the pipeline, giving voice to the voice here in california, almost everybody's a paycheck away from being on house program that opened your eyes to view. well today, this is what the picture looks like. the the world from a different perspective on houses mirrors. i me another political shake up in lebanon, prime minister, designate sod, hurry, re step down, sending the economy into another freefall. ah, hello, i'm can all santa maria here in doug. how this is the world news from al jazeera subs, wreaking havoc and parts of europe. at least 60 people are dead. also, heavy rain destroyed homes and properties. at least in haiti say they've detained the head of security for the presidential palace. they investigate the

assassination of full president jovan l moines. it's the country that revoked me that i have. and that i love the cotton film festival meeting of french lebanese director who uses their homeland as the inspiration for her film. ah, hello, run lebanon's prime minister designate saunter area stepping aside after once again failing to form a new government. the country's been without a functioning government for 9 months and hiring freeze resignation comes at a time when lebanon's gripped by one of the worst financial crises in modern history. the $1180.00 pounds for the weekend after the announcement that before her e resignation, it was trading in about $19000.00 pounds to the us dollar, immediately afterwards. 20000 pounds. and that is just the continuation of a trend. the lebanese pound loss,

more than 90 percent of its value since late 2019 santa clara is that report now from bay ridge a long political struggle has just become more difficult to resolve. lebanon's prime minister designate sad and hetty, who has been locked in a 9 months power struggle with president michelle own, 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 struck said 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 hattie's 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 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. saudi arabia 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 sun, the leadership headed by heavy wrong of the crisis. the previous prime minister was chosen by the president and his muslim she or allies they believe that since darville of general own the presidency his 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 the 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. zita. beta. there's been international reaction to how it is that resignation. france, which of course has historic ties with lebanon, called it another terrible incident. while the us secretary said antony, blinking issued a statement saying in part, lebanon's, political cross has squandered the last 9 months. he went on to say leaders and better route, most urgently put aside partisan differences and form a government that serves the lebanese people. that is what the people of lebanon desperately need. we spoke to rami, 40 political and listen. senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school is his people in lebanon. i left feeling dehumanized. what happens now is what's been happening for the last 5 or 10 years, which is a small group of aging men and lebanon, quarrel with each other, and try to maintain themselves in positions of authority in a country where the actually have no real authority over anything other than

themselves on their guards on their business partners because the country is collapsing. economically the institutions of the state are imploding, the economy as, as bankrupt. basic problems for every family, an hour or so every day and they're getting worse and worse and worse. but d, humanise ation 11 is always 11 and 10 days ago for a 10 day visit. the lebanese are the humanize. they feel that they're being treated like animals by their own political leadership. what happens is people start consuming fewer items, consuming fewer expensive items, consuming fuel imported items, they start planting their own vegetables and fruits. many of them already do anyway . they resort to barter economy. they'll do a job for somebody who in turn will give them a kilo of rice or something like that. it's going back to a system where the currency based trade oriented labor market economy

doesn't function anymore. you end up with a barter economy and people adapt every time this happens. they don't have an option. the wealthy people, they upper middle income people, people have a 2nd passport, can leave, and many of them haven't. many of them will do so. but the vast majority of lebanese cannot believe on to other news, at least 60 people are dead in western europe and dozens and missing is flooded. rivers sweep through towns and villages. germany is the worst hit, steadfast and reports. this is what residents and storm battery part of germany woke up to as rapid rainfall calls major rivers to birthday bang a few from the ear showing the full extent of the devastation in the states of rhineland flatmate and north ryan west valia. c costs were tossed around like toys

in the rising water, homes and businesses washed away. as the flooding in some areas receipts that so rises with several people still missing. rescue efforts are on the way to bring this trying to to safety. and village is cut off by flood water and landslide helicopters, people from their 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. and food he mention in the summer could beaten is a terrible day. so people in flooded areas, my thoughts 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 in neighboring belgium flop

water. read through the villages, merging homes that mean we don't do all around midnight. i heard a scary noise when i looked through the window and i saw that there was a torrent of water, at least 50 to 60 centimeters, di what i thought and in the netherlands. several care homes were evacuated with some local residence, driven by tracked to safety. people who have really been taken by surprise, they've never seen so much water inundating their cities and driving them away from their home. extreme web platter has been paralyzing large parts of this border region here between belgium, germany, and the nat'l and more to ranch rain is forecast and with it fear of further devastation. it's been called the ones in a generation flood and it isn't over yet. steadfast al jazeera us president joe biden and outgoing german chancellor. bank of america have laid out a path for future ties between the countries during

