no one east investigates how a cruise ship became the source of one of the strangest largest coded 19 outbreaks on al-jazeera. the other. 7 days on beirut remembers the victims of the explosion that tore the city a pass for say lebanon's top leadership knew the dangers. i'm convinced al this is live from doha also coming up russia says it's won the race for a corona virus vaccine but there are serious concerns about the speed of its development. the leading opposition candidate and bella roosts flees the country

after violent protests following the weekend's election results. and we take a look at the coastal city in benetton that's restoring one humans from the slave trade era. it is exactly one week since a massive explosion devastated lebanon's capital now crowds and beirut have gathered near the site of the blast for a vigil. a moment of silence was held for more than $200.00 people killed their names each read out loud crowds walked through some of beirut's worst hit neighborhoods marching toward the parliament the blast injured thousands of people in that hundreds of thousands homeless. of these. live pictures now

from beirut protesters have gathered outside parliament you could see that been throwing stones and debris towards the building and now that fire is this all comes after lebanon's prime minister and president had reportedly been warned just last month about the dangerous material stored it beirut's port security documents seen by the reuters news agency saying leaders were told $2750.00 tons of ammonium nitrate could destroy the capitol if it exploded and he's prime minister and his cabinet resigned monday following widespread public fury fieri which it seems has not died down a 100 joins us now live from beirut just tell us what's happening where you are. public anger is growing it has been. going tuesdays and blast people here tell us enough is enough they've gathered outside parliament

building we are in central beirut this is not the 1st time they tried to storm the security cordon around the parliament building as you can see behind me they lit the fire the security forces have used tear gas but all anti-government protesters have really. stones so they're up against a state that is not willing to make any concessions that the feeling in the street because the government resigned yesterday people here think that's not enough they want the political class the traditional political parties that have been in power for decades to leave. people person officials the president the prime minister the house speaker they feel that they are responsible for not only the blast for negligence and incompetence for not doing anything about

the fact that tons thousands of tons of highly explosive material was stored at the warehouse and at bay records but for dragging the whole economy into the ground this is a state that's bankrupt the government has not been able to provide basic services unemployment is on the rise businesses have been closing and 50 percent of the population live below the poverty line and this is a nation of 5000000 people so that is why people are angry that is why you see these young men in the streets because big because they have nothing to lose they have they can't find jobs so public anger is growing they are hearing reports that the political leaders are trying to reach some sort of a deal on a national unity government that means of bringing in politicians. from the ruling alliance with the opposition to form a new government instead of the one sided government in lebanon this is not what

people here want but they were in the president's salvation government to manage the crisis. to tell us why the idea of a unity government is not acceptable to protest. a unity government that traditional political parties are back in power they. protest movement began the people. we wanted. a few months later a few weeks later. prime minister assad who is believed to be in the opposition camp here signs and now he is. negotiation with the speaker of parliament as well as another one of his former allies. people here heard that the meeting is not taking place among the 3 leaders so their immediate reaction is if you are trying to reach some sort of

a deal to come up with a national accord bring all the different political parties together. this is something we will not accept. in the street but i have to make clear that it's only a few 1000 people in the street many others are in their homes and many others. which protects them thank you that's right a hotel there live in beirut our apologies for the order issues there live television obviously having a few technical issues there on the ground thank you for that you know russia has become the 1st country in the world to approve the widespread use of a crude virus vaccine it comes off to only 2 months of human trials and there are concerns moscow may be putting national pride before science safety charlie agita reports. it's a race everyone wants to win but rushing it could prove fatal president putin says russia has approved a vaccine against covert 19 despite not completing crucial phase 3 clinical trials

next week i'm using a pseudonym today in the morning as the 1st vaccine against the new corona virus infection was registered although i know it works they effectively form stable immunity and iris pete it has gone through all the necessary checks dubbed sputnik 5 after the 1st satellite in space the vaccine has only been tested on 138 people one of them putin's daughter based on a proven vaccine against adding a virus the common cold this vaccine allegedly gives immunity against kobe $1000.00 for 2 years but the results of the nima 2 trials have yet to be made public. coronavirus has ripped through russia it has the 4th highest number of cases in the world the health ministry says doctors and teachers will receive the 1st doses before a mass vaccination program starts in january 20 countries have rushed to preorder it read 1000000000 doses according to moscow but the world health organization says

the vaccine has not got best on top of approval yet we are in a close contact with the russian how her car keys are discussions going to respect possible government truck requalification of democracy i think yeah prequalification of many maxine is the rigorous review process all require in effect. and the scientific community say the speed of development and lack of transparency is causing them concern we have no idea whether even the claims that are being made about the safety and the immune response of this virus are true or not i hope they're true you know once there is a safe and effective vaccine personally i don't care where it comes from we need to work together to get this to everybody around the world one of the things that i worry about is that you know this is really more about you know sort of geopolitics and being able to claim victory it may put pressure on other countries to cut corners on safety and effectiveness as well and that could put us all in danger.

