based on private ownership and profit. 3rd, the world in a ton of capitalism is depend damage that causes so much of the suffering exclusive protect the people for the profit as a good one of all hail the lockdown analogy. 0 ah another political shake up at 11 on prime minister designate thought harry steps found sending the economy into another free full. ah, i've been wrong con, this is our life from don't whole. so coming up, police in haiti say they've detained the head of the security for the presidential palace as they investigate the assassination of former president and juvenile lawyers. and floods wreak havoc and parts of europe. at least 60 people are killed

. after heavy rains destroyed homes, i'm positive communities in south africa clean up and assess the damage of the days of looting and unrest. ah, lebanon's prime minister designate thought hurry, stepping aside. after the president refused to approve his suggested cabinet. the country has been without a function government for 9 months. hurry res. resignation comes as lebanon is gripped by an unprecedented financial crisis. say to hold the reports from barrett . a long political struggle has just become more difficult to resolve. lebanon's prime minister, designate, sad, and heady, has been locked in a 9 months power struggle with president michelle own has failed to form his 4th governments. that's my raise. 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 cast 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 in the hours following, hattie, this announcement, lebanon needs the government to put in place an economic recovery plan. but that government has to be able and willing to carry out the reforms and safe 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 their growing power and role of hezbollah and have a nice political arrangement to look forward for any kind of solution that will curt tail has as well as it all in the country. the anger among lebanon suddenly 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 semi leadership headed by heavy the wrong of the crisis. the previous prime minister was chosen by the president and his muslim she or allies they believe that says the rival

of general own to 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 to day, 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 elder sita, beta. there's very international reaction to harry as resignation, france, which has historic ties 11 and called it another terrible incident. the secretary of state anthony blink, and also issued a statement accusing 11 on the political clause, the squandering the last 9 months. he went on to say, leaders in beirut must urgently put 5 parties on differences and form

a government that serves the lebanese people. that is what the people 11 on desperately need. rami hurry is a political analyst. i am a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school. he says, people in lebanon, phil 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 de 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 fewer 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 leave the head of security of a he's presidential palace,

has been arrested in connection with the assassination of president juvenile mois. dmitri harold is expected to face questioning why the attack is we're able to enter the president with apparent ease last week 18 that colombian suspects were arrested soon after the assassination. 3 others were killed by police. most of the need to be the head of security of 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 of his journal with the hate, he never pay a newspaper which has investigated the allegations. he says, some of the suspected assassins may have been misled about the mission. while he was 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, in the hospital in miami. and so we believe that there may have been some sort of help. maybe he got, they got, 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. 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 the teams,

a lot of the mercenary may have thought they were in fact body guards. and going to protect this unfortunate dupe who is being held san christian emanuel, i know, and it was a smaller cor, 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. more than 60 people have died and dozens of missing in western europe. a severe flooding devastates towns and villages. most of those are killed in germany, which is expiring thing. it's worse. weather is also in decades. step awesome ripples. this is what residents in storm battery part of germany woke up to record rainfall calls. major rivers to birthday bang a few from the ear

showing the full extent of the devastation in the states of rhineland for latin 8 and north ryan west valia. c cars were tossed around like toys into rising water homes and businesses washed away. as the flooding in some areas, receipts that though rises with several people still missing. rescue efforts are on the way to bring the strand 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 for the mention in the phones could beaten raise 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 flood waters. read through the villages, merging homes that 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, the water. and then the netherlands, several care homes speculated with some local residents, driven by tractor 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 natalie and more to ranch rain is forecast and with it fierce for devastation. it's been called the once in a generation flood,

and it isn't over yet. steadfast and al jazeera floods, 9 sides of killed, at least 6 people. in ne, in turkey, houses collapsed in cause a swept away in a re, a province on the black sea coast. mudslides also destroy the plantations. the rain has block access to dozens of villages. and cut pow supplies and still ahead deserve a fond farewell angular miracle makes a last trip to washington. his german chancellor disagreements remain on the road again. electric b luxury models, a few classics return for the 1st covert to auto show in the right. ah, ah, it's time for the perfect journey. the winter sponsored by cattle airways.

