week's explosion killed more than 200 people joining us live from beirut is our correspondent bernard smith bernard just take us through what happened in the parliament today. ok well it was a fairly short parliamentary session m.p.'s ratifying the state of in the. apologies apologies for that we seem to have lost the satellite link to our correspondent bernard smith live t.v. it happens we'll try and stop as comms with him if we can in the meantime we'll carry on versus going to i still have taken control of a port town in northern mozambique it's the 3rd time this year that muslim border prior has been seized the town is an important part of a $23000000000.00 natural gas project about 60 kilometers away security forces say they've killed 59 members of an armed group who've been trying to occupy the area over the past week for me to miller has more now from johannesburg. there is a muslim beacon military presence in that area but this is also an army that is under funded doesn't always have enough resources at hand and so when this attack took place it carried on over a number of days and

elaborate zeneca there beirut now to 0 as other correspondent covering the aftermath of the explosion bernard smith joins us now from school in beirut so badly damaged in the blast bernard very close to the epicenter of the explosion what was the impact like this. piece of this is the school of the 3 doctors were about. 600 meters away from the port that's a french team who are helping to clear the school and trying to secure it so that classes can start again all of us several months away it's beirut's oldest school and one of a dozen schools that were damaged by the blast there is an enormous challenge here to rebuild places like this because of the scale of the blast 3 kilometers in the number from the poor 3 kilometer radius buildings were damaged fortunately school at the time was closed there was a playgroup on that left finished about an hour and a half before the explosion and the school had anyway been closed because of coronavirus the principal was hoping to start school early at the beginning of september earth few weeks earlier that is not clearly going to happen but they still hope tha

ready a rapid reaction police force should look ask for it to come and stop the protests that's bernard smith bring us up to date on the situation in belarus from lithuania as capital vilnius bernard thank you father it's up kahlo is about the russian opposition leader who's in neighboring poland he believes the russian guy has underestimated the movement against him everybody understand and the stance very well but look at seneca maximum what 'd. 10 percent of the public support these was the real result of the presidential election but in fact he wrote here he. declared and they had he had to go ready out 80 percent of the public vote which was absolutely not true well below roots will never be the same that very obvious it. now. post from different sides i mean look us encourage him you know look at shankar faces the position 1st of all from the side of the public. society civil society 2nd from the west that recognize that they are results of the presidential election and the 3rd. because the kremlin understands very well. it doesn't have the support to incite his own country and i think

bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius. the 2 main parties in montenegro have claimed victory in parliamentary elections and the results give the d.p.'s party a president's where there's a kind of it's a narrow lead but the opposition leaders declared the government had fallen but only if the prediction is a political analyst from montenegro he says an official result will take up to 2 days we have preliminary results stated by the independent n.g.o.s what is very important to mention is that the official state electoral commissions didn't. go out with it believe the results 'd we had claims of week 3 by the position parties and according. to what general said they are the majority of 41 to 42 out of 81 members of parliament. they already announced their ghoulish and. we help the possibly in part with how small per european coalition called united with one action also on an economically get him up tonight and told the public then they are short of one member of parliament to form a majority so preliminary he announced the l

thanks very much bernard smith there in beirut. where the u.s. state department has spoken out in support of a forward topside intelligence agent who was reportedly targeted in a folder assassination attempt it's described. as a valued partner filed a lawsuit in washington on thursday accusing the saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone of sending a hit squad to canada to try to kill him michaela has the details. patrick leahy was one of 4 senators who sent a letter to the white house last month in the letter the senators express their concern about what they call the abduction in saudi arabia are sardar jobbery son and daughter. in his court filing our job research his children now aged 20 and 21 were being held as what he called human bait to lure him out of hiding the state department has now responded to the senator's concerns in a letter to senator leahy it describes jobbery as a valued partner to the u.s. government working closely with the u.s. to ensure the safety of americans and saudis it also states that any persecution of family membe

parliament is due to meet in about an hour from now to discuss calls to declare a state of emergency bernard smith joins us live now from a school in beirut damaged by the blast bernard let's just talk about the arithmetic of this you know this time 2 days ago we were saying 5000000000 and now it's climbed up to 15000000000 that is an astonishing amount of money for a country to find from some place that was kind of on the tipping point into bankruptcy anyway. yes and if parliament how this way which means behind me in about an hour's time it's going to take a very very long time to release the money that sort of foreign money that beirut needs to rebuild parliament session starts in about an hour's time they'll be a lot of talk but not much action because the real action is taking place behind closed doors is taking place between the political elites the control those in parliament political elites i mean has and its allies and western allied parties they have to come to an agreement or more who is going to be the new prime minister of lebanon and who is going to form the new cabinet they all des

