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in september. or current goes into coronavirus locked out new zealand reports its 1st cases of community transmission in $100.00 days. and belarus is leading opposition count that leaves the country amid violent protests over the election results. lebanon's prime minister president warned last month about the explosive material stored in beirut ports with calls last week's blast security documents seen by the reuters news agency say that leaders were told the $2750.00 tons of ammonium nitrate posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it exploded it comes as lebanon's part of a decides on a new prime minister of the house and announced that he and his government would step down the decision follows widespread public fiore the blast killed more than

200 people injured thousands more and left hundreds of thousands of this let's go live out of barb a ruse al-jazeera has sent a honda is that as they know almost exactly 7 days to the hour since the blas there's a vigil expected start. tell us more. yes it's been a week since that massive blast shook the lebanese capital causing widespread destruction and really changing the lives of so many people anybody you talk to in the capital either has a story of tragedy or survival so as you can see behind me people have started to gather outside beirut for it or what remains of beirut port the site of that massive blast the people are angry say that this is not just about remembering a moment that. change so much this is a moment where we want to try to change. our country this is what people have told

us they say that we want to bury the political class who we are who who really are responsible for negligence and their incompetence that resulted in this explosion so they're going to read out the needs of all the victims the health ministry releasing a new law a new death toll 171 people killed and 3214 people remain missing this is a blast that caused damage and destruction to at least 70000 homes 300000 people were displaced by this blast now the prime minister he resigned late yesterday people are hoping that this will pave the way for the formation of what people call an independent salvation government this is what the people here and those who have been taking to the streets over the past few days and in fact the past few months want an independent government to really manage the crisis in this country it's not

just the blast before the blast there was a deep economic crisis and the political class was blamed for running the economy into the ground but while people want independent government there are still many lebanese who are hanging on to a sectarian system that they feel protects them and so there is a deep divide in 11 on the government now it is running the country in a caretaker capacity and it could be weeks before a new government is formed but many believe it's the international community that's going to be the referee this time around they're exerting a lot of pressure on those in power but it's still not clear what the international community wants do they want a salvation government as what the people want or do they want what is known in lebanon as a national unity government where the different political parties the traditional parties form some sort of an alliance. to run this country and say no is there any updates on the investigation into the explosion.

well the government has handed the file to the judiciary but many many reports have started to emerge that those in power as high up as the president the prime minister they were aware that highly explosive material was being stored at the beirut court in fact the president himself michel aoun just a few days ago i cannot lift that he received that report it reached his desk he read it he knew that ammonium nitrate was being stored at beirut wards in his words he told the higher defense counsel which groups the army as well as the security agencies to do something about it he said i'm not responsible this is not my responsibility but at the end of the day the president is the head a commander of chief of the armed forces but that's why the people want an independent investigation they have no faith in the politicians they believe that the politicians are going to cover up and maybe just to hold the mid-level or low

level employees at the port accountable for what many many people called a disaster a catastrophe that has really changed the lives of so many people which is there is a note of reporting lives that from beirut many thanks indeed. russia's president vladimir putin says that his country has become the 1st in the world to approve the use of a corona virus vaccine that follows less than 2 months of human trials though the president says that the vaccine has been given to one of his daughters mass production is expected to begin next month. really i can just say that we are in close contact with the russian health authorities and this question. respects the possible good track record. of democracy pre-publication many wrecks. in the. series charlie angeles has been following developments for us she says that there are concerns about the speed of this announcement the vaccine is based on

a proven vaccine against the dina virus which is the common cold they're calling it sputnik 5 after the 1st russian satellite into space and they say it comes in 2 doses the 1st dose developing some immune response after $21.00 days the 2nd dose doubling that immunity level and lasting for 2 years so it's very unclear how they could come to that conclusion so in the trial phase so obviously concerns there about the speed of this announcement and they're also going to be questions about the content of this vaccine after 5 britain's national cybersecurity center reported that hackers backed by the russian state had tried to gain access to covert 19 vaccine research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions across the world as allegations that moscow denies but the u.k. the u.s. and canada stand by those quite unusual accusations linking them directly to the

