one o one east investigates how a cruise ship became the source of one of the strain is largest covert 19 outbreaks on al-jazeera. war. concerns grow over food security in lebanon as the country's prime minister and governments resigning over the be rooted explosion. in a mall computer w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up. here in . the u.s. president donald trump's coronavirus briefing is interrupted by a shooting outside the white house. escalating protests in bolivia revive memories of last year's violence which led to the resignation of the former president evo

morales. also ahead united against science we'll look at what's driving the movement in germany against karun virus restriction is. our top story the head of the u.n. food agency says he's worried lebanon could run out of bread in about 2 and a half weeks david beasley's in beirut assessing the impact of last week's catastrophic port blast he spoke during a un briefing on the humanitarian situation there 85 percent of lebanon's grain came through the devastated port the world food program says it sent in 50000 tons of wheat flour to beirut to stabilize lebanon supply lines to be easily says some of beirut port could be reopened quickly to restart imports kristen salumi is in new york explaining what else was discussed during that briefing. this was

a chance for the humanitarian affairs chief to brief members states on the situation on the ground in lebanon and the international response so far secretary general antonio terus called it a huge catastrophe coming on the heels of the socioeconomic problems the coven pandemic and now this explosion and while he was calling on member states to continue their support for lebanon he also sounded the theme of the need for a credible investigation and the need for government reforms that kind of underlie was underlying everything that he and really most of the speakers were saying so far the international community has pledged some $300000000.00 to support lebannon but humanitarian chief mark lowcock says that billions will be needed to fully bring lebanon back from the brink and there's concern that money given by the international community would not go directly to the people but would end up

propping up this government which has had so many problems in the words of secretary general good terrace he said the anger on the streets is palpable and it has to be heard so that was really the message coming out of the briefing today it was echoed by other u.n. officials david beasley of the world food program he also said that without international support lebanon's food situation he would run out of food in 2 and a half weeks so the u.n. is dealing with those immediate needs food and medical in particular 3 hospitals were destroyed in that blaze so that is a big issue right now for lebanon as well but long term we heard time and again about this need for reform coming not only from u.n. officials but member states who spoke as well like jordan egypt and other neighbors in the region who are very concerned about lebanon's ability to come back from this . the parliament in lebanon has to decide on a new prime minister after monday's news that has and is stepping down his

announcement came amid continuing public fury over the huge explosion last week that blast killed more than 200 people injured thousands more and left hundreds of thousands homeless and smith reports. lebanon's government has finally caved in like the shuttered 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 all 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. but justice minister was asked if she was running away from her responsibilities which i don't know if you're going to 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 and election system is controlled by a political elite the divided up power and influence after the civil war and this. 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 fairly civilized way in order to get. 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. 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 month when i. heard from. school a national unity government do after just destruction 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 a 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. al-jazeera beirut. the number of recorded coronavirus and sanctions worldwide has now surpassed 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared according to the johns hopkins university tracker which also shows global deaths of more than 730000 but 12000000 people on recovered the us brazil and india remain the worst affected countries with more than 10000000 recorded cases between them. the us president. briefing was interrupted briefly by a shooting outside the white house the secret service agent. quickly ushered the president out of the briefing room mr trump did research within minutes to talk about the controversy surrounding children going back to school mike hanna reports

from washington. 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 when it was reported that there'd been a shooting outside the white house involving secret service agents but 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. that 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 a 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 u.s. 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 where there's widespread concern about the delay in test results are often 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 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 the australian state of victoria the epicenter of the country's resurgent brick has reported all of the 19 deaths in 24 hours there are also more than $330.00 new infections victoria

announced his biggest one day rise and on monday is under a 6 week lockdown including unlikely curfew in melbourne australia 2nd because city . huber is reimposing lockdown measures it's seen its highest daily infection numbers since march with almost $100.00 registered on sunday the country had begun reopening last month after largely agreeing that the under control bars beaches and restaurants are now closed for further restrictions on international travel. the u.s. national security adviser robert o'brian says he's quote deeply troubled by the arrest of the hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie he was picked up by the police on monday along with 6 others linked to his pro-democracy apple daily newspaper they're accused of colluding with foreign forces bryant said the arrests were meant to intimidate pro-democracy figures and suppress independent media all the arrests were made under the national security law imposed on hong kong after months of pro-democracy protests across the territory it bans any activity beijing considers

to be subversive the standing committee of china's national people's congress the body that approved the law is now expected to hold another vote on the governance of hong kong this would extend the current term of the city's legislative council already elections due for this year have been pursued because of the virus pandemic the pro-democracy campaigners say that's a pretext to stop people from voting a number of opposition candidates have been barred from running like the arrests on monday brought international condemnation brown isn't on kong following the story for us this adrian hi there good morning what's the latest development you have for us in hong kong after those high profile arrests. well jimmy lie the owner of the apple daily newspaper who was paraded before the media on monday was again paraded before the media on choose day he was taken to a marina here in hong kong and then a skoda to a yacht which we think is probably owned by jimmy lie it is another reminder that

