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hello, i'm emily angry. this is al jazeera, alive from jo. how also coming up to taliban says it's to blame for a car. bomb targeting the african defense ministers, home and warns of war tax to come. a battle against fees, wildfires in turkey, grace and bulgaria, and the european countries forces many to leave behind. and mexico tags aim and major us gun companies to tracing $17000.00 the homicide to merican weapon . ah, we begin with lebanon, where a day of solemn remembrance has turned into protests. as people marked a year since, a huge explosion by roots port it killed more than $200.00 people and left thousands more injured or homeless. the country still waiting for answers while the

state has been in political and economic breakdown. then a hold of reports from bearish me left in the us. they marked 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 a route. remember 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 has 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 mobil. 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 brothers. he went to the floor a had no fear, had nothing but they wanted to say they want to help everyone. and this is what you're trying to do to move all these positions, criminal,

killed our brothers attempts by the lead judge in the case topic. better 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. 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, the, our, the, 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 this and you say they believe the political class has not just destroyed the city,

but destroy the economy and failed to build a st. 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 in this management, 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 there also data base route. and you can say special program by al jazeera is zayna hota on the disaster by roots search for answers on thursday at $1430.00. james, you can also watch at any time on our website at al jazeera dot com and on youtube . oh, the taliban is warning of more attacks against top afghan officials and explosion near a defense facility and cobble on wednesday came just hours after a car, bomb blast and gun battle,

the defense ministers. house. taliban says it was responsible for that attack. meanwhile, violence continued in the south of the country. diplomatic edison james base has moved in recent hours, the taliban has shown that currently pursuing to very different types of warfare. in cobble this bloss targeted, one of the men leading the government's military can but spend i have a monitor him home button on it as a defense minister and veteran commander busy with a con was not at his home when it 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 pool 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 are fighting a very different battle in the south of that's gonna stop 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 their 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 large cargo 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 no other place there. 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 wildfires have ravaged paths of grace, which is facing its most severe hate wave in 30 years with a high risk of more fines to come ablaze that ripped through a forest. on the outskirts of the great capital, athens destroyed homes and businesses in its like the same best 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 area sort ace 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, coord anxious residents 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 caught 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. we have been destroyed as a family financially. we finished. we finished. 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 this 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 life. for 35 years. masula mikayla 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. hey bill, but the name for the next lisa there. i 1st saw the fire around noon at that point . the fire was high up on the mountain left for a little while to do some jewels 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 up again. even if the situation north of atkins improved record high,

he sparked dozens more wildfires across greece that are still out of control. st. basra b o 0 a wildfire has now reached a thermal power plant facility need take you southeast and closed the plant. in the last, near the resort town of budrum has been evacuated according to the towns may. the facility is coal power leading to fees as severe air pollution. if the fire reaches its reserves, at least people have been killed in the worst fire. the country has seen in years. thousands more have been evacuated from their homes. the wildfire situation in italy also remains dangerous with high temperatures, their tourists and residents have been evacuated from the coastal cities of catania and to scar firefighters say they've faced hundreds of blazes in populated areas in the past few days, but they starting to get some under control adam reiney has more for us from grove

india in paulia, southern italy, authority thing the last few hours they were able to finally, totally put out this fire and poorly in the south of the country. and they say it's a sign of the progress they're making and other regions, sicily and calabria, both nearby, both of those regions still have a few sporadic fires that are blazing, but they're not really putting anyone at risk right now. if they were 48 hours ago, with a bit of measured confidence authorities here in italy, say they think that they're out of the worst days of this crisis. i'm like turkey and greece. they didn't have these massive individual fires, but instead, more small ones spread out through half the length of the country. we've traveled from the center, the country prescott on the coast down here to pull you to get a sense of what these fires look like. and what we saw are fires that were discrete in size, and sometimes in certain small areas, but didn't spread across the whole countryside that perhaps allowed firefighters to

get control of the situation faster than they have done in neighboring greece and turkey. israel has launched the air strikes on southern lebanon in retaliation for 2 rockets. 5 inch is around the strike seat near lebanese religion and area controlled by his villa. these rally military says it's where the rockets were launched from early a wednesday projectiles landed along israel's border was living on this thing. no injuries reported on either side. still ahead on al jazeera, the w h o bags, which countries not to also booster shots before. poor countries have been inoculated against the 9 pain, but the us says, if talk about back st, needed american will get them. and expressing removed to be to enemies from columbia as a long running on flakes appear in front of a victim. ah,

