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says protest is demand accountability over the last. in other news, a fight against constance. there up the emergency crews struggle to contain some of the worst wildfire and turkish history. the taliban says it was behind a car bombing near the afghan defense ministers home and threatens. there will be more also ahead. it's a container, ship traffic jam. when a good, why the pandemic has left us pacific ports bursting at the seams. now, how much would the latest olympics news as a worker was keeps humbling on the track in tokyo? women $400.00 me to hurdles at a time, the latest to go. i live on the 1st anniversary of the movement. it was devastated by one of the world's biggest non nuclear explosions, the route to port blast, kill 200 people,

and injured 6 and a half 1000 others. but i've been met in the names of the victims were read out as people held pictures of their loved ones. the blast occurred when a fire ignited a stockpile of ammonium nitrate stored at the port. the lebanese authorities have been criticized blocking a traditional investigation. but as that event was taking place, local security forces were using water, cannon, and t. a gas on protested trying to break through the barricades near the parliament building. at least 56 people had been injured. there is still tension. these are the latest pictures. demonstrators are demanding accountability from the government over the blast in a harder his life was outside that parliament building area in beirut. xena. just tell us the story of what's been going on there over the past couple of hours. well a few minutes ago this area was a battleground. we are in central bay. rude not far from the parliament to

protesters, demanding justice, demanding accountability, demanding really the part of them into the community is the members of parliament who have been accused of partly responsible for unsafely storing ammonium nitrate that supports warehouse. they want those, the immunities lifted. so they took to the streets, but the response from the security forces and the army heavy security presence, they use excessive amounts of tear gas to disperse. the crowds. so running baffles really and central bay route over the past few hours while 11 on was commemorating one of the most traumatic experiences in this country's history in this country has had really a turbulent pass. people want answers, people want justice and accountability a year on. people have still not come to terms to whatever, what's happened to them. they don't understand why their loved ones have to die more than 200 people. i can't even tell you the exact number because there's no

a desk told, tally some say 217, some take to 18, and it just shows you many lebanese will tell you how the government really doesn't really care. because some of these people are still missing, some of them are foreigners, on documented migrant workers. so still no official tally on the number of dead. it shows you why people are really angry. but at the end of the day, look behind me, the streets are cleared, protesters pushed away and the faith has prevailed. like we have seen time and time again over the past year and a half as people demand the new leadership. and if we just go back in time by a few hours, dana, 15 o 7, gmc 7 minutes past 6 pm in the evening. your time local time, people came together in that port area to remember what happened exactly 12 months ago. and yet that moment of solemn remembrance underpinned by the reality you've touched on it already. the reality is so many questions, virtually no solid,

believable answers no, the lead judge in the case is facing political backlash. he's trying to initiate the process of prosecuting suspects. he has name suspects from the political and security establishment current and former officials, people who new documents have since emerged. that show that these officials, including the president, including the caretaker, prime minister. they were aware of the ammonium nitrate stored in warehouse 12. they were told of the dangers and it's not just that the officials have been they, they miscommunicated, if you like, the dangerous to the judiciary. all these documents have since emerged, and yet the politicians are refusing to be questioned by the lead judge. so the judge is up against the political and security assessment. the families have faith in this judge, but what can they do? it's a very difficult battle. the battle now to lift immunity. this is

a country with a culture of impunity. it's the political assassinations, bombings. there's never been investigation. there have never been arrests and there's never been a trial. but many, many people will tell you if the court explosion, they can't uncover the truth and there won't be justice and there won't be accountability, then lebanon will never be estates. in fact, there is no state there are political parties, former warlords during the civil war, will have governed this country who many blame really for running the economy into the ground and really for destroying the whole city neighborhood were destroyed, the pressure wave tor, through neighborhood. people are still traumatized from that day, peter and what they're asking for now is answers and accountability to give them some closure parts of that process. is it fair to say, do you think of getting that closure is a major reform of the political establishment, the political system between where we are today and the elections shed jewelled for next year. but there are so many,

there always have been so many proxies at play in lebanon. and picking that jig saw, to replace it with something else, must be almost impossible. there is no government, there is a caretaker government, which doesn't, which has limited powers. so it counts engage in talk with the bailout package. the international community is demanding as governments of non, especially non partisan specialists, people who are willing to fight corruption and to enact reforms so that they will on these billions of dollars in age. so they're clinging on the, on to power. they have been exploiting the state's resources for years. they use, they use the space resources to give jobs that are supporters. and that's why so many people still support those in power. and that's why you don't have the 10s of thousands, hundreds of 1000 people industry to really change the system. but you mention lebanon and tackled in the regional struggle. yes. today's,