the police want to really maximize in a sense the attention that is being focused on jimmy light at the moment they say this is because it shows that the police are being transparent others say it's being served as a warning to other media owners here in hong kong we've also been hearing the softer noon on tuesday from the foreign ministry of china who have an office here in hong kong they've issued a warning against the foreign correspondents club accusing the f.c.c. of in their words siding with troublemakers in hong kong and china this refers to a statement that was issued by the f.c.c. on monday raising concerns that a police raid on the apple daily amounted to another intrusion of freedom and speech here in hong kong and this actually is the from page of the daily newspaper the choose day edition with the headline apple daily we must continue now this

newspaper normally prints about 702100000 copies a day in hong kong on monday night they printed more than 500000 copies and you know people were queuing up in the early hours of the morning outside newsstands convenience stores in the hope of getting this newspaper that was another sort of silent example of defiance we've also been seeing peter indications of sort of investor activism if you like on the stock market here in hong kong because shares in the company that owns the op with a rose by more than 200 percent on tuesday or monday they rose by more than 300 percent again this is the sort of silent activism the people are having to resort to because of course people in hong kong are no longer really allowed to protest anymore in the streets adrian the way home kong will be run is being discussed in beijing what else do we know about that. well v.

we have another meeting of the standing committee of the national people's congress what seems to happen here in hong kong is every time they reach a difficult moment they turn to beijing for advice and what's happened now is of course because kerry has cancelled the elections which were due to happen on september the 6 they've had to seek a ruling from the standing committee of the n.p.c. as to what is going to happen in hong kong in the intervening period because kerry has said that the new elections will take place a year from now so what's going to happen in the intervening period well it seems according to the south china morning post newspaper which is owned by one of the mainland most influential companies ali baba so well connected that in fact the n.p.c. are not going to be as unyielding as they've been to hong kong during the past few months and there's every sign they're going to allow the existing legislature to be

extended for another here and now the reason for that say analysts is that china wants to in a sense modify the u.s. administration before the elections on november the everything in a sense connected to that adrian thanks very much aaron brown our correspondent there reporting live from hong kong. still to come on this program here on al-jazeera volunteers pitching in to clean up oil that's blackened the pristine waters of marissa's as salvage crews race to prevent another spill. have it still hot in most of your far above where the average would take the temperatures but it's not as hot as it was is an increasing amount of clouds there longer a capping area of high pressure now there's a leakage of humidity certain might feel hotter for places and the research the

thunderstorms around not where they were down the southeast europe of virtually anywhere in act and they could be prompted by the alps and the higher ground in spain admittedly but those blues represent are the showers all thunderstorms and they're slow moving just to make the summer feel like summer now and that's something interesting happening just north of space was the thunderstorms continue elsewhere this is a proper little spinning low unusual for the middle of summer in the us the bay of biscay towards the press but then today so all of western france will suddenly have windy and wet for that not cold but windy and wet and a bit of a shock to the system i suspect. jumping sas and this is the time of year to watch these clumps of thunderstorms are set before so for sudden chad and suddenly they are there and they're moving slowly westwards catching the capitals in places they would eventually leave the constant and off into the atlantic they go to be replaced in about a day's time by another lot. frank

assessments what are you seeing back in yemen 6 percent of the relation. between swifties it's an informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many parts of the omeo region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate of that is a proxy because not the result of the interest of believe your people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter dhabi these are your top stories so far today the head of the u.n. food agency says he's worried levanon could run out of bread in about 2 and a half weeks 85 percent of the country's grain came through the port area which was devastated by that huge explosion last tuesday the number of recorded coronavirus infections is now topped 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared the johns hopkins university tracker shows deaths of more than 735000. u.s. national security adviser robert bryant has said he is quote so deeply troubled by the arrest of the hong kong media tycoon jimmy lived a lie is being held on suspicion of collusion with foreign forces quote o'brien said the arrest was an effort to suppress independent media. the police say a protester has died after a bomb explosion exploded in his hands during a 2nd nights of anti-government on rest demonstrators have been rallying in the capital minsk since the country's election commission reported that the longtime

presidents alexander lukashenko had won sunday's election by a landslide comes been rejected by his main rival who described it as a sham and the belorussian opposition politicians that line are taking us gaia has now travelled to lithuania. there are fears of a 2nd wave of the coronavirus in germany after huge crowds turned out to rally against locked in their shoes earlier this month more than $20000.00 people floated social distancing and moscow is to march through the german capital politicians say elements of the far right and left are trying to generate resentment of the government's health policies dominic came reports now from berlin. a sunny day in stuttgart and anti corona protesters are on the streets they believe their fundamental freedoms are under threat not from of a. iris but from the measures in place to prevent it worsening marches like this have been occurring sporadically for some considerable time most notably in berlin

