and asks what the future holds for the neighbors. is of blood. a promise to reform and to rebuild lebanon to appoint a new prime minister weeks after the beirut lost deep in the country's economic this a problem it's. not ok i'm the star of the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up . a deal aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of conflict rebel groups and through don signed a peace agreement with the company. once hailed as a hero and now arrested and accused of terrorism under detains the savior of many

during the 1994 genocide. and destination abu dhabi white house adviser jared kushner heads u.s. and israeli negotiators on a flight from tel aviv. now 4 weeks after a devastating explosion in beirut that killed more than 200 people a new prime minister designate has been named and lebanon missed off a db as the former ambassador to germany he won broad broad support from across the political divide a deep has now been tasked with forming a new government out in a hot has the latest from beirut. he was not well known to the public until now most of a db has been chosen to form lebanon's next government the former ambassador to germany is promising change at a time of deep crisis where we will choose

a ministerial team with expertise and competency will also carry out quick reforms that will put the country on the path to recovery and end the dangerous financial economic and social bleeding. got the majority of votes during parliamentary consultations the post is reserved for a son a muslim and the country secretary and based governing system that is why support from former prime minister assad to head e.d. hill heads the largest sunni bloc was essential to maintain national unity factions from a divided political landscape came together before the arrival of french president a man while mccall. the country needs to embrace the initiative of president macron because the french president is working with the international community to lift lebanon from underneath the rubble mccall returns to beirut less than a month after visiting the lebanese capital 2 days after the devastating port explosion he has become a main power broker in the political crisis leading efforts to persuade politicians

to fight state corruption and push through reforms needed for an international monetary fund bailout plan. for. france. or has. for the next. in his 1st act in office the new prime minister did what no lebanese official has done visited the neighborhoods damaged in the explosion regaining the trust of the people won't be easy many accuse the political class who a. pointed a deep for decades of corruption and unsafely storing explosive material after the port. unlike his predecessor has. been resigned in the aftermath of the august for explosion has the support from the majority of political forces but like

a db could be held hostage by a political establishment that has been reluctant to carry out a state reforms that could threaten their interests but this time they may have little choice the state is close to collapse and the international community says there won't be blank checks in the words of the new prime minister doesn't have time and this may be its last opportunity to save itself. beirut now sudan's transitional government has signed a peace deal aimed at ending nearly 20 years of conflict the agreement was reached with various rebel groups neighboring south sudan mediations the deal have a morgan reports from the sudanese capital khartoum. nearly a year after the start of talks to dance transitional government and the opposition coalition the sudanese revolutionary front are signing a peace deal the administration made ending conflict across the dam its top priority and it's hoped this will help achieve it will see from the bottom of the

me we are glad that we managed to achieve a milestone regarding achieving peace in sudan we know there are other factions better yes to sign and we hope there will be another ranch negotiate with these groups peace is the most important thing we have for the decisional period and without it all the talks about democratic concision economic developments is not possible so we see this as a 1st step to the dance incision leading up to this deal agreements have been signed by other groups that make up the sudanese revolutionary front each are presenting a different region in sudan the groups some armed oppose the previous government of ahmed bashir who was overthrown in april last year they see their regions have long been marginalized the new deal will give a role in the transitional government and handover. more power to local governments it also paves the way for the formation of a transitional legislative assembly the deal mediated by south sudan would also restarts the dance of 39 month transitional period imo we affirm the commitment of

south sudan and sudan's journeyed to peace because sudan peace is south sudan's peace there are still 2 more groups that are yet to sign a deal and we will continue on the issue of peace until there is a comprehensive peace in sudan we don't want any more war in dar for negotiations to end the conflict in the western region of darfur has taken the longest the war there began in 2003 and has resulted in the deaths of 300000 people and the displacement of 2000000 the forces of the armed groups will be integrated into the sudanese army reparations will be paid to those affected by the conflict and those displaced will be allowed to return home and if. we've been in these came since 2004 we want the conflict in so we can go back to our harvest into our ancestral home but we've not been properly consulted on the deal that's taking place all represented and so we concerned it may not hold. the deal is not the 1st attempt at peace in sudan's conflict zones but sudan's transitional government and the