a meeting at the white house. it is a farewell visit for a politician. his term has spend for american presidencies, but in shy away from sharing their differences as well on dealing with a common rival, whitehouse correspondent, kimberly how could has set to leave office in september. us chancellor, ongoing merkel travel to washington to shore up the u. s. chairman, partnership, and chart of course for future relations. i'm not i very much looking forward to deepening the relations yet again through our talks. and i think we will be able to elaborate more on that as we go on. merkel did little to hide her opinions of biden's predecessor donald trump. trump accuse germany of having open borders, unfair trade practices, and insufficient, they don't defense spending. so when biding took office, he immediately resolved some trade differences. the u. s. c's, germany as an ally for combating global problems like climate change,

and emerging from the coven 19 pandemic biden was pressed on when he'd lift the ban on travelers to the united states from the use shank and region. and it's in process now, and i'll be able to answer that question to you within the next several days. what is likely to happen? why didn't merkel did share concern about chinese typing grip on hong kong? biden told reporters, his administration will issue and advisory cautioning us companies about the risks of doing business on the island. the situation in hong kong deteriorated and the chinese government is not keeping this commitment made how to deal with with hong kong. but where you're ready and the u. s. differ is over. nord stream to the gas pipeline, runs from russia us adversary to germany. biden is concerned the pipeline gives russia an energy foothold into europe. it could be used as

a destabilizing tool against ukraine, russia annex ukraine's crimean peninsula in 2014 and maintains a heavy military presence along its borders. ro, i reiterated my concerns about nor stream to chance for merkel are absolutely uniting our conviction that russian must not be allowed to use energy as a weapon to coerce or threaten its neighbors. i was built, we have different views on what this project entails, but i want to make it very clear. our understanding was that remains that ukraine remains a trans country for natural gas that ukraine has a right like any country territorial sovereignty. the nordstrom to pipeline is almost complete. that's why the white house says it's too late to take punitive action in the form of sanctions against germany. president biden hope waving sanctions will allow for future diplomatic conversations with germany about

potential negative impacts the pipeline could create. kimberly, how could al jazeera, the white house, not a head of security for haiti's presidential palace has been taken into police custody in connection with the assassination of president juvenile noise. dmitri hirata is being questioned about why the attackers didn't meet more resistance from the guarding. the president's home was killed last week, 18 colombian suspects have been arrested, and 3 others were killed by police because you need to be the head of security or the national palace was called upon by general police inspection. this is regarding an administrative investigation. there was a protective measure, the head of security was revolved. now there is a 2nd measure in which the head of security has been isolated while we wait for the next stage. with us on skype. now from puerto prints in haiti is kim ive. he is

a journalist with the haiti, liberty, a newspaper, catch him. there's so many new developments with this story. but let's start with this idea of the head of presidential palace security being cold. and it's a fair question, isn't it? a presidential palace should be one of the most heavily guarded places, anywhere in the country, and people shouldn't be able to get in, let alone assassinate the president. right, well, he wasn't in the palace. he was in his residence and they had a security detail of only 3 agents there. i don't think dmitri arrived was among them. he oversees the whole unit. so he may have had some cahoots in it. they say he made trips to columbia. i haven't confirmed that, but it seems for sure that the actual trigger men were colombians from what he deliberately learned yesterday from a source who spoke directly to martine louise in the hospital in miami.