at the start of the month the common link between these political extremes is the feeling that ministers are acting beyond their constitutional powers for example that was. our demand is basically going back to democracy away with these laws that have been imposed on us away with the masks that make us slaves the protesters are made up of many different groups some from the far left of society some from the far right one author says what unites this otherwise disunited group is a deep distrust of what they regard as mainstream politicians mainstream media and mainstream science these people are kind of. lost for normal debate because they don't believe in the scientific facts anymore and as we all know it's impossible to do like fire a lot of experiments in your home kitchen to prove it kind of saw or this is a very troubling situation specially in the pandemic the people who protested here

on the 1st of august were trying to highlight what they consider are infringements of their personal freedoms caused by the anti corona measures and yet paradoxically one unexpected effect of their protests is that now there are some senior politicians here in berlin and around the country actively considering whether they need to reduce those basic freedoms even further to try to prevent a 2nd wave of corona. certainly in the state which has suffered the most infections and their city authorities face an ethical dilemma. i was a man we want to protect people's freedom to express themselves but they need to respect the social distancing rules and wear masks they're promoting nonsensical messages but if the rules are broken this cannot be accepted the ministerial mantra during this pandemic has been to follow the science to trust that the experts. who advised the best opinion polls suggest the vast majority of germans agree but some

among the minority who don't are taking to the streets to show it whatever the consequences of their actions dominate cane al-jazeera. the us health secretary says taiwan's been excluded from several international organizations such as the world health organization for political reasons alex as our as the most senior u.s. official to visit taiwan for decades has praised the island of more than 23000000 people for its successful fight against cope with 19 taiwan which china considers a renegade province reported fewer than 500 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 by no 3 is 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 the u.s. inspector general 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 from fire departments then inspector general steve linnik who was looking into the sale. it turns out and tobago is prime minister keith rowley has claimed victory for his policy in monday's general election their early results show the ruling people's national movement secured a 2nd term that's despite concerns over the virus pandemic migration and a shrinking economy. the bolivian government has called in the military after

protests over delayed elections turned violent supporters of the former president evo morales have set up roadblocks on major roads clashing with opponents who are trying to break up the demonstrations histories about. 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 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 out 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 are 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 the a nation elections were postponed until september 6th and once again until oct 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 we're still alive along the us what

the good will still 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. volunteers in the scrambling to contain the impact of an oil spill more than a 1000 tons of fuel have leaked from

a japanese ship which ran aground 2 weeks ago and cracks a whiting in the hole is catherine soy. 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 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 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 the beaches. are the volunteers and government workers are pumping the remaining fuel off the stricken ship to prevent further pollution. in here no muss 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 this the booms are managing to retain the oil spilled from waukesha. mayberg has a marine pack with coral reefs mcgrew 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 catherine sawi. lost more news than background analysis articles via our websites for us al-jazeera dot com the headlines next. you're watching al-jazeera let's just check the latest top stories for you the head of the u.n. food agency says he's worried lebanon could run out of bread in about 2 and a half weeks 85 percent of lebanon's grain came through the port in beirut which was devastated by the explosion last tuesday the number of recorded coronavirus infections is past 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared the johns hopkins university track shows deaths of more than 735000 the u.s.

president on the trump has praised security forces after his coronavirus briefing was interrupted by a shooting outside the white house a secret service agent ushered mr trump out of the room he did return minutes later saying a suspect had been shot and taken to hospital cuba's reimposing lockdown measures seen its highest daily infection numbers since march with almost 100 registered on sunday bars beaches and restaurants are closed with further restrictions on international travel the u.s. national security adviser robert o'brian says he is deeply troubled by the arrest of the hong kong media tycoon jimmy lloyd's is being held on suspicion of collusion with so-called foreign forces and brian said the arrest was an effort to suppress independent media. the police and protesters has died after a bomb exploded in his hands during a 2nd night of anti-government on rest demonstrators are rallied in the capital minsk since the election commission reported that long time president alexander lukashenko one sunday's election by

a landslide the outcomes been rejected by his main rival. who's traveled to the few ania the u.s. inspector general says an arms sale to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates did not break international law last year the trumpet ministration issued an emergency declaration to push through an $8000000000.00 deal without congressional approval. trinidad and tobago is prime minister accused rowley has claimed victory for his party in monday's general election early results show the ruling people's national movement secured a 2nd term despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic migration and a shrinking economy those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story i'll have 30 minutes of news in 30 minutes. as the sun goes down . plays a very challenging place to work from has begun to live here always thinking of

boundaries part of the plan from moscow is on the long haul we are grappling from while there are the media don't go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. president for us 6 about a russian leader claims a landslide victory the opposition call for about $3000.00 protesters are arrested is this a turning point for the country this is inside story. hello and welcome to the show i'm sam his critics describe him as europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko is set to rule the roost for a 6th term he's already been president for 26 years of fish.