until the w.h.o. give the vaccine the green light this is not a race russia can claim to have won charlie rangel or al-jazeera constantine severe enough of is the head of the bar a tree at the walk spend in st for microbiology yet because university he says a lot of work needs to be done to prove the russian vaccine is safe. in the absence of the demonstration that even the fact that maybe it doesn't really address the issue puts us. it's really protects people from the disease it's meant to protect the problem and in the absence of such data which can only be got a very large scale trials including the double blind placebo control groups but up your part there would be no indication whatsoever that this is a product that you should use it once you go to much larger numbers the facts which may have not been apparent at the smaller groups may come up in the book but safety

is great the complications from the particular groups of people and what have you whether or not people or feature people's particular medical conditions but that is ultimately what everybody's asked so the vaccines only purpose is to protect people from getting the disease or if they do get the disease they want you want that people hoard accident that. to help the disease in a milder form and in order to do that you need to have. a good group of subjects a large what subjects which is the oxidative and the comparable group of controls the people who are getting it and then these people need to be mindful it over a substantial period of time such that some of them the percentage from what would be that which would happen simply because the action is happening at a certain preconceived and then you need to do a statistical analysis of both groups to see that the group vaccinated at least based on one parameter and up parameters decided early on that the clinical trial

phase 2 or 3 is approved or stands out and behaves better than the control group. has reported its 1st community transmission of the crowd of more than $100.00. minutes has ordered all kinds of 4 new cases were confirmed. it leave all 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 or clint you must work from home unless you are an essential service worker all schools in child care facilities in or quins 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 x e schools and do a childhood for a level 3 for a scene sure super sweet his son lee or public facilities as restrung same businesses must close by midday to morrow. it comes as

a retirement village in the south island city of christchurch has gone into lockdown after residents showed flu like symptoms the facility told families that 8 residents were affected swabs to test for co the 19 have been sent to a lab on a tree. feller is opposition leader. of schuyler has taken shelter in neighboring with wayne year after rejecting the result of the presidential election at home she urged protesters not to resist police after a 2nd night of anti-government violence or thousands arrested and at least one man killed is growing anger accusations of election fraud election commission announced a landslide victory for president alexander lukashenko. as all that was happening president alexander lukashenko was praising his government's response to the coronavirus pandemic saying it did the right thing by not shutting down the economy the handling of the outbreak is just one of the reasons people in belarus have been protesting. through your room approved of you had enough room to realize some of

the smoking well as never before we have sugar milk number products and we also have consumption all the countries of close them selves and shut down their economies while we've been working go on so products markets are open when you need to work stuff often has more now from misc complaint teams that that the better russian authorities have taken her to the to the little indian border and return 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 said that she was in the room yesterday at the election commission but she was filing a complaint against the election results together with 2 men 5 with suitcases and also video equipment suddenly also a video has appeared in which she is see if i 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 as the campaign team says this is clearly a force recording people in that room we still don't know who they were through man 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 campaign 2 of them are now abroad because they are worried about their safety and the safety of their families only one of the lab left here in baton rouge and she says i will continue we will all continue this is not going to stop. still ahead on al-jazeera the protesters striking a nerve in thailand the prime minister issues a warning to avoid criticism of the monarchy. brought to a yacht club in handcuffs hong kong the search for evidence against

a media tycoon has just been released on bail. but. the weather looks relatively quiet compared to recent days across the middle east still some bits and pieces of cloud across southern parts of the arabian peninsula not as wet as it has been over towards that western side of yemen i'm pleased to say they've seen want to see showers just around the gulf of aden pushing up towards the foss out of a mom of a century it sits just lost the dry hot and dusty the dust the sand parting down that eastern side of the region pushing towards the gulf here doha to around 43 celsius struggling to get to 43 in baghdad to pick up a little as we go on through thursday more of the same in a few showers just around the black sea and also into the caspian

