much higher than advertising researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close. extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than any one thought. the estimates 7 and 5 minutes to designate shop how rary step aside after failing to form a government tipping the country further into crisis. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm in london, you're watching algae 0. coming up on the program. the afghan taliban pockets dawns . government agree to reopen a vital border crossing the day off the group captured it.

at least 42 people are dead. many more missing off the devastating floods washed away buildings and claws in white in germany. south africa deploying 25000 troops after a week of riot in which over a 100 people have lost their lives. ah, hello, welcome to the program or lebanon's prime minister designate side al harry says he stepping aside off to again failing to form a new cabinet. country has been without functioning government now for 9 months. and how we res resignation is only intensified as financial crisis. lebanese pound was, we can further buy the announcement, it was trading at about $900000.00 pounds to the us dollar before the resignation. falling to about 20000 immediately after the cart see is lost about 95 percent of

its overall value since late 2019. so in a honda reports now from the lebanese capital bay route, a long political struggle has just become more difficult to resolve. lebanon's prime minister designate, sad and heady has been locked in and 9 months power struggle with president michelle has failed to form his 4th government. that's not a 100 res. so i met with the president and he demanded what i deem as substantial change to the formation of the government. i suggested to the president if he needed more time to consider my proposal, but he saw no prospect for agreement. for these reasons, i stepped down, the political paralysis is expected to accelerate the country's economic collapse. lights are out most of the day. the cash strapped faith barely has money to buy fuel. and there is a shortage of medicine making life a daily struggle. as more lebanese are pushed into poverty,

the local currency which already lost 95 percent of its value in recent months, has depreciated further and the hours following heavy it is announcement level needs the government to put in place and economic recovery plan. but that government has to be able and willing to carry out reforms in state institutions. that's the condition set by the international community, which was refusing to issue blank checks after decades of corruption. but there's also the regional dynamic lebanon is entangled in the power struggle between mainly she or iran, and saudi arabia, which used to be an influential player here. and the financial supporter to the mainly some, the muslim pro western camp. it too has stepped the site ta dad, a via is deeply concerned about the growing power and role of hezbollah and i live in east political at arrangement. would look forward for any kind of solution that

will curtail has of all us, all in the country. the anger among lebanon, send the spilled onto the streets. they have long complained their power, as a community is being taken away. and any attempt to name a new prime minister without the support of this. and the leadership headed by how do they won't solve the crisis. the previous prime minister was chosen by the president and his muslim she or allies. sometimes they believe that since the rival of general own to the presidency he's trying to confiscate or to restore part of the law secretion authorities this year are actually they have no problem. whatever the situation is is for the benefits. and they know that any changes in this political system is going to be for their benefit. and for this benefit, because from 5050, we're going to move to one sort of part. today the state is deadlocked. the power sharing agreement between religious communities which ended lebanon's civil war in

1990, no longer seems to be working center for the l. z to beirut. ah, after hours of negotiations, the afghan taliban and pakistan of agreed to reopen a main border crossing allows trying to people to pass through. thousands of civilians have been stock there for 2 days. spin, bolduc is gone. his don 2nd busiest border crossing and fell to the taliban on wednesday, the group has been seizing large parts of the country, taking advantage of the withdrawal of us and nato forces. charlotte balance reports now from campbell. they hear talk of the spin bullet crossing reopening and ask and stuck in pakistan, scrambles were chance to get home thousands waited, hopeful that pakistan would allow them passage after the taliban took control of the afghan side of the crossing by force. it took 2 days of talked movement to

start again. mom, she got the box on. i've got, i'm not going to be, i don't know, but the fucks tony soldiers are not letting us go. they told us that there is fighting with tom on the other side. we don't know what is happening. been bolduc is a logistical lifeline for southern afghanistan. $900.00 trucks usually pass through here each day. they carry much needed supplies. they pay customs duties that are no longer going into government coffers, the thousands, every day. it is a portal to see family and friends on each side of the border as the muslim holiday eat approaches. this should be one of these times with that, but i did find that modem of the, the borders closed and we were waiting in these hot temperature. since my son just had surgery, i'm a widow and you can see all the people waiting here. we filmed the telephone on the post on side of the border, one signal, the victory sign, a hit of a car,

