to mits put the economic damage done to beirut but around $15000000000.00. rebuilding the poor to self is a big deal the blast left a crater 140 meters in diameter a huge portion of the pool was obliterated leaving up 280-0000 tons of construction and demolition waste in beirut. then there's the environmental fallout the explosion release toxic chemicals into the atmosphere the courts buildings the land and the city. in political terms rebuilding poses a speech challenge for a bankrupt country modern corruption lebanon's entire cabinet resigned after the blast but have still not been replaced its people have all but lost faith in their politicians. is a bound any aid may be swindled away after successive governments piled up debt following the war with little to show for it but rebuilding beirut on the scale it needs can happen without politics and any plan to do so would have to find a way to work with both. lars greiner of p.c. have port consulting joins us now he's currently in beirut lars good to have you back on the show now this is a proposal so not ye

slums of beirut.aid everyday life was a struggle. when i came off the train through which i ran away, the train landed, of course, in the heart of beirut�*s harbour, and next to the harbour, it's the famous colourful red light district of beirut. that's where i started. can you imagine a boy of eight or nine years old living in this urine—saturated alleyway in the red light district with belly dancing music going along with a cacophony going, people cussing, and doing whatever they did there with money changes and false jewellery salesman? that was my life. that's how it started. and it's so beautiful, not many people have that opportunity to see life in its full colours and grow up in that... you say it was beautiful living in the red light district and all the exploitation that goes on, and you must have seen things that a child of eight or nine years old should never really see or anybody for that matter, really. indeed. those things are dark, but when you are striving to achieve something, those p

estimates put the economic damage done to beirut at around $15000000000.00. rebuilding the port itself is a big deal the blast left a crater 140 meters in diameter a huge portion of the port was obliterated leaving up 280-0000 tons of construction and demolition waste in beirut. then there's the environmental fallout the explosion release toxic chemicals into the atmosphere the courts buildings the land and the city. in political terms rebuilding poses a speech challenge for a bankrupt country might in corruption lebanon's entire cabinet resigned after the blast but have still not been replaced its people of all but lost faith in their politicians fears abound any aid may be swindled away after successive governments piled up debt following the war with little to show for it but rebuilding beirut on the scale it needs can happen without politics and any plan to do so would have to find a way to work with both. it's got more on this from. a v.w. cause pondered. on what are we expecting from the plans to be announced later today . a good many terry today at 2 3

to metz put the economic damage done to beirut that around $15000000000.00. rebuilding the porter's self is a big deal the blast left a crater 140 meters in diameter. a huge portion of the port was obliterated leaving up 280-0000 tons of construction and demolition waste in beirut. then there's the environmental fallout the explosion release toxic chemicals into the atmosphere the courts buildings the land and the city. in political terms rebuilding poses a speech challenge for a bankrupt country modern corruption lebanon's entire cabinet resigned after the blast but have still not been replaced its people of all but lost faith in their politicians. fears abound and the aid may be swindled away after successive governments piled up debt following the war with little to show for it but rebuilding beirut on the scale it needs can happen without politics and any plan to do so would have to find a way to work with both. lars greiner of h.b.c. hamburg port consulting joins us now he's currently in beirut lars good to have you back on the show now this is a proposa

and he is from an investor the american university of beirut who came up with the for 2 solid index it is a very simple idea it's a maze and chopped salad of all of these principles a. they've tried at american university a favorite how much it cost into buying gradients from one to another for this is what he told us and you have a listen and then respond at the end of us and thank you. at the beginning of the month of ramadan we wanted to see how inflation is going to affect the lives of people in lebanon so we look at the end. for tuition and books which traces the prices of the main ingredients basic interest in the salad and we discovered that actually it increased 210 percent from $220.00 to $21.00 when we looked into what could cause a basic standard or basic a star for a family of 5 including for doing this soup and other basic items we actually allies that will cause their family something like wice or more than the minimum wage for the canadian the country is that he is challenging and we might actually see even more challenging times in the coming weeks and months. challenge

fiscal economic deterioration we have the pandemic garbage we had also the explosion of the port of beirut so all these compounded crises left us with the situation we are and having poverty rates very high and more than 50 percent actually our numbers say and indicate that we have more than 60 percent of the total of binny's population living in poverty and 25 percent of them are living below the extreme poverty rate which means that they are under the risk of starvation in this is this is shocking stooping to shocking thing you'll walk in the engineer world what does this mean what are you seeing can you share a story with us. definitely i would start with the most shocking story because i think the impact of the economic crisis has left many people helpless and pushed some of the people to take even extreme measures such as a committing suicide here's a story for example. one of the reasons story that happened is that there is this kid. who had been in the school activity of which the teacher asked them to bring a 1000 to be used to buy a sandwich from outside the school and when the ki