the ruling alliance is pro iranian, and then you have the opposition. also traditional political parties, allied with saudi arabia and the west, if there's an election to morrow morning, many people believe that power balance will shift in the favor of the pro western alliance. independence will be able to take some seats, but not enough to control a country. so this is why these politicians, for them, their links to outside powers right now is just more important than saving this country. the economy has collapse. you can't find medicine, you can find medicine for an all, sir. you can't find fuel, you wait in line for hours, there's no diesel for generators and you need generators because there's no electricity to 3 hours a day. hospitals are struggling. so the situation is dire. everyone's thought that a report blast lebanon hit the rock bottom. the situation has only gotten worse. zeta. thank you very much, dana holiday reporting live from beirut. well, paula cuban is formerly a lebanese member of parliament who resigned from frontline politics following the

explosion of the port a year ago today. she says the current leadership is doing anything. it can to escape accountability, they are holding onto that in unities. they are trying to do everything possible to stop the investigation and they are talking politically right now. the judge thought bitter. who is our hero and hope they are expecting him every day trying to find leverage over him, trying to say that his investigation is a political one. and they said the thing about the other judge 5 is the one who was going the same direction. and they had to stop him from investigating today, the corrupt and the very strong. and they're trying to see how they can survive, how they can do it. and we get from the other sites. the beneath that is setting the word,

we have nothing to do with them. we hate them. we know that you were living now in a put in a political one thing that's only a financial one. so, the lebanon today is totally different than what it was in 2018 then what it was also after the explosion more no more people are aware, they cannot continue with this corruption to the country. well, name selim is a professor of international affairs and diplomacy at the notre dame university in lebanon. he says he's not expecting major government changes in those election scheduled next year. the major 630 on a party who are now in control of me will remain unfortunately why? because we have the intention, 630 and 16 and we 4 and stuff. i am stuck with the man. i

spent my, me, my by the was, i don't be a thought, but we are not in the drive, but to see steve we emission the fact that it's going up and discuss those are part of the security. and so been very next to get one from one to 2 and the b b. we continue. how do we function. busy well no we continue. ready denise worse, and we continue to have the general share and there will be some changes i expect, as i just mentioned and sent up or down a change in the make up on. but that's, that's not changed. and that isn't,

is that the major support that should be i'm financially from abroad? well, in the past 24 hours or so. we've heard from the french president to manual macro, the pope at vatican city, and also members of the greek orthodox church about what should happen for and $211.00 on the us. president joe biden has been talking about humanitarian assistance for the country live now to our white house correspondent. kimberly, how can, kimberly what see promising and is it conditional what the us president has released today is a video announcing additional humanitarian aid. but the tune of a $100000000.00 to lebanon. this is an addition to the 516000000 already pledged for reconstruction. following the blast in the port of a route. now i asked the white house press secretary to be specific about the said in other words, you know, outlined it for us and give us a sense of. 8 how important lebanon is to the united states,

whereas is experiences such political and economic instability. what she told me is that she recognizes, and the white house recognizes the critical role that lebanon has played in terms of stability in the broader region. the fact that it has welcomed in syrian refugees, but she also made it very important point. she said that the bible ministration recognize this is the people lebanon, have suffered more over the past year because of what the bike and ministration calls avoidable political and economic crises. and so that is why this additional funding is being pledge, but the white house also pushing other leaders around the world, the in capitals around the world to do more that they also need to step up and assist in this reconstruction effort. kimberly thank you very much. kimberly, how could the white house correspondent, kimberly is also tracking another big story out in the states. we'll go back to a little later here on the news for you. plenty more still to come on this channel

including ethiopia, suspending operations of to international aid organizations in the troubled region of to gripe. mexico is taking on major u. s. government this out for tracing 17000 homeless to american west i'm, i'm the richard couldn't be co carolyn picked website school is back for the 1st time. 2000 and i ah, so new attention to afghanistan, the taliban is warning of more attacks against top african officials. there was an explosion near defense facility and cobble on weapons de, just hours after a car, bomb blast, and a gun battle near the defense ministers house the ton of and says it was responsible for that attack. all this is violence blows up in the south of the country. his diplomatic editor james bay's in recent hours,

