the fence, but our passion lives and making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like how was fine libya and her region, and so many others. we go to them, you make the effort, we care. we oh, i william the be what he lebanon remembers the moment of the devastating corp last a year ago. and the many lives lost and shattered police and demonstrated face each other. and until by ruth, his protest is demand is always responsible for the block justice. ah

hello, i'm emily angry. this is out 0 live from joe. how are coming up? the taliban says it's to blame for a car bomb targeting the afghan defense minutes is home and want more tech to come . the battle against one of turkeys worst and the wildfires goes on with life is across other parts of europe for many to leave and mexico tags. i am at major us gun companies after tracing 17000 homicides to american weapons. ah, we begin with lebanon, where a day of solemn and memorials has turned into protests as people 90 years seems a huge explosion by roots force it killed more than 200 people and left thousands

more injured or homeless. the countries still waiting for answers while the state has been in political and economic breakdown. dana hold up reports from by roach. but in the us, they mark the minute their city exploded. they read the names of the victims of one of the largest non nuclear blasts in history. a year on bay route remembered the port explosion that destroyed so many lives outside the blast site, where thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate blew up families of the victims. the survivors gathered to demand justice and accountability in the low justice isn't just the demand of the families of the victims. but of all of the lebanese people, we want to know who brought in the explosives to the port. we want to know who allowed for their unloading, who withdrew quantities of these explosives from the port and where it was sent. we

are here to launch an appeal to the countries of the world. we urged the international community to come and save lebanon, because the world cares not our own officials. the world is beginning to listen to the pain and suffering of the lebanese people, not our own officials. its been difficult making sense of their loss more than 200 people were killed among them children. so far, no one has been held responsible for unsafely storing ammonium nitrate with flame mobile materials at the port warehouse in the heart of the city for years. at the fire department, a kilometer from the port, the families of the 1st responders believe their loved ones were sent to their almost certain deaths. they weren't told of the dangerous when called to put out the fire. rather, here to play a fight is going to the port a had no fear, had nothing but they wanted people. they wanted to help everyone. and this is what

you're trying to do to move all these politicians criminal, killed our brothers attempts by the lead judge in the case topic baton. to start the process of prosecuting some of those believe responsible has been delayed by political interference. but some have hope that change is coming. i think today isn't the new start over start for a new level and we believe strongly that this is what we have been waiting for. our next step is the elections in may 2022. we feel that for the 1st time, this is showing the, you know, that the photo or the political class that people are no longer following. following the ceremony, protesters headed to parliament to demand parliamentary and other official. immunities are lifted to allow formal questioning to happen. this is not just about justice and accountability. many lebanese have

a new state. they believe the political class has not just destroyed the city but destroyed the economy and failed to build a state. there is anger. the port explosion was one of the most traumatic experiences for a country with already a dark past. it may have exposed the decades of corruption and mismanagement, but lebanon will not wake up to a new country. the battle for justice hasn't been won the battle against the accountability has at least for the time being. then they're also baled one man who survive the explosion, spoke town to 0 about how it's left scars on the city and his life estimate aliamanu today. and so i can get on tina, my name is lima, i'm from the currently in a neighborhood. i've been living here in this area for the past 30 years, where a lot of challenges in this neighborhood in the past, like wars and so many other things, but august, 4th was worse. it was

a day of destruction with sadness in ruthlessness. and i could add will bet assassin. amidst still believe me, i always sit here and drink my coffee before heading out to work. and i have a shop out there on a day minute. so i came out here on the day of the blast and saw smoke coming out of the port. i thought there was a fire. how do you separate the car? how they are not sure how to fit on. then i came back into the room, is always going inside. the blush happened now a stone to decide what the huge rock slammed into the ceiling here and broke its way down to the 1st floor that i went through the pi flores had my family. i've been here, they would have been casualties. and yes, i was injured right here. what are my eyes? my arm by the my entire body is enough gettable day. august 4th is

so i'm forgetting. i'm an honor. we're now suffering financially. you know, what's become of the economy. everything is way more expensive. there are no jobs are used to work during the day, but now i'm going to show the stock certainly. so i don't have an income about thought and then shall likewise help for a better future, but i, i can see it being better than before. every once in a while, something huge shakes the core of this country. we don't have a promising future. and you can see a special program by al jazeera is zayna honda on the disaster buy routes. search for answers on a thursday at 1430 gmc on al jazeera and on our website at al jazeera dot com, as well as youtube. oh, the taliban is warning of more attacks against to top afghan officials and

explosion near a defense facility in cobble on wednesday came just hours after a car. bomb blast and gun battle knew the defense ministers. house. the taliban says it was responsible for that attack. meanwhile, violence continues in the south of the country. diplomatic editor james bates has moved the in recent hours. the taliban has shown that currently pursuing 2 very different types of warfare. in cobble this bloss targeted, one of the men leading the government's military can but spend most of the home button on it as a defense minister and veteran command bisman khan was not as 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 abdel

