report from an international perspective the crikey your mobile audience how does it impact their life this is an important part of the world and our readers very good at bringing the news to the world from here. concerns grow over food security in lebanon as the country's prime minister and government resign over the beirut explosion. alone welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up every monsoon rains sweep through pakistan destroying homes and killing dozens of people . united against science we'll look at what's driving the movement in germany against coronavirus restrictions. amid the protests reports that beijing has

passed a resolution that will extend the term of hong kong's parliament by another year. the head of the un 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 85 percent of lebanon's grain came through the devastated port area the world food program says it's sending 50000 tons of wheat flour to beirut to stabilize the supply beesley says some of beirut port could be reopened quickly to restart imports christensen him in new york explains 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 terrace called it a huge catastrophe coming on the heels of the socioeconomic problems the coded 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 is 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 . lebanon's parliament has to decide on a new prime minister after monday's news that is stepping down his announcement came amid continuing public fury the last killed more than $200.00 people injured sounds more and left hundreds of thousands homeless correspondent smith joins us

live this hour from beirut so burn it the clean operation such a long operation still very much ongoing. p.t.'s i'm in the mali hile district of beirut one of the main bar and restaurants another shop area is destroyed like so many other parts of the city huge cleanup operation continue they are actually remarkably considering this was all being cleaned up by volunteers you've not really seen the state involved they've actually seen of a lot of the glass in the rubble from the roads but there is still so much destruction to see and every place you go every business you see every home you pass there are people cleaning up the mess roni can i borrow you for a moment i'm joined by. ronnie. bloom's this business.

ronnie well we can see what's happened but what is this this is you this was your business this is my father business my grandfather business we started this business and 19th one deal at the scifi and after. they make big chunks reveal where did ok here was my father and my uncle of 975 it's a 45 business here and model how you. what have you been able to say from the shop . that's not. what you. saw robert we've got a lot of i would have lost also a lot of i would go who are trying to save the odds are good because not everything maybe we're. thinking about our goods just so we can get a look at the if we have the power to create a fund for it ok it was not open and used. it's difficult what have you been told

about the safety of the building i mean there's very little of it left it's not safe or is in many separate they are buried or it's not safe for half to to move we have only today to remove or totally think and from tomorrow we have done if it will be in rhode island so we have our stocks and the 1st store here also we have to remove our stock and also the virgin gives the same building it's risky when you you were fortunate you weren't here when it happened but you experienced the explosion what you know i was you know how do you how is it. i was working on the lead. you think sound came and i opened my car go inside close the code put my hands on my head to do it myself. i was. very word of god will collapse on me i am cross i marry secure so one night i

go out from my car opens the door i feel good. loads and loads of people who are i was i was safe. and i go in they get the people i take my 1st take it from the car they be put on the. ticket was that i'd cross the amazing will also get hit and to start pursuing people. we could go now to stop and how do you begin to sink in so you just exactly what has happened down extraordinarily big this is very very good. because you realize feel yourself about it it's very bad from the i was living before to my house was a gym a zoo. there's arrest is there my shop but it's my street it's all that i know all the people i was but i think by food for the screening the 1st day on tuesday

night i was making calls to bingeing and i know is that people. it was. towards the big shock and. i was like carrying. on seeing we lost everything. and go and i are here and see in my shop. 45 years my father and my uncle was working here to make a big company and so i went to it was all a joke on me program just to efface here we were struggling but. now we don't know what to do we will move on from that. we don't have the choice we have to move but. only about the know what is the shop. for the rubbish. to move and the body on your desk by you really we don't have the power to do the. running the president. became the prime minister in the cabinet have resigned. does

it make any difference what do you want to see happen next i don't i don't think it will make a difference for me. all the. minister and the bundles of busy their face busy. we have a lot of pretty show that we go to think they decide not to but they have been given the not the minister. and i think the people who have to make the big move to remove. all the media shy and given them not only the minister. know they are they are maybe new and they made something that should but they don't own that we have a lot of really shovels i would or our culture running thank you very much and time good luck thank you and all of us thank you very much from well this is stories repeated all over beirut we've heard today that lloyd is reporting just 2 weeks

before the explosion the prime minister and the president will warm up the danger of leaving that ammonium nitrate at the port to go bananas thank you very much been a smith our correspondent in beirut. the number of recorded coronavirus infections worldwide has now surpassed 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared that's according to the johns hopkins university tracker which also shows global deaths of more than 730000 but 12000000 people and known to have recovered the us brazil and india remain the worst affected countries with more than 10000000 recorded cases between them. the australian state of victoria the epicenter of that country's resurgent brake has reported another 19 deaths in 24 hours there are also more than $330.00 new infections victoria announced his biggest one day rise and it's on monday it's under a 6 week lockdown including a nightly curfew in melbourne australia 2nd biggest city. cuba is reimposing lock

