night or day, beirut is buzzing.order to learn more about this city, i'm gonna dig into its businesses, which is why i'm here to meet amin younes, the 49-year-old co-owner of café younes. his family has been in business for decades. how started it? amin: my grandfather. he opened the store in 1935. lemonis: that shop was destroyed during the civil war, not long after i left the country. but amin's father managed to keep this, their second, location open. you guys are roasting all the time and downstairs, too? amin: yeah. lemonis: amin proudly displays beans from around the world, 20 countries in all. amin: coffee is like wine. this is the treasure. i still have goose bumps. have a taste. [ coffee beans crunch ] lemonis: this place is a museum of roasters. amin: one of the best pictures ever -- when the coffee comes down. lemonis: oh, wow. look at that. amin: this is something i can truly live for. do you want to try? lemonis: yeah, let's see this. it takes about ten minutes for the beans to roast. and i got to try it

she grew up in beirut a city shaped by war. it's here that she's realizing her latest project stung garden the architecture draws on the city's recent history for a new residential building. that if you have seen beirut in ruins and seen how nature infiltrated the space and how the whole history of beirut was revealed if it was and there was nature invading the whole city of a year hard to clear for me it was fascinating to see how nature was capable of bringing beauty even to this pure atrocity and level it to. be at last it. was effective i wondered about this holds these opening words that are today very political in beirut to sit at these openings or traces of war mikala harvest from these openings with and filled with life again because it's right here that vegetation grows. in her adopted home of paris got mail also has major works in the pipeline. in the south of the city a new quarter is being built. lena got married together with her team in paris are working on realism wanted must end up with a plan to turn an all aro

of beirut was revealed if it was and there was nature invading the whole city of a hard to clear for me it was fascinating to see how nature was capable of bringing beauty even to this pure atrocity and then level at it and all that at last it. was elected i wondered about this holds these opening words that are today very political and beirut to see that has these openings or traces of war. these openings within filled with life again is good because it's right here that vegetation grows. in her adopted home of paris got mail also has major works in the pipeline. in the south of the city a new quarter is being built that. lena got married together with her team in paris are working on really wanted must end up with a plan to turn an all around way station into a center that explores sustainable food production and agriculture. so i saw that i decided as part of a cool innovative projects to reinvent paris to respond to the challenge of climate change this. project is about the sustainability of it on the. the station will soon be renovated conversion to and extended with a fifteen m

the red cross expects to stay at least six more months here in beirut as a city recovers. now to nollywood the nigerian a film industry is number two in the world in terms of films made by four year struggle to keep up with cuts and that's the techniques of global cinema yumi the special effects artists changing that and a warning this report contains scenes of a graphic nature. it may look like an operating theater but it's actually a movie set and a key is working his magic on an actor. who has special effects makeup artists create zombies for nollywood and he's built a reputation as one of the best in the business. in the special effects hunger isn't how good apparently hollows fumigation have been true of the world not only in nigeria but with a lot of the professionalism of the quality. haunting when i came back and the release of the used me. to change to have with turn around in spite of the feds of job in nigeria. with or without the hand of god nigerian film is booming talent techniques and production standards are improving all the time. for him the green are the

the ofter effects off the natural disaster one of the worst affected places was the port city of beirut it was i'm be i'll correspondent. with the may of a a man who is fighting a daily battle to overcome the emergency left by the storm and for his city. every day dovish the mongo does it too of a city inspecting the reconstruction of beirut with the destruction of saigon and the high still visible everywhere the mayor is determined to stay in close contact with the residents the man who is trying hard to party can't always help the mayor is part of an opposition party after the cyclon he strongly criticized the central government for its slow response the city's annual budget is only about thirteen million viewers it was real very difficult we went heating heating heating till they understood that they need us we need they need us we need them we need everybody that's why i spoke to the got us i spoke to the center and i told them that we need to join forces and i'm happy that they agreed with us. by now eight organizations active all over town the water supply has been restored to par