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 said this is the beginning of a new campaign targeting senior government officials in the capital. the taliban of fighting a very different battle in the south african it's done. aimed at conquering territory rather than causing disruption. their focus right now appears to be the provincial capital of helmand laska. gov. 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 last car got into the warfare is going right now in oregon city among the civilians. civilian population is known to target schools, medical infrastructure, hospitals, housing facilities are nor the place where the military activities 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. i massa man is an non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council and former african ambassador to france and canada. he says, talks on finding common ground between the taliban and the african governments. if you look at the history of the last years, especially the last 3 years since america started talking to the tall 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 the fight being on the taller ball side as well as the government sites 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? we have a situation where both sides are using 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 ice, your see, for example, as an organization, trusted organization could mediate about how to provide safety, security to civilian type interest, civilian installation,

making sure that hospitals are not making sure the markets are not but we are not talking about those things, unfortunately, it's a question of whether we're going to push them towards in escalation in more warfare and hurting the african people more while we're going to restrain them and turn them back toward the negotiating table bell russian olympics brain to christina, tim, enough sky has arrived in warsaw on a humanitarian visa. the 24 year old accused her teams officials of trying to force her to leave the tokyo games early after she criticized her coaches. polish officials say she's afraid for his family to mccain, reports reports rather from erling. this is the latest part of christina tim on of sky, a journey from athlete to dissident. her dreams of winning olympic metals for belarus are long gone. now the price she wants is asylum in the e. u. by criticizing her team's decision to make her run an offense,

she'd never contested before. she says she angered team officials beyond the store was done when they made it clear that upon my return home i would definitely face some form of punishment. and that if i were to refuse to return home and would run into 200 meter race, i would be fired and kicked out of the national team. there were also thinly disguised hints that more would await me from doing, but it was the fear of reprisals that forced her husband to flee to ukraine and with that child once the situation became clear. now the polish government has given him a humanitarian visa and made clear his wife and child also welcomed because many be other russians have taken the pastor, poland since president alexander lucas shanker claimed victory and elections last year. o elections, which observers both inside and outside, be, say, were fraudulent weeks of popular protests prompted president lucas shanker,

to crack down on dissent with leading opposition. figures arrested despite criticism from capital cities across the continent, e u sanctions, and worldwide condemnation. his government has continued its suppression of dissidence. now, one analyst says, this case shows that even athletes are under scrutiny. the problem with that you don't have to be a politician. you don't have to be an activist to, to become political. everything is political if it's just if it's public, if it's in the street or online, she openly criticize the susan, all their limbic team and they tried to do it and done, which is of course and, and nowadays, impossible to men of sky. i had originally planned to fly directly to warsaw from tokyo, but a polish government. sol says she changed her plans almost at the last minute for

security reasons. timothy sky a went to the olympics to run fib yellow roof. but now she and her family are on the run from it. dominant, came out, jazeera berlin, still ahead on our 0, the w h. i bags richer countries, not to off the booster shots before. 4 countries have got enough carbon 19 vaccine and wearing to damn where body has started washing up on the banks that are with that flow from ethiopia. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by cattle airways. hello, great to be with you. here's an update on the southwest spawn soon. we still have that heavy concentration of brain over east raj, a son into west,

not too pradesh and really the rain has been piling up over the last few days. we will also see the monsoon rains intensify as we head toward connecticut and careless states on thursday. but you know, where the rain has been aggressive is around the be a been goal in particular that west coast of me and bar, or the past 24 hours. some spots in the country have picked up more than $200.00 millimeters of rank. next we're going to asia pacific and we've got to talk about tropical storm loop it as it makes its landfall here on thursday as somewhere between one dung and fuji and provinces in that southeast corner of china. and this is really going to drop some intense rain in the days to come very persistent. and saki conditions ok now an update on se asia. and you can see we've got our storms coming and go in here, which is usual. but we'll also get into some sunny spells where it is also been particularly soggy, is as we had support the west coast of lose on island in the philippines. the rain