and so we believe that there may have been some sort of help. maybe he got that. he provided the layout of the place because clearly they were prepared. they knew where they were going and what they were doing. it was a very well financed operation. but colombian tv is going even further than that, isn't it? the clerical network saying that haitian government officials are involved in that it goes all the way up to the prime minister. well, i don't know if that's the case. i hadn't heard that. that would be counter intuitive because he is making very much a stand on the side of the job. now my ways, i don't know, you know, that could be bluff and maybe he was totally part of it to get into the leadership role. it was presently is at the very least, it speaks to the extraordinary amount of confusion and accusations which are going

in all directions. just staying with the color means for a moment. again, another accusation is that apparently this team was supposed to only capture the president and then handed over to drugs authorities in the united states. i mean, again, i know this is all a lot of conjecture at the moment, but it's all quite extraordinary. right, well according to the washington post report that came out a few hours ago, it seems there were sort of 2 parts of the team, an inner circle in an outer circle, if you, where will. and it seems a lot of the mercenaries may have thought they were in fact body guards and going to protect this unfortunate do who is being held, san, all christian, emanuel san all. and it was a smaller core. it seems. it was 7 soldiers who actually machine gun, the president and his wife. so you know, it may have been a plot within a plot,

so to speak. and even some of the mercenaries were duped. kim, where obviously i focused on the well, frankly, who done it. i mean, it's just an extraordinary situation, but i'm interested to know about what life is like in haiti at the moment with all of this swirling around with the fact that there is no leadership. what's like there kim, you pictures far as and can you still hear me? not lost. and that's a real shame that the real shame because it would've been good to know exactly what life is like in haiti these days. but that was, that came out as a journalist with liberty, or grab of right now to 0. when we come back, a border crossing between pakistan and afghanistan is reopened after hours of negotiation and on the road again, electric b, luxury design, cars do classic. they're all back for the us. the 1st post proven auto show.

ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello. the weather remains very disturbed across northeast and parts of china. we've had days of heavy rain up towards yellow seats was at northeast corner just roughly by providence in that west weather, running all the way back down towards south west to the south, or do the line of sherry rain. and this is seasonal rains and they pay pop further as we go through saturday and that is likely to cause some localized flooding, shop showers to for time across much of the cream financial particularly into south chris southern parts of japan, seeing some wet weather as well but for a good part of japan, fast, they does look dry and fine tokyo at around 32 celsius a little on the human side here. got plenty of showers. meanwhile, across

a good part of southeast asia, a little clutch of storms to the use of the philippines. they will develop into a tropical storm. so we'll just keep an eye on that by the tropical system could well just push a little further north, which as we go through the coming days is certainly one to watch across much a se, asia. but she was going to be though it was at easter sort of indonesia facility casey and heading over toward papua new guinea, much of india now under the influence of the southwest, the monsoons, some heavy rain coming in for many heaviest rain as usual up the western get some very heavy rain pushing up into good rock bucket don also sinks from heavy showers now and looking very wet for bangladesh. nepal sponsored cattle airways. the striker tell the tale in the what the voted to the working class of his home town and the club bowling legend at canton. introduce his beyond. no. lucas, one of the times this door buys fun. social values,

as his many goes against italy's footballing league football rebels on i'll use e o a without the are these are the top stories. lebanon's prime minister designate saw her areas once again, stepped aside. after failing to form a new government countries been without a functioning capital for 9 months and faces an unprecedented economic crisis. german chancellor angler michaels met joe biden at the white house, so they continue to have differences. i very contentious russian gas pipeline. they

have agreed to work together against moscow's aggression and anti democratic actions by china. and the head of security for haiti's presidential palace has been taken into police custody in connection with the assassination of president juvenile moines. and he's been question about why the attack that didn't meet resistance and those guarding the president home. the asking taliban and the pockets on government have agreed to reopen one of the main border crossings to allow stranded people through spin. bolduc is f kindest on 2nd, busiest border crossing it fell to the taliban. on wednesday, the group has been seizing large parts of that kind of stuff. taking advantage of the withdrawal of us and allied troops to push back against government forces, showing business reports from capital they hear talk of the spin bullet crossing reopening and scan 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 fax on. i've got, i'm not going to be. i don't know, but the focused on the 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 for 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 its busiest time with that, but i found that mom of the the board is 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 pocket stone side of the border. one signal, the victory sign, hit the car,

stick it with the taliban, low, good telephone flags written among the waiting. crows, in pakistan's closest tone sharmen taliban fighters, freely the support for the armed group was on public display. in afghanistan, they recorded themselves and spin, bowed up town in an effort to show life continuing as normal on the left and 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 me into 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 lamid country without fighting. that is all we want. well