one month off a sidehill you die we're on the ground with the mayor of mozambique sports city of beirut where if it's to clean up and rebuild are underway. i'm christine window while come to deeds every news africa i'm glad you're cheating did we begin in sudan way days off the omagh. people are still protesting the country's military rulers off a sing presho from demonstrators and western governments to hand power to a new civilian government but done with an iron fist full thirty years before he was finally overthrown by the military last week off to mass prices that have rocked the country since december. may have been here since the fix a fake and they're not ready to give up protesters have encircled the defense ministry the intelligence headquarters and the presidential residence and. the tool they want to civilian government not the announcer sake up of the military command council isn't enough. on friday the former right hand off also the president of the shia defense minister i want moment even though wolf stepped down as the head of the transitional council after only one day

ambassador in libya well let's bring in our hearts now he is a military analyst joins us live from beirut thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera so many countries of course playing an influential role in libya's a conflict and it's no secret i think that france has been backing the wall a tiny for half top but what do you think the so-called armed french diplomats would be doing in libya right now and what kind of support would they be providing . i think the assault of a general khalifa haftar on tripoli is not isolated from his visit to egypt and from the meeting yesterday between king solomon and his competence with a crown prince of sort of emirates bin zayid and a. month ago the u. and backed government in tripoli called the. french ambassador and protested the interference of france and the current conflict of course the french deny that but now that the entrance of the about four wheel drive full of people who are people from tunisia libya raise questions about their possible mission inside libya may be for kind of command and control for some other forces maybe local ma

let's get more now we're joined by our correspondent john crace he is in the airport there in beirut where the humanitarian response is being coordinated and i join you know from your piece that we've just seen there we saw a bit of the situation are a window into the situation in beirut how do things look further outside in rural areas though in mozambique. i went further outside about three hours. yesterday to a town called. a three hour trip by road on a very bad road in the situation there is still much worse you can imagine that people live in and more poverty even so that many of them just the. way the worst thing for now is though that also all the crops will grow up don't go away i went with an old lady on her feel she showed me all the maize was gone she has nothing to eat anymore she completely relies on one food aid and she said it will take at least six months until she can grow things and harvest that and you can maize that again so this is the time and fall this time. and we have to mention it's not the first time that barack has been hit by a natural disaster the city

beirut and south africa at least thirty two people have died after floods and mudslides crushed homes in the city of heavy rain on monday night. and the eastern cape where many homes are flooded and destroyed rescue workers are continuing to search for survivors. a court in hong kong is due to hand down sentences for non pro-democracy leaders behind the so-called umbrella protests five years ago. but many of their supporters are gathered outside the court as the activists wait to learn their fate they're facing up to seven years in prison after being convicted on public nuisance charges and twenty fourteen hundreds of thousands of people blocked roads for seventy nine days to demand open elections for the says he's leadership. thanks to these. and takes. a start as they have been doing. today stick to extremism to leave me naive. to think. thank you that it's the mind reconnecting to make this it. was obvious to me and i don't really think you want them to see. the reality of things that's ok and i don't think the system every single day. u.s. president or trump has met with a c.e.o.

you can have lunch in nature and then go and party in beirut at night. and fun. we are very western, i would say. open—minded. i've met people from other countries and they would say, oh, you know drake in lebanon? you listen to music? they think we ride camels and stuff. when i moved here, they asked if we would have internet and light or live in tents. i moved from australia and they could not believe it. as night falls, 8500 miles away in bangkok, ying is also spending saturday night with her friends. for katya and her friends, it's nearly time for the gig. seeing her friends from st petersburg has made katya reflect on how different life is for russians living outside of moscow. by the end of the school day, it's rush hour again in kampala. joy and his best friend mark are walking straight to band practice. their band is called ypf, which stands for youth passion fellowship and is attached to the church. at the moment in the band we are doing mostly covers, but i'm working on some original music. over the years uganda has changed. right now there's m

beirut. bringing you more on the situation in libya where troops loyal towards khalifa haftar are threatening to advance on the capital of libya's had two competing governments since two thousand and fourteen the un backed and internationally recognized government is based in tripoli meanwhile the parliament in the eastern city of tobruk is supported by warlords. and has backing from saudi arabia u.a.e. and the jews are both governments have their own central banks britain prints money for tripoli russia for top their years eighty billion dollars of oil reserves are managed by tripoli but after a seized the oil fields in the east and in the south and a single marty is a political analyst and director of the tripoli base are the key institute joins us now from beirut good to have you with us so what do you make of this march by half to us forces is about to try and take the capital. i think it's a two prong strategy so mean this is about trying to really intensify the pressure on the back of a