continues manila, 29 degrees. so we're watching that merrick kina river very carefully as it reaches dangerous levels. sponsor cut on airways. a secret agent claimed by both israel and egypt. well, any case officer who receives potential or double edged will always assume the worst truth lies. fact or fiction. most of the documents or 40 people of either of those under ups, out there will tell the story of the month of many secrets. i shall matawan death of a super spy on al jazeera. oh,

a hello. you're watching al jazeera, i'm emily anguish, a reminder of our top story. our memorials in lebanon turned into protests on the one year anniversary mocking the by word court explosion. it killed more than $200.00 people. large groups of protest as clashed with security forces near the parliament building if they called from more government accountability. the taliban is wanting of more attacks against afghan official and explosion chicago. early on wednesday, near defense facility, it came to our taliban. have all my attacks on the defense. people were killed. bella, russian olympics printer, christina tim, enough sky has arrived in poland on a humanitarian visa. she says her country's officials tried to force her home early

from the games. she feed huge stretches of southern europe are ablaze, his country's grapple with some of the hottest weather on record. the e u is promising assistance, including water dropping planes to those countries that need it. at least 805 have broken out across easily in the past 2 days, including 250 on the island of sicily and 130 in puleo, more burning in croatia, montera and montana agro and albania, as well as grace which is experiencing its worst hate wave in decades with reco, temperature's topping 47 degrees centigrade. there are 5 further north too in bulgaria and north macedonia. bulgaria plans to send fire crews to help its neighbor across the board. while in turkey, the emergency has now extended into its 2nd wake about 950000 heck to have been

bent, a wild fi that ripped through a forest on the outskirts of the great capital, athens has now receded, but has destroyed homes and businesses in its wake grace is facing its most v hate wave in 30 years with the high risk of more fire to come sane beds robbie reports from athens. one of the most dangerous wildfires of the season so far, it took 501st responders working around the clock. and countless aerial sort age to bring this blaze just north of the greek capital under control, volunteers working alongside police and fire rescue teams, managed to keep the flames from spreading to more populated areas of athens. outside the police coordinate, anxious residence, waited unable to go home. me, let me get that sort of thing. it's a total catastrophe. my neighbor's house burned down and i called him and he was distraught. we're talking about complete destruction. maybe my house has been down also. i don't know, i'm assuming this because my neighbor's house burned down,

so we have been destroyed. as a family financial, we finished, we finished garner as night fell helicopters and planes stopped their water drops and ground crews took over the task of keeping the flames. at daybreak roads reopened to reveal the scale of devastation. dozens of homes and businesses completely destroyed. 24 hours after this fire started, the ground here is still smoldering here in the tree line with fire rescue teams are worried about now. is that the record high temperatures, the ongoing heat wave as well as the wind picking up again will begin to rekindle the flames and restart the fires that they've already put out. as remaining small fires were extinguished, people were allowed to return to see what was left for 35 years. my c lease mckayla lived in a house he built with his own hands. next to his workshop where he restored classic cars. the collection was priceless. the fire took everything the heavily but the

name for the annex lisa there. i 1st saw the fire ram mood at that point. the fire was high up on the mountain left for a little while seduce and charles and i came back and the police wouldn't let me get through. i was waiting for 4 hours and i kind of had police let him back sooner . he says he may have been able to save something of value to help him rebuild. asked to put a price on the damage. he says he has absolutely no idea how the weather is forecasting to come. seems like this are likely to play again, even as the situation north of act and improve record high. he sparked dozens more wildfires across greece that are still out of control. in basra, v o 0 me the world health organization says country should white to offer coven 19 vaccine

boosters. it's an appeal mostly aimed at wealthy countries that have far outpaced the developing world. wide choices. rich nations have administered 100 doses to 100 people compared to just one and a half doses to 100 in poor ones. we cannot, and we should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it. while the world's most vulnerable people remain unprotected. julie fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown university medical center. she says it's not even clear yet. if posters are needed, you know, the data is still coming in and we are learning a great deal. but i think the early data are suggesting that booster shots can offer some protection if the anybody response to the virus that is listed by the facts. in speaking to wayne,

particularly people who are immunocompromised, however, that's a pretty small fraction overall of the global need right now for a vaccination. and the concern is that using the, the vaccine supplies that we have now as the w, i chose, director general said to offer an incremental amount of protection to vulnerable populations. in very wealthy countries could take away the doses that we need to, to vaccinate equally at risk people in the world low and middle income countries. so it's a question of trading off that, that promise of incremental protection for one vulnerable population to the very basic preventive protection for a population. in other countries, we're seeing in many wealthy countries, decision makers resort into incentive prizes to, to controlling people who are hesitant to be vaccinated to accept this vaccine that