bernard smith al-jazeera beirut ok let's get more live from our correspondents in a hoarder who's in beirut as well as you know we've had these comments in the past 90 minutes or so from michelle and what's your reading of them. well the president saying that investigations are continuing and they're still trying to determine the cause of the blast but for the 1st time he is raising the possibility that this is some sort of an attack that a rocket could have been involved he also does point out that this could be an accident and negligence on the part of a few people but for the very fact that he said a rocket or a bomb attack this is really going to raise a number of questions because people really have little faith in the investigation so far the authorities are promising that it's going to be transparent and it's going to be swift but the very fact that the committee which is in charge of investigating this disaster is made up of people from the political establishment the head of different security agencies as well as ministers this is raising questions because people say it is t

city a still not functioning leaving the lebanese capital with a major shortage of hospital beds bernard smith reports from new life to near death in the blink of an. this is the maternity unit of said george's hospital in beirut as the shockwave from the port explosion hit we flew directly and land and over here. on the 9th floor omar abu murat 7 year old son yuri was having chemotherapy when i woke up when i opened my eyes and he looked at u.t. at 1st i he was screaming his heart out. had been recording the 1st explosion on his phone i don't. i'm here don't be afraid omar says. get out i'm scared that's your. beauty still had his tubes stuck with him in and his entire cycle was still running at that point the very next thing i wanted to do was just put some shoes on because there's debris everywhere there's glass shards everywhere i could feel them in my feet and i was looking at u.d.c. it and he was barefoot as well they must standing on glass there were a dozen children with their families up here at the time of the explosion unfortunately one of the parents died 2 parents in the very crit

bernard smith favorites. the governing party in sri lanka has gained a landslide victory in parliamentary elections these people's front is led by the rajapaksa brothers go to by and by him who serve as president and prime minister who had 19 infractions the past 2000000 in india with more than 62000 cases reported in the last 24 hours and has the 3rd highest number of infections after the u.s. and brazil. china's accuse the u.s. of political manipulation after the us president donald trump issued an executive order banning business with 2 tech giants it blocks any transaction with the parent company of the social media up tick tock of the messenger we chat to talk has threatened legal action spain's former king juan carlos has reportedly been staying in abu dhabi since leaving spain on monday a spanish newspaper a.b.c. says one car last flew to the u.a.e. on board a private jet spanish courts are investigating him for money laundering and tax evasion tied to a business deal with saudi arabia more news in 30

bernard smith al-jazeera has. many challenges ahead you mentioned the world health organization talking about the health care system the health care system was already close to collapse before the blast the thousands of people who were injured putting further strain on hospitals which lack medical supplies and now coronavirus cases on the rise so the needs are great but the international community making it very very clear the new government needs to fight corruption needs to carry out much needed reforms in order to be eligible for billions of dollars of aid yes they're providing the emergency assistance food water and medical supplies but to fix the economy that is going to take a government willing to fight corruption indeed thank you for that said huldah there live from beirut. the german health minister says he's skeptical of russia's corona virus vaccine on tuesday russia became the 1st country in the world to give regulatory approval to a covert 19 vaccine president vladimir putin even said his daughter was

get more now on our breaking story in lebanon bernard smith joins us now live from beirut and so we're hearing that the government has actually resigned what can you tell us. a yes the government has resigned it will be official when the prime minister addresses the nation in about an hour from now he has to visit lebanon's president 1st to submit his resignation as we mentioned earlier but not necessarily the end of the story because then the prime minister becomes a caretaker prime minister a caretaker cabinet and he has to be replaced and we know there are negotiations going on at the moment as to who the prime minister will be replaced. with who his new cabinet will be 2 new names of 2 prime ministers are being speculated at the moment we understand the 1st one is a riri so that would be something like out with the new and in with the old because he only resigned in january under enormous international pressure because of the collapse of the lebanese army its banking sector and its currency he was replaced by her son who has now resigned another name being suggested is now off he's

in the capital minsk with reports that security forces push back against peaceful demonstrators bernard smith is following developments from neighboring lithuania. sunday's alexander lukashenko 66th birthday this is not the president he was hoping for. we're not a herd of cattle or cowards we're belorussians.

