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ah, how are you watching out his ear and these are the top stories this al am i still in afghanistan says it was behind the killing of 48 people at his shame mosque in the televisions stronghold of kandahar it follows a similar attack in the northern city of condos last week, stephanie deca has moved from the capital, the heartland of the taliban, the seat of power, their birthplace. so that this is significant in the sense that they managed for the 1st time to target something there. she almost minority, but still it does send a message that nowhere is safe. and i can tell you, we've just been round some of the ministries here wanting to talk to some of the senior officials and security is very tight. is obviously they've changed the way they operate, that they are now taking this seriously. that it seems to be, you know, a change that in the ground here, when it comes to these 2 groups that i saw is adamant on, you know, destabilizing,

of course. now the taliban being a power no longer insurgency group, the stabilizing them running the country. 7 activists in hong kong have been sentenced for their roles in lafayette, pro democracy protests. they've been accused of inciting others to take part in band demonstrations. southeast asia regional blog is excluding me and military leaders from its summit last later this month. as young says, the jones has failed to comply with a roadmap to pace a great to in april space to lay say the fatal stabbing of u. k. politician, david amos is a terrorist incident. the 69 year old was killed here while meeting members of the public at a church and his constituency. when he was stabbed a 25 year old has been arrested on suspicion of murder. at least 3 people are dead after a magnitude 4.8. earthquake heats the indonesian island of bali. those are the headline states you now fit inside story. i finance the world is warming,

and greenland ice sheet is melting, which is changing everything from sea levels to the way people live. and now even exposing the remnants of a cold war past greenland, the melting of the frozen north on al jazeera lebanon is in morning after his worst street violence in years. the 7 people are killed in gun battles between rival sex in beirut. the countries already facing economic and political collapse. so could this trigger more instability? this isn't so story. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm in, ron con, the streets and lebanon's capital beirut, a quiet after

a day of violence. but some one, it could just be the calm before the storm in a country already in the middle of political and economic chaos. let's remind you of lebanon's precarious situation. the currencies lost more than 90 percent of his value in 2 years. people can't afford food, medicines or fuel, nor can they rely on basic services like electricity, healthcare, or even rubbish, collection. many lebanese blame politicians for years of corruption and mismanagement and losses. beirut, pope lost the killed, more than 200 people, is seen as a symbol. the states failure. now thursday began with cher groups including his bala holding riley's calling for the removal of the judge. investigating that pope lost the accused tarik baton, a be politically biased. now the army initially said snipers fight the demonstrators. it since claim to funds on a dispute between protesters and another group. so the holder has more from there. there is a cautious com after nearly 5 hours of a deadly clashes along

a dividing line that dates back to the days of the civil war. that ended in 1990 the guns may have fallen silent, but the crisis is far from over. the tensions started because of a judge, the lead judge investigating the bay route port explosion. the she are political groups, their strong hold across the street. they are demanding that he be removed. they believe he is politicized. while the opposition disagrees, they believe that baton should be given a chance to complete his investigation or before judging him. and the opposition accuses, has bella and amal, of staging, a cool, using their weapons to impose their will. now there are conflicting narratives on how the confrontation began. each side, blaming the other for starting the confrontation of the army, issuing a statement, not blaming really either side. the army is in a very difficult position,

delicate position because of the sea and taking one side against the other. it could split along sectarian lines as what happens during the civil war. what happens next? what we understand as has been a mile, are not going to back down. they are insisting better be removed. they're also threatening to pull out from the government. after 13 months of political paralysis, our government was formed last month if they walk out cabinet cannot govern simply because an entire sector is not represented in violation of lebanon's power, sectarian, carry on power sharing agreements. so difficult days ahead, the crisis is over, and really, this is an old battle, it's an old political divide between different groups on how they see 11 on on how they see a state. this is in there for inside story. everyone's problem. this is says, it's not the job of politicians to intervene in the judiciary law. hawk gladly

