documentary. protesters return to the streets in lebanon a year after huge demonstrations against the political elite sent shock waves through the nation. this is al jazeera life and also coming out fighting escalates 7 are going to karabakh i mean here is blamed for a missile attack that's killed at least 13 people in azerbaijan 2nd largest city. turkey says it's discovered more natural gas reserves in the black sea equivalent almost 10 years worth of its annual energy needs. and prime minister just enjoys

a landslide election victory as the zealanders reward her for having an easy one. so the protesters are gathering in lebanon to mark one year since mass anti-government protests they have been rejecting corruption and the ruling elite level has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the pandemic take a look at how we got here don't taper last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whatsapp application triggered spread across lebanon and it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor public service it led to the resignation of the prime minister saad hariri and a political deadlock a sectarian groups struggle to unite behind a replacement and then early august a powerful explosion ripped through central beirut killing more than 200 people that became another symbol of government incompetence and weeks later

a 2nd wave of coronavirus pose a threat for the 10s of thousands of people who do. in the blogs as you noted joins us now live from beirut and then it's been a terrible year and frustration once again mounting protests rejecting corruption in the routing clubs. well. it has been a very difficult year those nationwide protests were triggered by a bad economy people were not making and. they were losing their jobs today the economy is near collapse the currency has devalued by 80 percent on the black market people savings are trapped in the banks because the financial system is paralyzed there is a liquidity crisis more and more businesses are closing down and people are losing their jobs unemployment more than 30 percent poverty now more than 50 percent of a population of 5000000 people are poor the situation is definitely much worse

people took to the streets today to mark the one year anniversary of what they call the revolution but these people were not able to rally the whole nation behind that a significant number of lebanese still continue to protect and defend the status quo the sectarian leaders who have been governing this country for decades simply because they either benefit from them or for ayesha logical reasons they continue to support them so the situation is quite dire there is a caretaker government that is unable to make decisions to hold negotiations with the i.m.f. or a much needed international bailout plan and as part of those protests earlier we saw a kind of. another very bad moment you know roughly. yes the august for explosion at port killed nearly 200 people there are still

a lot of anger a p. blame officials they say that officials knew about the presence of nearly $3000.00 tons of ammonium nitrate which were stored on safely at one of the warehouses that beirut ports and nobody has been held to account yes the charge investigating the case has arrested a number of court officials custom officials the people here believe senior officials should be behind bars simply for their neglect because even the president himself acknowledged that he knew they had no nitrates was. the port so there is a lot of anger at those in power are entrenched in this confessional base system power sharing system in this country it's easier said than done to remove them from power they've been clinging on to power they there is there was there was a counter revolution security forces they used force to clamp down on gatherings

they made arrests they intimidated the people and that's why a lot of people are scared to return to the streets so those who are marking this anniversary say we will continue to fight there is the determination for political change but nobody is under the illusion that this will be an easy way forward for the story in beirut early this evening that is in it thanks very much indeed senator reporting. fighting has escalated in the conflict over the disputed region of going to her back we call through ceasefire between noted by john no media took effect families to bury the dead in those a budget on which is accused of killing 13 civilians in a missile attack on the since you have done just a media as defense ministry says it did not fought. so hard it has this report. assessing the damage from the air and missile strike destroyed at least 20 buildings in ganja azerbaijan 2nd largest city of 300000 people who are so.

we've been living in fear for days we couldn't sleep at night we hid but that was no use our suffering a lot i wish we were dead but our children would have to live without us we believe in our state and president make god give us back our back. people hate all fall from the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh azerbaijan and armenia are fighting over but they were not spent armenians defense ministry denies firing tools as operation adding the type of missile it's accused of using doesn't have the range to reach gunja however it later released a list of what it called legitimate targets and ganja as a right john says it has proof that the missiles came from all media because they know how. immoral our. political. army on the horses since are all the. other way just because it is a nickel on the job is not as a 1st they attacked in a deliberate and discriminate manner as it were to the syrians and that you have

isn't what was burst scott. st. both sides of blaming each other for violating a russian brokered truce agreed a week ago which includes a small part detainees and bodies of those killed. since friday night's attack in gunja armenia says azerbaijan's armed forces violated the humanitarian ceasefire by hitting step pan card to nagorno-karabakh on saturday as i by john's president confirmed his forces have now taken control of mold villages in foods in the south east of nagorno-karabakh armenia considers feasibly a buffer zone between nagorno-karabakh and as i abrasion insist territory that both sides of the conflict have been negotiating over for the last 26 years. and as those negotiations failed as a rhizome with turkish support push to take some of this territory back it's you know most pressure on the armenians have lost more than 600 fighters recently. the