down measures there because of its highest daily infection total in 5 months almost $100.00 people registered on sunday bars beaches and restaurants are closed with more restrictions on international travel and began reopening last month after largely bringing its break under control. the us national security adviser robert o'brien says he is deeply troubled by the arrest of the hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie he was detained 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 brians at the arrests were meant to intimidate pro-democracy supporters and suppress independent media. well the arrests were made under the national security law as imposed on hong kong after months of pro-democracy protests across the territory it bans any activity beijing considers to be quote subversive the standing committee of china's national people's congress the body that approved the

law has held another vote on hong kong governance it extends the current of the city's legislative council elections due for this year has been postponed 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 monday's arrests that's brought international condemnation and joins us live from hong kong so adrian this decision taken in beijing what kind of impact in real terms does that have on hong kong. well there have been plenty of well informed speculation during the past 24 hours that indeed the standing committee of the national people's congress was going to do just this what they've done is essential he said that hong kong's legislative assembly can be extended the current session of parliament that is can be extended for another 12 months until september next year when the postponed elections are jus to take place now carry around that

sort clarification from beijing after she cancelled the election citing covert 19 will now the national creative people's congress standing committee has passed that resolution cert means that in theory the elections will now take place on september the 6 but what hasn't been cleared peter is the status of legislators incumbent opposition legislators who were disqualified because they had you know called for the united states reply sanctions against hong kong we don't know what their fate is now it had again been speculated that these 4 legislators would be allowed to resume their place in parliament as a way of modifying the united states government government in the run up to the presidential election in early november but as i say we've only just heard word that the n.p.c. has agreed to do as expected to extend this current term of hong kong's parliament by another year we don't know at the moment as i say is the exact 38 of 4

legislators who were despondent and the detention of jimmy lie that's now clearly raising eyebrows around the world. yes i think a lot of people outside of hong kong as well as inside of hong kong are asking whether this is the start of a more widespread political purge now jimmy lie along with agnes chauhan other prominent pro-democracy figure have been arrested on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers now according to the national security legislation if you collude with foreign powers that means you run the possibility of facing not just life in jail but also potentially having your trial held on the mainland because that law stipulates that when it's you know if the offense strays into foreign matters if it

strays into defense issues that it becomes complicated which means the trial could i'm not saying will that could happen on the mainland now here in hong kong there has been what you might say a bit of investor activism going on because shares in next media which owns the apple daily newspaper have risen by more than 200 percent on tuesday on monday they rose by a staggering 300 percent which i think is a stock market record so this in a sense is a sign of investors showing a sort of silent solidarity with the apple daily newspaper and in hong kong from as early as 2 am on tuesday morning people were killing outside convenience stores and also newsstands to buy a copy of the apple daily you know normally this new plate newspaper prints about either of 72100000 copies a day on monday night they printed more than 500000 copies adrian thank you very

much brian our correspondent there in hong kong. still to come here on al-jazeera escalating protests in bolivia revive memories of last year's violence which led to the resignation of the former president evo morales. we got more hot weather across a good part if you're not as hot because there's a little cloud and we got some storms in the full cost as well little areas of low pressure developing have still got a ridge of high pressure out into the atlanta but as we go on through the next couple of days we're going to see 10 increase in the cloud and some slow moving some a storm just about anywhere actually because it's a stormy weather to central parts still a few showers just push their way into that western side of the british isles but

you can see ahead of that london still getting up 34 celsius for shoes day come thursday with will lose the heat wife last wednesday whether to have it was the eastern side of europe of further south things quieted down now just around the balkans and also into greece and take a look at the temperature for madrid only 27 celsius with value as we go on into wednesday some rather lively storms pushing through here and that pretty sets the same for the middle part of the week little area of low pressure developing area of low pressure start to push into the by a biscay much a front start it's to say those showers grassi pushing their way and extending across into central park but for much of the maid it will be lost fine and dry that's the case too across northern areas of africa still some lively showers across central parts pushing all the way over into the west. 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 arliss 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 be it business if we're going to adapt to climate breakout this street on out is the era. in the arm her murderer. would like. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha i'm peter darby let's just take you through the top stories so far this hour 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 grey came through the port in beirut it was

devastated of course by that big explosion last tuesday the number of recorded coronavirus infections is past 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared the johns hopkins university tracker shows deaths of more than $735000.00. u.s. national security adviser robert o'brien has said he's deeply troubled by the arrest of the hong kong media tycoon jimmy like sly is being held on suspicion of collusion with so-called foreign forces. the belorussian opposition politicians but lana to come off as being forced to leave the country that's according to her campaign team she's now in the waning the police in belarus say protester has died after a bomb exploded in his hands during a 2nd night of anti-government armrest demonstrators have been rallying in the capital minutes since the election commission reported the long time president alexander lukashenko had won sunday's election by a landslide comes been rejected by his main rival who describes what happened as