sudanese revolutionary front say this time there's a political will to make it last people more going on to their own hearts home. now a man who hid and protected hundreds of people during the 19041 genocide has been arrested on terror charges poor says a beginner was detained abroad he's been living in exile he's accused of forming in leading what rwandan authorities call terrorist movements he says a beginner won multiple human rights awards for saving lives during that genocide an estimated 800200 killed and 100 days his role was celebrated in the 2004 film hotel rwanda but our correspondent jim webb is across all of this from the kenyan capital nairobi he says government critics like porous as a beginner are not tolerated in rwanda. hollywood does he said betrayed him as a hero but rwanda's investigation bureau has said today that he's been arrested and he's been charged with funding terrorist groups and organizing attacks within rwanda from abroad now it's made these kinds of allegations against him for many

years was back in there during the genocide in 1904 when he was widely reported to have protected hundreds of ethnic to seize in an international hotel where he was the manager at the time 12 years after that he published a book criticizing the government of president paul kagame in rwanda saying that it favored a small ethnic tutsi elite and was marginalizing the hutu majority the kinds of ethnic divisions and marginalization that with the events in the previous decades to the genocide he said these kind of things were still going on and that led to a public feud between him and president paul kagame he also accused wonder's government of denying and covering up the massacres of ethnic hutus that took place at the same time he said that no one's been held to account for these event now it's certainly not uncommon for all these kinds of views are very rarely tolerated

really tolerated in rwanda rich. now white house advisor jared krishna has arrived in the united arab emirates from israel and the 1st direct flight by an israeli carrier between those 2 nations is krisna is joined by an israeli delegation this visit follows a u.s. break a deal between israel and the u.a.e. to normalize relations and yet to be formalized but palestinians have denounced that deal saying it betrays their rights we can't want peace more than they want peace and so when they are ready the whole region is very excited to help lift them up and move them forward but they can't be stuck in the past they have to they have to come to the table they have to figure out how do we do something that benefits everybody and allow everyone to move forward so again peace will be ready for them an opportunity will be ready for them as soon as they're ready to embrace it well before the delegations touchdown in abu dhabi 3 people were killed in separate

explosions in the u.a.e. 2 died and several people were injured in a blast the damage to american restaurants and the capital on the main road to the airport earlier on monday an explosion inside a restaurant and you buy killed one person the government blamed gas cylinder problems for both incidents and a number of baltic countries have announced sanctions against bella reuss lithuania latvia and estonia have all place travel restrictions on nearly 30 but a russian officials including president alexander lukashenko the european union is now considering a similar list of better russians to target for travel sanctions and asset freezes that's if the government doesn't end what the bloc calls human rights violations has threatened to cut off european transit and trade routes across his country and retaliation to any sanctions well meanwhile thousands of people continue to demonstrate against the president while many have sought refuge in neighboring countries and smith reports from the capital of neighboring vilnius. a few seconds

of defiance against the government of russian president alexander lukashenko cost kirill got a lot of lost their jobs and their freedom i thought we'd play the song $1.00 of the bosses would come in and say what the hell are you doing and we would turn it off no problem and it would just be something irritating but we would be honest to ourselves and when in the future i look back i wouldn't feel any shame for taking part in this event. state sound engineers have been forced to play music at a government concert just before the presidential election. but they slipped in a famous song from 1986 used by anti soviet groups. i still have them in your soup or more to the next moment there was this explosion of emotions people were singing along and i realized it would have risen and i knew

i'd be arrested one journalist ran up to me and said give me the number of one of your relatives because you know now you'll be arrested and asked the national the general kirill and vladislav were tried and found guilty of resisting arrest despite video released by minsk police showing engineers complying with the arresting officers they were jailed for 10 days they have a deal of credit for it if that's over. a spent 5 days in jail in the small cell that stank of chlorine made your eyes water it was so strong it was really hard to breathe properly and i didn't sleep at all now they've been given visas by neighboring lithuania and they're here with their girlfriends who wanted to come with them and yeah yeah. i'm happy that my friends and family can sleep well knowing that i was safe and no longer in danger i left the country because they didn't have any other way out so my mom was a car following all of them say they want to go back home to belarus but not while alexander lukashenko is there these are activists or politicians just 4 of the