a few showers just around the southern end of the red sea stretching their way to central parts of africa sudan seeing some unusually wet weather some wet weather there just pushing its way into central parts of chad rolling across southern mali all the way towards a senegal will see some wetter weather here just pushing over towards the gambia as we go on through the next couple of days to the south of that still a lot of dry weather across southern pass towards the gulf of guinea southern areas of africa generally on the dry side but we have got increasingly wetter weather slowly nudging its way towards the south and cape. frank assessments what are you seeing back in yemen. turned over to pull relations like between suit this it's an informed opinion which is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many parts of the overall media region are actually under

a de facto state of emergency and critical debate have to use a proxy because not every so be enters the bill if you feel an in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. you're watching our sara reminder of our top stories this hour protesters are targeting lebanon's parliament building these are live pictures from there gathered shortly after marking the one week anniversary of the beirut blast which killed more than 200 people ports are merging that president and prime minister all warned about the potential dangers last month. russia has become the 1st

country in the world to approve the widespread use of a coronavirus vaccine comes after only 2 months of human trials president vladimir putin has dismissed safety concerns. protesters in belarus are being urged by opposition presidential challenger larner to cut off sky or to avoid endangering their lives she is fair to lithuania following a 2nd night of violent protests against the result of sunday's presidential election. can give a lie has been released on bail after being arrested on monday under the controversial national security law he was held on suspicion of khushi with foreign forces as the founder of the pro-democracy paper apple de lives considered the most high profile arrest on the new law imposed by mainland china on hong kong 2 beijing is imposing its authority on hong kong not only through high profile arrests but also through the power of the legislative council the vote to extend the current

term has been extended by a year elections would usually held an autumn adrian brown has more from hong kong . jimmy lie was once more paraded before the cameras on tuesday as police continue to build a case against a high profile businessman he's suspected of colluding with foreign powers a crime punishable by life in prison but started example daily newspaper insists the tabloids often highly critical coverage of. china's government will go on it's one of hong kong's most popular newspapers on tuesday morning it became the city's most sought after normally with a print run of $50000.00 copies a day the figure was almost 10 times that investor activism has also seen the share price of the paper's parent company increase 11 fold in 2 days buying a copy now amounts to an act of defiance they know what the police did brutally

interfered with press freedom all hong kong list or hong kong is without conscience have to support hong kong today support apple daily support hong kong. morning to hong kong i know is not like this suddenly the political persecution and white terror has become more apparent more blatant i think it's out of line what an ordinary citizen can do is very little maybe i can just buy a newspaper back news child who's 23 is another prominent pro-democracy leader facing a life sentence she was arrested late on monday many here now wonder who will be next in beijing officials from china's highest political body were discussing what to do with hong kong's legislative assembly after the territories chief executive perspire own and next month's planned election for another a year citing the covert $1000.00 outbreak the standing committee of the national people's congress decided to extend the current term of hong kong's many parliament

by another year thus averting a possible vacuum it also pays a way for position lawmakers who've been banned from seeking reelection to remain in the legislature adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. britain and france are working on a new plan to stop the growing number of boats carrying migrants crossing the english channel version's immigration minister made the announcement as he held talks in paris hundreds of migrants including unaccompanied children and small overloaded boats have been intercepted during the past week and one of the world's busiest shipping routes opposition supporters a gathering in mali for more nationwide anti-government protests demanding the resignation of president abraham boubacar cases since june on monday the constitutional court swore in knowing new judges hoping to come political tensions nicolas sarkozy following developments from dhaka in neighboring senegal. right now we're seeing hundreds of people on independence square chanting again kate needs to

step down also chanting for the. say who is the opposition figure that has been abducted during the parliamentary elections and also chanting france leave because there are 4000 french troops on the ground 14 tell than 14000 u.n. peacekeeping troops and despite that security presence well we've seen an uptick of violence especially in the last 2 weeks and that's really has angered the demonstrators in fact we haven't seen any public. speeches made by the president since july 10th when he called for a national unity government in the subsequent to that speech commandos that only trained to fight armed groups such as al qaeda affiliates or affiliates to the slavic state in the greatest are well they were launching deplored against unarmed protesters in the streets of 11 people were killed during those those

demonstrations and so the 5 movements say that by doing so the president is in breach of article 37 of the constitution that he should step down at the heart of this is a lack of trust between the people and its leadership and the reason why so many people so many efforts have been made to midi these efforts is because there are 4 presidential elections coming up in this one in ivory coast burkina faso need share in guinea so there's a fear that these protests that are about bad governance and not about the electoral process of the parliamentary election there are fears that those grievances might spread to other west african capitals around the region. egypt has reopened its border with gaza the rough across it will be accessible from both sides for 3 days it's the 1st time in 5 months of people wanting to leave all and to will be able to do so son's health ministry says those entering. gaza will have to undergo a 21 day koren team period. the son of former saudi intelligence agent saddam