violence is the worst in the region since azerbaijan ethnic armenian forces went to war in the early 1990 s. the control of nagorno-karabakh allies with an eye by john has been under the control of the ethnic amini and forces. fact since the war ended in 199-400-0001 friday on the news prime minister met soldiers being sent to the front line the main party i love you all i'm proud of you all i believe that you'll defend the future of your children with dignity long live the republic of armenia long live the armenian diaspora was a clear message but there's no signs of a respite for now civilians and they saw its own face in uncertain days ahead was that not a fighter and just. i mean it says it sent a delegation to russia to discuss the ceasefire but it's with us in the armenian

capital and has more on the. well yes. minister representatives to moscow to discuss with representatives the cease fire monitoring mechanism the back of the initiative started by moscow to get this cease fire going but armenia says there's areas haven't turned up and they say they suspect that it's turkey to stop doesn't sending any representatives now no word yet from. on whether they will whether or if they will send a representative to moscow but certainly there is pressure here on media to do something because it's suffering military casualties at least more than 600 means killed on the battlefield and it's losing territory it's losing territory that it has controlled since the cease fire in 1994 this is territory between the go on a kind of back and azerbaijan that armenia says is a necessary buffer zone

a safe zone between azerbaijan and kind of the territory both sides are s'posed have been talking about over the last 26 years under the auspices of this minsk group moscow paris and washington d.c. . says nothing's happened they've not got any progress and that is why with turkey's assistance now they are prosecuting this conflict to try and take back that land ameritech militarily meaning it says it wants to implement a cease fire and he's willing to talk about implementation let's hear now from. more from the by johnny's side in the capital. at the moment the international community has been issuing statements calling for calm we've seen the efforts from the minsk group of seen the efforts from vladimir putin we've seen also depreciation of russia turkish president richard do and. it seems that no one is listening really underground here certainly azerbaijan is backed by

turkey in this conflict it does have aerial superiority so it feels strong in that respect armenia says that it will retaliate and munir also having the backing of several european countries it seems but underground it's a de mille moment on the way when it comes to azerbaijan they're getting territory they're making territorial gains. according to the president actually they have. retaken at least 2 of those 7 regions maybe not fully but certainly made enormous gains in there and there is movement and when you speak to azerbaijan they will continue this fight now obviously you have things that happen like yet back in gunja last night you have a big human a human cost to this war yes people at the moment here are backing their leaders

and they probably also back the same is happening in armenia but you know do more every day that passes and the higher the human cost you have probably the positions will become also very difficult for both leaders. now turkey has discovered a natural gas supply roughly equivalent to almost 10 years worth of its annual energy needs president rest a typewriter once has the find off the east coast of the black sea is a not just have a gas discovery for ankara turkey currently imports nearly all the gas it consumes inspects parish and elsewhere in disputed waters in the eastern mediterranean as i think it angered greece and cyprus and use of her as a retired turkish colonel who worked in a nato base and he now works as a security analyst at the turkish defense university and says the country's ambition to become a regional energy power will put political and trade relations at risk. findings in the black sea region is a very important number from the search for specter because he is staying on there

for nature. almost 13 gillion dollar to russia by john and iran will be a huge leverage for turkey not only afford the price of the nature of the gas bottle say the same time he has a goal for creating yeah gas trading hop inside turkey for just isn't turkey not only use only its nature of gas for the trade top but also know that there are lots of pipelines he says bringing in nature gas on pitch william from russia. from iraq from iran for mr isn't so evil add also what he is produce to his for being a gas trading in this area for balkan sound for europe. so he is trying to use words in order to clerked for justice international relations are still form a quantum leap or just isn't always a particle to power

a straight agreement try to use this nature old gas and also. keep down its electric power generators speech produce from the call for the citizen in any case it will be beneficial for the. for this issue so they had around 0 thousands of protesters in the thai capital to fight government warnings and a transit shutdown. 4 people in chilling effect on the streets a year off the huge protests against social inequality. the weather will cheer up quite nicely for the 2nd half of the weekend across japan after a rather damp saturday said cloud clearing out of the way brightest guys coming

back in temperatures not going up to around the 20 degree mark it'll be fine and dry for the most part then and fun and dry to across the korean peninsula well the positron a central china on the other hand will see some wet weather for a time when that rain will tend to peter out as it sinks a little further south what's come monday starting friday as you can see across much of japan the southern parts of honshu could just catch a spot would say all right i'm more than just your spot so to ride recently into central parts of in the places say things are quiet in down this developing system that making its way into the arabian sea that's pulling out of the way but is letting more wet weather coming into eastern parts of india developing area of low pressure just circulating there just around the by a single well splashing showers in pseudocode parts of a dish on top but that's pushing all the way down to ward time i'm not there so what's a weather once again to that western side of india not as wet as it has been through the earlier part of the way to some heavy downpours there for maharashtra and

pushing up towards good or right and maybe even into the southeast of pakistan and not just the rain popping up there for the east and dance. as protests rage across america for black lives are lost despite promises of police reform for clients hears from those demanding justice the truth countability transparency that's what i desire from the city i desperately need to change i have no faith in a situation that needs to be reminded not to help the moment of reckoning racism and police in america on a jersey about. what the world order.