into beirut. is the spokeswoman for the near and middle east of the international committee of the red cross joins us now from beirut good to have you with us first of all who is currently supporting those families who are living in the camp. good evening to you all right now we are at the international committee of the red cross are there in the can along with many other humanitarian actors that are working. and the council are providing shelter water food in addition to vote because service is the way that the way that we see it that there are many women and children there are seventy four thousand people right now residing in the camp from all nationalities from all sides of the society they have gone through very hard journeys in order to reach safety and we are there as much as possible trying to cover the most basic needs but of course it's just a drop in the ocean of what needs to be happen and and where do we go the influx of people maybe this week has. has reduced but people are still arr

later let's go down i saw him at the in beirut what do you think is funny for half the on the right track for himself at least here. well i think it's the purpose of this was to increase the pressure on the international when it was timed wasn't an editor as was in libya militarily speaking i think his strategy and his add in a the libyan national forces is not so much a collection of just armed groups it's a belief system it's a narrative and any he really kind of goes into different cities trying to co-opt different groups trying to negotiate with them and he offers them not only financial a murderous support but he offers in this narrative you become the army and all of your opponents your local opponents that you may have fought against for resources or for local power they become the fact that terrorists so it's really the kind of the power of half there is a narrative and i think that is really facing a massive massive problem and and a struggle not to the cool and western the because many of those forces came into existence based on the belief that they had an ideological conflict

the us administration has been pushing a hard iran agenda secretary of state might pump ale was in beirut last month where he told the lebanese to stand up to hezbollah but has blind its allies control parliament and government making it harder for the u.s. to target the group without targeting the country. the u.s. officials always be clear that they want to this year between lebanon and hezbollah between those sections and the economy and i think this is that of course but this is possible we cannot say we are safe but we are taking a lot of measures here internally and we are trying to keep safe the economy and the banking sector. the u.s. has offered military and economic support to lebanon despite hezbollah's growing political influence that may change with a more confrontational policy involving sanctioning hezbollah's allies who include the president and head of parliament so that there will be further u.s. action against his like sanctioning his plans political allies there is no doubt sanctions have already hurt his but for the live in a state not to be affected it will need to d

the ofter effects off the natural disaster one of the worst affected places was the port city of beirut it was a meek correspondent andrea and krishna with the may a man who is fighting a daily battle to overcome the emergency left by the storm and for his city. every day dovish the mongo does a two of his city inspecting the reconstruction of beirut with the destruction of saigon and the high still visible everywhere the mayor is determined to stay in close contact with the residents and see a man who is trying hard but he can't always help the mayor is part of an opposition party after the cyclon he strongly criticized the central government for its slow response the city's annual budget is only about thirteen million viewers it was real very difficult when teaching heating heating children a story that they need. we need they need us we need them we need everybody that's why i spoke to that got us i spoke to the center and i told them that we need to join forces and i'm happy that they agreed to. by now eight organizations active all over her town the water supply has been restored s

into beirut. is the spokeswoman for the near and middle east at the international committee of the red cross we spoke to her early and she says the camp shouldn't become a permanent solution. we understand that it's a completely and complex situation that they're in but the situation in the camp is cannot be a permanent solution in the end these women and children that are there are our civilians they're no longer taking part if they were at any point or not they're no longer taking part of hostilities they might have been legitimate targets before but now they are protected under international humanitarian law and these laws are must be protected the civilians must be protected there must be solutions and real solutions from from governments from states and so on to.

syria what's it government calls the elimination of a terrorist's rights so to hold the reports from beirut. the board mint is intense and indiscriminate opposition controlled towns and villages in the northwestern province of idlib are under fire from syrian government forces and their allies who say they are responding to rebel attacks. there is supposed to be a ceasefire in lip the warring sides playing each other for the provocations. would lead. to terrorists have had to ration and continue to launch attacks against the positions of syrian government. but syrian government forces have been hitting markets residential neighborhoods civilians are dying in term of the heaviest shelling since turkey and russia reached a cease fire deal in september. the syrian government says it lip is a legitimate target because it is controlled by a sham and other groups many in the international community link to al qaida. we are waiting for the implementation of the such years agreement but our patience has limits we must liberate the slams of our friends the russians can feel our patience whining they