saturday denouncing government corruption and demanding regime change well let's now speak to bernard smith our correspondent who is joining us live now from beirut ben of these resignations just keep rolling in the 1st independent and opposition m.p.'s now a cabinet member to should we expect more. stars here or. certainly of a 2nd cabinet minister resigning the environmentalists. no confirmation on that yet and an understanding that he is in talks with the prime minister to see if there's any way that resignation can be averted so clearly a few politicians beginning to feel the pressure only half a dozen. have resigned at the moment all eyes will be on a cabinet meeting tomorrow on monday because we already know that the prime minister is going to ask the cabinet to agree to have elections if that happens if the cabinet agrees it drafts a law that's presented to parliament and parliament has to vote on the law to dissolve itself early there's no guarantee parliament will do that it could try and create a new cabinet and appoint a new prime minister but everybody every politician in lebano

bernard thank you so much bernard smith our correspondent there live for us in beirut it is the country with one of the fastest growing coronavirus outbreaks anywhere in the world india has reported its highest number of infections in one single day the $67000.00 new cases bring its total to nearly $2400000.00 official figures put the number of deaths of more than $47000.00 but infectious disease experts say the country is still months away from hitting its peak elizabeth purana is in new delhi. yes again another single highest day rise and we also know that one of the reasons that the numbers are going up is because india is testing more than it ever has it's continuing to increase testing as well as the single highest rise. india also conducted its highest ever number of tests more than 800000 so that it has a better idea of the spread of the infection in the country because remember that 2400000 confirmed cases is thought to be a fraction of the real number of cases the serum logical surveys which have been done around the country show that the real number is many times the confirmed

he said they used all of their weapons against us let's go live now i believe we can bring in bernard smith who is on the streets of beirut but it also has an idea there has officially resigned what happens now. while he's signed to the president and now we have to see if the new cabinets and the new prime minister come be appointed or not so that those negotiations are going on at the moment we understand there are 2 names in frame saad hariri that something of out with the new and in with the old he was the former prime minister who resigned only back in january and resigned under enormous international pressure as the country economy collapsed because of the banking system collapsed and the currency lost now lost 80 percent of its value he would not be a popular choice it would see. another name in the frame is now off salaam he's a former diplomat currently a judge of the international court of justice he is more acceptable we could say of those who are calling for change in the 11 on but one previous occasions when his name has been moved so it has a line policies as well on its allied

correspondent bernard smith joining us live now from a school in beirut that was like many many other buildings so badly damaged in the blast bernard you're just a few 100 meters from what was i guess ground 0 how's it looking. so we're 600 meters from where the blast happened and this is what's left of beirut's old school the school of the 3 doctors it stood here for more than 100 years i think. 185 years i'm not a hoary is the principle here not just to explain what's behind us 1st but we're looking up behind your shoulder we are looking at the playground of the school which was completed. by the blast this is a structure that was recently added it was to the norms it was supposed to suspect and earthquake but it was completely destroyed by the blast as you see it's a historical building and now it is gravely damaged so there are damages to the structure of this historical you know when and how is the school going to reopen. it's difficult to say at this point when is this going through the open 1st they are assessing the damage we need to assess how much it will cost and more that

from the president very shortly bringing you that live here on al-jazeera but now let's go to bernard smith who is on the ground for us in the lebanese capital beirut but and you on the streets there can you talk us through what you're seeing where you are. what we've seen all day. of people young people armed with seasoned shovels and brushes out cleaning up and the cleaning up in a very dangerous environment many buildings really very weak now particularly older ones behind me people will. working on the early days because what we haven't seen around here is the army or the police or any sort of government services to do the cleaning up people have been left to themselves to do it and i've been working very hard throughout today and i've got warm person who is a local resident here diyala some a kid gala thanks very much thank you for speaking to us jewel building to shape a space when this is this is what's left of it all is what happened tonight. as you know the loss is facing our building so it's those in happened and everything is broken we have lost unfortunately for very good people