but again you're watching al-jazeera remind about top stories this hour and a candlelight vigil has been held to mark the explosion at a port in lebanon's capital that killed more than 200 people 2 months ago tens of thousands of people are also marking one year since mass anti-government protests erupted into corruption and worsening economic conditions as a by john says at least 13 people have been killed by an armenian missile attack in the city of gunja dozens were injured by media as the defense ministry says it did not fire towards us appointed on turkey's discover the natural gas supply roughly equivalent to was 10 years with its annual energy the president reza talk about one says the find off the east coast of the black sea because largest ever just discovery. people in chile have returned to the streets ahead of the anniversary of last year's massive protests it was mainly peaceful during the day but turned

violence with police firing tear gas and water gun demonstrators say they're still waiting for the government to fix social inequality and rewrite the constitution on latin america at its use in human reports now from santiago. this was the finale of what had been a festive demonstration units armed with stones and molotov cocktails attacked armored riot police vehicles in the main gathering area for protests in chile's capital. security forces moved in suddenly hurling massive amounts of tear gas and acid least water cannons. hours earlier the scene was quite different to. the. demonstrators danced and sang to the tune of chile has awoken. thousands of people had come out to show that it was time to get back onto the streets to demand social. ange you know. we're out here

after a long break because of the pandemic i'm a student and we need to show that we're still willing to fight for our rights. this was the preview to the 1st anniversary of the october 18th social uprising last year. it forced the government and ponderous to agree to hold a referendum later this month a mother to the right chile's constitution a key demand and this banner says that the biggest struggles are battles are won on the streets and at the ballot box and that peace is the fruit of justice but the subtext here is to appeal especially to the young people who have come out onto the streets many of them angry and often reflect to pilots to go out and vote. 100 meters from the plaza groups with their faces well hidden set up barricades and built bonfires of those gathered ammunition with which to later confront the police

. security forces armed with newly bought proud control gear waited until dark to finally move in sending the demonstrators scary existed until tomorrow. to return to see in human al-jazeera santiago. thousands of type protesters a return to the streets for a 4th day after the police shut down major roads and public transport in the capital. yes main intersections in metro stations were closed on saturday didn't stop large crowds from holding impromptu rallies on the outskirts of bangkok the protesters want new elections and reforms to the monarchy any changes in bangkok and he says the protesters are ready for more street battles with police. all the protesters have now certain are in 3 sites to the east the west and the north of bangkok and this is one of those sites and crowds of the north it's hard to get a sense of how many people there. or are here but certainly several 1000 they've

got a sort of impromptu stage it's not even a stage just a couple of chairs with some speakers on it thought they have so far managed to evade the police and the or thor it is despite the police earlier shutting down effectively the whole of bangkok closing down the roads 2 major intersections closing all of the sky train and central bangkok stops and the underground and yet i think this illustrates the problem the police are facing they made threats they said that these gatherings are illegal under the new special emergency laws they said that anyone found here will be arrested and yet thousands are still coming out . the protesters are not going to push their luck they say they're going to break this up at 8 o'clock that this stage there don't seem to be any police in this area or any other security forces. and i think the protesters themselves are hoping that

they can make their presence felt and then go home peacefully but after the showdown last night they're very aware that may not happen. hundreds of women of march through better uses capital in protests against the government they carry flowers and chant slogans in opposition to president alexander lukashenko government demonstrations have been held for the past 2 months following a disputed election on friday by the regime officials announced they had issued an arrest warrant for the opposition need that non political style. kyrgyzstan's new prime minister and acting president has promised parliamentary and presidential elections in the next 3 months so they jump rope supporters freed him from jail earlier this month during protests over disputed parliamentary elections he was serving an 11 year jail term the kidnapping jeparit says the charges he was facing were politically motivated because there is about of that there is a kurd saying that falsehoods travel faster than troops those people who are saying

i'm a bad person that i'm connected with criminals and negative forces are saying that because they are scared the truth is that i'm going to fight against these corrupted schemes and i can see in the next 3 months there will be a lot of changes there will be presidential and parliamentary elections i will prove nothing by words but by real interventions that we are going to change and provide open and transparent elections. fair elections depend not only on the central election committee but on the corrupted interest of president or prime ministers of the past we are looking for new ways to break this institutionalized corrupted system we will fight against those who buy or sell the votes new legislation we are pushing forward might put violators behind bars for 2 years we are looking at amending the laws everything starts from the top so it's important that high officials are not corrupt new zealand's prime minister dans labor party has secured a landslide victory in parliamentary elections cementing 3 more years in power