can prevent the spread of it, of an obviously deadly disease. while in other countries, people are anxiously waiting for even the 1st dose, dozens of bodies of 80 pins from water holding it to dry rage and being buried in eastern sedan. many were washed on the banks of the state, revolved some with gunshot wounds, heber morgan reports from casala for almost a week. now deborah tim psychological rosters, and if you can farmer incidence eastern casela state has been playing the role of grave digger, the banks of the city river that flows between the 2 countries has been carrying the bodies of europeans. he says are from home era in take i, where a conflict has been reaching for nearly a year now. and then after that in and out of our router, we were called in about 5 days back when the 1st bodies started appearing. since then, we've been burying people nearly daily, most come with their hands tied behind their backs. some had gunshot wounds in the

head, others in the back. we buried more than 40, so 4, my god. now you, the bodies were found at the end of last week, a few days after dozens of new refugees from take. i arrived at the reception center income home at i need. the border with sudan is one of the few areas still under the control of the fuel government and her militia. but the 2 grand defense forces took over the capital, mickely, and other major cities weeks ago. some of the new arrivals they witnessed hundreds trying to escape home era and were killed and thrown into the river. legacy says he was part of the group that found some of the bodies and buried them whirlwind and in a hurry, we were told by refugees that people were being killed and thrown in the river. then we found the bodies hands tied behind their back. some shot in the chest, something on the head. we knew there were 2 grains from whom error. most of the graves were dug, just meet us from the river. there are several burial sites like this one along the city river,

each with different numbers of bodies. but people here and would then hello say not all those found in the river were pulled out. and while the bodies of those who die plank to escape the great of buried here, there are reports of similar graves in the region where the death toll is unknown. since the thought of the conflict in november last year, there has been accusations by rights, groups of atrocities, by the wearing parts of the motor. many to grant have reported being targeted for the committee, raising concerns of ethnic cleansing and genocide. at least 2000000 people have been displeased and 60000 have fled to sedan. a communications blackout continues and humanitarian organizations say more than 5000000 people are in need of aid. 7 if you'll be in here including deborah tim, sy, they'd be hope their work would now be over. but he knows as long as the conflict continues into gray, they'll be more bodies to bury on both sides of the border. he but morgan august era, would that hello, hello mexico government is suing us gun make is the negligent seen

a $10000000000.00 lawsuit. it says reckless business practices have caused a flat of illegal weapons, fueling gang violence, and leading to thousands of deaths. john holman, reports from mexico city. the streets of kula can north mexico and 17th october 2019. when the sinaloa cartel turned out like an army, the battle and defeat met can security forces the done then? who said they were there, but they told us that they were using us make gun other criminal groups across the country that told us the same firearms a heavily restricted emit cope that the government says an iron river. the legal weapons is heading across the us border and adding to the violence here. now it's trying to stop the source. on wednesday it announced an unprecedented law suit against 11 odds manufacturers, among them famous names like cope and smith and wesson. i don't get you got me,

he got, well, isn't look at what is mexico looking for with this lawsuit? remember that the companies compensate the mexican government for the damage caused by their negligent practices that they develop verifiable strategies to monitor and discipline the distributors. because companies argue that when the guns go out, they don't have any responsibility. they do a standard. the government says, alms manufacturers should include security mechanisms in their guns to track and check who's using them. they should also pay for media campaigns and programs to stop arms trafficking. at the moment, the government says that doing just the opposite, knowingly profiting from a lucrative trade is sanders, have yandell. they are developing models, port medical. so they use them for knacker trafficking. they're designed for that they have different aesthetic and functional features and the company can officials know they might not succeed. a 2005, your statute gives gum, make his widespread protection against civil liability claims. they're hoping this

time things might be different because they claim comes from outside of the states and with at least $17000.00 murders in the country from guns trace to the us. they say they have to do something with the government, admits the gun makers or any part of the issue. mexico also has a really porous border with the united states and traffic is have told us that it's really easy for them to get their weapons across it. and into the country, even under the noses of mexican officials. so until the border has toughened up, guns are still going to flow into the country with some of those things that the foreign minister towed out to 0. that's something the government's also working on . it will need to, the lawsuit won't be enough on it so that your home in algebra, mexico city are.