meeting with early elections expected to be on the agenda let's go live now to beirut of zeros bernard smith is the latest. well we know the cabinet meeting is still going on adrian but the local speculation in the media here in alive and on is that the prime minister has on the out will resign no confirmation of that when he does resign he'll go to the presidential palace an offer is resignation to 11 on the president's now when he does that if that is. the local speculation is we've got a couple of options essentially either they will become a cat take a government ahead of elections so the prime minister will stay in as a caretaker prime minister and his cabinet will stay in as a caretaker cabinet polman must approve those elections an alternative is the parliament go to try to appoint some sort of national unity government some sort of national unity cabinets that is the preferred scenario of the international community led by emmanuel macaroni he wants i mean to a representative as much as possible governments i'm cabinets wholesale even consider giving lebanon any way at the moment the

bernard smith al-jazeera beirut china has warned the u.s. that quote those who play with fire will get burned this follows a visit to taiwan by a senior american delegation u.s. health secretary alex aids are the most high profile official to visit the island in decades and infuriated beijing which views taiwan as a breakaway province washington insists the trip was only meant to examine taiwan successful battle against coronavirus. now mexico's president under arrest manuel lopez obrador has met the families of the 43 students who disappeared back in 24 tane believes the students were killed by agents of the van government which contradicts what was said by the country's leadership at the time the reports from mexico city. justice and accountability for 43 students who went missing from mexico in 2014 was a campaign promise made by mexican president under his money order on wednesday the families of the missing students met with the president behind closed doors to discuss updates in the ongoing investigation no more this is the 2nd such me

to help the recovery but demanding transparency over how that money is used to this report from bernard smith. here there are all the skills the talent and the enthusiasm this is this this is the nasa. that has been issued yesterday but these people will not be able to rebuild beirut on their own we have an engineering team and i'm not being seen working in sync together we sense scouts on little school tours and their job is to basically go and examine a building and say hey this structure is no longer safe to enter they're doing all this because the government isn't. food is given out to people who never have to ask for handouts in their life. volunteers are given a safety briefing before heading out with a cleanup team because there are hundreds of these camps across beirut hastily set up in the shadows of the buildings ripped open by choose days explosion of 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in the pool. for international donors one of the hardest questions is how do they get aid to people who want to get off the top when they have to deal with a political elite that's been doing exact

confrontation between some people strolling stones at the security sources thank you very much bernard smith in beirut. a lawsuit in washington d.c. has accused the saudi crown prince of dispatching a group of hit men to canada to kill one of his top former intelligence officials mike has been following the story and joins us now mike what does the middle seat claim. well it's 106 pages that has been filed in the washington district court and certainly it contains exhaustive material about allegations that the crown prince ordered this hit squad to assassinate dr. but he and he is arguing that this hit squad actually attempted to enter canada to kill him. but they were turned away by border officials who realized that this large group of men knew each other now contained within the court papers is a chart which shows a relationship between the crown prince and the various members of the hit squad alleged hit squad it's got their names it's got their faces the allegations within the court papers is there the number of the men in the hit squad operated within the united states planning the ass

his treatment is prognosis is very good the cuts on his head from the explosion will soon he'll bernard smith al-jazeera beirut now the son of angola's for president josiah to order to santos has been sentenced to 5 years in prison has a filomena does santos has been found guilty of embezzlement of fraud he'd been put in charge of the country's $5000000000.00 wealth fund jaring his father's rule verdict was linked to a $500000000.00 transfer that have been sent to overseas account in 2017 mozambique's president has visited the northern province of colorado god days after fighters linked i still seized a key port town there for the new sea vowed to create jobs in an effort to prevent young people from joining them beaks army is still trying to regain control of the port town of the prayer in the gas rich area which has been seized by armed groups 3 times already this year army tasso is following the story for us from neighboring zimbabwe she says that region leaders are under increasing pressure to be something to help mozambique. inmate meet. to discuss the crisis and. there was no concrete o

backing of the kremlin which on monday said the situation in belarus seems to be under control bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius. supporters of exiled former ivorian president laurent gbagbo have submitted his candidacy for october us presidential election along with the former rebel leader sorrow he's taking on the current president ouattara and his fate for a controversial 3rd term reports. for the supporters of former president laurent gbagbo nothing short of his candidacy will do. dozens of the my job defying a bangle party gathering to prevent coverage now. inside the headquarters of the election commission was the opposition figure submitted an application on his behalf. lacuna would all go with. what we have done today signifies our will to project the exclusion of our candidate in the next election the election commission has a historic responsibility to the people of ivory coast to make it stand clear and make sure that whatever it does doesn't negate the constitution of our country. the clinton presidential election to incumbent president alassane ouattara but his refusal to leave o