the taliban has shown that currently pursuing to very different types of warfare. in cobble, this blast targeted. one of the men leading the government's military can but spend a monitor him home button on it as a defense minister and veteran commander business con was not at his home when 8 and buildings around it in the most secure part of cobble were targeted. but his body guards were among those injured in the bomb blast, the biggest in the capital in almost 4 months. these pictures filmed by the government show the scene immediately after the blast. the interior minister abdul sutter mac, while directing commandos who we are told, secured the area after a number of hours. this is what experts call a complex attack. first, the car bomb was detonated, then attack has made their way into the building. there was

a fire fight. last thing several hours. the taliban say this is the beginning of a new campaign targeting senior government officials in the capital. the taliban fighting a very different battle in the south. so that's gonna stop aimed at conquering territory rather than causing disruption. the focus right now appears to be the provincial capital of helmand, laska god, the days they've been fighting in the heart of the city. the african military has called on people to evacuate the homes. but one local resident told al jazeera he can't leave his house because there's fighting on the street outside, and his family is running out of food. we're very worried. situation in lush cargo is that into the warfare is going right now in the all been sitting among the civilians. civilian population is known to target schools, medical infrastructure, hospitals, housing facilities are nor the place where the military duty should take place. the

un calling for an immediate cease far, but the opposite is happening. the violence is intensifying. james bay's al jazeera . cobble. ok, let's take a look at where the st battles are taking place in laughter. gov. the taliban has been battling government forces around helmand police headquarters, as well as the main intelligence headquarters and a diplomatic area which houses the city governors. the former british military base has not become a key battleground for the taliban. and even place he is considered to be safe, are no longer safe, including the local emergency hospital. taliban fighters have also taken up positions in the main marketplace there as well. let's bring in some odd omar, some i'd rather joining us on skype from washington. he is a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council, and formerly the african ambassador to france and canada, omar summer,

welcome to the news. well, let's talk specifics in a moment. first off, what's the point in having a piece process ongoing at the moment, but in the taliban and the afghan government? one of the, if you look at the history, the last few years, especially the last 3 years since the americans started talking to the taller and do you realize that this always been fighting and talking going on? what really matters is, what is the fighting for what is driving to fight on the tolerable side is, what is the government side in what is driving the talks on both sides? meaning, what is their political intention? do they have the political will to talk to make peace or is it just, you know, hot air and no meaning full outcome out of this. and you say it was with the war. the war obviously has an impact on the people,

on the overall situation. and right now it is driving everything else and there's much more focus on the war on the war. because the 2 sides now are much more polarized than the way before. but surely, you would accept it is a transfer of diplomatic slash peace processes in any conflict area around the world where you have the people who or the groups suffices, who've been trying to topple the government, who presumably have been voted into place, doing 2 things at the same time they go to the peace process, they go to the peace talks and they also do what the taliban have been doing recently, which is carrying on with the the fight the war back home at ground 0. but what the taliban and now doing seems to go way, way, way beyond and the thing like that template that we've seen any place else. so you, you have every war and had war and toppling on. as you said,

they mention the st. john. yes, we do see installation. how does escalation started? when did it start? who said what? who declared war on, who, how get it moved from point a to point b as we see it today, has to be looked at. the record is very clear. at the top of on, at one point and then the last few months decided that they were going to go with territory. and they're also in the last, i would say, week or so, decided that they would also engage the other side in hiding in and around some cities that they have selected so far. they also showed yesterday that they can go back to call the capital city and ignite bombs, incense, suicide while there's something that they used to do 56 years ago. so you see they have a choice in both either choices. it's a question of whether we're going to pushed him towards in escalation and more

warfare and hurting the african people more. well, we're going to restrain them and turn them back toward the negotiating table here. but when you talk about pushing the taliban in a certain direction, i mean, who's doing the pushing? and i tell you why. because 3 weeks ago on this channel, we were reporting how the taliban in effect was ceiling the country off. they were in control of the borders. 2 weeks ago on this channel on this program, we were reporting how the taliban was taking or getting very close to taking provincial towns and cities. a week ago, we were reporting again on this channel. how the taliban was injecting a certain military testosterone into what it was doing. and clearly the african military forces were very much on the back foot. absolutely. so on the top one side, you see this trajectory. you see what happened a few months ago. if you weeks a few hours ago, if you ask the total bomb,