russian state what does it mean for other vaccines in development we know there's 100 being developed around the world well there are 4 in those phase 3 clinical trials at the moment so i think for russia to be saying it is one in this race to find the 1st vaccine against covert 900 is primitive until it has that w.h.o. stamp of approval drops a piece of drawback is an infectious disease medic can blow bore health expert he says that we still don't know enough about the russian vaccine to judge just how effective it might be. i would not get this job certainly not outside of a clinical trial you know look as we heard this is really only that vaccine has only been tested on at best a couple of 100 people those data have not even been published so even those early results we really only know what's come out in press conferences from politicians but the scientific community has not been able to review those data and of course they haven't yet done those critical phase 3 trials where you really need thousands of patients to demonstrate both safety and effectiveness so at this stage i really

think this is a risky move the vaccine in russia is based on an ad in a virus vector add no virus or a type of virus that causes common colds and they use that to bring in a bit of d.n.a. from the spike protein of the corona virus there are a couple of other candidates that are somewhat similar to that including the one here in oxford as well as one that's undergoing trials in canada from a chinese company called can sino the url is olds from china have not been too impressive actually the ones from oxford have been quite encouraging so there are similar vaccine candidates out there that are actually further ahead already in phase 3 trials the magenta vaccine in the u.s. use a totally different technology and that's good because we want to have vaccines that are trying to attack this from very different angles because it increases our likelihood of success he zealand has reported its 1st community transmission of the corona virus and more than 100 days from anesthetists and has ordered oakland into lockdown after 4 new cases will confirm that. it leave you with 3 your ass to stay

at home in your bubble other than for essential movements such as going to the supermarket or local recreation if you are in oakland you must work from home unless you are an essential service worker all schools in child care facilities in oakland are closed as of tomorrow morning except for the children of essential service workers and those who are who are involved will remember that it leave all 3 we allow you to excess go and do a childhood for a level 3 for a scene chill suv this week his son lee or public facilities by 3 strong same businesses must close by midday to morrow. all this as a retirement village in christchurch runs into lockdown after residents showed flu like symptoms the facility told families that 8 residents were affected swabs to test recovered 19 have been sent to a laboratory. protest as in better roosts being urged by the opposition

presidential challenge us from atlanta to kind of sky to avoid endangering their lives she confronted a video that she's going to let the wanita following a 2nd buys a violent protest against the results of sunday's presidential election the election commission says the long time president alexander lukashenko one by a landslide the opposition says the election was rigged the thing anya's foreign minister says the taking of sky had no choice but to leave bella bruce. this wise and if then maybe later it will be more clarification but you could look at so many options just to leave the country she decided to do that leave it because she had as he said that was. options were not too many. more now from our serious step fast in his in minsk. complaint teams task that the belorussian authorities have taken her to the to the little indian border and

returned her complaint manager who has been detained for the last couple of days was released and now is in lithuania together with her another statement also a fact that she was in the room yesterday at the election commission which was filing a complaint against the election results together with 2 men 5 with suitcases and also video equipment and suddenly also a video has appeared in which he is so you seem to read a statement saying that she actually wants everyone to accept the official results and also to stop protesting on the streets well at the campaign themes as this is clearly a force recording people 'd in that room we still don't know who they were through man that apparently forced her to read this statement after that she left and she hasn't been in any contact directly with her campaign team until she was at the other side of the border so this is of course an important development because

she's been the symbol of this growing opposition in the last couple of months there were 3 women on the stage in belarus during the election complained 2 of them are now abroad because they are worried about their safety and the safety of their family only one of the lab left here and she says i will continue we will all continue this is not going to stop. greece has called for an emergency e.u. summit on a growing dispute with a drilling rights in the eastern mediterranean on monday turkey began gas exploration work in an area claimed by both countries greece says that it's illegal and a threat to peace and security in the region but turkey's foreign minister is refusing to compromise. at this point no one can say turkey has not shown good will we have shown it but there is a country with ill intentions on the other side so whoever is looking for someone to blame can blame greece look at the weather update next here on out as they were then the protesters striking