hundreds of thousands of people who. dead to dispute the president's claim that he wanted 80 percent of the vote in the election in early august the baltic states of introduce largely symbolic travel bans on alexander lukashenko and other senior members of his administration the 66 year old leader is continuing to resist calls to step down seems to have the backing of the kremlin which on monday said the situation in belarus seems to be under control but it's made al-jazeera vilnius often ahead hang on. i'm catherine sawyer. can you know whether what the level has been rising for the last 7 years makes my room for several kilometers from here is also rising telling you why this is a potential logical disaster. and respond to a strain and still reeling from what's become known as a black summer. aliza

typhoon season is particularly active at the moment but this one here is strengthening on its way north it's not following exactly the same path as his previous so it's going to be more damaging at the moment it's just passing. over open waters which fits in the review queue chain japanese chain of islands as it moves north so it will be quite significant she was already picking up some rain in the easterly increasing eastley breeze and that's going to be sundry rain by wednesday but that may not be the major hit this northward movement takes it directly into world south korea so the eastern side will be catching japan but i think the worst is going to be in south korea we're watching closely on wednesday fairly obviously. south of all this the shells are increasingly coming sas now as

they should do so seasonal change says reborn your own sort of way so you see more and more showers in this chair in singapore kuala lumpur russia for cambodia for at least tuesday wednesday little bit dry here and if you're in java though it's largely a dry picture the moment showers seem more likely there's been flooding recently in pakistan afghanistan and that is because of this cloud here has more rain to come during cheese day tends to drive home wednesday but not so in this part of india. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on and on line be part of the debate let me put some you keep coming steve when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic islands that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way we could soon equating it

business if we're going to adapt to climate breakdown this dream on out is there. the we move. forward. you know again i missed all the attainder that's right you've got top stories this hour that mini's president michel aoun has named ambassador mustafa dba as the new prime minister designate a secured the support of the majority of m.p.'s the previous government chris on august 10th after the beirut port explosion. white house adviser jared curse that has arrived in the united arab emirates from tel aviv on the 1st direct flight by an israeli carrier between those 2 nations it follows a u.s. brokered deal between israel and the u.a.e.

to normalize relations. and saddam's transitional government has signed a peace deal with rebel groups to end nearly 2 decades of conflict south sudan has been mediation those talks ended stopping violence in many parts of suit on including darfur. now montenegro his ruling party has narrowly won the parliamentary election fought suffered its worst result since the country won independence from subway a 14 years ago the pro western party of president of its secure 35 percent of votes the person to be an opposition party trailed behind with 32 percent boss it could still form a government if it can reach consensus with montenegro's 2 other opposition parties even positive itches in the capital projects with more on what those results mean for mom to neighbor. the day after the election it's long to negroids the in some kind of state of disbelief of whether it dispositive or negative for the 1st time in its modern history this country is faced with a possible change in power for the last 3 decades there was ruled by the same party

the d.p.'s of current president will kind of which this party led country is to independents to a nato membership and now it's leading to towards european union membership but now the ruling party could easily be replaced with tools presumably an opposition bloc . beach would love to have and to see more of closer ties of montenegro with neighboring syria as well as with russia however these 2 a pro serbian blocs don't have enough tense in montenegro parliament took a day or their own government so they will need help from their 3rd partner and the 3rd partner is proceeding collison called order which stands for a pro western path of the country they say that for sure that this country is going to face the more divisions and more uncertain political situation montenegro he saw

but right now where you will very divided country and it's going to be like that for the next couple next couple of years but the it's a totally new political situation and climate in the country and. some certainty in within the country how it's going to lead this country that in the next 4 years. india's economy has contracted for the 1st time in 40 years as a result of the krajina virus pandemic g.d.p. shrank by 23.9 percent in the 3 months from april to june that followed an unprecedented nationwide shutdown the country reported more than 78000 new cases on sunday that's the biggest single day jump in a while. hong kong's government says half a 1000000 people have signed up it's free. coronavirus testing program that's trying to stay but a pro-democracy union of health care workers is calling for a boycott because of the program's connections to mainland china sarah clarke reports from hong kong. in a city still struggling with