politician who it's been 8 months since the government resigned in august in the aftermath of the beirut explosion and yet these politicians are fighting over influence and in the next government and it's not only internal power struggles there's also reach to all dynamics at play because lebanon's politicians are tied to regional international players and lebanon is a battleground a proxy state where we're basically lebanon is is a card so for these politicians lebannon and villepin nice people are not the priority. people take to the streets yes they were not the majority a lot of people still you know follow their their leaders their sectarian leaders far far different from many different trees and some are afraid of the tentative or the alternative really has not presented itself people are still afraid you know because there's this lack of loyalty as as a nation as a nation state but that this protest movement fizzled out it was met by a militarized state people found it useless really to keep on taking to the street when you're up against power which is ready to use all forms of vi

be a strong one into northern parts of egypt western side levant shara seem likely from gaza up to beirut and possibly beyond now this wind is likely to increase this suddenly meeting this rather more coming up from the gulf source sandstorms is possibly society or kuwait briefly on saturday will be a different in the difference in the feel of the weather in qatar doha will be 32 degrees thereabouts but it gets increasingly humid as a wind continues to blow off the very warm gulf waters. the seasonal rains through africa this time the year have taken a big leap north which is still hanging down around madagascar but up the coast of tanzania and back towards gamble this is the line where you see the day developed a pretty big showers if you were to the science enjoy a bit of sunny warm. qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian and global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are nowhere be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we

you were born in beirut, and the reason you were born in beirut is because your family was caught uphe terrible violence and suffering wrought upon the armenian people in the years 1915 to '16 by the ottoman turkish empire, and yourfamily ended up living in lebanon. did you, as a child, get raised on stories of what happened? i'm just wondering what specific impact that had upon you. all four of my grandparents were survivors of the armenian genocide. growing up in los angeles, i mean, they didn't share the stories when i was a child, but as i was getting into my early teens, i started asking questions about theirfamily, where they came from, what happened to them, and that obviously was a huge, you know, kind of learning experience for me, as to what transpired to my people during the ottoman empire... in the last days of the ottoman empire, i should say, and that became kind of like — i'll tell you without you asking the question — that became the conduit for me to become an activist, when i learned about the... you know, when i learned that the us was trying to use the armenian ge

beirut at least 12 more pro-democracy protesters have been killed by me and was military according to a local monitoring group and says the worst violence was in k.l. where security forces fired when aides and machine guns the military said to be targeting more rural areas such as this town north of mandalay almost $600.00 people are known to being killed in violence following the coup on february the 1st david matheson is an independent analyst on me and ma he says the rising death toll there is a sign of the military's desperation. to killing large numbers of people throughout the country because people are resisting the coup d'etat that it could be between what's going on. and that resistance is undiminished and what we're saying is actually as your forces upping the violence i mean using heavier weapons against demonstrators in in some parts of the country and even in recent weeks using s. strikes against civilians in korean state and so what we're saying is actually the security forces in a far more desperate. man actually increasing the firepower to put down these demonstrations

similar story for iraq and into syria to edging up into the high thirty's and see what happens in beirut as we go into monday temperatures reaching up to 35 degrees for the south things heating up across the gulf states 38 degrees in kuwait 38 as well in doha we will have a bit of a wind kicking through blowing the dust up and will have hazy sunshine for many areas of the u.a.e. and into those isolated showers we saw in saudi arabia and now dried up and the heat is definitely coming through so we have to north africa things are looking rather hot here those thundershowers continuing across the ethiopian rift valley into somalia and affecting parts of kenya but much of that rain is across central parts of africa into monday will see heavy a showers across western parts of the democratic republic of congo. this is one of the best down there there are no logical revolutions in all of this make our planet pretty good we have to meet the c o 2 emission targets electric cars are made mitchum in motion they need to be mine to where people are just talking about the soldiers if that's going to s