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frederick push each of the seizure sarajevo on al jazeera. oh, the me. hello, you're watching out 0. i'm emily, angling a reminder of our stories. this. our memorials in lebanon turned into protests on the one year anniversary, mountain bike or explosion. it killed more than $200.00 people. large groups of protest as clashed with security forces near the parliament building, as they called for more government accountability. the taliban. a warning of more attacks against afghan officials and explosion chicago early on wednesday,

near defense facility, it came just hours after a taliban cab attack on the defense when people were killed. a foss spreading wildfire in turkey has reached a cold fuel power plant. rising concerns are the potential for a pollution 5 are also continuing to wave across several countries in southern europe, in the number of carbon 19 deaths in indonesia has the past 100000. it recently became the epi center of the pandemic in se asia, as it struggles to contain this credit, the delta variant health care facilities as stretched to the limit. many people have been dying at home. the world health organization says countries should wait to offer covert 19 vaccine boosters to stop the pandemic getting even worse. it's

an appeal mostly aimed at wealthy countries that have fall outpaced the developing world. but has rosalind jordan reports from washington? the u. s. government disgrace, one of the major problems of the cobit pandemic. some countries have more vaccine than they can use. others have none. that's why as covert cases reached 200000000 on wednesday, the us and the world health organization, we're arguing whether already vaccinated americans and europeans should get booster shots, or the w h o wants a more tory him on booster shots through september 30th that so poor countries can vaccinate 10 percent of their citizens. i understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the delta vote and but we can not. 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 white house officials rejected the w h o 's call. we also in this country have enough supply to ensure that every american has access to a vaccine, we will have enough supply to ensure if they get the decides that boosters are recommended for a portion of the population to provide those as well. we believe we can do both and we don't need to make that choice. that's one of the reasons why it ministration has really worked hard to not only donate supplies of joseph to the rest of the world, but more importantly to work with other countries to increase and build up manufacturing capacity. so they can produce an effect seem to ensure that the rest of the world is protected. but other health officials say the biden administration is missing the point. the best way to use it if the price is donating. now, this is not too loud, they counted it to prague, asking the vaccination to protect their population to save your life as for

building capacity, it was the chinese firm since vac biotech. that announced on wednesday, it's building a vaccine factory and chile that could be online by early next year. so what it was, the factory starts producing vaccines, they'll be able to export them to latin america. these countries have had difficulty obtaining vaccines. and obviously we want to help them trying to end a global pandemic in the face of local but understandable priorities. russell and jordan al jazeera washington in columbia had 2 prominent men from opposing sides of the decades. long conflict have, for the 1st time, appeared publicly before the truth commission at a gathering for victims. they apologized for atrocities committed during a civil war, in which around 260000 people were killed. and no one law report. i know wiper the postman said they wanted the help hill columbia's wounds in the spirit of reconciliation. they spoke by video link to 800 victims from all sides and the

bloody conflict that lasted over 50 years. those who lost loved ones or themselves kidnapped or forced from their homes. eugene this with the for the fall leader with regal daniel, better known as tim jenko, admitted that his group had been responsible for killing civilian victims, which he said was a part of the conflict. he was beginning to hate to look at his control aloud. i can't find the words to match the pain suffered by the victims. unfortunately, there are no words for such pain. i've said it before and i'll repeat that i am proud to be one of the protagonist in this peace process. going as honest parmesan, but much of what they said was confirmation of what had long been allege. i guess this is salvatore mancuso in action with right wing paramilitary forces, speaking now from prison in the united states where he serving time for drug trafficking. he said his group often worked with the columbia military and police to track down what they perceived as

a common enemy. so i'm to go see and i'm very conscious, there's no way to turn back time that we can't get rid of the scars. we can't bring back the dead or wipe from our memories, the displacements, the pain, and the absences seek is to present dive. but this was perhaps one of the most dramatic episodes in the long running piece process. 2 of the major protagonists for opposing sides in the conflict, expressing remorse, revealing something of what motivated them, who are part of the bill or only by starting with the truth can be avoided. repetition, and as you have both said, many times a chief reconsideration of the country the conflict ran from the mid 1960 until peace. the cause was signed in 2016. it killed an estimated 260000 people and displaced a further 9000000. the truth commission was set up to let colombians know what became of their loved ones to help them understand what happened to their country.