later let's go down i saw him at the in beirut what do you think is funny for half the on the right track for himself at least here. well i think it's the purpose of this was to increase the pressure on the international when it was timed wasn't an editor as was in libya militarily speaking i think his strategy and his add in a the libyan national forces is not so much a collection of just armed groups it's a belief system it's a narrative and any he really kind of goes into different cities trying to co-opt different groups trying to negotiate with them and he offers them not only financial and military support but he offers in this narrative you become the army and all of your opponents your local opponents that you may have fought against for resources or for local power they become the fact that terrorists so it's really the kind of the power of half there is a narrative and i think that is really facing a massive massive problem and and a struggle not to the cool and western libya because many of those forces came into existence based on the belief that they had an ideological confli

might be at risk but recent sightings have led to a public opinion saying the holder has moved from beirut. the i.c.r.c. ending its silence appealing for any information on the whereabouts of its staff members two of the syrian nationals their fate is not known but the i.c.r.c. believes that the third staff member a nurse from new zealand is possibly alive and they have information that she was seen alive just a few weeks ago there is no doubt that the i.c.r.c. is gathering information from those who used to live under those rules was territorially defeated a few weeks ago its fighters wives and children are now thousands of them are now in a camp in northeast syria so it is trying to gather information. staff members are not the only ones who were kidnapped by remain missing you have the italian priest father paolo you have the british journalist john county who appeared in the videos cameramen all missing believed to have been taken hostage by their whereabouts are still unknown and. hundreds if not thousands of people who went missing under isos rule three thousand for example mass grav

the after effects of the natural disaster now one of the worst affected places was the port city of beirut in mozambique our correspondent adrienne creation met with the mayor there a man who is fighting a daily battle to overcome the emergency left by the storm. every day dovish the mongo does a two of his city inspecting the reconstruction of beirut with the destruction of saigon the da is divisible everywhere the mayor is determined to stay in close contact with the residents the man who is trying hard but he can't always help the mayor is part of an opposition party after the cyclon he strongly criticized the central government for its slow response the city's annual budget is only about thirteen million viewers it was real very difficult we went heating heating heating till the understood that the need. we need they need us we need them we need everybody that's why i spoke to the got us i spoke to the center and i told them that we need to join forces and i'm happy that they agreed with us. by now eight organizations active all over town the water supply has been restored some parts o

later let's go down i saw him at the in beirut what do you think is khalifa haftar on the right track for himself at least here well i think it's the purpose of this was to increase the pressure on the international when it was timed wasn't a litter as was in libya militarily speaking i think his strategy and his and on a the libyan national forces is not so much a collection of just armed groups it's a belief system it's a narrative. he really kind of goes into different cities trying to co-opt different groups trying to negotiate with them and he offers them not only financial a motor support. but he offers in this narrative you become the army and all of your opponents your local opponents that you may have fought against for resources or for local power they become the fact they're terrorists so it's really the kind of the power of half there is a narrative and i think that is really facing a massive massive problem and and a struggle not to the cool and western because many of those forces came into existence based on the belief that they had an ideological conflict with hope wit

every day dovish the mongo does a two of his city inspecting the reconstruction of beirut with the destruction of saigon the dye still visible everywhere the mayor is determined to stay in close contact with the residents and the man who is trying hearts but he can't always help the mayor is part of an opposition party after the cyclon he strongly criticized the central government for its slow response the city has been restored to parts of the city have electricity again but they are also setbacks the number of malaria cases is on the rice and despite massive many stations mozambique has reported more than three thousand five hundred cholera cases i may see mangled meets eight workers in an improvised hospital i am gets an update on the situation and wants to know how he can help you have to talk to the people sensitized i mean you have to tell them how to avoid caller they have to boil their drinking water the doctors working here they're still whining because there's still some cases coming in and we need to stop it i hope we don't we are going to do that the most is about to myself and my

