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unwelcome on peace, adobe. you're watching al jazeera alive from doha, also coming up high level taliban delegations in turkey to push international recognition and support a noise as an attack by a man using a bow and arrow that killed 5 people appears to be terrorism. ah a cautious com has returned to lebanon's capital falling the worst bout with violence in more than a decade. for more than 4 hours. beirut was rocked by gunfire, and rocket propelled grenades were fired at the 6 people were killed. xena holder is there. she begins our coverage with this report. sniper fire, gun fight. rockets fired in the city. a battle across the

dividing line that dates back to the civil war that ended in 1990. 2 long time enemies current, part of a root into a battle ground. bullets bounce from buildings as people ran for cover. and children evacuated from school. we need the children to low levels and then we waited until the parents came to take their children. the children were going to panic and fear they cried and screamed a large army deployment failed to control the situation. supporters of muslim, she are political groups and has the law were hunkered down. and she asked the neighborhood on the other side of the street where the supporters of the christian lebanese forces party, there were casualties. many of them civilians hit by stray bullets, some while hiding in their homes. the clashes are now in their 3rd hour. it is one of the most serious about the violence in recent years. the tensions were over

a judge leading an investigation into last 2 years. explosion at the report has belong. i'm a say. the confrontations began when the lebanese sniper ambush protestors making their way to the justice palace where they demand the removal of judge tarik. because they blamed the lebanese forces for the attack, a charge. the group denied. the real threat lies in the use of weapons and those who have targeted peaceful demonstrators. there were peaceful demonstrations everywhere during the past 2 years. but we have not seen such an attack against them. the dangerous escalation followed political pensions over the investigation which has already paralyzed. the government has fallen, are threatening to pull their ministers, which means an entire sect would be absent in violation of the country, sectarian power sharing agreement, the opposition and of stating a coo and using arms to impose their way ever since his beloved arms. no

longer had any function except fighting wars than syria or assuming agenda. and now imposing on the new state, what the justice is allowed to do and not to do what a judge can decide or can decide. and they're drawing red lines around ministers who are caught up and accused, and they're saying they are above the law. the guns eventually fell silent, but it further divided and already polarized society, there appears to be an undeclared truth, but the crisis is not over. demands for the judges dismissal, have not gone away. those against him say he is politicized those who support him, and that includes the families of victims. so he is among the rare judges who aren't politically affiliated in a country where there is a culture of impunity and those in power act for them to learn more than 200 people

were killed in the last that destroyed labor. what happened today was a show, a force by has bella and its allies, essentially giving the lebanese public false choice, either stability, ah, without justice or of justice, but no stability. this is just the latest in a series of attempts by has by law and the ruling leads to undermine, obstruct and blocks the domestic investigation into the bay lap. the balance of power is not in judge the car favor, but he did try to take on the powerful, which is almost unheard of in lebanon's history. it pushed the country to the brink and brought back scenes from a turbulent past. that may have been a warning of what might come santa hood or else rosita president michele own has in the last half hour or so just address the nation condemning the violence. whereas i know nor your side is that the we will never allow anyone to hijack the country of

what has happened to day will be followed on both levels of the judiciary and the security and investigations were reach the reality and the truth. and the fact that those perpetrators will be taken to the court in the investigation of the barrett port blast will continue. because it's a commitment to whether the lebanese people and towards the international community to law based on the independence of the judicial, your arm, and either ok, let's take a closer look at where this all happened. she protested, we're heading for the cities palace of justice, calling to the removal of the judge leading the port blast investigation. the army says crowds came under fire at 2 unit traffic circle there. chaos then ensued. it broke out with rockets and intense gun fire for more than 4 hours. it all happened right on the sides of a decades old sectarian fault line. it's the so called green line. it's separated muslim and christian factions during lebanon's 15 year long civil war. it ended in

1990 but divisions there are still deeply entrenched on the west is chia predominantly home to sheer muslims, and the has bala and amal, political groups, and on the east is ein al romani, a long time stronghold of the christian lebanese forces. political movement and on thursday, the army was once again between them, trying to bring the violence under control keeping us company at ramey corey. he is director of global engagement at the american university in beirut. what's the most significant aspect of what we've seen today? remy? i think what's really new and significant is that you have people in lebanon standing up to hezbollah openly, even with arms other limited level. this is so significant, we had other incidents on the last 9 months or so where people also stood up to hezbollah amount violently. and this is a sign that has been lows power while it is dominant in the country is

