ah ah, me. the shoes in lebanon department is to designate a library abandoned efforts to form a government tipping the country further into crisis. ah, hello, i am. i am was in london watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. at least 60 people are dead many more and missing off the devastating floods. wash away buildings and cars in germany and belgium.

the afghans out about in pakistan's government agreed to reopen a vital border. crossing a day after the group captured it. and south africa stopped deploying 25000 troops after a week, a riot in which 117 people lost their lives. ah, hello, welcome to the program. we begin in lebanon, where the prime minister designate side i'll, i re, re says that he's stepping aside after again failing to form a new cabinet. the country has been without functioning government for 9 months and how he res resignation only intensifies its existing financial and economic crisis . 1100 pound has been deteriorating. it was we can even further buy that announcement though it was trading at about $900000.00 pounds to the us dollars before the resignation. and then it we can even further to about $20000.00 pounds

immediately after the currency overall is lost. 95 percent of its value since late 2019. honda reports 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 res. 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, lebanon needs the government to put in place and economic recovery plan. but that government has to be able and willing to carry out the 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 sunday 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. another

beneath political 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 the sunny leadership headed by heavy 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 darville of general own the presidency he's trying to confiscate or to restore part of the law secretion authorities. the show 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 civil war, in 1990, no longer seems to be working center for the l. z to balte. i spoke to jessica bade and activists in beirut told me the public had little faith in harry's government. expectations where lo, job, having reform for the economy and financial crisis from such and such a government however, which we're seeing today is the lack of inaction that they've been witnessing for for more than a year. and has been through an entire blast and bade. and this incident today is highlighting that the political system and the political powers. i'm not interested in any kind of forms and not feeling any pressure to change anything to change the status or actually do any one. the

syrian search and rescue group is saying government as strike as killed at least 9 civilians. and that includes 3 children. volunteers from the white elements have been digging through the rubble in length, which is a town in southern it live. right? followed an attack on the town of food which killed another 60 millions went helmet, says the government who stepped up showing against rebels and it lift is fine to cease fire, broken by turkey and russia last year for the cause of the sub 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 it deliberately trying to strike the ambulance rescue teams. of course, the villages and towns in it lip have continued to see and increase in air strikes since june of the regime. and russia have a systematic policy to disrupt the stability of the area and to displace people. and talking to our other top story, this our at least 58 people have died in germany. dozens and missing

a slotted rivers sweep through towns and villages across western europe. at least 2 others have also been killed in belgium, while record rainfall wrenches the region destroying houses, and leaving people stranded on rooftops near barker as our port. this is what residence in store baset parts of germany woke up to as record rainfall caused major rivers to their bank. a view from the showing the full extent of the devastation in the states of rhineland, platinum and north run west fadia. c cause with tossed around like toys in the rising waters, homes and businesses washed away. the flooding in some areas receive 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 lamps live helicopters, plus people from a rooftop i was told to give to 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 promised to do everything possible to help decent dimension in the bones could beaten. it is a terrible day, so people in flooded air is my thoughts with you and you can trust that all forces of our government, federal, regional, and community will do everything in difficult conditions to save lives. alleviate dangerous and relieved distress over the border and neighboring belgium flood waters ripped through the villages submerging home that, i mean, we don't do all 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 a tractor to safety. or torrential 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 hundreds of german soldiers and thousands of relief workers have been helping police with their rescue acids. step voss and centers this update from one of the worst hit towns in germany. quite an airy calm here in the center of oil skier and in germany where the water has receded. but people are really picking up the pieces right now. there was a serious flop. you can see damage all over this town. people are also really confused where to start cleaning up and are still warnings by the authorities that more

