you can usually just, we just grab a manager, i've only got mine on mine. i do on i'll just use the number of the 900 cases pushes past 200000000 worldwide as the delta variant continues to spread. ah hello money. this is al jazeera, alive from day, also coming up demanding justice protests on the streets, bay races, lebanon marks the one year anniversary of

a devastating port explosion. raging while 5 for the evacuation of communities all across greece, the flames and gulf hundreds of homes. mexico takes a major us gun companies off to tracing $17000.00 homocide to american weapons. in the corona virus pandemic is showing little sign of slowing. the number of record in cases has now the past 200000000. this is, according to the johns hopkins university tracker. the well took a year to register the 1st 100000000 infections. that number has doubled in just 6 months. more than 4000000 people have died now from the virus. of the global surge in cases driven partly by the delta variance is highlighting the gap in vaccination

rates between wealthy countries and the developing world. that's why the world health organization is doing richard nations to pull their plans to give out booster shots. rosalind jordan reports now from washington, dc, 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 to 100000000 on wednesday, the u. s. 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 moratorium 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 von 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 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 doses 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 these are not too

loud, they counted it to progress in the vaccination to protect their population, to save 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 i know 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, the number of coven 19 deaths in indonesia has passed 100000. the epicenter the pandemic in se asia is struggling to contain the spread of the delta variance, health care facilities have been stretched to the limits, and many people have been dying at home. and other countries in the region also

battling to control arise in infections. on thursday time on reported another daily record of nearly 21000 cases. lawrence louis reports the crowds of tourists and commuters have all that disappeared from the streets of bangkok. thailand continues to impose strict cubs on visitors in a bid to contain a search. in corona virus cases, the country has been reporting new highs in infections and death almost every day. what this is a landmark with the majority of those who comment pre are foreigners, chinese, and other nationalities. if you ask, if we've been impacted, we are affected. all the vendors here are affected. we're still here in indonesia, the high case load is taking a toll on health care workers. give us a call. we are overwhelmed. the number of patients is beyond their capabilities. we used to to 300 percent of our energy every time we're on shift. many medical workers have also fallen sick, and more than

a 1200 have died from the virus. indonesia had its deadly a day last week, but has been reporting slightly lower numbers since the government has extended a partial lockdown for further week. much of malaysia has been locked down since june. the country has also ramped up its vaccination campaign, but new infections keep climbing in the chinese city of han authorities attesting all 12000000 residents after authorities confirmed 3 new cases of the delta variant on monday. who hon had reported no local corona virus cases since may last year. the other cities in china have begun limiting movements as the country reported the highest number of domestic cases since january. china had in the past been able to cut the spread of cases with quick locked downs and mass testing. but the strategy may not be as effective against the more highly transmissible delta variant of the virus, which is driving the surgeon cases throughout asia. florence louis al jazeera to

pounds government is looking to expand coven 19 restrictions to 8 more regions as infections continue to search their cases. and then pick host city tokyo are rising . an unprecedented right, fueled by the delta variance on wednesday, reco more than 4000 cases. were recorded in the city that's almost double reported 2 days earlier. growing concerns about the strain on hospitals in the city 6 regents including take care already on the state of emergency and other news a day. a solemn memorials in lebanon has turned into protests, as people marked a year since a huge explosion at bay roots port and 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. st hold reports now from beirut

. but most of 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 the 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 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. it's 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. rather, the handle fight is going to the port 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 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. start for a new 11 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, the, our, the, the political class that people are no longer following dominant. following the ceremony, protestors 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 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 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. and you can see a special program by out there as plain as color on the does all said fe, route such for answers on thursday, a 1430 g m t analysis era. and you can also see my website that i'll just there a dot com, and you can also find it on youtube. while fi in turkey has reached a firm or power plant near the south coast, the facility in mill last, which is near the resort town. the bedroom has been evacuated. the plant is coal powered, and that's raising fears of severe pollution. if the 5 reach its reserves,

at least 8 people have been killed in the west 5, the country is seen in years. thousands more have been evacuated from their homes. dozens of people have been evacuated from the greek island of elvia, where a while fi is engulfing forests. private boats helped get the strong to to the mainland. the fi has destroyed at least a $150.00 homes on the island, is also surrounded and monastery. lego politicians have denounced a lack of resources, emergency crews say poor visibility and brought the terrain. hampering efforts to tackle the fire or the blaze on india is one of more than a 100 burning. over in greece, a wildfire the outskirts of the council. athens has now receded, but as destroyed homes and businesses in its wake, the country is facing its most severe heat wave in 30 years with the risk of more fires to come. they,

as robbie reports now 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 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, so we have been destroyed as a family financially. 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 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 left for 35 years, monsieur 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 the heavily 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 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. it's the come, seems like this are likely to play again, even as the situation north of athens improve record high, he sparked dozens more wildfires across greece that are still out of control. in basra b o 0 still ahead on the al jazeera, the taliban says it's to blame for a car bomb targeting the afghan defense ministers home. and one more time to come on expressing when was too bitter enemies from columbia. the long running conflict appear in front of the victim. ah,