in the conflict and now want to know what's in it for them they know how their tells us more from beirut. russia is further cementing its foothold in syria government leaders in damascus granting russia access to the mediterranean port of tartus for the next forty nine years it's the latest deal between the two countries as russia strategic and financial rewards in post-war syria. syria's other main ally iran seems to be doing the same after partnering to keep president bashar assad in power the iranians and russians are talking about dividing the spoils of war it's. future. there's a structure but it's our. current regime it's in parts. russia and iran cooperate with turkey iran's foreign minister mohammad said if there's a turkey's capital ankara following a trip to damascus the iranians are trying to mend the relationship between syria and turkey hoping for an increased diplomatic role. while iran of course also is trying to get more leverage and resolve your russia in this process because the issues that are most important on the ground now in the northeast these are issues i would s

players are involved in syria all maneuvering for their place went peace eventually comes senator beirut doldrums vowing to fight all the way to the supreme court to stop any impeachment or terms the us president's opposing all the terms to subpoena a former aide to testify in congress democrats are demanding the full uncensored version of the report into russian interference and transfer elections so congress can decide whether he's broken the law or lot can be held at the white house. unconditional war on his opponents is a tactic donald trump has used for decades in the business world and now it appears in the political arena as president i say. get back to infrastructure get back to cutting taxes get back to lowering drug prices that's what really that's what we should be when we're fighting the other subpoenas we need these materials even though the u.s. congress has a cause. situational obligation to investigate the white house trumps declared he's prepared to take his fight to the highest court in a wednesday morning tweet trouble threaten congressional democrats if they try to ge

beirut. the board mint is intense and indiscriminate opposition controlled towns and villages in the northwestern province of idlib are under fire from syrian government forces and their allies who say they are responding to rebel attacks. there is supposed to be a ceasefire in it live the warring sides playing each other for the provocations. with. the terrorists have had ever asked shall continue to launch attacks against the positions of syrian government. but syrian government forces have been hitting markets residential neighborhoods civilians are dying in term of the heaviest shelling since turkey and russia reached a cease fire deal in september. the syrian government says it liberates a legitimate target because it is controlled by how to hear a sham and other groups many in the international community link to al qaida. we are waiting for the implementation of the such years agreement but our patience has limits we must liberate the slams of our friends the russians can feel our patie

senator beirut well still ahead on al-jazeera border vigilantes why this video from the u.s. mexico front here is causing an uproar and. i'm not after partner in a house in eastern france rebuilding not saddam won't be easy but this cathedral proves that it can be done. and coming up in force we've seen many golfers whole incredible shots but not many like this. head of the range showing itself lasting or in much expect in china in april and particularly in may of this rain gets more and more persistent but a figure of one hundred millimeters in twelve hours will cause flooding this is just inland from hong kong it could be anywhere and one dog and probably will be in the next two or three days the darker green represents a full cost of heavier rain and it be running in the bush the same sort of last year so the next two days if you're in hong kong you're right on the edge in shanghai it should be out of it but if you're anywhere else in land expect some significant rain south of this quite a big gap before you pick up some more significant showers they've been showing themse

beirut . the number of measles cases in the united states is at its highest levels and it was said to be eliminated almost two decades ago the center for disease control says there are now six hundred ninety five cases of the illness reporters across twenty two states with new york being the worst hit mike hanna reports from washington d.c. earlier this month a brooklyn preschool was closed by health authorities after refused to provide.

analogy is that you have got on there is a resident scholar at the carnegie middle east center in beirut she says the protesters in algeria well the momentum is unstoppable. they know now what they can achieve with their protest every friday but also with the daily protests you know shouldn't have been organizing the daily protests the union people row yours judges and so on so forth so i think the momentum is here and the start to call is a really winding up if i may say and i do believe because i lived it with them on several you know march that the algerians are not going to go back home before their demands are met and today their demands are very near white at the beginning they were asking for president would flee to leave today they are asking for the three b.'s to us meaning buried there but do we and been silent to leave and they are not happy with the president of transition being been silent because he is one of the signs of the former regime and they want all of them to be to get out as they repeatedly said said it. this is the news from al-jazeera still to come on the progra