flaps could happen over night because the river banks are about to birth and also flood gates are really under pressure throughout this whole region. the border region between the netherlands, belgium, and germany has been seriously affected by these slots this torrential rain that has been happening for 3 days in a row. it's the worst rainfall. some experts have been saying in the 100 years and authorities having emergency meetings also in the netherlands in germany and belgium as well, where also sense of people have died here and always keep him at least a people have not survived these slots. they were caught by surprise. the water was so strong, people have been telling me such a strong current that was very difficult to escape. anglo merkel has been meeting joe biden at the white house during our last official visit to the u. s. before she stepped down as german chancellor, later this year, the farewell visit for a politician whose time and office is spanned for american presidencies. and they

had a lot to discuss, especially that different approaches to common rivals like russia and china. following all of this white house correspondent, kimberly how kit and kimberly, it's that it's the natural gas pipeline that's being built between russia and germany. that is a bone of contention between these 2 leaders. why does it, why does it bother the us is north stream 2 is it's called, bothers the united states because russia isn't well known adversary of the united states. and it's fear from a us perspective is that by having this pipeline transiting through countries like ukraine to germany, that this gives russia foothold and energy foothold if you will, to essentially aggravate and even act aggressively to its neighbors. and so the concern, of course, is crimea the peninsula in ukraine that russia attics in 2014 and other nations. so

this is something that was expressed to uncle merkel by joe biden. he talked about, well, they had their differences, there was something they did agree on. and that was, if russia is to act in aggressive manner, the 2 countries who had respond in kind take listen to what he had to say. my view on nurse to to has been known for some time. good friends can disagree and but by the time i became president, there was 90 percent completed and imposing sanctions. did not seem to make any sense who made more sense to work with the chancellor and finding out how she proceed based on whether or not russia tried to essentially blackmail ukraine in some way. so according to a senior administration official, what the president is saying there is look at why the time i came into office is 90

with 90 percent constructed. it's not like i could put in sanctions to stop it at this point. so i've got to work with it and i've got to work with germany. so what we know is the wave, some sanctions, in other words, getting rid of the punitive aspect of that relationship so that they can have a diplomatic space to try and work cooperatively. not just with counter and russia, but on a whole host of issues that the 2 countries believe that they can work together to solve, whether it be combating climate change, the pandemic, and other issues facing the world. and that's important is it isn't it to the areas of cooperation, especially as president drove bite and tries to repair the damage done to transatlantic relationship on donald trump. absolutely remember donald trump really pointed a finger at germany, said it had unfair trade practices that it wasn't parrying. it's fair share when it came to native defense spending and also that it had opened borders and that was

causing instability in europe. well, what we've seen is these 2 leader is looking on the areas of cooperation and setting aside the differences of the past 4 years when it comes to the russian or rather german, that united states relationship and the areas that they didn't find in this press conference is being real important, are developing new green technologies and being a leader in that with the areas of expertise. they have an engineering and also the kofax program, seeing that those vaccines of the united states that can provide the both continue to get there. they also spoke about china and the concerns about trade practices there and human rights saying they would collectively stand up to speak out against human rights infringements when they occur in china. at very quickly. there was some domestic news as well that the u. s. president had to talk about with respect to haiti, he said that there would be no us troops going there. serving is some sort of peacekeeping role that the only soldiers that would be going would be to protect

the u. s. embassy and also to that. and they did comment about the security situation in hong kong as well, saying that it is continuing to deteriorate and they both believe that china is not living up to his commitments with respect to hong kong and it's future. oh, thank you very much. white house correspondent, kimberly alca joining is that, thank you. kimberly watching al jazeera alive from london most the lead on the program or fears the tig why sci fi could soon be over. more fighters had to northern east european support, government forces and africa record. the 43 percent jump in covert related deaths in a week as infections and hospital admissions rise. ah, ah, ah, how i was saying some squall showers moving across southern parts of australia