a sham. now turning our attention to pakistan where at least 60 people have died as heavy monsoon rains continue to lash many parts of the country more than 300 homes have been severely damaged or destroyed over the last recent days flash flooding has swept away bridges and destroyed roads linking hundreds of villages from all the joins us live from islamabad which areas or cities or regions are bearing the brunt of this. first of 4 this is monsoon season and days when the heavy clouds from the arabian sea go across india and pakistan with the heavy rains so flood warnings were already that but they heavy amount of rain or the rainfall recorded in some of the. lead to open flooding where dad dad had been reports of. damage to infrastructure.

problem and. then. because of the heavy rain then the catchment area and the mountain range that of course you need to. drive a bad into big sweeping away and die of age however the heavy brunt of the monsoon being fanned out in the north a few years ago they were. in fact in great detail and when millions of people were displaced the warnings that day because he didn't like need to. be mature at logica department after the end of september so they are expecting more rain so that means more flooding the authorities able to react so this.

the military and civilian administration including the provincial government. relief teams. mentioned. something above normal. life because of the poor infrastructure and know that there had been no reaction we have heard from the government in baghdad have. more effect. ok we have to leave it there kemal thank you very much kemal hyder our correspondent there in islamabad. a 2nd wave of the coronavirus being worried about in germany more than $20000.00 and protestors social distancing and mass schools conduct a march in berlin earlier this month a little elements of the far right and the left are trying to generate resentment

of the government's health policies dominic kane reports. a sunny day in stuttgart and anti corona protesters are on the streets they believe their fundamental freedoms are under threat not from the virus 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. i would demand is basically going back to democracy away with these laws 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 people are kind of.

debate because. belief in scientific texts anymore and as we all know it's impossible to do like viral largest experiments in your home kitchen to prove it kind of so 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. 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 man true during this pandemic has been to follow the science to trust that the experts who advise them know 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 dominant kane al-jazeera. the us health secretary says taiwan's been excluded from several international organizations such as the world health organization for political reasons alexander is the most senior u.s. official to visit taiwan for decades he's praised the island's 23000000 people for their successful fight back against cope with 19. i've been a witness to the harmful and counterproductive results of excluding taiwan from these international set it 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 'd 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 trump fired the department's then inspector general steve linnik who is looking into the sale. and tobago as prime minister keith 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 that's despite concerns over the virus pandemic migration and a shrinking economy. talks on ethiopia's grand stand have been postponed until next week sudan made the request during a virtual meeting with ministers from ethiopia and egypt sudan and egypt so worried the time will threaten their water security which is almost entirely dependent on the river nile. libya's government has called in the military as protests over delayed elections turned violent supporters of the former president abel morales set up roadblocks on major routes clashing with opponents who tried to break up their protests is to as a book. 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 force 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 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 andean 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 guy. immense paramilitary force 1st of all on the us what the girls are persecuting us and torturing this 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. your top stories so far today china's top legislative body has now voted to extend the current term of the hong kong legislative council hong kong was due to hold elections this year has been postponed due to the virus pandemic but pro-democracy activists say that's a pretext to stop people from voting has this update from hong kong what they've done is essential he said that hong kong's legislative assembly can be extended the

current session of parliament that is can be extended for another 12 months until september next year when the postponed elections are jus to take place now carry that sort clarification from beijing after she cancelled the elections citing coded 19 will now the national committee of people's congress standing committee has passed that resolution cert means that in theory the elections will take place on september the 6. hong kong police brought the detained media tycoon jimmy lloyd to a yacht club in handcuffs as officers for evidence their lawyer was arrested on monday under the controversial national security law he's being held on suspicion of collusion with so-called foreign forces it's being condemned as an effort to suppress independent media the head of the un 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 explosions last tuesday the number of recorded coronavirus infections is now past 20000005 months after the pandemic was declared the johns hopkins university tracker shows deaths of more than 735000 the police and others say a protester has died after a bomb exploded in his hands during the 2nd night of antigovernment on rest demonstrators have rallied in the capital minsk since the election commission reported that the longtime president on xander look at one sunday's election by a landslide the outcomes been rejected by his main rival svetlana to come is now travelled to lithuania. those are your headlines up next here on al-jazeera will have the stream for you i'm back immediately after that i will see you very soon. talk to al-jazeera. is the government not attacking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that air travel is

the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. i ever be ok if you are watching the stream today we're going to take you to 1988 was a turbulent time for us around relations shot iran was living in the united states he'd fled iran in iran 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 and to 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 a time for the united states he sanctioned a rescue mission for the.