removing the prob, judge is not up to politicians. we have a stand the prob, judge should 1st preserve the laws and the constitution many, including myself, may believe there is a constitutional error. but the dish sherry has to decide and that body can rectify itself, not the politicians. the violence has been condemned around the world. cattle urged all parties in lebanon to avoid escalation and exercise restraint. the foreign ministry called the national interest to be prioritized, over partisan and political ones. russia said it was extremely concerned and called for restraint and prudence and iran condemned the killing of the protesters and said it, believe the government, the army, and the resistance in lebanon will successfully overcome additions, backed by israel. ah, let's bring in our guests in beirut. sammy, another director of the levant institute for strategic affairs in doha, rami hoary director of global engagement in the american university of beirut. and

also in beirut, jessica aid and activist and independent energy policy consultant. thank you for joining. so let's begin in beirut, where that you saw me another on the surface. this looks like has bola and amal, bullying, the government and the judiciary into making a change that they want. is that a fair assessment? i think it's fair assessment. this is what triggered down the action. one has to say, or the action of the cyber is supposed to be acceptable. shooty on demonstrators is totally an acceptable. however, it's has been law and our minds are okay. it's, i'm trying to blow up justice for procedures who is all triggered the reaction. now we don't know if these flashes where like a genuine reaction of that wonders who is,

is that something state. but we will soon know this, if the outcome of all this man will be the suspension of that john speaker. for that reason, dad social, he said he got sad to see that we have witnessed a scenery in order to suspend the action of the judge. bearing in mind that this, that they have been trying every to block the investigation process. they have been trying political pressure. they have been trying intimidation. they have been trying legal critics. and recently they took it to the city they played on empty me trying to drive the country into a civil war or something close to a civil war in order to broke that justice procedure. let's bring in rami,

hoary in doha, lebanon has the right of free assembly has the right of to protest yet they will snipers. they show into the crowd. we don't know who they are. what is going on is this, you know, change by violence. well, what's going on is something, unfortunately, that has happened before and lebanon. people take to the streets, unknown gunman or. busy non people but explosives, it. the tragedy is that it could be any of 2 or 3 or 4 possible groups or, and people who might want to do this to shoot up the demonstrators. initially the marchers who came into the area of course the, the march was provocative going near the christian majority area and some of them like she, i, she also, there was some provocation there clearly, but that's the whole point actually. situation from the side was to assert

themselves, saying we're not going to accept this, this investigation the way it's going now and the people shot at them. so these things happen unfortunately regularly because the country has never figured out a way to adjudicate disputes, political disputes, and in a political way. the election system doesn't seem to do it. the judicial system doesn't seem to do it. and therefore people take, take to the streets and now you have a unusual situation where has valez so powerful and strong military and politically that it feels that come lay down red lines on the surgeon itself. and this is, this is one of them. i try to do that with the u. m. investigation, the international mixed investigations of how data killing. and i wasn't able to because of the international link. so this is unfortunately part of the modern

lebanese political culture, which is a little bit disjointed on slightly this dysfunctional. it's not going to be easily resolved. well, let's bring in. jessica obeyed. hey, it was also very jessica. you were a big part of the protests over electricity sources, days over general, mismanagement in level itself. now you're seeing these protests. are you worried that protesting is become a very dangerous affair. and 11 on is this an escalation in your opinion? it because they cannot compare the demonstration that's happened yesterday of the group trying to of just to just this end up comfortability, the process of people demanding basic services and accountability. there are no similarities and the product that what we're seeing in terms of the shortage and lack of basic services that people are no longer mobile. i mean like they did and

over 2019. and that's probably how low people are hoping that change can happen. so what who is missing is probably be that the people who want basic services and a lot of conditions are not so hope that they can have them anymore. so me know that how much of this is about just this topic baton and how much of this is actually just about has been wanting to get the outcome that they want. i mean, this is a really good question. there is a lot about that just because at the end of the day it's not about john, but it's about the kids. the judge will be talking about that a lot. it's close to them in history, not going on, but you were talking about a blog that did that always have