quite a lively little system. this one just scraping its way across the far south of the way, pushing through south australia and we'll see what a squeeze on the ice abbas here. so simply re strong winds just rattling over towards victoria and pushing through as we go through the next day or so. so if you do catch a shower is going to be on the live site, horizontal rain for some, for a time. as this blustery system brush pushes through, could see some while the wet weather, which was great, dividing rains cooler than of late incipient 19 celsius, wetter than the lights in breast, but with some showers or long spells of rain, which are making their way towards new zealand. gonna turn very wet and windy as we go on through the next couple days. that rain really setting in here the nasty weather as we go on through saturday and i was seeing some nasty weather recently across the northeast of china. some heavy rain here just pushing out towards the yellow sea. there has been some flooding and there's more heavy rain in the full cost over the next couple of days. there's that whether, whether they're for friday still very much in places. we go one through sas day,

it is likely to cause for the flooding, then that will be some heavy showers to for time across a good part of the korean peninsula, southern areas of japan. but further north, it's lossy fine and dry. the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. or small to continue the change all around the shape, my technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business. ah ah

ah, i just want to take you from the top stories now 11 in the prime minister designated thank. he stepping aside after again failing to form a new competent side res resignation as push the country even further into crisis. havanese. people haven't out of functioning government for 9 months, and that's really compounding the country's existing, financial and economic meltdown. as syrian search and rescue saying that a government as strike as kills of these 9 civilians, including 3 children, all intense from the white helmets have been digging through the rubble enabling a town in southern internet. and at least 58 people have died in germany and dozens of missing off the flash, blood sweat through towns and villages across western europe. at least 2 others have died in belgium. and more rain is for cause to be on play. now

after hours of negotiations, the afghan taliban on the pockets and pakistan have agreed to reopen a main border. crossing to allow stranded people to pass through thousands of civilians have been stuck there for 2 days. spin, bolduc is afghanistan's 2nd busiest border crossing and it fell to the taliban. on wednesday, the group has been seizing large parts of afghanistan, 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 talks movement to start again. my louis you got the box on. i've got, i'm not going to be, i don't know,

but the focused on his 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 to 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 thousands every day. it is a portal to see family and friends on each side of the border. if the muslim holidays eat approaches, this should be one of its busiest time. with that, but i found that mom of the, the borders closed and we were waiting in these hot temperatures. 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 tone

sharmen tell a bonfire most freely. the support for the armed group was on public. this in afghanistan, they recorded themselves and spin boat up town in an effort to show life continuing as normal. and 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 for 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 name to the conflict and the disruption it brings out on your what we want. we don't want fighting one piece and whoever will deliver it. if it will be the government all the time. we want to new lamp 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 it's going to some north, west and east and recent weeks. against this backdrop of taliban gains,

president ashura connie is known is becca some for an urgent regional summers. charlotte bellis audi 0 cobble. after a brief log in fighting the conflict, and if you appears northern tegra region might be about to escalate again. several different tribes and regions ascending their own fighters to support government troops against the to grind fighters. now the regional government says that it's recruiting more men to join the battle in the north. and then romeo, which is if you have his largest region, is doing the same thing. now this is officer, the government suggested that soldiers had withdrawn from the conflict zone 3 weeks ago. that they will be redeploying, those soldiers as senior ethiopian minister as lashed out at different groups that he blames for working against the government. as this includes western media, west and officials and even agencies. he says as a smear campaign against europe here, and that some agencies are arming rebels and that they could be thrown out samantha

now, and then they said, i gotta ask them about it, which some humanitarian coordinators who have made this routine practice in other countries. and also in our country before agencies connected to food aid on the other side. and for this reason, play a destructive road to stop the crisis from ending as you go day was if discontinued, the government will undertake its duty to save the country. it will have to review its work with some of them, and that will be convenient conditions to force some of them out of the country. well now we turned to south africa, the government marries, mobilizing thousands of soldiers to stop more than a week of riots and looting. at least 117 people have died in the violence which was initially triggered by the jailing of former president jacob zoom a last week. hiram with tasser reports from janice back after days of violence and looting things and relatively com, enjoy hemispheres shopkeepers and volunteers from the community sift through with

