crack down on anybody disputing the 3000 people were arrested on sunday night world leaders are calling for restraint from minsk step reports. explosions rocking the belorussian capital a few hours after the polls have closed

a position supporters have come out in thousands to protest the initial election results riot police is blocking the entrance to a large square. and it's firing stun grenades into the crowd. a police truck drives into protesters. i. am balances are rushing in to take to hospital police through the grenades into the crowd. was broken into 2 parts it was. oh and. take you and go with you. here tonight i want some transition why can't. you know i'm tired of that. must so be cancelled because you see so would miss that and i want to live in

a free country and my children to live in a free country i want them to have a future i want to live here and work here not be forced to leave the country my granddaughter 16 years old and asks me where shall i go. that's just put up barricades on the main roads to prevent police cars of getting near them defiance and anger here on the streets of. thousands of people have come out to protest what they call free elections. here to spread out what is clear not only here but on the other side of the police like way over their thousands. and they are not waiting for him to live. any longer earlier in the day their candidate spectrometry kind of guy had come out of hiding to cast her vote she had left her apartment on the eve of the elections fearing arrest at 1st a reluctant presidential candidate she has grown into the biggest hope many belorussians have for change. election rallies attracted the largest crowds bellows

has seen in decades after casting his vote president aleksander look at shankar called the opposition weak for decades he's enjoyed solid support in the former soviet country lately he's faced criticism for downplaying the covert 19 crisis and worsening economy. criticism that has rapidly grown into the largest threat to his 26 years rule well before the authorities may have managed to control the opposition by using force this time around people saying and show that they are beyond fear step fast and al-jazeera minsk. let's hear from front to via via corker now who is a bit of russian journalists and political commentator actually points out protests like these are rare in the country i never saw anything like this and more than that i couldn't imagine anything like this because belarus sons are super peaceful people they hate cold things they hate scandals they don't like wars they are

always this simple and we've been called the russians as well eastern european germans you know they do everything they do everything according to groups and what's happening right now that's a popular uprising people are and not with allies with hundreds of the regime and they don't associate themselves with the soviet leader in question case representative of the soviet past and people want europe they want modern civilization they want to open borders so i would say this is not just their religion against the question of that female revolution because of the most the leadership is for male it's a liberal revolution and it's also a media digital revolution because all the protestant and revolt so we have sort of right now it has made on all social media primarily the 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 dollars deal without congressional approval president trump fired the department's then inspector general steve winick who was looking into it fitzpatrick now a former deputy assistant secretary of state with his views he 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 that 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 at 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 proven so those 2 investigations were causing a lot of trouble not just for pump ale but the the british one for the president and you know they couldn't stand it so they fired the inspector general. at least 8 people have died in flash flooding in greece and the 2nd largest city thessalonica

many as 3000 homes have been damaged and support from the. storm fairly abutted greece's eastern coastline over the weekend causing 2 rivers on the island of heavier to burst their banks. surrounding homes were flooded roads filled with. among the dead an 8 month old baby that died after floodwaters engulfed a ground floor apartment the parents were unharmed. a man and 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 on to the table to save myself i was in the. 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. every rains brought flash flooding to large areas of northern sudan as well hundreds of homes and farms have been destroyed many of the affected cities towns and villages are along the nile which regularly overflows during the rainy season. molly's constitutional court is born in 9 new judges hoping it will help calm political tension the 6 men and 3 women took office in a ceremony attended by president abraham. he has faced a series of protests from opposition supporters demanding his resignation. senegal and says there's been an increase in violence demanding the president step down

there's been attacks multiplication of attacks in the north in the center of the country on the weekend we've seen attacks in the region of coro and in a few weeks ago we saw the beheading of a look at a local official by. the greater. so during this period of time the united nations has come out with a report again accusing the money and forces of extrajudicial killings towards the malian population that it's meant to protect more so then the armed forces and the armed groups that are involved so many people are waiting for what is going to happen today tens of thousands of people are expected on the streets of power might go to protest again asking for the resignation of president mubarak. talks on ethiopia's grand renaissance dam have been postponed until next week so that made the request during a virtual meeting with ministers from ethiopia and egypt sudan and egypt fear that

will threaten their water security which is almost entirely dependent on the britain. on the volunteers in the rush to the beaches with buckets after an oil spill in what pristine waters more than a 1000 tons of leaked from a japanese bulk carrier which ran aground 2 weeks ago ethen soil reports. 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. the akasha ran 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 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 tonnes 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 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 oil booms this booms are taken by a volunteer boat the boat men of market broke have voluntarily put their boats at

our disposal to go and place this all booms at sea thanks to base 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. half past the hour and these are the headlines on al-jazeera lebanon's prime minister has resigned along with the whole government in the wake of the explosion in beirut last week but that hasn't stopped the protesters heading back out onto the streets to demand change the blast 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 lebanon it was president donald trump's coronavirus briefing was interrupted by a shooting outside the white house a secret service agent ushered out of the room he returned a few minutes later to dismiss concerns about children going back to school a recent report by a medical association says more than 97000 children tested positive the cove in 19 in just the last 2 weeks of july and the number of recorded infections worldwide has now surpassed 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared this is coming from the johns hopkins university tracker which also shows that number and wipes their global deaths at more than 730000. the u.s. national security adviser robert o'brian says he is deeply troubled by the arrest of hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie 6 others linked to his pro-democracy newspaper

apple daily have also been arrested they're accused of colluding with foreign forces. police in belarus say a protesters died after a bomb exploded in his hands it happened during a 2nd night of anti-government unrest things like these have been going on in minsk here for since the official early results showed the long term goal that alexander lukashenko had won in a landslide and trinidad and tobago prime minister keith riley has claimed victory following monday's general election preliminary results show the ruling people's national movement won a majority of seats in parliament will be the government's 2nd term despite concerns of a pandemic and an economic slowdown. with the headlines on al-jazeera counting the cost is next. a story of financial scandal with billions lost in the united arab emirates i've never seen a story like this where 2 companies similar tiniest plea involving the same group

of people have failed at the same time. the money is the $1000000.00 question al jazeera world investigates the dramatic story of the rise in full of an indian tycoon. and the missing millions on al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week russia seizes control of libya's biggest oil field despite losing ground moscow flaunts libya with warplanes and russian mercenaries currency crisis default hyperinflation lebanon's.