beirut. isolation is seen as a privilege for palestinian and syrian refugees in lebanon who have died from coronavirus at a higher rate than the national average along with migrant workers they make up 30 percent of a nation of 6000000 people they are included in the national vaccination campaign that is supposed to give equal priority to all but many refugees don't seem to be aware of their rights. nobody came and mentioned anything but if people truly take it the government data shows only 3 percent of those vaccinated so for are non lebanese human rights groups blame this on hesitancy little information on how to register and the government deviating from the national plan. distribution by private sector has meant that they don't have to follow 1st priority categories so you have on the one hand people who are politically connected or work for organizations or couldn't buy the vaccine have access to it and then people like migrant workers and refugees who depend on the national. who aren't

beirut mozambique's president says the military has forced us a link to the northern town of palma on the groups had attacked the gas 2 weeks ago killing dozens of people thousands who escaped the violence fled to the city of. the palace crisis is over jordan's king abdullah the 2nd has addressed an unusually public family feud which turned into a political crisis in a statement says king abdullah said to dishan had been nipped in the bud the government accused the king's brother hamza the former crown prince of involvement in a plot to destabilize the kingdom security things public letter reads the challenge of the past few days was not the most difficult all the most dangerous to the stability of our country it was rather the most painful for me because participants were from inside and outside our country. at least 12 more pro-democracy protesters have been killed by me and military according to a local monitoring group and says the worst violence was in college where security forces fired grenades machine guns the military said to be targeting more rural areas such as this town no

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already difficult lives have worsened as lebanon's economy has crumbled santa hala reports now from beirut. life inside a palestinian refugee camp and levanon misery is everywhere there's little infrastructure or services that would allow for a decent living many of the 200000 refugees are poor making survival even more difficult and that was before the country's economy began to collapse more than a year ago. the local currency lost its value one kilo of me he's $34.00 a carton of eggs $20.00. palestinians live in overcrowded built up areas that decades ago were 10 camps marginalised and vulnerable the community has been hit hard by lebanon's financial meltdown particularly the sharp devaluation of the local currency. the country's. suffering in the camps as well because we are perceived. lebanon doesn't make life easy for palestinians authorities argue that is the way to discourage them from staying the restrictions in place deny refugees some of their basic rights and that includes working in jobs they are qualified to do. for my studies photography but i haven't been able to find a job

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business stories making the news german companies will present a plan next week to redevelop the port of beirut according to germany's ambassador to lebanon the ports and many areas around it we destroyed last august in a massive chemical explosion that killed 200 people the disaster deepened 11 and worst political and economic crisis in decades. egypt expects to get more than a $1000000000.00 in compensation after its suez canal was blocked. by a massive cargo ship a canal authority also warned an interview that the shit of a given. one allowed to leave egypt decides to go to court for damages. russia has with 20 manufacturers in 10 different countries to produce. a meeting between president vladimir putin and an official for the job production is already underway in india and south korea and other manufacturers could. this month . and you know it's the ally and says it will immediately start hiring pilots beginning with ago. $303.00 ready to meet growing demand for air travel is the latest sign of recovery in the us economy does arad lines says that this week it would no longer block middle s

beirut. isolation is seen as a privilege for palestinian and syrian refugees in lebanon who have died from coronavirus at a higher rate than the national average along with migrant workers they make up 30 percent of a nation of 6000000 people they are included in the national vaccination campaign that is supposed to give equal priority to all but many refugees don't seem to be aware of their rights. nobody came and mentioned anything but if people truly take it the government data shows only 3 percent of those vaccinated so 4 are non lebanese human rights groups blame this on hesitancy little information on how to register and the government deviating from the national plan. distribution by private sector has meant that they don't have to follow 1st priority categories so you have on the one hand people who are politically connected or work for organizations or could buy the vaccine who have access to it and then people like migrant workers and refugees who depend on the national. who aren't

perhaps as many as a 1000 people and all have been massacred into palestinian refugee camps in west beirut israel's lebanese allies operating with the consent of the israeli government that massacred several 1000 palestinian civilians in the refugee camps of separate. and american news media at the pictures to prove it by all appearances groups of men had been ordered to stand against the wall and then gunned down in cold blood. today hala still you find it like the role of. not only took our children one for. killing our family this was a game changer in terms of how israel was going to deal with the question of publicity they went on the offensive for the 1st time. at the idea bear any blame. tragedy in the shot you look at him. and without any foundation the government of israel rejects them with which they did. 2 years after the lebanon invasion the american jewish congress sponsored a conference in jerusalem to devise a formal public relations strategy known in hebrew as. participants including advertising executives media specialists journalists and leaders of major groups the primar