lift the riot initially started when former president jet zima was jailed last week after he failed to appear at a corruption, inquiry, grievances ought to zoom, his 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 so 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. 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 that came up, that you don't have destroying the ones that you still have the little bit that you have we destroyed for what? starting over for many is not going to be easy. nearly everything in the shelf was looted except for a few bottles of water. this older son was no insurance done. 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 of damage done would likely be felt long and to the future. had us out there, jonathan, in it's been a start warning from the world health organization about death from covered 19, which are surging in africa. w h o says the continent is recorded a 43 percent weak on we rise in fatalities or the 6000 deaths recorded in the week ending july 11th compared to 4000 the week before. and it may be a south africa, tunisia, uganda and zambia account for 83 percent of the new death. more people who contract

virus in africa are also dying from it. fatality rate is 2.6 percent compared to global average of 2.2 percent. africa, top 6000000 cases on choose day. it recorded a 1000000 new cases and just the past month, while it took about 3 months ago from 4000000 to 5000000 cases in the care warning hospitals at the breaking point. in all 153000 employees have family deals. resurgence is a foster. a continent has seen you cases have increased for the a like a week. and 18 of the countries are now in research and in brazil. mud is in killings by the police rose last year. despite the pandemic police killed more than 6400 people last year. according to the brazilian yearbook of public security. that point 3 percent more than the previous year. homicides in

general rose by 4 percent. and more than 50000 people killed in 2020 majority of the dead were young, black men, violent fellows during the 1st few years on president charles tomorrow, who promised to rid the country of violent gangs that killings and now lising again along with gun ownership, which was also a measure pushed by both scenarios at tens of millions of people in the u. s. for finding more money in their bank accounts. as part of a crone of ours relief package, democrats pushed through a program to pay parents hundreds, hundreds of dollars a month for the rest of the year. patty calling reports the the city of hudson in upstate new york is pretty much like every small town in america, a mix of a few with much, many more with less college students had mio was in that latter category. until recently, he entered a lottery for a program private donors, promising to pay $25.00 people in hudson, $500.00

a month. every month for 5 years. no strings attached. a shock thing i. i didn't want to leave it. he's one of the few 100 people across the country receiving money every month as part of the pilot program happening in more than a dozen cities. one of the 1st was started in 2019 in stockton, california, and the results from the 1st year were recently released. dr. amy castro. baker is the lead researcher. what we've seen in stockton is that people know what their family's needs are and that they have really leverage that money to increase their family's financial stability. and in many cases, increase their access to the table employment. the number of perkins have been to found full time work increased by 12 percent. she says because they could take time off to find a new job. emotional and physical health improved as well. and the u. s. is about to find out if that will happen across the country. thanks to the corona, virus relief package path by congress. the child care tax credit was increased

meaning for the rest of the year. parents with the child 5 years old and younger, will receive $300.00 a month for kids. $6.00 to $17250.00. that will go to single parents who make less than $100.00. $12500.00 and married couples who make up 215-0000. analysts say nearly 9 out of 10 children will benefit jo, leaves the program in hudson. she thinks the impact could be huge. this ties back to the stigma often. the poorest members of our community are receiving social service benefits which don't actually challenge or, or. 3 break the cycle of poverty, they're keeping people in poverty as opposed to helping them move beyond that and find meaningful work. just had agree and i can choose to donate to charity. and i can give back to my community. you know, i can, i can buy pains for my nieces and get the, introduce them to insert photography and not feel like, oh,

i can pay rent now because of that, you know, in say this should cut child poverty and hunger nearly in half, but it expires at the end of this year, democrats want to continue it. all republicans in congress voted against it. meaning this is likely to be a key issue in the next election. one with very real consequences for america's children. patty lane al jazeera washington. ah, look at the main stories this town now in lebanon. the prime minister designate says he's stepping aside off to again, failing to form a new cabinet sod i'll hurry announced his resignation. after meeting the president michel 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 continued to deteriorate itself more than 9.