against party has won more than half of the seats that's an unprecedented result that will almost certainly see her govern without any coalition partners to tour again be as it were. this into a durned has much to celebrate not only has she won a 2nd term as prime minister she's led her party to a historic victory based on provisional results it's the 1st time since new zealand adopted a proportional representation voting system 24 years ago that a single party has won a majority in parliament now more than ever is the time to keep going to keep working to grab hold of the opportunities that lie in front of us a little steam forward to give our people no it. was but it was a bad night for the opposition center right national party judith collins who when he took over the party's leadership 3 months ago said the scale of the defeat is

sobering the national party will take we will repeat will take time to reflect and we will review and we will change national will reemerge from this loss a stronger disciplined and more cañete to passy was. some of the of the of it adjourns form a coalition partner new zealand 1st failed to pick up a single seat ending the career of 75 year old deputy prime minister winston peters who was elected to parliament more than 40 years ago he blamed k. that 19 for drowning out every other issue. this election was widely seen as a test of our handling of the pandemic the government took early action to control the outbreak including announcing a nationwide lockdown when there were only 102 confirmed cases she will say one international praised the handling of the mass shooting last year by

a white supremacist targeting 2 mosques in christ church and her quick action to ban semiautomatic guns and assault rifles voters in the selection of also have been deciding on 2 referendums the 1st on euthanasia if approved it will give new zealanders who meet the criteria the option of legally requesting help to end the lives the 2nd is about whether to legalize the use of recreational marijuana the results will be announced at the end of the month or done so cool go hard go early approach to cave at 19 has helped her win a landslide victory but she faces many challenges ahead new zealand's buddhism still shot its tourism sector is suffering and some economists are predicting a long recession after the strict lockdowns in uncertain times the new zealand. is the leader best able to get them through victoria gate and be al jazeera supporters of a paramilitary group in iraq have attacked the headquarters of the kurdish democratic party hundreds of members and supporters of the popular mobilisation force and set

fire to the building in baghdad that's after a kurdish iraqi politicians at the iran backed groups offices should be shut down the popular mobilisation forces have breached by god's fortified green zone twice this year. mexico's president has promised to clean up the armed forces after his former defense minister was arrested in the u.s. on drug charges salvatore seen for goes let the army for 6 years join home and has more now from mexico city hinted i think by those the info cepeda think of it that you the leaf in senator knight as head of mexico's armed forces from 2012 to 18 salvador c.m. for a girls was a key part of the fight against organized crime. either but now in a surprise arrest by u.s. authorities he's accused of playing for the wrong team all along charged with conspiring to manufacture and ship cocaine meth and heroin into the u.s. as well as protecting the h. 2 cartel for mexican and u.s.

law enforcement. 2 the indictment says he was known as el padrino the godfather it's the 1st time the former head of the mets k'naan forces has been arrested president lopez obrador claims it shows the failure of past governments. maya said. this is an unequivocal signal of the decay of the government in the neoliberal period and i always said it wasn't just a crisis that it was a progressive deregulation this should serve for us to understand that the main problem mexico is corruption. it's a political gift for the president he sees himself as an anti graft crusader and this proposed referendum to run in tandem with midterm elections over whether to charge former presidents have committed alleged crimes in mexico right now already one of the top topics in discussion is should former presidents go on trial and

this place right now if a minister of defense was involved with drug trafficking what about his books is going to be used by the governing party more and other part of president of the world or to bring out voters. the idea of you know you're going to go to people say well you know why you know you're going to go out and boring with some election this is historic once in a lifetime chance to clean up mexico but will it be more than just a vote getter a catalyst perhaps for real change the president's other comments may dampen expectations he claimed that the army and navy the pillars of the mets can state so strong that the detention of one x. defense minister doesn't make them weaker that's going to be hard for some people to swallow after all seem for eagles led mexico's army for 6 years a not too long ago the president thought has come to depend on his generals perhaps even more than his predecessors relying on them to combat crime and also to build

infrastructure and this arrest was carried out by the u.s. not by mexico which had no investigation opening to see him. if this is just the start of a meaningful clean up or a rope bump to be quickly forgotten is an open question john homan al-jazeera. but it's a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera and the candlelit vigil has been held to mark the explosion of support in lebanon's capital and that killed more than 200 people 2 months ago tens of thousands of people are also marking one year since mass anti-government protests erupted against corruption and worsening economic conditions in beirut and she has more there is a lot of anger but those in power are entrenched in this confessional based system power sharing system in this country it is hearsay.