jobbery says 2 of his siblings have been illegally imprisoned in saudi arabia. he says it's part of the saudi government's efforts to force is father to return to the kingdom saddle jobbery has filed a lawsuit in the us accusing saudi crown prince mohammed bin so mom of sending a hit squad to kill him 2 years ago is down canada where police and private security guards are reported to be giving him increased protection. greece has called for an emergency e.u. summit on its growing dispute with turkey of oil and gas drilling rights turkey began exploration on monday in an area of the eastern mediterranean sea claimed by both countries greece is the survey is illegal and is a threat to regional peace and security turkey's foreign minister is refusing to compromise. thailand's prime minister has warning demonstrators not to violate the law the latest protest in days of railings led by student unions was on the

outskirts of bangkok almost 4000 times demanded the resignation of prime minister pray with channel chatter and an end to military rule they also question the role of the monarchy which is a to subject in thailand when haiti is in thailand he says the momentum of the protests seems unaffected by the prime minister's warnings. 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 or are they 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 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 a much larger all they 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 a student protest 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 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 in many parts of the country more than 300 homes have been severely damaged or destroyed of recent days flash floods of swept away bridges and destroyed roads linking hundreds of villages. trinidad and tobago as prime minister keith raleigh has claimed victory for his party in monday's general election results show the ruling people's national movement secured

a 2nd term despite concerns of the coronavirus pandemic migration and a shrinking economy. expands government is sending a team of experts to help clean up an oil spill and more issues japanese ball carry out walking sheo ran onto and off shore reef 2 weeks ago it's leaked around a 1000 tons of its fuel experts are pumping the remainder off the ship before more pollution damages coral reefs and beaches popular with tourists cracks so why bigger ships holland it's feared it will break up in the indian ocean. so anti racism protests in the u.s. and europe group and so too did the demands for the removal of statues links to slavery protesters toppled and vandalized some others were removed by city leaders but a coastal city in bennett and west africa is going the other way and restoring monuments from the slave trade era mohammed has been. this speech in been 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 way more than a 1000000 men women and children left africa for their often fatal voyage across the atlantic been ins 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 onto ships by rival tribal chiefs this tall guy 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 way does landscape and architecture portugal britain and france

build forts to protect their profits. nearby or whether bated 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 relive that 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 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 was used. these are not things we usually taught at school or in everyday life 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 embed in understanding and confronting sensitive relics of the past could pave the way to move forward really mohammed al jazeera. results is there and these are the top stories protest as a targeting lebanon's parliament building earlier people gathered down by the port to mark the one week anniversary of the beirut blast which killed more than 200 people reports are emerging that both the president and prime minister were warned about potential dangers last month. russia has become the 1st country in the world to approve the widespread use of a coronavirus vaccine it comes after only 2 months of human trials president

vladimir putin has dismissed safety concerns. but there is opposition leaders fed learned to kind of sky has taken shelter in neighboring lithuania after rejecting the results of the presidential election at home she urged protesters not to resist after a 2nd night of anti-government protests saw thousands arrested and at least one man killed. as all that was happening president alexander look at shankar was praising his government's response to the coronavirus demick saying it did the right thing by not shutting down the economy the handling of the break is just one of the reasons people in belarus have been protesting. but it was you had enough rule materials farmers have been working well as never before we have sugar milk and other products and we also have consumption all the countries of clothes themselves and shut down their economies while we've been working go on so products markets are open and all you need is to work hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie has been released on bail after being arrested on monday under the controversial national

security law it was held on suspicion of collusion with foreign forces as the founder of the pro-democracy paper daily is considered the most high profile arrest under the new law imposed by maybe china of hong kong. opposition supporters are gathering in mali for more nationwide anti-government protests they've been demanding the resignation of president abraham cater since june. thailand's prime minister is warning demonstrators not to violate the law almost $4000.00 times demanded the resignation of prime minister proved to channel char and an end to military rule they also question the role of the monarchy which is a to boost subject in thailand was the headlines more news here on al-jazeera right after inside story which is coming up next.

conference defeats groups in this ahead of response to continue fighting in the south of legion the peds follows the killing of friends 8 but has been the jack but his friends capable of cold fronting the find to and how big a threat they pose to feast west africa this is inside story. hello welcome.