not necessarily applauded by all ebony is. and we've known this that the countries about half with his bottom half mount with has been the, this is the people don't like what has well as doing see it as a arm of iran. and they don't like that. but this is unusual to have people stand up to, has been like this openly. and i think has been, is really in a difficult situation, the strongest party and lebanon, by all accounts. but they are politically not so strong. they're not very proficient at political bargaining. their, their, their award winners at resistance and military action. they're really good. they're terrific at supporting their community and others in lebanon with their social activism. things they've done, but they're not very good, a political bargaining, and they're, they have to learn this if they want to be in the, in the political game. and they've always hedged about being in the political

system or outside of the accepted to be in parliament. they accepted to have people name to the cabinet some years ago, but they've never fully gone into the political game of power sharing with, with active politicians as all the other area groups, what they've done to support the system from outside. and this has caused some great criticism now because the whole system has been a massive failure. we saw 2 different but equally speedy reactions to the events on the streets of period. they won, the army was involved right in the middle quite quickly. i know you feel that's quite unusual. we also, relatively quickly we heard from michelle, i was just in the last for 35 minutes so. so. but will his comments change anything substantially at all by themselves? his comments are significant, they armies actions are significant. these are things that love these people, like they want to have

a decisive but fair government. but they can't unilaterally make decisions. they have to basically negotiate among the different sectarian groups. and this is the weakness of the system that it's a perpetual bizarre, of political power and incumbency and influence. but the system has collapsed. it's failed completely. the 7080 percent of the lebanese are poor. there's no, virtually no electricity. it's, it's unbelievable the degradation that has happened in lebanon to the governance system, to the society and his interest structure and to the psyche and well being of the average citizen, it's almost unprecedented. there's very few countries in the world that have suffered this while the people responsible stay in power. and when you talk about those people who are responsible, staying in power part of the narrative, it's almost the same conversation that we've had over the past few days on this channel about the elections in iraq. part of the narrative is, corruption,

is the lubricant of politics in lebanon. politicians always come back to us and say, we will get rid of the corruption dot, dot, dot. therefore the politicians have got to resign, but they never resign. and the people who do resign are then outside the tent, criticizing the people inside the tent, but the people outside the tent, the former politicians, have no political power in this whole vortex continues precisely. and that's why i thought it is such a historic, significant figure to the judge for him to pursue this investigation with the vigor that he has as really unusual. and when the president says we're going to catch the people and hold them accountable again, you have to listen to that carefully because you had a special tribunal for lebanon. that was up by the un, hundreds of millions of dollars, years of investigations. they finally convicted for people, some of them length or has by law and,

and these people were never found. has bella would never allow their people to be arrested or convicted like this. and probably none of the other political groups, if some of their people are, are found guilty. so the ability of the central government in this current configuration with its court system, where this security system to actually try and convict and then arrest and detain or imprison people who are convicted on a fair trial. but those capabilities have, don't really exist right now. we haven't seen it when it's dealing with top political level. they do catch small thieves, crooks of people who steal stuff, people who murder people. the system has worked much better now. and those lebanese are slowly taking hold of their own governance system and the judiciary and the, and the security which had been totally under she were in control before. but when it gets to the top level, like this has been the some of the christian groups,

they can't penetrate them. they can't hold them accountable. that might change as possible. you might see big demonstrations in the streets now, which is likely. but these big demonstrations don't prove anything either. they've done this for many, many years. and both sides have their big demonstration. they're, they're pretty equally matched the 2 sides and lebanon. now, me korean, it's a very difficult situation. and there's no clarity about how it's going to, and remy apologies for interrupting you there. but we got a good sense of what you think this might go next. thank you so much. still come here on al jazeera, for a gypsy offices, accused of killing the italian student julia rey, genie in 2016. go on trial in road, but they will not appear in court. high level talks in london, the, the u. k. need to discuss the future of the border between northern island and the republic. ah,

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destination. ah ah, cause parsley alice update your top story. so you, so far today a cautious com has returned to be roots after hours of violence that left at the 6 people there than many more injures on, identified cyprus on top of building shot to kill while gunman fought the army in the streets, is the worst street violence that in years, troops moved in out a gun fire broke out of protest against the judge leading the port blast investigation has bala and its allies abused to judge tarik natal political bias of

his prob, without providing any evidence. president michelle owen has just the destination condemning the violence. he said the government will never let any one hijack the country. and he promised the investigation would continue a high level taliban delegations in turkey today as it continues its diplomatic push for support and recognition. they met the turkish foreign minister in ankara, that's come a day off to talks incatel where the group appealed to us and e. u. officials, to end afghanistan's isolation. the taliban wants the west to east financial restrictions, the de says, are crippling the country group took over afghanistan in august. i shall have the balloon. we advised the taliban administration once again that they should be inclusive for the unity of the country. we told them the importance of including all ethnic and religious groups in the administration of the country. we've underlined one thing and do not see this as a request from the west, but an expectation from the islamic world as well. we told them the importance of