a nerve in thailand the prime minister warns them against breaking the law. and the coastal city of benny and that's restoring monuments from the slave trade in iraq. how we got more right in the forecast for the korean peninsula and also for japan we got some pretty heavy rain to into southern areas of china our weakness tropical storm karl making its way further north was a few showers here will gradually notch up towards central areas of china over the next 24 hours though so by far the wettest weather will be further north the seasonal rise to my your front continuing to just not it's way back towards the yellow sea pushing some rainfall gradually pushing some rainfall across the northeast of china towards north korea eventually into south korea as well must see

some wet weather there from time into that western side of honshu. temperatures here around $33.00 to get greece elsie's but it will be a little he made here but enough across southeast asia still some lively showers here of course some wet weather there into the philippines from time to time the heat that i shall as across borneo show is becoming a little more widespread across the northern areas of sumatra. pushing up towards the malaysian peninsula widespread showers continue across myanmar pushing across into bangladesh and heavy showers that just around the plains all of india still some showers said to the fall south of pakistan but hopefully not as much as it has been recently. jumped into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on at will online be part of the debate

let me put some huge she 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 need to transform lives the way tickets human way to business if we're going to adapt to climate break out of this stream on out is there a. route the order heard or the way. or the. again this is out of the main news this hour lebanon's privatise president warned last month about the explosive material stored in beirut port the coast last week's blast documents seen by the which is news agency said the nitrate could destroy the capital. russia's president vladimir putin says the country has become the 1st in

the world to approve the use of a corona virus vaccine it follows less than 2 months of human trials. a test isn't better roosts being urged by opposition presidential challengers for tech of sky to avoid endangering their lives she's going to lithuania following a 2nd bite of violent protest against the results of sunday's presidential election . opposition supporters have begun to gather in mali for another anti-government protest they've been demanding the resignation of president ibrahim boubacar since june on monday the constitutional court swore in 9 new judges hoping to calm political tension nicholas hock is following developments from dhaka and they bring senekal. yesterday when there was a swearing in ceremony in the presence of the chief negotiator from the echo was a former nigerian president goodluck jonathan and the president was the end 5 in

their leaders who were not involved in the decision on who these judges will be nor is there a national unity government as planned by the ecowas mediation effort and the 31 judges that were supposed to resign well they haven't only an aunt and the one of these judges who is the president of the national assembly was in fact the person that nominated these judges and who is he well he's no other than the father in law of the president's son another close ally to the president and adding fuel to the fire in this feeling among amongst protesters that the president is abusing power bringing close allies close to him and this government is not representing the people and the aspiration of the people who are protesting today and while this is all happening in bamako in the last in the last few weeks we've seen an uptick of violence just last night a prison was attacked by armed groups several prisoners were were freed in the

center of the country this despite a huge military presence in the north in the center well the president is not in charge or the state is largely absent in these areas and there's a huge presence of 814000 u.n. peacekeeping peacekeeping force and 4000 french troops and despite all of that while the security situation is just getting worse for justice on the yemeni island of of demanded an end to what they're calling a coup the separatist transitional council which is backed by the united arab emirates took control of the island in june justice urged the return of government institutions displayed supposing yemen's president of the islands covered up. egypt has reopened its border with palestine the rougher crossing linking the gaza strip with the rest of the world will be accessible from both sides for 3 days it's the 1st time in 5 months the people wanting to leave or enter will be able to do so