question, my most recent trip to beirut i made clear to lebanese leadership including in conversationsith america was not going to tolerate the continued rise of hezbollah inside the country and that it was not in the best interest of the lebanese people to have an armed terror group underwritten by the very iran we are speaking about continuing to have significant sway inside of that nation by use of force. about political parties, it is about armed forces inside the country of lebanon. tomade clear we were going continue to evaluate sanctions for those connected to the -- question i have seen the minister make many statements before. we have made clear publicly and privately that an attack on the united states of america is something they ought to think more than twice about. i ask this question two weeks ago and you did not seem to be sure. i am wondering what has changed. you have listed them as a terrorist organization. will you treat them like isis and al qaeda? note, the prime minister netanyahu said he wants to annex part of the west bank. what is your reaction to that? >> i do

nationality law don't include women married to syrians or palestinians so to hold the reports from beirut. as a lebanese mother and was born and raised in lebanon but that is not enough to gain nationality women married to foreigners are not allowed to pass on citizenship and that means their children need a residence permit if they are to find work while denied any government support for those like me as whose fathers are palestinian the situation is further complicated because they have limited rights here i am an only child so my. to my home and my parents. own property and i cannot inherit inherit from my mom and. this inheritance to my pure church children. rights campaigners want the decades old nationality law to be reformed especially since lebanese men marry to foreigners can pass citizenship to their wives and children we're being told that should women have the rights for nationality they are going to destroy the of course i'm saying despite tween course they're going to. see the delicate sectarian balance of this country hence leading to another. this is truly bizarre. politic

for july the fourth and dahlia violin is a resident scholar at the carnegie middle east center in beirut she joins us live from there clearly the demonstrators not happy with the concessions that the authorities have made thus far do you think the protesters have now got momentum and history with them on their side. yes indeed i think they created the momentum the minute that they took up to the street on february twenty second because they took of the region of guard and back then you know the region and there is to mate the ability of algerians to organize to took to take up to the streets and to do it in a very peaceful and civilized way so i think the momentum has a read the you know the regime of guard and it is impossible for the region to stop it now you know the victory also that algerian witnessed with the departure of president putin. is is important so they know now what they can achieve with their protest every friday but also with the daily protests you know shouldn't have been organizing the daily protest the union people roy years judges and so on so forth so i think the m

the us administration has been pushing a hard iran agenda secretary of state mike pompei i was in beirut last month where he told the lebanese to stand up to hezbollah but has blind its allies control parliament and government making it harder for the u.s. to target the group without targeting the country. the u.s. officials always be clear they want to hear between lebanon and hezbollah between those sanctions and the economy and i think this is difficult of course but this is possible we cannot say we are safe but we are thinking a lot of measures he. internally and we are trying to keep safe the economy and the banking sector. the u.s. has offered military and economic support to lebanon despite hezbollah's growing political influence that may change with a more confrontational policy involving sanctioning hezbollah's allies who include the president and head of parliament so that there will be further u.s. action against his like sanctioning his political allies there is no doubt sanctions have already hurt his butt for the live in a state not to be affected it will need to distingui

as rami who we professors of journalism at the american university of beirut and senior fellow at harvard kennedy school and also in the us from the conference is more. chief of the rule of law equality and nondiscrimination branch of the office of the u.n. high commissioner for human rights a very warm welcome to all of you. before we talk about more in more detail about those specific cases that we mentioned let me start with a general question to you why are we seeing a rise more human rights violations and war crimes and does impunity and the lack of accountability that mean that such crimes will only continue. let me just start from perhaps a different point of view that. where you actually posed the question i'm not sure we are seeing more impunity actually we are seeing more awareness that human rights violations are taking place it's thanks to a book it's the civil society to human rights defenders a lot of special represent questions of inquiry very active human rights council view and human rights council that is why the knowledge of what is going on in the world and basically w

a retired military general who's joining us from beirut thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera there are reports that some of the armed groups from the western libyan city of misurata have started arriving in tripoli to defend the capital from from the front half the forces who has the upper hand here militarily. first of all it seems that the general have thought of us having this upper hand and the first of the offensive which he launched against tripoli but what happened in. the western forces stormed the one twenty something camp where the how far his forces the taken over. they captured one of them one hundred forty of his forces and looted that it with banks which constituted a major setback for general haftar and i think that this will. make him give in to the negotiations of the united nations secretary-general mr gutted as this afternoon. and. given that the united nations security council as well is going to meet soon and listen for this special envoy mr censor lammy. briefing. on what is going on in libya right now and i think this is. one bad government or the forces of t