they will give you another scenario where the c, mr. honey said, 6 months ago, he did this 2 months ago. he's doing this a month ago. and so both sides are choosing each other of not being sincere. so the political will, again, is extremely important. what is driving this war in what will drive peace? and so we have a situation where both sides are cruising each other and there's always the huge psychological warfare going on at the same time. but what we need to do instead of making it worse is try to restrain the site, find some areas where we can agree on certain things. one of the things i had suggested was that the i, c or c, for example, as an organization, profit organization could mediate about how to provide safety, security to, to civilian types, interest, civilian installation, making sure that hospitals are not making sure the markets are not. but we are not

talking about those things. unfortunately, the aim is how to escalate to provoke a site. and i think that is very dangerous. where kind of stuff. okay, very briefly mr. summer cuz i think the line is beginning to decrease because that happens with skype. a lot of the time would drive to peace be better served if the taliban got what they were demanding 10 days ago between the 2 week threshold and the one week threshold. if ash wrap gone, he became the former president some people think that that is a solution. other people think that a tolerable need to proclaim a cease fire, which one is more practical, which one could be negotiated, which, which one can lead to a better scenario? is what different match and politicians need to figure out. hopefully the next 3 days and door where they meet again. okay, we must leave the omar summer. thank you so much.

while tires are stretching, the emergency cruise in turkey and southern europe in turkey, at least 14 fires across 6 provinces and posing a threat firefighters abroad another 160 under control. since last week, russell said are, is falling developments in antalya province. we are in cuz ill that in the town or from my not got, which is one of the most do i say to district cows by the wildfires in turkey. a message for us fire broke out yesterday here and it continued overnight. hundreds of hackers of land have been burned. the fire fighters continue to cool down to areas to prevent why fi from spreading to other areas. hum, that is of will years how to create their houses and the security forces are blocking the roads to prevent people from getting back to their houses. as it is too risky. i have talked to the winner jurors and they all have one come and wish

we me back to their houses and to see if they can save anything. because of the, however, is not the only one that has been homeless off several wildfires across 30 since last week. more than 180 wildfires how been reported across 38th proven, says in the country 8 people have died so far with more than 70000 people being recreated. menu of this has been taken to the hospitals for further care rescue team emergency cruise work base and nice. but the weather conditions haven't been much friendly with low humidity, searing heat and strong wind hampering their food. turkey has received support from its neighbors and the european union, russia, ukraine. iran,

are there be john creation and paying sand the plains to turkey aid ukraine is sending for more how to cope there's, which can operate at night. this is the biggest wildfires of the more than history of turkey, and it hasn't been much easy for turkey to bring it under control. thousands of people on the outskirts of athens have been forced to leave their homes as a wildfire moves closer, more than 500 firefighters trying to contain the place in an industrial area, in a suburb of athens, temperatures more than 40 degrees celsius and dry winds. found the flames more than a 100 separate fires. hot weather has also been driving huge rise in italy, tourists and residents evacuated from the coastal cities. atanya and prescott are 5 flights a say they faced hundreds of blazys and populated areas in the past few days. but they are starting to get some of them under control. still to come here on this

program, the us senate committee has voted to overturn the law that made possible the invasion of iraq will tell you why. i didn't support we hear from the young, the best friends writing their way to success interview ah, the no more records brighten in the radian finance it yesterday. it's still hot, admittedly wisdom, the high forties all the way from east in iraq or west in iran. right. back towards israel for the south or these, the fed, the stand, the conditions now around the gulf. it gets humid both by day and by night. doha illustrates that you get 45 by day, but it's pretty dry. after the most part, it's not completely so still quite sticky, but it don't dusk what it feels like it's about 5455. it's that sticky that's not

sustainable. thankfully disappears during the day. but the heat which is the red sheen here, shows you all the lowest lan, higher land causes not going to be quite as hot. for example, in sharagen the heat has indeed been the story. particularly in turkey. records been broken in these coastal towns, these on new temperature reco broken yesterday equaled in mattress. the fact is hot and dr. and the real driver for the fires, of course, temperatures might be coming down a little bit, but i think is probably pushing it. but look at antalya, come thursday, let me give you the full cross run. you might like this because as temperatures do tend to drop it because the wind has changed at all. sure, breezes, much cooler, of course blows the fires a different direction. the who's joined the debate and do not have vaccines reaching those who are most of the needs

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i welcome back. you're watching the news on peach. adobe your top story so far today . i mean, but i love it on the 1st anniversary of the moment, it was devastated by one of the world's biggest non nuclear explosion. and the bay route poured glass kill $200.00 people, an injured 6 and a half $1000.00 in the center of bay roots, security forces, use water, cannon, and gas on protest is trying to break through barricades near the parliament building. i think 56 people have been injured.