stick it with the telephone, low, good telephone flags written among the waiting crows, in pakistan's, closest town sherman taliban fighters, most freely the support for the armed group was on public display in a scanner stone, they recorded themselves and spin, bowed at town in an effort to show life continuing as normal that the people are very happy they were trying with happiness. i was asking people to get back as they rushed at us, but they were saying we were waiting for you guys the last 20 years. but in pakistan, in temperatures of near 40 degrees, the mood was not joyous. many travelers telling us they just want to 9 to the conflict and the disruption it brings out on your what was one piece. we don't want fighting one piece and whoever will deliver it. if it will be the government or the taliban. we want to new lamid country without fighting. that is all we want will spin bolduc is the most significant. the taliban has taken

a handful of border crossings and that's going to sound north, west and east and recent weeks. against this backdrop of taliban gains, president sheriff connie is known as pakistan for an urgent regional summers. charlotte bellis? audi 0. couple. will the afghan government says the taliban is offered to stop fighting for 3 months. if 7000 of that fighters are released from prison, afghan government negotiate and not they're not very spoke to us earlier and gave this response to the proposal. today's once we are, we are genuinely, very strongly pushing for talk and meaningful talks on table 2 in this war once for ever and to reach to a political settlement and future. that's what we kept pushing in the past few months in the us. we're also going to be another event that of the conference

some, some additional members of the republic of a bunch of political will be joining all. and we want to see that that's alex agreed to political settlement. that's what we do. we are so much committed into peace and we want to be a peace agreement reached at the same time. our forces are trying to check the sensors of population. the report today i release of the civil service tech that effected by the war suggests that 13000000 people are being effective not receiving public service services across those districts of taken by the fall about which is one 3rd of the population. we are protecting dissenters of population and our horses are protecting them. we taking, we just today, it district the province to come to the district and that's what we are doing. but

at the same time, we are questing for piece for political settlement and genuinely, we are ready to do so. now in all the stories of falling, a syrian search and rescue group is saying that a government as strike has killed at least 9 civilians. and that includes 3 children, volunteers from the white helmets have been digging through the rubble in atlanta town in southern. it lived strike followed an attack on the town of which killed another $60000000.00 white helmet says the government has stepped up shelling against rebels in a live despite c 5 broken fight in russia last year for the joke of the suburbs with facing many difficulties. while at the scene because of the high number of surveillance flights in the area and the double strikes that the regime is using a deliberately trying to strike the ambulance rescue teams. of course, the villages and towns in it lip have continued to see an increase in air strikes since june. the regime and russia have a systematic policy to disrupt the stability of the area and to displace people.

now at least 42 people have died in germany, dozens missing as flooded rivers sweep through towns and villages across western europe. at least 2 others have been killed in belgium while record rainfall drenching the region, destroying houses, leaving people stranded on rooftops, new balkan our ports. this is what residence in store, but the parts of germany woke up to record rainfall caused major rivers to bang a view from the showing the full extent of the devastation in the states of rhineland, platinum and north run west failure. c cause with tossed around like toys in the rising waters, homes and businesses washed away. as the flooding in some areas received, the death toll rises with several people still missing. rescue efforts underway to

bring the stranded to safety. village is cut off by flood, water and lamps live helicopters, pluck people from the rooftop. our storm gets the, you see here now is worse than after a bombing raid. and this is guaranteed to take 10 years. the people are all broke, the businesses have been hurt, so it's just horrible. now. on a visit to the united states, the german chancellor promise to do everything possible to help decent dimension in both phones. beaten is a terrible day. so people in flooded areas. my thoughts are with you and you can trust that all the forces of our government, federal, regional, and community will do everything in difficult conditions to save lives, alleviate dangers and relieve distress over the border and neighboring belgium flood waters rip through villages submerging home. i mean, we don't do around midnight. i heard a scary noise. i looked through the window and i saw that there was