$266000.00 wounded. people want to know that through want to know that about what happened. so they gave it to me think not all a once in the heart of that, even if this is on one side, on the other side. yes, this is a fact that this big event comes to add on. many frustration that even these people are or part of that even people are they are holding grudges against has been law because it's about this be lost, but it's about a 70 or every day. a nice day is losing one additional attribute it. somebody put the advantage of hello. so the elephant in

the room here is a lot that this today stay inside the state. it's a new state inside the state. we're talking about a population that is hostage of community organization that has the upper hand on the executive side, on the military side, on the list side. and now they are put the pressure to curb the judiciary, to there needs to be there to, to, to the way they want to. so they, they are putting the pressure on this judge in order to get it that way they wanted. they even said we me, we need to adjust the course of the investigation. what does it mean to adjust the course of the investigation? that means if just this is not the way i see it. i don't want that. i refuse it.

and when we looking about judges about justice, we're talking about very good block because this is the value upon which should be the society. so me, so me, let me put that very important point to rami. hurry probably has bullet or a state within a states. and they're trying to now change the course of judiciary. do you agree, disagree? i think that's pretty accurate. has about last brown, so strong. over the last. whatever, almost 40 years. because the state was weak. it's has been, was birth, started in the south, the glove and then after the israelis occupied the south. but the genesis has been lower. and she activists in the south who are working for social justice and improving the positions of she will really like 3rd class citizens, back of forties and fifties. so grew because the state was not

playing the role, it should of treating all its citizens equally. a developing all the areas in the country equally and more importantly, protecting the country from foreign aggression, but has been the brew so strong that it became stronger than the states military. and it's not just stronger than the new states, as well as the only military group that has force israel twice to aspire at the un security council. that means quite an astounding. busy situation, its military strength is enormous. and the fact that it's linked to iran very closely creates big problems if it was a purely lebanese institution which is or celebrities, institution. but as links are strategic, very, very close with iran, many lebanese who don't like it, criticize it because and they see it as an appendage of iranian foreign policy. and

iran in foreign policy has been and recent years to have a collection of strategic relationships with groups all around the middle east and succeeded in doing that. has this network books and non state actors as well as some states like the syrian government. and therefore, it can project its power or its interests around the region, and many lebanese are not comfortable with that. so it's a very delicate position of being very powerful, right, and being very what it does. but what one of the things that doesn't do very well as political contestation and compromise. it's a spirit she went to bringing jessica on this point. jessica, well we spoke in october 2019. during those process, you had very strong words to say about the way lebanese society and politics was actually set up. you calling for complete radical change of the confessional system of the way lebanese politics is, is naturally, constitutionally sectarian. is this one of the reasons you think that has bullets

are able to maintain such power and such employment? so when you actually are a non to group and they have 3 years is gone. john's of all the institutions of that a bob lake. so we're seeing that there's a dominant part to now, and they used to be not on the forefront of government, but in the past, if the government has been so much on the forefront, so that's also put them into a different situation with their own constituents as well, because at some point they also have to be it to provide basic services being on the front of government. they can be hold onto the counter, but for the shortages and basic services. so that, that is also a game changer for them as well. so let me know that where is the lebanese army and all of this, they're the one symbol of lebanese national unity. and yet they're not strong

statements coming out from them. and certainly the, not out in the streets. definitely today the army is booked under a lot of pressure. however, however, the ship order from the government and the problem that the government is totally alive. go to the song of behavior in front of the appropriation. for instance, how the president of the constant of the prime minister. what was his reaction one day when you was getting into the onto the, to the order. it's sort of the fire, but he's going to or what the have to say. i'm sad or what happened. so here we are