spin, bolduc is the most significant. the taliban has taken a handful of border crossings and it's kind of some north, west and east and recent weeks. against the backdrop of taliban gains. president sheriff connie is known as pakistan for an urgent regional summers charlotte dallas audi 0. couple corona virus news. and in the u. s. the country's highest ranking doctor says misinformation about bank things is threatening efforts to end the pandemic surgeon general. vic murphy is urging tech companies to help out the white house of 12 prominent anti banks is not responsible for nearly 65 percent of the vaccine misinformation that is on social media. every week i talked to doctors and nurses across our country who are burning out as a care for more and more patients with cove in 1900 and never got back and needed all too often because they were misled by misinformation. we must confront misinformation as a nation. every one of us has the power and the responsibility to make

a difference in this fight. corona virus cases are searching across africa or according to the world health organization. the number of deaths has jumped 43 percent over the past week compared to that before the w h o regional director of the hospitals are the most affected areas on nearing breaking point and are running out of oxygen. and i see you beds nearly half of new cases are in south africa, libya, tennessee, mozambique have also got high numbers back to the us and also shows in america back on the road off for a gap of more than a year. because of the pandemic. chicago's hosting americans 1st major events in almost 16 months. john, hindrance, been checking out the latest that we will offer consumers start your engine. the auto aficionados are rolling into chicago's mccormick, place convention center for the 1st time since the pandemic put the brakes on car shows. it feels awesome like the after last year being canceled. we're just happy

to be out again in some we've had plenty of time to consider their favorite cars. and i'm reading my nail weimer gainey. shiana. lambert, gainey. strong arm are you need a hurricane eval. i'm are getting you mentioned are all my car. oh, a station wagon the chicago auto show in february 2020 was the last major car event held before the pandemic shut down conventions entirely. and now it's the 1st to reopen. breed has no mask. the you're excited sick again. i eat shorter and duration smaller in size in later in the year than usual. but the 1st major auto show in the u. s. is here to be followed by shows across the country for the shows host. it couldn't come soon enough though. good to be open and they have the public

streaming through the doors to come in enjoying the show. i mean, we're at a rating thursday morning our earlier that we usually open, but they're still here. so we're thrill thrilled to be open with evolving covered rules. this show got approval for outdoor displays on wednesday, a day before the public walk through the doors. a lot of car shows are held in winter. this one was postponed from february due to the pandemic, and that opens the opportunity in summertime for an urban adventure. for a test drive the restart of annual car shows is fueling in economic revival. mccormick, places had $230.00 event kansas in march 2020 a loss of $3100000000.00 in economic impact. but with car shows opening from new

york to los angeles over the coming weeks, that's a boost to the economic engine of cities across the us. john hindering al jazeera chicago funny award winning filmmaker, daniel danielle, i should say, r b, who's been directing films for 2 decades. born in lebanon, she moved to france as a teenager, and still feels a strong sense of affinity to lebanon. though the relationship with a country both hasn't always been easy. and tasha butler spoke to be at the council festival. don't, didn't down. yeah. johnson counter leads to love affair in the field. a simple passion, a story based on a french novel. the movie is by french lebanese director daniel outbid, who's been coming to can since the started her career 20 years ago. this is a magical place. you feel that in every street of this city, the history of cinema, the paris again, is one of our bits, most successful films,

the 2015 portrayal of a young lebanese go who move to france. the study was inspired by its own journey from bay route to paris as a teenager, all my foods graphical in a way, i think this is what is, is what cinema you go from yourself and to to touch the life of the other. people will go up, it lives in france, she often works in lebanon. i have a fashion that relationship to lebanon. it's a country that revolt me, that i hate, and that i love me. 2011 lebanese official band, all bits tv series. they were to tell because they mentioned the assassination of my minister recipe careering. i'll be sent to ship. it made me feel that i wanted to make more and,

and even more risky firm. yeah, countries should be more open, especially in the middle east. i think a risk taker and a romantic up, it is working on 3 new feature films in lebanon and in frauds. she hopes that they will produce cinema. go with, bring it back to can again, next year. tasha butler sera can, ah, where, how fast the are on al jazeera and these are the headlines lebanon's prime minister, designate solitary or is once again stepped aside. after failing to form a new governments, the country has been without a functioning cabinet for 9 months and faces an unprecedented economic crisis. 1100 pounds for the weekend immediately after that announcement will hold a lot more than 90 percent of its value. in late 29 team the other.