story for iraq and into syria to just here edging up into the high thirty's and see what happens in beirut as we go into monday temperatures reaching up to 35 degrees for the south things heating up across the gulf states 38 degrees in kuwait 38 as well in doha we will have a bit of a wind kicking through blowing the dust stop and we'll have hazy sunshine for many areas of the u.a.e. and into those isolated showers we saw in saudi arabia and now dried up and the heat is definitely coming through so we had to north africa things are looking rather hot here those thunderous showers continue across the ethiopian rift valley into somalia and affecting parts of kenya but much of that rain is across central parts of africa into monday will see heavy a showers across western parts of the democratic republic of congo. the all the. the. my. this is al jazeera quick writer of the top stories this hour former italian interior minister has been ordered to stand trial right wing league party leader has been charged with kidnapping in a case involving a ship carrying refugees and migrants 20193000000 pe

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operations and few here believe it will be easy to control the drug trade center whether al jazeera beirut. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the world health organization says 3 new covert 1000 variants that are present in india may have contributed to its latest surge with a 300000 new cases have been reported there for these 6 consecutive day trads new military transition council has sent in troops as protesters demand civilian rule at least 2 people have been killed in the unrest francis condemned the violence against protesters human rights watch is accusing israel of crimes against humanity practicing apartheid and persecution against palestinians palestinian leaders have welcomed the reports while the israeli foreign ministry has dismissed the findings are a force that has more from west jerusalem and the reaction from the israeli government . dismissing this report as something that is coming from an anti israeli motivated organization it says that the claims are proposed stress and false and don't bear any relation to reality on the ground but israel is also conductin

beirut. life inside a palestinian refugee camp in lebanon misery is everywhere there's little infrastructure or services that would allow for a decent living for many of the 200000 refugees are poor making survival even more difficult and that was before the country's economy began to collapse more than a year ago. the local currency lost its value one kilo of meat he's $34.00 a carton of eggs he's $20.00 meat palestinians live in overcrowded built up areas that decades ago were temp camps marginalised and vulnerable the community has been hit hard by lebanon's financial meltdown particularly the sharp devaluation of the local currency. one of the countries in a miserable state but is suffering in the camps as well because we are perceived. lebanon doesn't make life easy for palestinians authorities argue that is the way to discourage them from staying the restrictions in place deny refugees some of their basic rights and that includes working in jobs they are qualified to do. where my studie

i'm here to know something and in lebanon there were huge queues of syrians floating the embassy in beirut i don't know whether lebanon were allowed to do that i don't know whether they'll be allowed to hold it in other places it won't be it'll be a very imperfect election and of course people who view it with very different lenses and others will say it's a farce. and others say let's see how it goes and let's look at the sort of turnout took place within syria the turnout and who they voted for in outside syria yes and he said there will be more hotly disputed no one will accept it at all because i mean the president always there will be multiple candidates and was never an easy political parties are under sanctions as well from the european union and britain now it's actually 75 years since the independence of syria on saturday would have more goes through your mind about how journalists fail to see blowback after what we saw in afghanistan after what we see saw in. is directly that they don't realize the danger is over as you call them head job is coming to your of after this what seem

temperatures back around the levant over the next day or so but was still getting into the high twenty's in beirut 36 there for damascus as a 40 in baghdad and rising we get to 42 by the time become to wednesday but see how those temperatures just fall back a touch just along the eastern side of the mediterranean here in concert doha gets up to 38 degrees plenty of warm sunshine that warm sunshine stretches further south across the rest of the arabian peninsula making its way into the far north of somalia but for central parts of somalia pushing into central areas of more showers coming through here those scattering of showers now the seasonal rains do quite nicely right down into tanzania running up across the democratic republic of congo right across into the gulf of guinea will see some showers to make in the way into northern parts of zambia northern areas of mozambique northern parts of madagascar a little bit of wet weather around the eastern cape of south africa down towards the southeast and colder we want the rain where those wildfires are taking place in cape town the brisk winds the dry

arabia of the fair weather nature a little further north getting up into the thirty's once again for beirut's 37 there in damascus in the 36 there for jerusalem 40 in baghdad very very hot weather and it is early in the it does cool off around the levant as we go through a choose day bag that does stay hot hot enough to in kuwait city into the mid thirty's across costs aren't pushing across into central parts of saudi arabia just want to showers possibly wintry nature of the high ground of afghanistan but elsewhere slushy dry and find the be a few showers to creep into the north of pakistan live the showers to around the therapy and highlands at the moment you can see the clouds just bubbling up here the seasonal rains kicking off some showers to just creep in the way into central and southern parts of somalia coastal showers there for tanzania maybe a few showers into kenya and the showers run all the way across towards the gulf of guinea they extend they way down across the northern parts of maize and big madagascar is well we have got a chance to somewhat to weather for the far south south