allowing girls to go to school and giving women the right to work. wrestle sarah has this update from istanbul. they how at wise at taliban, particularly to be more inclusive for the unity of the country and getting all the segments of so so, so the societies, the, the ethnic minorities, the religious minorities, into the government to create a market coherent society. and another issue was that this, he says that we have at wise taliban delegation to give the right to women to work and also let in the girls to go to the school. and they said that taliban told us that they have already a love the. busy woman to work, particularly in the house anchor and hang out sector, and gradually, maybe they will open up the other jobs or so for a full woman's one of other sensitive issue for turkey as the matter of the immigration. you know, the turkey is receiving houses of african refugees and turkey has already is,

is hosting more than 4500000 refugees in the country. and definitely is very much nancy when it come to another wave of the ravages. he says that we have asked taliban to be more cooperative in terms of preventing a new way of the refugees. and also the asked taliban to assure the right of return for many africans wants to get back to their country's company. affordable. so was at the table at the meeting and he says that we have asked taliban to to, to give the assurance of the civilian police and to restart the sneer flies from the cobbler airport, which is the last gateway or for afghan is down to the rest of the world noise intelligence agency says an attack by man using a bow and arrow appears to be in terrorism. 5 people were killed, 2 were injured in the town of congress burg southwest of the capital of slow, a 37 year old danish suspect has been arrested alexia bryan reports an arrow.

pierce's a wall in southeastern norway. part of what police say as several crime scenes, after a man armed with a bow and arrow roamed through the small town of cones berg about 80 kilometers from the capital oslo. over 30 minutes, he picked out targets, killing 4 women, and a man aged between $50.72 others were injured, including an off duty police officer. the attack and its aftermath overshadowed noise, new prime ministers 1st day in office. jonas gas, dora called it a cruel and brutal act, or a dogwood loom in the 1st doctor, did my 1st thoughts ready go to cons bag and those affected their, those who have lost their lives were injured? and was shocked by this horrible incident that has hit this beautiful town. i am a messenger police of arrested and charged a 37 year old danish man named and local media as espen. anderson broughton. the muslim convert earlier posted

a warning on twitter intelligence agency say the attack appears to have been terrorism of u. haul g. live african pokemon. there earlier had been worries of the man having been radicalized, which the police have followed up. but as previously stated, no reports from 2021. there from 2020 or earlier here. police in the scandinavian country and normally armed, but officers nationwide have been temporarily ordered to carry firearms, no way suffered its worst peacetime mer shooting and july 2011. when a far right attacker and as private killed 77 people, many of them teenagers at a summer holiday camp. now flags flying at half mast and cones berg and the attack is being felt across all of norway. alix o'brien al jazeera for members of egypt. security forces are going on trial in rome, accused involvement in the kidnapping and murder of an italian academic julia re.

janie's body was found in the ditch outside cairo, in 2016, a post mortem showed, had been tortured. the cambridge university student was researching local trade unions the for agents, including the national security general tatic, serbia deny involvement, and they will not appear in court. the case sparked widespread outrage and strained relations between italy and egypt. adam rainy has more now from outside the court house in rome. this is the 1st day and the official trial. there been many pre trial hearing and this is going to be a long process. it's taking more than 5 years just to get to this point. we're going to expect perhaps testimony from very high ranking italian officials, perhaps even for former prime ministers who are in office during the time since virginia's murder and a time this case has come to trial is a high burden for prosecutors. because this has been a one sided investigation for most of the time,

these officers are being tried in absentia and for the past year, the investigation has been conducted just by italian prosecutors, the attorney for the jenny family and their allies and advocates in egypt. egyptian prosecutors themselves closed the case in december, saying the perpetrator was, quote, unknown. so you have this, this one sided investigation. you had a lot of pressure from egypt that this trial shouldn't even go for it because they didn't provide physical address for those office for italian officials. and prosecutors couldn't even officially notify the people they were on trial. but before this, there was a pre trial hearing, in which a judge said, it's clear, these men know that they're on trial, so it should proceed. so that's what we can expect a long process, high ranking officials and it's kind of one sided, trial taking place. but there's a lot of pressure here in italy for to go forward because it's seen as this pivotal moment for the justice system to fight for the rights of someone murdered abroad.