hello, here's something we don't get to say too often. there's looking like some rather wet weather coming in across the middle east over the next couple of days, particularly, or southern areas of the arabian place. a lot of cloud sharing up here. and there will also be a loss of rain driven in almost southwesterly winds. say some widespread shallots, it will cause some localized flooding. some flash flooding is certainly something to keep an eye out for where to weather all the way up into southern parts. so saudi arabia as we go on through friday, and there's more of that to come as we go on through saturday. so i think we all like to see pretty damaging floods over the next few days and certainly disruptive, but to show us any rain here in concert. but it's on the call side 37 celsius hot enough to the north of that, the queue wait. and also for baghdad, fine dry and sunny across the levant over the next couple of days. as far as the sunshine danica good part of egypt come into the therapy and hide is going to rush of showers here. just rolling off the higher ground through the re folly. have you showers to down towards the uganda. we'll see some showers there. so i was not

quite sure why the particle central africans they should be, but they are then everlast. they push a cross into a good part of cameroon, and on into nigerian southern parts of africa, generally looking dry, the refuse showers into as in bob way and more showers for most m. b sponsored pay cut on airways across the world. young activists and organize around them of the motivated and politically engaged, the challenges they face couldn't be more daunting here. and we were the one who had life on what was going on and the way the war means to me, there's nothing stuff that goes on is always in a dynamic formation. we have the agency to create the vibe of the generation change on al jazeera. oh,

a what is there a reminder of all top stories? 11 and 5 minutes to designate thought hurry is stepping aside after the president refused to approve his suggested cabinet. the country's been without a functioning cabinet for 9 months is facing an unprecedented economic crisis. the head of security, if i have a presidential palace has been arrested in connection with the assassination of president jovan o minus. he's expected to face question over why the attack is we're able to enter the present time with apparent ease. last week, only 60 people have died and dozens are missing in western europe. a severe flooding devastates towns and villages. most of those were killed in germany, which is experiencing is worse weather does offer infection. us president joe biden

has met with the outgoing german chancellor. the white house is a farewell visit for anglo merkel whose term has spanned for american presidencies . but there were lingering disagreements between the 2 leaders as our white house correspondent, kimberly hawk. if no reports set to leave office in september, us chancellor, ongoing merkel traveled to washington to shore up the u. s. german partnership and chart a course for future relation. i am not. i am 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 to. merkel did little to hide her opinions of biden's predecessor donald trump. trump accused germany of having open borders, unfair trade practices, and insufficient, they don't defense spending. so when bobby took office, he immediately resolved some trade differences. the u. s. these 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 band. it's in process now and i'll be able to answer that question to you within the next several days. what is my could 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 is deteriorating and the chinese government is not keeping this commitment made how to deal with with hunger. but when 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 antics 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. merkel are absolutely uniting our conviction that russian must not be allowed to use energy as a weapon to coerce or threaten its neighbors and who isn't 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 at transit 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 help kit al jazeera, the white house. hundreds of protests for gathered in the rocky city of not 3 or 3 days after a devastating hospital fire cold. more than 60 people. the families of victims accuse health of visions of negligence. corruption, calling for an investigation, a hood of the why had ripples up now and he will be square. this is the main city, a 50 in southern iraq. i get a lot of condemning what they consider negligence, mismanagement, and corruption in the city say that they will continue protesting every day and live until the government really did conclusions of

the investigation commission invented by an outbreak and amendment or seeing how the claim lived. doesn't go with 900 patients one day now with no housing. they're holding the position with the victim of their fire outbreak and mom and her hospital. they say that the government is not taking the necessary measures to guarantee that such a tragedy is not happening again in any hospital. they will, they're threatening to take mother into their own hands. once again, they get protested their mom and her husband. and now they include, they include the victims,