memories they also lost their only source of livelihood forced to leave their past behind them for their beirut. now football's controversial european super league is on the verge of collapse just 2 days after it was announced all 6 english clubs have pulled out after a backlash from supporters players and politicians david stokes reports. the moment chelsea fans got what they wanted less than 48 hours after the club announced it was joining the breakaway european super league the backlash been so fierce they decided to pull out that's the best news i've ever had as a chelsea fan and i was in munich when they won the champions league and this is better than that the i've never seen so much joy and i think it's about i'm so happy with a very the premier league and with saving english football and i'm so happy and it didn't take long for the other rebel english teams to follow fellow london clubs arsenal and tottenham announced they were drawing from the super league along with manchester city manchester united who c.e.o. ed woodward has resigned and liverpool 2 i want to apologize to all the fan

instability, the pandemic, as well as the struggle to rebuild after last year's explosion in the port of beirutttention is now officially over. the suez canal authority says the last ships stranded by the grounding of a giant container vessel have now passed through the waterway. the suez canal authority says its investigation into the incident should be completed early next week. the governor of the us state of georgia, brian kemp, has said he will not back down after an all star baseball game was moved out of atlanta in protest over georgia's new voting restrictions. the 2021 all star game was moved from the atlanta braves�* home stadium after the state strengthened identification requirements for absentee ballots, shortened early voting periods for runoffs, and made it a crime to offer food and water to voters waiting in line. the governor had this to say about the all star decision. i want to be clear. i will not be backing down from this fight. and neither are the people who are here with me today. we will not be intimidated and we will also not be silenced. major league baseball, coca—col

smuggling operations and few here believe it will be easy to control the drug trade center whether beirut. and worsening drought in mexico is reaching critical levels of felonies in the capital say there hasn't been enough rain and that's led to some of the west conditions in ts. or some mexico city. on the outskirts of mexico's capital extreme drought conditions have forced locals to travel long distances in search of clean water. here in a cut that back it's mostly donkeys who haul water up the steep hillsides that a lever that we use it to wash dishes and to drink right now it's difficult to bring water up here and when i brought right now is for the whole day tomorrow i'll take another trip. it's the 3rd year in a row that a long dry spell has caused water shortages in central mexico few places are escaping the impact even the ancient wetlands of sochi media rich in culture history and biodiversity are under threat from the extreme drought which scientists say is affecting 85 percent of the country. scientists say climate change is altering rain patterns in the region the federal gove

memories they also lost their only source of livelihood forced to leave their past behind them for their beirut. now football's controversial new european super league is on the brink of collapse all 6 english clubs have pulled out after a backlash from supporters players and politicians thousands of chelsea supporters protested outside the club stamford bridge stadium has been widespread condemnation of the breakaway super league featuring 12 of europe's biggest clubs since it was announced on sunday. u.k. prime minister barak's johnson has welcomed the decision by 6 english football clubs to pull out johnson called it the right result for fans clubs and communities across the country he emphasized the need to protect what he called britain's cherished national game. and let's take you through some of the stories we're following here now to syria now former police officer derek shore been has been found guilty on all 3 charges including 2nd degree murder for the killing of george floyd shore and is due to be sentenced in 8 weeks and faces up to 40 years in prison.

don't do has to go to beirut and right now it looks like to do the rest of the director general of the of c.w. for no notice it looks like at least 2 of the worst fear is if earned under our ears. and if they hadn't been here well and they have and didn't this whole episode well they have nothing to fear nor are those asian words nothing to hide and it is sure that they are telling the truth would be afraid to have their investigation if they refused to have a transparent investigation into this whole matter it actually emphasize story guilt. that police in the u.k. have smashed their way into the home of a man who broke the country strikes quarantine rules after returning from a broad refused to isolate in a hotel it isn't cost after travelling through a so-called red list country following video shows the moment police entities hanks . i didn't tell you that you were in here after we agreed to prohibit regulations if they want your having seen it a designated how when instructed to do so no when the police came to the door they said they do not need a warrant to construe my whole cam