a 3rd wave of corona virus infection the government says mass testing is the best way to put hong kong on a course for recovery. the universal community testing program is running from september 1st the government is heavily promoting the campaign which has been funded by mainland china central government at a cost of $20000000.00 the offer was presented as a favor to the city government has released this video thanking mine and authorities for their help so odd choice let me reiterate that this is a 100 percent voluntary universal testing program the aim is to ensure those who want to get tested can get tested more than 140 centers have now been set up with voluntary testing to start on tuesday the hong kong government says it's responsible for sample collection but a team of 60 medical staff from china will lead the screening and 3 mine land based or bird trees will process the results china's involvement is being viewed with

skepticism by some who fear the genetic data could be used for other purposes we do not know how the data will be stored how long they are going to retain all if they are collecting the data for testing so what they use it for comparison for this takes we we don't know despite a recent outbreak hong kong has seen a downward trend a few of the 100 cases for more than 20 dies the government says this screening program imes to address a recent spike in community transmissions and also did people peace of mind opposition groups and some in the medical community so messed testing is not the most cost effective solution. i don't go against testing but i really think that testing should be targeted testing should be targeted to those who have symptoms testing should be targeted to doe's with close contact with

a confident cases who has reported more than 400000 coronavirus cases so far this mess testing program may i did far more infections the moment authorities leading the campaign it would also be a boon to of energy moments to implement in his former british territory sir clarke al-jazeera hong kong well now china has arrested an astray and citizen who's a t.v. anchor for a chinese state run channel c g t n a straight his foreign minister has confirmed the high profile arrest of chang lane the reasons for her arrest remain unclear and comes amid growing tension between china and australia over the coronavirus pandemic and beijing's handling of the outbreak and now china has also want a prominent czech politician that he will pay a heavy price for visiting taiwan the czech republic senate speaker middle sophistry arrived in taiwan on sunday with a launch delegation he said his trip would promote business links and that his country would not bow to beijing's objections china considers taiwan

a breakaway province now the website of new zealand stock exchange has crashed after 5 consecutive days of cyber attacks the ns at x. site was down for about an hour on monday trading has continued unaffected it was heavily disrupted last week and what i believe to be some of the most sophisticated cyber attacks new zealand has ever seen the government is warning of an ongoing campaign targeting banking financing and retail sectors. well straightly as bushfire commission has warned the government to be prepared for more frequent and intense natural disasters in the coming years it's released its 1st report on some of that 3000000 as of hector as of land there aneta gage visited the community of bradley near the capital canberra to see how recovery efforts are going. it's now known as the struggle is black thelma months of writing bushfires devastated the country southeast claiming dozens of lives and destroying everything in its path

scientists believe nearly $3000000000.00 animals were killed or displaced the heartbreak and the devastation that with us is nearly indescribable. there was so many of the businesses that were lost there's so many of the beautiful homes that were lost here as well 8 months on al-jazeera has returned to some communities with fire caused widespread destruction in bradley sewin mark perry haven't repealed their home yet but most of the debris has been removed they had stayed to defend it but the inferno was too strong it virtually exploded once it hit. massive train coming towards us after months of repair is they're hoping to reopen a gift beulah's next month which were badly damaged and the return of some bird species is bringing new hope with financial support the return of wildlife.

and some of the trees for. them to be in this council area alone nearly 500 homes were destroyed and about 80 percent of this land and it's quite incredible they'd see just how quickly the landscape is recovering but the trauma that people went through is still very real some who lost everything a still living in caravans and tents. and businesses are operating out of templi buildings findings from a royal commission into the fires have been delayed due to covert 19 is an interim report says better coordination is needed between different levels of government and work on updating bushfire warning systems should be prioritized. eagan he lost his home wants action on climate change to be included in the final report you know . when a turd reduce emissions quickly and fast we don't have the technology played. a

political will to to get beyond it the commission's report also wants a strong leader is likely to experience more frequent and intense natural disasters in the years ahead nicola gage al-jazeera brawly who's behind of disasters of flooding in sudan's capital has now killed more than 1000 people troops are helping people to safety and building barricades and cotton tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed since the start of drenching rains there. meanwhile rising water levels along kenya's great restfully have forced thousands of people from their homes there there are also fears of a looming ecological disaster 2 lakes are growing closer together and make contaminate each other threatening wildlife and livelihoods catherine soy explains . this is late but korea in kenya's rift valley an alkaline lake which is home to