according to the palestinian ministry of health those entering gaza will have to undergo a 21 day quarantine china's top lawmakers have voted to extend the current of the hong kong governing council by a year elections were due to be held in september they've now been postponed because of a coronavirus pandemic but pro-democracy activists say that's a pretext to stop people from voting several position count that it's been banned from running for office of 0 as adrian brown reports from hong kong. when the hong kong government you know hits a sort of political roadblock they tend to seek help from the standing committee of the national people's congress in beijing which is the most important political body in china now what happened is that when kerry lam decided to postpone elections here in hong kong for another year citing co that 19 that meant there was potentially going to be a political vacuum here in hong kong in other words what was going to happen to the

current parliament so what happened is that the committee basically decided on choose day to extend the current of the hong kong parliament for another year what is less clear is whether a number of incumbent opposition legislators who were disqualified by election officials because of this new national security law will indeed be able to continue in the extended parliament it seems that the national people's congress may well have left it to hong kong government to decide what to do with these that is slater's that means they might have to sort of issue some new form of both of allegiance to the hong kong government so it's not totally clear but what is clear in a sense is that you know the the national people's congress could have said you know these legislators will remain despite but they didn't and that might mean that this

is a sop to the united states of the perhaps trying to modify the u.s. government ahead of the presidential elections in november taiwan's foreign minister has accused china of trying to turn the island into the next hong kong joseph who issued the warning on the 3rd day of a visit by the us health secretary under serious training you reports from beijing are under 30 at least if it designed to spotlight u.s. support for taiwan the us health and human services secretary alex teves. gave a speech to university students in the capital taipei the highest level american visitor in 4 decades lauded time one success in containing coverage 19 and accused the world health organization of political 1000000000 by excluding the island from being a member of the united states i want to recognize the world. and that i want to be able to share these lessons and the. international or

i've made that point repeatedly in the world health organization from which taiwan has been. there for the last 4 years taiwan's foreign minister joseph who thanked the u.s. sports friendship highlighting shed democratic values in a defiant speech he said taiwan would never submit to china. because. the u.s. is reportedly in talks to sell for military turns to taiwan's forces signaling its displeasure china sent fighter jets to patrol the taiwan strait on monday the taiwanese considered that to be harassment visit has angered china's leaders who consider taiwan to be a renegade province valen to one day seize the island by force if necessary china's foreign ministry is urging the u.s. to respect the one china principle and avoid sending so-called wrong signals to

promote independence forces. dopping hunching their substandard relationship between the united states and taiwan and $100.00 taiwan related issues carefully and the probably so as not to cost serious harm to china and us cooperation in important areas and of peace and stability across the taiwan strait. china's government has described taiwan as the most sensitive issue in final u.s. relations officially alex is our visit is about exchanging ideas for combating card the 19th unofficial e this tour is designed to provoke beijing the u.s. is already at odds with china over the newly imposed national security law in hong kong as well as trade and technology with this high profile so support for taiwan washington's relationship with beijing only deteriorates further training you al-jazeera beijing. thailand's prime minister is warning demonstrators not to

violate the law the latest protests in days of rallies led by student unions is on the outskirts of bangkok barely 4000 ties to moderate the resignation of prime minister dr chopra at an end to military rule they also questions the role of the monarchy. wayne hale is in thailand monitoring the situation and says the momentum of the protest seems unaffected by the prime minister's warning. there's no sign that the. comments by the prime minister warning the protesters to be careful about what they say will put them off and remembering also on friday night that 2 of the protest leaders were arrested charged with sedition before being released on bail that doesn't seem to be putting them off either on monday night of course again we had that very large rally on the campus of university the organizers are planning another potentially larger rally on sunday on the streets of the capital city so no

signs that they're going to start to play these protests down the government i think is in a difficult situation now they need to decide whether they crack down on the protest movement which is something they've not been afraid to do in the past ending it potentially before it becomes much larger all day allow it to continue in the hope that it will eventually fizzle out the danger with that approach of course is that it becomes much larger as i mentioned as just the student protests and potentially attracts people from other sections of thai society and the discussion about the role of the monarchy that we mentioned becomes much broader and therefore it becomes much more difficult for the government and the security forces to bring it to an end in pakistan at least $68.00 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 in recent days flash floods have swept away bridges destroyed roads linking hundreds of villages. japan's government has to send