these latest testimonies may have answered some questions that many more still remain unanswered and sure enough, 0 and opposition party in nicaragua says it's vice presidential candidate for november. elections has been put under house arrest. bernice k zada has been accused of inciting violence and banned from running for public office. she was planning to run alongside a challenge to president daniel ortega, he's cracking down on his opponents as he seeks consecutive, forced him, brazil's top court has decided the president should be investigated for making unproven claims of electro fraud. diable scenario has been stepping out these attacks and the countries electronic voting system and one pipe of balance at next year's election. he says the investigation is unconstitutional, but critics argue he's trying to cause doubt on the system in case you lose it.

mexico government is suing us, gun bank is for negligence in attendance $1000000000.00 lawsuit. it says a reckless business practices have caused a flat of illegal weapons, fueling gang violence, and leading to thousands of deaths. john home and reports from mexico city. the streets of kula can north mexico and 17 for october, 2019. when the sinaloa cartel turned out like an army to battle and defeat, can security forces the gun then, who said they were there, but they told us that they were using us make guns, other criminal groups across the country that told us the same firearms a heavily restricted emit scope that the government says an ion river, the legal weapons is heading across the us border and adding to the violence here. now it's trying to stop the river. saw on wednesday it announced an unprecedented

law suit against 11 arms manufacturers. among them, famous names like cope and smith and wesson. i don't know. can you hear me? well, listen, look at what is mexico looking for with this lawsuit 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 though, when the guns go out, they don't have any responsibility. they do limit the government says arms 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 tre is sanders yandell. they are developing models for medical, so they use them for knacker trafficking. they're designed for that they have different, aesthetic and functional features. and that's compet mexican officials. no,

they might not succeed. a 2005, your statute gives gum, make his widespread protection against civil liability claims. govern hope in this time. things might be different because their claim comes from outside of the states, and with at least $17000.00 murders in the country from guns traced to the us. they say they have to do something. but the government emits the gun makers or any part of the issue maker also has a really porous border with the united states and traffic. because 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 that border has toughened up, guns are still going to flow into the country on those lines 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 you don't home and i'll just say to mexico, city authorities in the us state of texas,

at least 11 people have been killed in a van crash in a remote area near the town of encino. and that's about 150 kilometers from the mexican border and local reports. same migrant workers would traveling in the overloaded van. and 12 people were also injured. at least 3 people, a jet after a train crash in the western check republic. dozens were also injured when a german express try and hit a check regional service. the drivers of both trains dive 10 people are in hospital with serious life threatening injury about a russian olympic sprinter. christina tim enough sky has arrived in warsaw on a human, on a humanitarian visa. the 24 year old accused retains officials of trying to force her to leave the turkey games early after she criticized her coaches. polly polish officials say she's afraid for her family. dominic came reports from berlin. this

is the latest part of christina tim on sky as journey from athlete to dissident her dreams of winning olympic metals for belarus alone gum. now the price she wants is asylum in the e. u. by criticizing her team's decision to make her run an event, she never contested before. she says she angered team officials beyond the store. she done way, 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 $200.00 me to 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 welcome the cause.

many b russians have taken the path to 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 use sanctions and worldwide condemnation. his government has continued its suppression of dissidence. now one analyst says this case shows, but even athletes are under scrutiny. the problem with that you don't have to be a politician. you don't have to be in activists to, to become political. everything is political if it's just if it's public, if it's in the streets or online, she openly criticize the isn't all the pic team and

they tried to do it and done, which is of course and, and nowadays, impossible to min 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. tim of 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 bully. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories memorials in lebanon changing to protests on the one year anniversary. mocking the bay route port explosion. it kills more than $200.00 people. large groups of protest is clashed with security forces the parliament building as they called for.