a torrent of water, at least 50 to 60 centimeters d, y. and in the netherlands, several care homes were evacuated with some local residents driven by tractor to safety water wrench. rain is forecast and with it is of further devastation. it's been called a once in a generation flood and it isn't over yet. the era now in other stories of following floods in landslides have also killed, at least 6 people in northeast, in turkey, houses, and of collapse saran cause were swept away and rise province on the black sea coast. mudslides have also destroy she plantations. rain as shut down, access to dozens of villages and castle power supplies. a renowned dutch journalist it was short last week has died of his injuries. peter de fries was shot at it 5 times left a t. v studio in amsterdam, he was known for

a posting on the dutch underworld and had received death threats in the past. police of arrested 2 suspects. to be looking at took covert developments after the break africa records. a 43 percent jump encoded relates death in a week and infections and hospital admissions rise on the continent and funeral services overwhelmed me and with hundreds more bodies, unusual arriving every day. as a panoramic suite, the country ah hello welcome to look at the international for customers. start with severe storms that have been affecting central parts. if you see this slow moving area of low pressure, which brought the summary down, pause in across the good parts of the region. we have flooding during the week in switzerland. we have lately of course,

seen flooding across the low countries and then germany. this area of low pressure, very much in charge here, it will slowly make its way further. it was, this was the same in spot where some very heavy rain fell over the last 48 hours or so. hopefully things tiny little tries. we go through the next 48 hours or so is that sharon just continues to drift a little further. it was, but it has cost wise, but disruption, of course, germany has been even worse effected that heavy rain will gradually make his way across poland. we've already seen sundry downpours here, foundry shouts, standing all the way down towards the balkans crashes see more of the way she was heading toward the western side of a russia behind that warming up nicely course western parsley. think squatting down 20 celsius in london could touch 30 celsius as we go on through the sunday. some warm sunshine coming through here. it will actually warmer than the northwest of africa by the south. tiny, a shower rod across the gulf of guinea with heavy rain there, but much of nigeria,

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main stories now lebanon is finally to designate, says he stepping aside after again, failing to form anew cabinet. thought how he reads resignation, pushes lebanon further into christ. hasn't had a function in government for 9 months. compounding its existing financial and economic problems. the afghan had abandoned pakistan's government of agreed to reopen a major border crossing to allow thousands of stranded people for out of captured the spin old are crossing on wednesday. and at least 42 people have died in germany and dozens and missing off the flash, sweat through towns and villages, a crossway in europe. 2 others died in belgium and more rain is full. cost anglo merkel is currently meeting joe biden, at the white house during her last official visit us before she stepped down as german chancellor. later this year. it's a farewell visit for a politician whose time an office is found for american. president biden says he's

looking forward to strengthening his country's ties with germany, but both leaders have plenty of differences to work on his while, including disagreements over russia, gas pipeline, and how to tackle the rise of china. go live, child white house correspondent, kimberly how it. so tell us about the purpose of this visit now, which has such a different tone and feel to compared to the last time i'm going to michael, is that yes, quite you'll remember that when there was the german u. s. relationship under joe bite, his predecessor, donald trump. there were very sort of messages that were kind of exchanged back and forth and sort of pit him. i didn't photograph of that icon. a photo of ongoing merkel, scowling at donald trump as he sat seated was really known to be a relationship that was contentious at best, even as the 2 tried to set aside their differences in work. donald trump repeatedly,

you know, made claims about germany that it had open borders, that it was engaging an unfair trade practices against the united states. and also the big one that it just wasn't living up to is defense spending with respect to nato. so this relationship at this meeting is about kind of trying to revitalize that transatlantic relationship between the united states and germany. what it's about is just really trying to mend and repair some of those differences that occurred under donald trump at to kind of move forward on the things that these 2 partners agree on. for example, climate change in germany is experiencing these historic floods. that is an example of extreme, whether the to believe that they want to try work together to combat and also on the issue of cobra 19 and how they can continue as some of the more wealthy nations on the planet to help those countries that her having and struggling with cobit 19