chemical explosion the death toll from tuesday's blast is now a $149.00 and it's expected to go up bernard smith has more. on the streets of beirut on thursday france's president emmanuel mccomas eventually moped by people many of them calling for a turn of french mandate front's was the clonal power here before independence and his because micron has essentially stepped into a void left by lebanon's own political leaders macron and has been able to offer practical support in the terms of the medical teams on financial assistance to beirut and he's off with a routine moral support as well but hasn't come from lebanon's obey little classes they haven't been able to do that and they've been conspicuous by their absence from the streets since the catastrophic explosion just did not i know is that the people of lebanon have electricity shut down every day and it's not working the provision of imports and exports has collapsed because of the financial system and so there aren't as for the short term that we need as we know the answer is to fight corruption reform the energy and electricity systems th

beirut well the total cost of the destruction could be as high as $5000000000.00 bernard smith has been to a damage school in a district near the fort where he spoke to the principal. this is. the other school. and as you see found toys and this was during the day there were children here were left at around 430 in the afternoon. this is the yes the courtyard of this. don't usually play this. was done recently it's finished like a year ago i feel like i am transported in a parallel dimension not what's happening. as if we are in a night. not just to have a vision or a plank here for what is coming next it's the building or the stones it's all the people who live here all the students will depend on. so. every day we remember somebody is someone it's very hard. the german health minister says he's skeptical of russia's coronavirus bank scene on tuesday russia became the 1st country anywhere in the world to give regulation the approval to a covert 19 banks in the russian president vladimir putin even said his daughter had received germany. says the bank scene has not been sufficiently tes

opposition in the new cabinet before they consider releasing billions of dollars in reconstruction aid bernard smith al-jazeera beirut. while the head of the un food agency says he is worried lebanon could run out of bread in about 2 and a half weeks david beasley is in beirut assessing the damage spoke during a u.n. briefing on the humanitarian situation 85 percent of lebanon's grain came through this now devastated port beesley says it is possible enough of the port could be salvaged quickly to resume sufficient importance just in so that means that the u.n. in new york and explains what else was discussed in that briefing. this was a chance for the humanitarian affairs chief to brief members states on the situation on the ground in lebanon and the international response so far secretary general antonio terrorist called it a huge catastrophe coming on the heels. of the socio economic problems the coded pandemic and now this explosion and while he was calling on member states to continue their support for lebanon he also sounded the theme of the need for a credible investigation and the need for go

hezbollah and its allies french president emanuel says he wants to see progress by september the 1st bernard smith al-jazeera beirut. has new cabinets been sworn in at a buddhist temple and a strong signal of gratitude to supporters among the religious majority but it's left minorities wondering if the new government would also act in their interests nelson and there's reports now from colombo i'm. missing for a new government at the temple of the king. sri lanka's new cabinet was sworn in by president rajapaksa in the audience hall of the sacred temple of the 2 in kandy the mahdi governing candy is seen as the sort of center of both religious and secular power because the story is those who possess the tab the 2. will lead the country. you know and the day's all of that so yes a very strong symbol of the primacy of the single a buddhist majority 74 percent of sri lanka's 22000000 people ussing have the buddhists a large number of them voted for the sri lanka people's front party giving it 60 percent of the votes the raja boxes of work hard to get the support of the majority buddhist community aft

opposition in the new cabinet before they consider releasing billions of dollars in reconstruction aid bernard smith al-jazeera beirut meanwhile the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs has been meeting to discuss the situation in lebanon u.n. chief antonio terrace has called for a credible investigation into the cause of tuesday's blast on sunday world leaders an international page nearly $300000000.00 in aid to the country it is important that the spread of the investigation of the serving the cause of the explosion and bring about the accountability demanded by the lebanese people. these also report the reforms the source that's the needs of the lebanese people for the longer term . indian authorities have seized $740.00 tons of ammonium nitrate the chemical responsible for the deadly blast in beirut has been stored at a freight station in a channel city in the country's east since 2015 it was confiscated for alleged violation of import rules oakleigh media reports at least $281.00 tons of it been moved to hyderabad the rest will follow soon. police in hong kong of m

