it is completed and i wanted to send it to the next council of minister. ortunately now i cannot do it anymore and i will give it to the next minister. i am working on the ip, the intellectual property law conventions that we have to sign in order to protect intellectual property. one of them is already at the council of ministers and on the agenda and another three are being printed to be put on my desk to go to the council of ministers. minister, unfortunately, hang on.... unfortunately, i think, when these are approved to go to parliament, they will not be accepted because for example, in the competition law, i want to remove the exclusive agencies, and the same people in the parliament have friends and have exclusive agencies representation for products and so it will not be easy for them to vote these type of laws. that is an understatement because you have explained to me that you have a zombie government, the council of ministers cannot properly function and, beyond that, you have no sign that a new government is coming down the track. there is no si

lebanon has a caretaker government, which means that the council of ministers cannot meet and take anyns. there are very few exceptions, basically if there is an emergency, and if take, and they need to take some decisions that yes we can do it. each minister on his own can take only basic decisions, administrative decisions, and not spend money and not engage the government in the long—term and so on. it is really only a ca reta ker and so on. it is really only a caretaker government. if i may say so, minister, this is a zombie government. technically alive but in every real sense, dad. yes, practically, it is almost a zombie. i wouldn't say zombie but almost because we can still do a lot of things. to have even this critical situation. for example, this morning i was at a program at the tripoli port to see how we can use that port and bring assistance to bring green, all types of grain and cattle feed and animal feed and types of grain and cattle feed and animalfeed and wait as well using the tripoli port. —— grain. yesterday i was examining the beirut port to do the same. the great

and also to meet any month now we we handle the the the council of ministers on doing $31.00. 2 and like. to mention back that that holds 5 major demands show and those demands what into really because we don't need peace trying to tell just the. removal of the b.b. state and be completely complete the complete of the government the structure of the only we only have the civilian governments now but we don't have a very limited and we also going going out again because of the economy crisis we want big government to come up with the economy. policies to try to give to the farm and address the economic crisis and also to lay a foundation for this but a sustainable development and. in order to contribute to the optimal use of the country's resources and also because of the also the freedom we demanded for the. this revolution was didn't really provided because there is still violations trond the 20 years against the activists again is the citizens think to have been really changed what. i expected from this great show lucian do i do want to ask you more about that because as our correspond

obviously a move to try and absorb the public anger normally through knowledge of i will go to the council of ministers and monday to call for an early election our countries in the midst of terrible tragedies as we were there in martyrs square today we saw that there was a very strong crackdown of by security forces on the protesters there was a very extensive use of tear gas also the shots were being fired in the air to disperse the protesters the protesters on their behalf were setting the buildings ablaze that they were also trying to through parliament they also managed to storm at least on a me as well as the ministry of environment now at today's protest left over $110.00 protesters injured tons of whom were transferred to local hospitals and at least one security member or security officer killed according to an official statement by the directory of the general security of this officer was it pushed inside the shaft of an elevator in the lebanese capital badal it now up until this hour the protests are still ongoing however roads have been cut off by lebanese army and security officers to prev

i will go to the council of ministers on monday to cool for an early election our countries in the midst of terrible tragedies and before we go to a local journalist and also i guess let's bring you some of the latest pictures coming into us from the midst of the unrest in beirut. was. was. ok. let's indeed go live now to beirut to speak to lebanese journalist. good to see you again a lot of developments today including near the ministries are being. attacked and also reports of a riot police officer losing his life what more can you tell us about. the raw anger protesters have stormed at least foreign ministry is the foreign ministry led by a group of retired army generals of tired lebanese army generals also the ministry of power the ministry of economy and the ministry of environment this in addition to torching a number of buildings we were in martyrs square and any other sort and we saw that a number of buildings at least what i saw were 4 buildings they were set ablaze up by angry protesters also to see the protesters are throwing the portraits of the lebanese president michel in f

could include council of ministers decision it's a 5 days. a period of time that is given to all that was given to investigators in order to assess the situation and to do submit a federally mandated report on what happened this is not there not 5 days is very very short but it will at least give credibility answers to the question that you are raising every living these people are raising now whether that is someone who was responsible there are definitely someone who should be held responsible and that is definitely. a mixture of responsibility between many actors on the on the scene so let's wait until the 40 meaning days of the investigation and we'll assess the situation accordingly they will see whether the court would take steps. to arrest people you know some are under house arrest but i think that it will it should be dealt with more seriousness and more arrests have to be to be made mr barrett we mentioned and you said this is while lebanese people are extremely frustrated by chronic political deadlock corruption and you resigned in

i will go to the council of ministers on monday to call for an early election our countries in the midst of terrible tragedies will journalist men was in the midst of sunday's chaotic scenes in beirut. these demonstrators were flocking to marchers square also to the lebanese parliament to express their dismay over the poor over what they say is poor handling of the lebanese government of the aftermath of tuesday's an explosion which targeted the beirut sports. car the demonstrators are have or have taken a very violent turn we are also hearing a lot of shots being fired in the air in addition to that there gas and now these protesters and it doesn't seem that they're planning to leave as martyrs square anytime soon many of them have already set up tents they say they are going to stay here until their demands are met and. also at the same time we know that in the district of a sheffield east of beirut protesters have managed to storm into the foreign ministry. that i have a lebanese army generals there are talks that the government officials will try to sit down with this retired army ge