and particularly vaccination. so they have met in the oval office. they're now sitting down to work together. and they're bilateral meetings that we know they'll be holding a press conference next hour, followed by a dinner that will include the 1st lady, the vice president and 1st gentlemen, as well as the german chancellor and her husband, china and russia, all foreign policy priorities. the bind in administration, how is that likely to affect the relationship between washington and berlin? well, particularly when it comes to russia, we expect that there's going to be a big friction point when it comes to discussions about nord stream, to specifically the fact that pipeline goes russia to germany. and the united states, of course, has a very contentious relationship with russia. and they're concerned though, for ukraine. and of course, there's that military build up along your crazy borders by russia. and the fear is, is that this is kind of a foothold for russia into europe,

and that leverage could be used to further in potentially harm ukraine that influences what the united states is. so concerned about. now the problem is from joe biden standpoint, is that when he came to office he said it was already 90 percent done. so there was no real room for there to be sanctions against germany that made it some way stop this pipeline. so what they're trying to do is kind of work with the diplomatic spaces they call. 2 it, that remains and that is trying to get germany to understand why this is a concern and to watch and to make sure that it sort of upholds status as one of the power houses in europe and making sure that countries like ukraine are not taken advantage of even further, as a result of that russian leverage that may be gained in terms of the energy aspect and sort of the channel if you will, but it has as a result of the north stream to pipeline. thank you very much. our white house correspondent, kimberly alcott. now around $35000000.00 american families have started receiving

monthly payouts from the government in a move the president hopes will and child policy. joe biden has expanded a tax credit scheme, so the eligible families can receive up to $300.00 per month. each child, some republican lawmakers say the payments will make parents less likely to work, but president biden says it will help people afford every day expenses, and wants to make the payments permanent. this can make it possible for hardworking parents to say to his or her child, honey. we get, you can get your new braces. now. we get your tutor to help you in that math class having trouble with. we can get you the sports. can we need a sign up for your 1st team? you're going to plan. people have written to me to tell me they use the money to buy their kids new shoes to send them to summer camp. cover after school care when school starts up again. now, colombia, as president says that,

many of the former colombian soldiers accused of taking part in the house, the nation of haiti's leader, were not aware of the plot. even duke case at a small number of the man at detailed knowledge of the mission, but most believe they were traveling to haiti as bodyguards. president of elmore hughes was assassinated a week ago. 18 colombian suspects had been arrested 3 others were killed by police . now in cuba, the president has admitted government failings and the way shortages have been handled. this is the 1st time he's acknowledged. any blame for the recent protest. the government is also a temporary lifting restrictions on the amount of food and medicine travelers can bring into the country. it's a small concession to the thousands of protesters who took to the streets last weekend, expressing anger at shortages of basic goods and cubs and civil liberties. now, in south africa, thousands of soldiers being mobilized to stop more than a week of riots and looting. it's the largest such deployment since the end of

apartheid in 1994, at least 117 people have died and riots which was triggered by the jailing of former president jacob zoom i last week. harm would pass the reports now from john as bugs. after days of violence and looting things and relatively calm, enjoy hemisphere, shopkeepers and volunteers from the community sift through with lift the riot initially started when former president jack zillow was jailed last week after he failed to appear at a corruption inquiry. grievance is off, as you must, jailing, turned into anger and frustration about inequality and poverty in south africa. this for your freedom, this is the most of the people. it depends on the support. it's much cheaper than a supermarket. so now it is like this. people are going to suffer. i'm not condoning that to me. it's me. him, i'm not okay with. it's the worst and rest of africa has seen in years. we've