families and relatives. they say that they want to convey a message to the political parties and the government. they say that the political parties are blamed for not doing enough to protect the people. they also say they also say that there was a conspiracy against the victim because the security force is a good thing to them. security forces prevented volunteers local civilians who tried to rescue the victim, but they could not reach this isolation words because they were prevented by the security forces. the i've gone to the bottom of the box on the government of agreed to reopen one of the main border crossings to allow stranded people through spindle. that is a cornerstone 2nd busiest border crossing and fell to the telephone. on wednesday, the group has been seizing large parts of honest on taking advantage of the

withdrawal of us and allied troops to push back against government forces. so the balance reports from couple they hear talk the spin folder. crossing reopening, an afghan stuck in pakistan scrambled for a 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. mother, she got the box down that's got nothing to do. i don't know. but the fuck stony soldiers are not letting us go. they told us that there is fighting with calling upon us 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. 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 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 taliban on the pocket stone side of the border. one signal, the victory sign, a ca, stick it with the telephone, low, good telephone flags written among the waiting crows in pakistan's closest tone sherman tele bonfire. most freely. the support for the army group was on public display. in a scanner stone, they recorded themselves and spin, bowed up town in an effort to show life continuing as normal on the muscles 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 of 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 what 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 land 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 that's kind of sounds north, west and east and recent weeks. against this backdrop of taliban gains, president, ash rough connie is known his biggest on for an urgent regional summers. charlotte dallas, out to 0, couple south africa, mobilizing thousands of soldiers to start with the week of rights and losing. it's the largest such deployment since the end of apartheid in 1994 least a 117 people have died in the unrest which was triggered by the jailing a former president jacobs in that last week. or it was

a report from john effect after days of violence and leasing things and relatively calm, enjoy hemispheres shopkeepers and volunteers from the community. 5th, through with lift the riots initially started when former president jet zima was jailed last week after he failed to appear at a corruption inquiry, grievances office, 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. now it is like this. people are going to suffer. i'm not condoning whether it's me him or 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? who did the people that came up that you don't have? we are throwing the ones that you still have a 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 listed except for a few bottles of water, business owners, some with no insurance done. if they ever going to recover, they've had to lay of thought 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 are being deploy hotspots to help the police maintain order. but even if things get back to normal, the economic damage done would likely be felt long into the future. had tossed out their jonathan. a prominent does crime report has died after being gun down last week. he's already very says was shot in the head in broad daylight after leaving a tv studio in amsterdam. the 64 year old was known for his work, exposing your organized crime. european leaders condemned his murder as an attack on journalism. 2 suspects are being held in connection with his king.

size rankin doctor in the us says miss information about vaccines is threatening efforts to end the pandemic. surgeon general vic mercy is urging tech companies to help out. the white house says 12 prominent anti faxes are responsible for 2 thirds of vaccine misinformation on social media. every week i talked to doctors and nurses across our country who are burning out as they care for more and more patients with cove in 1900 never got vaccinated all too often because they were misled by misinformation. we must confront misinformation as a nation. every one of us has a power and the responsibility to make a difference in this fight. auto shows in america a back on the road after a gap of more than a year. because of the pandemic. chicago's hosting, the u. s. his 1st major event in almost 16 months. john henry,

who's been checking out the latest set of wheels off of 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 have had, i'd be of time to consider their favorite cars. so i'm bringing my nail weimer guinea. shiana, lambert, gainey, strong armor. you need a hurricane. eval rocha and avalon. lambert again, you mentioned, or who you need all my 0 car o a station wagon the chicago auto sho. 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 have no mass, you're excited sick again,

i am. it's 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 coming 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 coven 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 pandemic, and that opens the opportunity in summertime for an urban adventure. for a test drive

on 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 cars shows opening from new york to los angeles over the coming weeks. that's a boost to the economic engines of cities across the us. john, hindrance al jazeera chicago. ah, this is out there, and these are the top stories. lebanon's problem, they said designate thought hurry, a stepping aside off the president, refused to approve his suggested cabinet. the country has been without a functioning government for 9 months and is facing an unprecedented economic crisis. the head of security of his presidential palace.