the council of foreign ministers as you mentioned, they are there to kind of massage the process going forward. the specific points of disagreement for the united states especially our soviet treatment of -- and the blackout of an ability of american and british officials to move through the soviet zone of germany. the idea to the americans, the notion that the soviets are not playing fair. they are not letting us come into the zone. they are treating it as two countries when we are supposed to be treating it as one managed by the four powers. for the soviets, it's the use of nuclear bombs over nagasaki and the timing of the way truman did it, so there is an opportunity for a negotiation or discussion about what's going to go forward, and the third issue that is really of great concern to everybody is the chinese civil war that is ongoing at the same time. if you think of the world is a buy polar sylvia lead poll and another american led poll, the future of china's going to be incredibly important as it remains so today. those are the three issues that emerge very quickly. others of co

pardon for those members of the armed groups to pave way for them to be able to come to her tomb and start taking up positions in the suffering council and the council of ministers and will start seeing consultations between the armed groups and the forces of freedom and change in terms of how this legislative assembly the transitional assembly which has been put on hold for a long time will be formed ok thank you for that tedham ogunleye for us in the call to move. let's turn now to lebanon where political leaders are meeting in beirut right now to discuss the appointment of a new prime minister the lebanese ambassador to germany stuff looks like to get the job he's won support from several parties including the future movement and the shia block his pull up. could be all political factions are aware in order to achieve this goal and bring our country back on track the upcoming government must be formed from among professionals with proven expertise efficiency and integrity such a government must be formed swiftly and present its plans at the earliest all political factions have declared their readiness to fully cooperate with such a government in order for the

for the constitution there will be more for you elections can be whole can be even if the council of ministers is resigning so it's not something that will affect. actions if this is what you are going to go for so does that mean that print protest says like yourself satisfied with the suggestion today from prime minister has an idea that there should be early elections. well yes but at the same time who's going to be holding this election is this government who is totally biased for certain for certain political parties we know that in the past what happened is that elections were rigged rigged in so many ways. the people who were holding the elections were also. being members like 200 as candidates at the same time they made a law that really suited them the most they bought votes they. intimidated people to vote for them and also we know that more than 51 percent of the people didn't vote because of all this. pressure scenario in the election so to have a really independent and independent election we need another government we need a government that really is independent from everyone. and

yes really we are speaking to them but i think when we are specifically speaking also to the council of ministers because when you look at those years ago which is the centralized state but the moderation management including providing unitarian seasons in a tradition community has stayed recently through as you state so the solution cannot really come from accountant or even from salary of work and they can manage to a certain degree what happens on their territory but we really need a statewide it's a solution for these and these can really only come from the state council music's reach we hope there is a new lease or security in place we'll take in each the student. accommodation official accommodation especially because we have the winter around the corner but also to hopefully get agreement amongst political actors that we can have a demolition in order to guarantee the sincerity ever. of the british journalist cantons again be reduced in the coming period there i had paid out from the international organisation for migration very important that we talked about this today and we do thank you

so the council of foreign ministers, as you mentioned, they are there to kind of massage this process going forward. the specific points of disagreement for the united states especially are soviet treatment of poland and the general sort of blackout, the inability of american and british officials to move through the soviet zone of jenny. so the idea, to the americans, the notion is the soviets are not plays fair. they're treating it as to countries for the soviets, it really is the use of the nuclear bombs, and the timing of the way that truman did it, so there's no opportunity for negotiation, no opportunity for discussion about what's going to go forward? the third issue that is really of great concern is the chinese civil war that's ongoing at the same time, so if you think of the world as a bipolar, soviet-led pole and american-led other pole, obviously the future of china is going to be incredibly important. other, of course, emerge as well. but i think i would still hold to the fact that they left potsdam, everybody that left a report of it -- at the time, everybody that wrote

so, the council of foreign ministers, as you mentioned, they're there to massage this process going forward. the specific points of disagreements for the united states especially are soviet treatment of poland and the general sort of blackout, the inability of american and british officials to move through the soviet zone of germany so that the idea to the americans, the notion is that the soviets aren't playing fair. they're not letting us come into the zone. they're treating it as two countries when we were supposed to treat it as one, just managed by the four powers. for the soviets it really is the use of the nuclear bombs and the timing of the way that truman did it so that there's no opportunity for negotiation, there's no opportunity for discussion about what's going to go forward. and the third issue that is of really great concern to everybody is the chinese civil war that's on going at the same time. so if you think of the world as a bipolar soviet-led one pole and american-led over pull, the future of china will be incredibly important as it remains so today. those are the three

you know him a prime a director of the minister thought of council thinks that the situation might be approaching a critical moment. but we have at the moment is partially the result of several really big mistakes his government government made over the last years but most particularly the way the government treated the coronavirus cry says this situation has escalated to a very very dangerous level and they're reporting just seeing seems to point to that where soon approaching a critical point where it's either going to be kind of military. state of emergency what do we quired and that will be the only way to the government to deal with the situation or. new negotiations should be against. more than 20 countries have placed orders for russia's coronavirus vaccine just the day after the country climbed a claim to be the world's 1st with the job of a much of the global scientific community has doubts about the supposed breakthrough i hope of the russians have actually definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective i seriously doubt that they've done that it is not about bei