destroyed though, a place. where are we going to get jobs? who did the field that came up? that you don't have the throwing the ones that you still have the little bit that you have with destroyed for what? starting over for many is not going to be easy. nearly everything in the shelf was least of except for a few bottles of water. this is somewhat no insurance than if they ever going to recover they've had to lay of stuff in the country with an already high unemployment rate. there was 4 attic leasing on thursday. in parts of the port city of durban, we phase of food and fuel shortages have seen people waiting in long lines. soldiers have been deploy hotspots to help the police maintain order, but even if things get back to normal speaking, normal damage done would likely be falsely wrong into the future. had him us out there, jonathan. in now

a start warning from the world health organization that deaths from cove at 19 off surging in africa. hospital admissions are rapidly rising and there are serious shortages in vital equipment and medication. w h o says that the continent has recorded a 43 percent weak on weak rise in cova death. more than 6000 death recorded in the week ending july 11th compared to 4000 the week before namibia, south africa, tunisia, uganda and zambia account for 83 percent of the new death. more than more people who contract a virus in africa dying as well. vitality, right there is 2.6 percent compared to a global average of 2 point. 2 percent. africa topped 6000000 cases on tuesday. it required a 1000000 new cases and just the past month, while it took about 3 months to go from $4000000.00 to $5000000.00 cases. this is a care warning hospital at the breaking point. in all 153000

employees have family deal. resurgence is a foster, a continent has seen you cases have increased for the a week and each of the countries are now in research and or in me and my funeral services very being overwhelmed. there's more and more people die from covered dozens of coffins and bodies at this facility and young on our way to inclination, undertake to say that conducting hundreds of funerals every day, more than double usual figure. 145 people are known to have died on wednesday alone . more than 200000 infections have been recorded 4000 deaths overall. but to health workers believe the true toll is probably higher because testing collapsed after the military sees power. will hospitals are being forced to turn away coven patients now? not blood shortage of oxygen for home treatment. people continue to defy a few imposed by the military in order to join those cues, to get refills. real gentleman,

even though i haven't slept for the whole night and left my home around 3 in the morning to fill oxygen to my father. i have to be careful to avoid the soldiers as we still under martial law. jonathan, there is no way my sister would have died if we had enough oxygen. we were trying to buy oxygen cylinders it twice the normal prices. but we couldn't get it painted with the government's health care system, response and handling with coven 19 so wrong. it's getting worse, i heard that 37 dead bodies were committed to the local 73 days ago. but the were around $250.00 dead bodies yesterday. it's 4 to 5 times the number of deaths during the 1st and 2nd way. or government minister in indonesia is saying the countries now battling the worst case scenario of its corona virus outbreak. more than 56000 new cases in 24 hours. mean it's overtaken. india is asia's worst take country. jessica washington has more from jakarta. some doctors here say that from their

perspective, the health care system in indonesia has already become very, very close to collapse because they are in the unfortunate position of having to turn away critically ill patients because they don't have room for them as hospitals as close to full capacity, it's not just the public hospitals that are struggling, but also some of the public health clinics. and the intention would be that some of those clinics would pick up some of that overflow of patients that the hospitals cannot take in. but they too are struggling. some of those public health clinic workers have told us that they are understaffed under resource. they don't have enough medication or oxygen for all the sick patients in their local areas. we've heard from local roving medics who try to visit some of the patients in need, and they say that they have sadly become accustomed to finding patients dead in their home. these patients, many of them did not even have the prospect of medical intervention. they did not

even have the chance to speak with a doctor. so that is the situation here. know the numbers as concerning as they are . some local data agencies say that the government numbers are very much an under estimate and by their estimates, the confirmed death toll which as the government states, it is around $70000.00 by their estimates. the death toll is actually around 5 times higher. ah, i look at the main stories now in lebanon. the prime minister designate says he's stepping aside off again. failing to form a new cabinet sadala, hurry announced his resignation. after meeting the president michelle own saying it was clear they couldn't agree. lebanon hasn't had a functioning government for 9 months. compounding its financial and economic crisis. the currency is lost more than 90 percent of its value since late 20.