george's opposition is holding rally in the capital to please see to protest against the imprisonment of the former president befell. second, billy, the government says he enter the country illegally from exile. suckers really now face is 6 years in prison on allegations of abuse of power, while in office. he has been on hunger strike for 14 days. a high level e u delegations in london to discuss proposals to reform, the so called northern island protocol. frustration is growing on both sides about how trade across the board should be controlled. on tuesday, the u. k. is breakfast, the minister talks of tearing up the protocol that's created checks on goods moving between the british isles and northern ireland. john hall has more on what's being discussed in london. this is a piece of legislation governing trade between great britain and northern ireland. while northern ireland is allowed to remain part of the single market, the single market. that was a way of avoiding

a hard border on the island of island in its place. a customs divide between great britain and northern ireland with the e. u, levering levying checks on goods flowing from the mainland to know not well. the u . k. now says that deal is not working the checks of being too onerous. the applied is creating havoc in the northern ireland economy and they no longer want to abide by will be overseen by the european court of justice in this protocol. well, the e you earlier in the week went further than most people expected putting together a proposal to drop. many of those checks up to 80 percent of the most contentious ones on food and negotiators in london in preliminary talks. now the expectation is there expectation is that the british side will reject the proposal. why will, because it doesn't deal with that much more political question of the european court of justice. ultimately this could go on for weeks. what he's at stake is the possibility that the u. k. side institute article 60 proceedings to suspend the

protocol, the e. you then retaliate. ultimately we're talking about the possibility of a trade war between these 2 sides. the belgian government's being sued over the separation of biracial children from their african mothers. during this rule in the congo, 5 women are demanding reparations. they say the policy that separated thousands of children amounted to abduction and abuse. the children of the metis, indigenous indigenous people were forcibly taken and placed under state guardianship in orphanages, usually run by the catholic church. the belgian prime minister, apologize, 2 years ago for the states roll davila english 2. in the case of those women, they actually want to show that they are more than head and start miss her. the problem was also that we were considered children of the state. it was not the mother who exercised power. it was the state that was allowed to exercise power, and in that sense they were free to do as they pleased. at least 46 people have

been killed in a fire in southern taiwan. dozens of others were injured in the blaze that broke out in a 32 story building. early on thursday. authorities are investigating whether the fire in couse young was started deliberately building house small shops and a tropical storm come pass through, has left a trail of destruction on the chinese island province of hanan. heavy rain and strong winds brought down trees and power lines across southern china is not moving towards vietnam. rob mcbride from hong kong, coming to the end of a long track compasses slammed into the southern chinese island of high 9. the strongest tropical storm this year to make land for the china led to canceled flights trains and fairies services with thousands of vessels taking shelter. as elsewhere along china, southern coast government offices and schools were closed and businesses disruptive, already. so from another storm, just days earlier,

that has been extensive flooding with thousands of people forced to evacuate homes in the business hub of hong kong. the stock exchange was forced to close with life only returning to normal on thursday campuses from the city to a standstill, full well over a day. passing over the open south china sea, it maintained its drink, affecting a long stretch of china. the southern coast stool began its destruction in the philippines, causing extensive flooding and land slides in the northern island of luzon, where our thirties are still calculating the final death toll in passing northern viet nam before finally dissipating in the highlands of laos compassed, who has brought nearly a week of damage to a large sway the se, asia now relieved to see it gone. robert bride al jazeera, hong kong. russia has recorded its highest number of daily corona viruses,

sections and deaths. more than 980 deaths were recorded on thursday in once 31000 new cases with less than a 3rd of russians having been vaccinated, the government says it needs to speed up the rate of inoculation. despite the mounting toll, the kremlin has ruled out vaccine mandates or a new nation wide locked on. the world health organization has named 26 experts who will revive the stalled investigation into the pandemic. the group will look into the origins of the virus that 1st emerged. wu han in china. in late 2019. the diseases since killed nearly 5000000 people. that is a human endeavor to understand a virus that has stopped our whole world. and i would ask everyone countries, jernace and everybody else to create a little space for that discussion to happen. or because this is probably right now, this is our best chance. and it may be our last chance to understand the origins of

this. whereas in a collegiate collective, a mutually responsible way in the means, years top holiday destination has reopened to foreign tourists. the 1st time since the pandemic began, but barley lacks international flights. a spokesman for the island airport says no flights of yet been scheduled to land. nationals from 19 countries have been cleared, travel there, but not from australia. a key source of tourist revenue and magnitude 4.5 earthquake has shaken the spanish island of la palmer. as the strongest tremor since the volcano there began to erupt in more than 3 weeks ago, the quake was one of about 60 recorded overnight by spain's national geographic institute. the cambrai, via her volcano, is continuing to pour out and spew lava. ah, 1630 gmc, you're watching al jazeera, i'm peach adobe. your top stories a cautious

com has returned to be roots off the hours of violence that left.