a team of experts to help clean up an oil spill in. the japanese ball-carrier the walk. around to an offshore reef 2 weeks ago and leaked around a 1000 tons of its fuel experts are pumping the remain remained off the ship before more pollution damages coal reefs. i think she is popular with tourists crux of wiping of the ship's whole it's fear that it could break up in the indian ocean. the commandant of the japanese coast guard instructed them to do the base to provide support on the ground in regards to this incident that is cool is huge inconvenience and trouble to related parties we would like to respond firmly and appropriately while closely watching the development of the situation as mt racism protests have grown this year so have demands for the removal of statues linked to slavery protestors toppled and burned alive somebody once while others were removed by city leaders sparks a city and is going the other way of restoring morning to the slave trade era 0.

reports. this beach in bend in may look like the perfect holiday destination but has a sinister history in the 17th and 18th century it was a slave trading ports from when more than a 1000000 men women and children left africa for their often fatal voyage across the atlantic been in government wants to restore much of the area including historic monuments. it's part of a $1000000000.00 development project aimed at promoting tourism and confronting its role in the slave trade. further inland stone carvings of captive villages forced into slavery and on to ships by rival tribal chiefs this tour guide says it's vital to acknowledge the past. is the most marked city in the history of slavery that's why beyond the movements claiming the cause of black people we want

the sites that have known history to be restored so that the history doesn't die. remnants remain in we does nance cave and architecture portugal britain and france built forts to protect their profits. nearby our weather baited museum showing african colonial history from a church bell brought by roman catholic missionaries world maps and tools to imprison slaves so. this emotion i have every time i see those chains that were used to chain the slaves our grandparents our ancestors were deported by the colonisers it makes me relived it hurts a bit more but it's our story and we have to accept it. then ins leaders say the heritage site will ensure that future generations are educated about their ancestors. given that there's a muscle i came here this morning because i was missing some information about my

culture which is what i came to visit and after the visit i really appreciate the idea of the state showing us what we need to know about history of our country so. these are not things we usually taught at school or never daylight if it continues like those who have some very beautiful thing is and will be able to properly represent our country. as many in the americas and europe debate how the slave trade should be remembered for many in bed in understanding and confronting sensitive relics of the past could pave the way to move forward. mohammed al jazeera. with the seller a dream for going to. the headlines from al-jazeera lebanon's prime minister president warned last month about the explosive material stored in a report of course last week's blast documents seen by the reuters news agency said

the ability of nitrate could destroy the capital. people gathering for a vigil near the pools to mark exactly 7 days since the explosion happened to hold a report from beirut there is a deep divide in lebanon the government now is running the country in a caretaker capacity and it could be weeks before a new government is formed but many believe it is the international community that's going to be the referee this time around they're exerting a lot of pressure on those in power but it's still not clear what the international community wants do they want a salvation government as what the people want or do they want what is known in lebanon as the national unity government where the different political parties the traditional parties to form some sort of an alliance to run this country russia's president vladimir putin says that his country has approved the use of a coronavirus flank seen it follows less than 2 months of human trials mass

production is expected to begin next month new zealand has reported its 1st case of community transmission of covert 19 in boulder $100.00 days prime minister just send a hold of the auckland into lockdown after 4 new cases will confront protesters in baylor rusa being urged by the opposition presidential challengers for atlanta took a skier to avoid a danger in their lives she's come to lithuania following a 2nd nice and violent protest against the results of sunday's presidential election greece has called for an emergency eve summit on a growing dispute over drilling rights of the eastern mediterranean on monday turkey began gas exploration work in an area claimed by both countries which greece says is illegal but opposition supporters of governor in mali for another anti-government protest the bit about the resignation of president abraham google talk a so those are the headlines when news of the stream. stories

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