opposition in the new cabinet before they consider releasing billions of dollars in reconstruction aid bernard smith al-jazeera beirut ever more discussions held at the united nations about the situation in lebanon u.n. secretary general has called for a credible investigation into the cause of the the disaster on sunday the u.n. and several countries promised nearly $300000000.00 in aid. on to other news in the u.s. president donald trump's coronavirus briefing was interrupted by a shooting outside the white house a secret service agent quickly ushered him out of the briefing room the president then resumed his briefing within minutes to talk about the controversy around children going back to school if health from mike hanna. president trump was minutes into the news conference giving rosy predictions about the economy when he was suddenly interrupted. as the door closed behind him journalists in the briefing room turned to their pones to try and find out what was happening and it was reported that there'd been a shooting outside the white house involving secret service agents the secret service i

bernard smith al-jazeera beirut. also the head of the un food agency says he is worried lebanon could run out of bread in about 2 and a half weeks everybody's these in beirut assessing the damage spoke during a u.n. briefing on the humanitarian situation 85 percent of lebanon's grain came through that now devastated orse beazley says though it is possible enough of the port could be salvaged quickly to resume sufficient imports. your president donald trump's coronavirus briefing was interrupted by a shooting outside the white house a secret service agent quickly ushered him out of the briefing room the president then resumed his coronavirus briefing within minutes to talk about the controversy around children going back to school mike hanna has been. president trump was minutes into the news conference giving rosy predictions about the economy when he was suddenly interrupted. as the door closed behind him journalists in the briefing room turned to their pones to try and find out what was happening and it was reporte

bernard smith al-jazeera beirut officials have declared a state of emergency over the heavy flooding in the south sudan's state of junglee 150000 people have been displaced after days of torrential rain and flooding the government's issued an urgent call for humanitarian aid the mission prime minister says almost all of the oil on board a stricken ship has been pumped out about a 1000 tons already spilled into waters and coral surrounding the indian ocean nation the m.v. walking around aground on a reef late last month and nourishes is seeking compensation from the ship's japanese owners. mexico has a president undress manuel lopez obrador has met the families of 43 students who disappeared back in 2014 alberto believes the students were killed by agents of the van government which contradicts what was said by the countries in the ship at the time reports from mexico city. justice and accountability for 43 students who went missing from mexico in 2014 was a campaign promise made by mexican president under his money order on wednesday the families of the missing students met with the

explosion of almost 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate nearly 2 weeks ago was the final straw for many bernard smith reports from beirut. like many other lebanese and one by seal has always managed to get by no matter what was thrown at him being conflict or economic crisis but now it's different measures should benefit all mad i walked around 8 kilometers he says as he describes trying to get medical treatment in the aftermath of the port explosion that sent a devastating shockwave through beirut. i think he has something to eat. and there are new air news eyeing a 70 year old antoine eventually found a hospital to treat the injuries to his head and arm now he relies on free help and volunteers stress that would after the explosion the whole story has changed ok as if the middle class has gone with explorers there's normally class at all so people are coming seeking medical support food clothes house clean ups whatever you think they need just got bigger the blast destroyed or damaged around $50000.00 homes affecting 300000 documents lebanon's currency has lost 80 percent of its value against the d

backing of the kremlin which on monday said the situation in belarus seems to be under control bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius a man who protected hundreds of people during the rwandan genocide has been arrested on terror charges for recess a beginner who story was made into the hollywood film hotel rwanda was paraded in front of cameras in handcuffs he's been living in exile and is known to be a fierce critic of president paul kagame his government authorities say he's being held for forming and leading what they call terrorist movements he won multiple human rights awards for saving the life the tutsis fleeing hutu led ethnic militias marc webb is in nairobi and says the rift with the president has been long running . hollywood as you said betrayed him as a hero but rwanda's investigation bureau has said today that he's been arrested and he's been charged with funding terrorist groups and organizing attacks within rwanda from abroad once made these kind of allegations against him for many years was back in there during the genocide in 1904 when he was widely reported to have protected hun

bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius. the mayor of portland has accused president donald trump of creating a culture of fear hate and division in the u.s. the criticism comes after a supporter of a far right group was killed on saturday night it happened when backers of the president cost of counter-demonstrations protests have been taking place for nearly 3 months since police in minneapolis killed george floyd an african-american. let's bring in mike hanna he's joining us from washington d.c. so there's been concern and criticism from the mayor but what has the president himself been saying my. well the president spent a large part of the morning sending our tweets some 90 of them in just over an hour many of them deeply criticizing that mayor of portland others. those who staged come to demonstrations in portland in the course of the night during which at least one person was killed the identity of the victim the exact circumstances of the shooting not clear at this particular point in time but president tramples are g

bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius. lebanon's ambassador to germany mr looks likely to be the new prime minister to days of deadlock that's after he won support from several parties including the governing future movement tolls are expected on monday to confirm the post the former government resigned earlier this month after a blast in the capital beirut killed nearly $200.00 people and a little sectarian power sharing system the prime minister must be a sunni muslim. lebanon's president michel aoun says the political system needs to be changed and has called for a secular state. the transformation of lebanon from a prevailing 6 terry interest him to a modern secular state a state of theaters and citizenship mean to tell vacation from the hated legacy of sectarianism and its repercussions of asian from sects red lines and quotas that bind any constructive will and hold any step towards reform. white house adviser jared says the stage is set for more progress in the middle east he's in jerusalem following a u.s. brokered

bernard smith al-jazeera beirut. well the head of lebanese group hezbollah has denied storing any weapons or materials at the blast site. is concerned the i would like to emphasize that hezbollah categorically refutes and rejects that we have materials at the seaport not a single bullet weapon ammunition or a bomb nothing at all belongs to hezbollah or even the materials and the ammonium nitrate that does not belong to hezbollah and. i believe that there is a consensus amongst all lebanese that a complete comprehensive transparent and fair investigation must take place and those responsible will be firmly justly and swiftly penalized. let's go straight to zain a 100 his of course following the story from the lebanese capital so that was the response there from hassan nasrallah also president michel aoun speaking out today rejecting calls for there to be an international investigation into what's happened . yes hezbollah a lebanese armed group that controls political power along with its allies its allies the presiden

confrontations with the security thank you very much bernard smith and beirut. now the number of people who have died of covered 19 in brazil is past 100000 according to a brazilian media consortium it's only the 2nd country to reach that tragic milestone after the united states activists have marked the moment with a striking event on rio's famous copacabana beach they've attached a 1000 red balloons to 1000 black crosses one for every 100 people who have died president diables n.r.o. is consistently downplayed the crisis despite getting covert 19 himself. that's a marker to say milwaukee is. the 100000 deaths milestone represents what brazil is to the world why we in 2nd place can we give to this question here we are only have one percent of the number of deaths 100000 where will this take us. monica yannick who has this report for us now from rio de janeiro. one time bus driver id shown that crash on the was one of brazil's 12000000 unemployed that is until the soaring death toll caused by the coronavirus pandemic landed him a job as a grave digger at the sim

moment we'll hear from christensen amy who is at the united nations in new york but 1st let's go to bernard smith who is in the beirut but had so we're hearing the government has resigned we're waiting now for the official announcement has there been any reaction there yet. no no reaction here it's expected this has been expected that the government would resign and the cabinet would resign and the prime minister would resign it's been a long trail over the last couple of days the prime minister had said in his 1st speech to the nation after the tassel catastrophic explosion on tuesday that he would ask the cabinet to agree to early elections we're not now sure whether there will be early elections we understand is there are negotiations going on behind the scenes of course on how a new cabinet might be formed and who might be appointed prime minister at the moment the cabinet is dominated by hezbollah and parties allied to hezbollah hezbollah or the iranian backed group now the desire certainly from the viewpoint of the international community led by emmanuel macron is that some sort of governme

bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius from. the russian journalist and political commentator based in neighboring ukraine he says there have been anti-government protests in the past them by the roots but the scale of the current movement is unprecedented. what we can see right now it means streets and larger cities of belarus we can see all generations all social groups workers students older people protesting against the government so they don't protest just for europe or for russia they protest for freedom this is the pure pro-democracy movement in 2020 you know belarus is very patriarchal very conservative society and women were never involved in politics but this year is very different we have the presidential candidate and the opposition leaders for planets and those can well lead in the whole movement and we also see that the majority tof rallies the protestant minsk in the regions are organized by women social media are the fool of this protestant the most of the current did nation activities are made by a telegram mess