ah, hello, great to see. we're going to start this weather story in the western us with this wildfire burning just north of los angeles and you know right now there are more than 90 wildfires across the western us and there is no relief come in. the dry conditions persist, heavier rain can be found though, as we head towards southern areas of the rockies, in no for florida bursts of rain for the northern portion of the state shooting out toward the bind tech. and we tracked this moisture, this firehose of rain impacting new england as we head toward thursday. boston will be in the line of fire. we could see wind gusts here, 60 kilometers per hour. so that's the wild weather. let me show you this stunning sunset from manhattan. the neighbourhood of hell's kitchen, special thanks to her care and dylan. very beautiful. next we're going to central america and we've got her a heavy rain falling, but really also now starting to fill in across mexico, as we check on from duras nicaragua, history can panama,

we can expect much of the same there as well. you know, for south america, bolivia, this is a 2nd largest lake in the country. it's dried up and scientists fear it won't refill again. just give you an idea of how dry conditions have been there. the past 9 degrees and we've got some clouds and rain shuffling in for that east coast of brazil on thursday. the the journey to work can be a challenge on its own. but for some peruvian villages, traversing one of the world's most dangerous road is a risk that comes with the job. we follow the journey of the people as they get the all to survived risking it or peruse on allergies 0.

0, the me. you're watching l. just their minds are top stories this hour. more than 200000000 people worldwide have now been infected with 19. well, health organization is urging wealthier countries to delay vaccine to shop until people in developing nations get that 1st day for morals and 11 on have turned into protests on the one year anniversary. marking the bay roof port explosions kills more than 200 people, protested, clashed with security forces near the palm and building as they cooled for the government to be held accountable. and

a false spreading wall. fine turkey has reached a coal fueled power plant rating. can son of a potential application 5. continuing to sweep across several countries in southern europe. ah, taliban has warned us more attacks on afghan government leaders and to the defense minister escaped attempt on his life. she's a bone and gone attack killed a people. meanwhile, violence continues in the south of the country where taliban fighters on trying to seize provincial cities or diplomatic get a said james space have in recent hours the taliban have 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 i have the monitor

him home button on it as a defense minister and veteran commander bisman. the 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, showed 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 lasting 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 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 last car got 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. 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. amar smart is a non resident senior fellow, the atlantic council,

and former african ambassador to france and canada. he says there is little common ground between the taliban and the afghan government. if you look at the history of the last few 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 tolerable side as well as 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? we have a situation where both sides are accusing 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. israel has launched as strikes on southern lebanon in retaliation for to rockets fide into israel. the strikes hit me a lebanese village and eric controlled by hezbollah. israeli military says it's where

the rockets were launched from early on wednesday projectiles landed along israel's border with lebanon. the no reported injuries on either side. people in northern israel have been told to stay home to columbia now, where too prominent men from opposing sides of the decades long conflict have for the 1st time appeared publicly before the truth commission as a gathering for victims. they apologized for the trustees committed during the civil war, in which around 260000 people were killed. daniel, why that reports on wiping closure. men 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 and jaundiced with

the form of fark 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 her 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'm proud to be one of the protagonist in this piece process. go not honest. i wasn't, but much of what they said was confirmation of what had long been allege. i guess i missed a celebratory mancuso and actually with right wing paramilitary forces, that 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 for my memories, the displacements, the pain,

and the absences seek is to present. but this was perhaps one of the most dramatic episodes in the long running piece process. 2 of the major protagonist for opposing sides in the conflict, expressing remorse, revealing something of what motivated them, who are part of the 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 19 sixty's and so peace corps 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 than sharla, which was era. brazil's top court has decided the president should be investigated

from making unproven claims of electrical fraud. jaytal scenario has been stepping out his attacks from the countries electronic voting system and once paper ballots next year's election. he says the investigation is unconstitutional. the critics that he's trying to cast doubt on the system in case he loses. mexico government is suing us gun makers for negligence in a $10000000000.00 lawsuit and says reckless business practices have caused florida for legal weapons, fueling gang violence leading to thousands of deaths. john holman, has the support from mexico city the streets of coulier 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 gun 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 scope 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, 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 developed, verifiable strategies to monitor and discipline the distributors. because accompanies argue that when the guns go out, they don't have any responsibility. they do a standard. 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 trade incentives 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 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 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 on track 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 and was on those sides of the foreign minister told al jazeera that's something the government's also working on. it will need to. the law won't be enough on your home. and i'll just sit a mexico city. look at the me. this is alex is era. these you top stories? more than 200000000 people worldwide have now been infected with coven. 19 the world health organization is urging wealthy countries to delay the vaccine booster shots until people in developing nations get the dose. i understand the concern of all government to protect their people from the delta vote and but we can not, and we should not accept.