in the song of the government that is supposed to get the order. that is our owners, and they are the to the they can't account balance of it through the bullets. get that activities that power is growing by the day to day is more powerful than that and no government can stop to this is why i think that the only way forward is to like an independent government to be different from the power of government that can give it to you, but in order to stop this slide into the unknown

because the levy, if these incidents yesterday. so anything, it shows how much a pro john, her teeth, liver, and the situation in lebanon. and what is at stake? i am saying it said that really the coordinate value upon which or the social piece is relying on a plus, i mean, any blow to the justice to day is it brought to that fine. and who am i to let her know that the strong g in a very c v economic crisis? because the only way out of the prices is to have some kind of package and some kind of international aid and best condition by biting production. or we can fight corruption though a, you make a very good point. actually, i was going to come on to international support rami, i'm going to bring you in here. the u. s. has pledged $64000000.00 to the lebanese army in the wake of this particular crisis. but what sammy is saying is that with

a government that so divided and actually effectively makes the lebanese only useless. well, i wouldn't say useless now, the army still plays an important girl. and in fact, over the last 1015 years since the syrians were pushed out of lebanon by popular rebellion, i mean, they still have influences, but they don't run the country like they used to. they, the political system has really deteriorated and has been run by an oligarchy of sectarian leaders. and corruption has increased on all the public services have deteriorated and that's why we have this terrible situation. and then the central bank was in cahoots with this process too. but the army has been rebuilt has been since the civil war has, has played a big role. busy internally they've in the recent years, they've quickly come out and been deployed whenever there was any sector intention

of fighting. and they've been doing this more and more like they did yesterday they, they came out quickly. they separated the 2 fighting groups. however, the other group was and they give the citizens a sense that somebody is going to try to work for the well, they have the whole country and not allow the country to slip back into the active sick area washer. so i think we have to notice that the army has done a better job over the years has increased, but it has limits about how far it can go because it is right. has like ever moved the other institutions are pre, has a balance of area and leaders within it and the soldiers. so it can like in the civil war fracture along area lines and that's. busy something that people want to avoid at all costs, just kind of aid. once again, both i guess the talking about the fact that the government does need to shake up

something you've been saying since those october 2019 process those protests, let's be honest. didn't change anything, this protest may will have an impact on the judiciary, but very, very different thing. so the thing that you were protesting about which was change in government ever got any hope that something might change soon or are you losing hope? i'm not using her, i do have hope now it's like live scene for the 1st on the judiciary system. actually stepping up at least in an attempt to hold someone accountable, which doesn't happen in the past, the happens and the civil war. so that's the precedent for and i'm and upcoming induction because the husband might lose a christian cover, most of hope will about generation and change. i find that it's too soon to judge the process. none of the professors have to be got into power. we haven't had any

change in the political scene since that the governments have been unstable, but also have adopted a policy of inaction. we have important needs and maybe that's what i'm trying to change. the point that we're running out of time, but i do want to put your point to, i guess in barry's on in doha, just very, very quickly saw me know that is this i moment of the judiciary really standing up for itself as jessica just said, i didn't get the question, so is this is, this is jessica just said, the judiciary standing up for itself and saying we are, we are actually what we're witnessing. what we're missing is a kind of awakening of the judges. because it's not only about the judge. we talked before the judge was judge judge someone who was forced to resign because he did not accept to abide by the rule of

a prevailing for sure. running out i do want to have some. i do want to hear from romney on this point as well. sorry, just running out time. i'm fussing today from all 3 of you. rami is this a new moment for the lebanese to dish, or it's a, it's a very important wal mart for judge guitar, whether he represents a bigger movement than the judiciary or not. we'll have to wait and see. but this is really historic for somebody like him. to face up to the pressures against him and try to get him to resign, where it's going to be a momentous decision. when that if a decision was made to have him resign and repair replace, or to keep pushing on with his investigation, i want to thank all, i guess saw me know that raleigh hurry and jessica bate, i want to thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website out there at dot com, a valid discussion, go to a facebook page at facebook dot com,

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