well bernard smith is our reporter who is tracking all these developments but of course for the restrictions that are in place that means he is in the lithuanian capital illness it is almost entirely when in march there was a fear certainly amongst protest organizers that they were losing momentum people were tied people are tied up so many weeks of protests the no indication is willing to give up power but the biggest protest day is always the some day so if there were $10000.00 people ringing out today then it's an indication our source on the ground says that i could be much higher on sunday president previous that complained about foreign media coverage of protests in. on this crackdown on foreign media continues at least 19 journalists have their accreditation revoked now these are mainly local belorussian journalists working for foreign media organizations in kenya to work without accreditation the risk of the possible consequences of that are severe they risk being arrested and we have heard of journalists being beaten not during these past few weeks there are still a few foreign jour

bernard smith al-jazeera bay ridge well that's now listen to just what president michel aoun had to say. this accident is a wake up call as i said it could be an act of negligence all we have another possibility it could be a rocket attack or a bomb attack i personally requested from the french president if they were in possession of any aerial footage to kindly provide us with it in order to identify any aerial attack or missile attack if any and now the head of the lebanese armed group hezbollah has denied storing weapons at the blast site has called for a transparent investigation and for whoever is found responsible to be held to account is uncertain the i would like to emphasize that hezbollah categorically refutes and rejects that we have materials at the seaport not a single bullet more weapon ammunition or a bomb nothing at all belongs to hezbollah or even the materials and the ammonium nitrate that does not belong to hezbollah and. i believe that there is a consensus amongst all lebanese that a complete comprehensive transparent and fair investigation must take place and those

moment now to get across the aftermath of the damage since the events of choose al-jazeera as bernard smith has been taking a look. it's not until you move away from the beirut shoulder line that you get a real question of the scale all the devastation just over my shoulder the orient queen that was capsized by force of the blast and every building you see along the skyline has been impacted there isn't a single pane of glass left over there and just on the other side is the remains of the grain silo and the grain silos. was most of the grain supply for 11 on there is no strategic reserve and all around the grain silos the remains twisted remains of the country's main port warehouses everything in there food included other goats destroyed port traffic has been diverted further up the coast to tripoli the 2nd ball but it is having trouble managing with the capacity and managing with the demands of taking in extra supplies ammonium nitrate is believed to have caused the blast on tuesday in beirut it is the most common fertilizer used globally on the main component in explosives often used in

of the political elite a move which is being backed by french president in manual mode called bernard smith as more. on the streets of beirut on thursday france's president emanuel the moment by people many of them calling for a turn of the french mandate france was the colonial power here before independence and is because has essentially stepped into a void left by lebanon's own political.

people reported missing after tuesday's port blast which killed 157 people shortly we'll speak to bernard smith on the search efforts but 1st this report from santa harder this is what is left of beirut port the stockpile of tons of ammonium nitrate that appeared to set off tuesday's blast was in one of the warehouses some of the missing people are believed to be underneath the rubble it's a complicated job to look for them because the damage is considerable international rescue teams have joined search operations but hope of finding survivors is fading and they say the affair. what we're trying to do is to find the structures that are still under tons of rubble specifically the cells in the technical rooms that are under the silos they could have been buried by the rubble and still be standing which could allow us to find survivors you. lebanese authorities have begun investigations into the blast that destroyed much of the central parts of the capital port and customs officials have been detained and their assets frozen investigators initially said it was triggered by a fire the president mic

this month before the explosion the people of lebanon were already battling an economic crisis as bernard smith reports from the capital many of those left homeless are relying on volunteers charities and friends. like many other lebanese and one persil has always managed to get by no matter what was thrown at him conflict or economic crisis but now it's different measures to bennett going on there i walked around 8 kilometers he says as he describes trying to get medical treatment in the aftermath of the port explosion that sent a devastating shockwave through beirut. i think he has 17. counts. and there are new air news ion 70 year old antoine eventually found a hospital to treat the injuries to his head and arm now he relies on free help and volunteers stress that woods after the explosion the whole story has changed ok as if the middle class has gone with explorers there's normally class at all so people are coming seeking medical support food clothes house cleanups whatever you think they need just got bigger the blast destroyed or damaged around $50000.00 homes affecting 300000 documents