some of the largest colonies of flamingoes in the world and this eases and hot springs but something has been changing in the last few years the water level has been rising causing the lake to expand about 8 kilometers since 2013 it has covered most of the keys as and submerged territory that once had homes hospitals and roots james a game warden shows us how far the lake has come and tells us how worried he is our normal size of the lake used to be that the formula but it's a long $42.00 for the. lake gets most of its water from a river whose main source of forests in the central highlands environmental climate change deforestation and unusually heavy rains have made things worse this is one of the rivers that feed local korea and our game warden says the big problem is right here because if the water from the lake which is rising gets to this point

then it cooled reverse the cause of the river mix up with swamps downstream which connect with burying a freshwater lake they facts to the ecosystem will be disastrous lake very good 13 kilometers to the north has freshwater the 2 lakes were 20 kilometers apart not too long ago lake baringo is rising at about 2 and a half centimeters a day its water has increased by up to 12 meters in the last 7 years where we are running past and used to be drawn around dr lizabeth my horse has lived here for 40 years. she and her husband run a program to rehab militate. ari lund she says even water from the 2 lakes makes their contaminate each other and affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people deforestation really has to be looked at so that the flash flooding is stopped and catchment areas are preserved another thing very important is that

there's like fluctuates it goes down it comes up so who knows given climate change how it will fluctuate seeing lin a point is one of thousands here who are in trouble now they buy ringo has reached his doorstep you know the water was far when i was coming here my previous house is now submerged now i'm trying to figure out where to move next only god can help us . he doesn't know it yet but he believed but gloria contaminates baringo all the water life including the fish she depends on for food and money will die the suggestions by some scientists and government workers to build a barrier between the 2 people who've been watching the leaks well for years say enough of talk a solution needs to be found quickly catherine soy al-jazeera lead but gloria kenya now a 3 year old girl is recovering after being swept into the air at a kite festival in taiwan.

a kite that was actually supposed to scatter sweets for children took off in a strong gust of wind wrapping its tail around the little girl she was carried through the air for about 30 seconds before dropping back down to earth thankfully she suffered only minor cuts. iran this is al jazeera and these are the headlines lebanese president michel own has named ambassador mustafa dave as the new prime minister designate a day of secured the support of a majority of m.p.'s the previous government quit on august 10th after the beirut explosion. he has this was the last he will let you know what we have worked on so there's no room for words so promises it's time for us to join hands and restore hope among lebanese or lebanese or pinning high hopes on this and we hope we'll be

successful we want to restore hope and get back on a free to work for the benefit of our country we have accepted this charles simply because i'm aware and all the political factions are aware of the gravity of the situation and the necessity to immediately implement reforms. now white house adviser jared kirsner has arrived in the united arab emirates from israel on the 1st direct flights by an israeli carrier between those 2 nations he's joined by an israeli delegation the visit follows a u.s. brokered deal between israel and the u.a.e. to normalize relations. saddam's transitional government has signed a peace deal with rebel groups to engineer the 2 decades of conflict south sudan has been mediation the talks aimed at stopping violence in many parts of sudan including 2 awful baltic countries have announced a series of travel sanctions against the better russian president and $29.00 other officials the e.u. is also considering sanctions against alexander be christian. montenegro's ruling

party has not only won the parliamentary election bought the result is its west since the country won independence from sabia 14 years ago the pro western party of president secured 35 percent of votes bought the process be an opposition party could still form a coalition. china has arrested an australian citizen who is a t.v. young calf a statement chinese channel c t n a strain his foreign minister has confirmed the high profile arrest of chiang lay it comes amid growing tension between china and australia over the coronavirus pandemic and india's economy has contracted for the 1st time in 40 years as a result of the pandemic g.d.p. shrank by 23.9 percent in the 3 months from april to june that followed an unprecedented nationwide shutdown well those are the headlines next stop it's counting the cost stay with us.

hello i'm adrian figure this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week carving up the riches of the mediterranean could prove to be a costly mistake as a lebanese well comes up dry of oil companies delayed drilling could nations miss out on the oil and gas but on. a ruse a colony of has turned millions of lost jobs as the.