so, the council of foreign ministers, as you mentioned, they are prepared to kind of massage the process going forward. these specific points of disagreement for the united states especially our soviet treatment of poland, and the general sort of blackout, the inability of american and british officials to move through the soviet zone observing -- of germany. the notion is that the soviets are not playing fair, they are not letting us come into the zone, they are treating it as two countries when we were supposed to treat it as one. for the soviets, he really is the use of the nuclear bombs over hiroshima and nagasaki, and the timing that the way truman did it, so there was no opportunity for negotiations, no opportunity for discussion about what will go forward. the third issue that is of great concern is the chinese civil war ongoing at the same time. so if you think of the world as a bipolar soviet-led one pole le, an american-led other po obviously the future of china will be incredibly important, as it is today. others emerge as well, but i think i would still hold to the fact that

council. of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called protesters calling for his resignation and a kiss fall since joined the largest demonstration in west jerusalem in a decade they say netanyahu shouldn't be in office while facing corruption charges . at least 13 people have been killed by suspected boko haram fighters in cameroon grenades were launched at a camp for displaced people in missouri go in the country's north 8 more were injured attacks by the armed group of killed displaced tens of thousands over the past decade in nigeria and neighboring countries. the united nations has joined calls for the release of human rights activists in india some are being held in prison under anti-terrorism laws while they await trial the government denies accusations that the charges are politically motivated to serious elizabeth purana has been speaking to some of the prisoners families we know. it's been 2 years since some of india's most recognizable rights activists were rounded up and taken away by police there were queues of instigating violence during a march by disadvantaged hindu

he was prime minister until his resignation in 2004 and was killed in a suicide car bombing a year later the accused men on 9 members of hezbollah. the defense ministers of turkey and council have discussed cooperation with libya's internationally recognized government efforts continue to secure a ceasefire in the divided country both turkey and qatar support the tripoli based government and the bell or russian president has told striking state factory workers there won't be new elections thousands of people walked off the job and the 9th straight day of demonstrations calling for alexander new to step down. all those the headlines i'll have an update for you after counting the cost of history has called it the great war in the 2nd episode the declining onto an empire forges its alliance with germany and the central powers as the war gives birth to 3 nationalist with. the future world war one. all knowledge is here. hello i'm darren jordan this is counting the cost of al-jazeera your look at the world of business economics this week corrupt and bankrupt powerful banking and political clowns have destroyed lebanon's economy while people can't get access to their bank accoun

of valor. speak now live to your head the prime minister director of the minsk dialogue council on international relations good afternoon to you welcome your hand in another nato allies are like belarus. has accused workers striking of a danger in the country's economy is there any truth to that or is this just a ploy to get them back to work well there was definitely some truth to that because of companies i'm not worried about certainly there is an economic problem upcoming i think it's no longer relevant or the discussions that are taking place here and of course everyone it is now focused on one single issue and that is that all of that election should go at least those who are take an active part in those strikes and as we can see by developments in the last several days in particular today the number of those or ready to protest by taking part in strikes is growing and growing very rapidly. and they saw the country's biggest ever and to government protest so there's a lot of a mentor behind this opposition movement right now can it maintain that energy those are the dangers of the run out

make of ravi from the nonprofit brookings institute and he was also a member of the prime minister's economic advisory council professor are we welcome the 3rd highest caseload in the world with more than 2000000 cases would you say this is of coals of water you put in there well no it's more the cause of. because in terms of the absolute number isn't one india get infrastructure can only the so it's not as much a concern from a global perspective if. you know 12 or 3 in terms of the case but there is by being constrained because. you know the relatively weak health infrastructure in a lot of the states where the infection is spreading now let's just talk about that have the infrastructure i mean last month and so we saw these having scenes from hospitals in my and only the 2 biggest metros in the country and arguably cities with the best health infrastructure in the country people couldn't find beds over there i mean does that make you confident indian health infrastructure can actually cope with this well given that the situation in delhi has started to improve as of last month and a half we have seen simil

of finance minister. joining us to discuss this and more is rufus yerxa, president of the national foreign trade council. eaction to the possibility of chrystia freeland becoming the finance minister in canada? will this leave a gap or a good trade person should be? >> i don't know about that. she has been the trade minister, foreign minister for some time. i am sure that she will do a good job as finance minister. we will just see who canada has replacing her in that critical role. it could be an important role over the next several years, sorting out some of the problems with the u.s., the multilateral trading system. vonnie: exactly. what is next for canada in particular when it comes to trade? freeorth america trade agreement has been ratified, attention turning to china now. rufus: yes. lot going there is a on between the u.s. and china. i am sure there are concerns about where that relationship goes. of course, a lot of potential friction between the u.s. presidential campaign. presidenten already bush ramping up the rhetoric against china. interestingly, the two sides don't seem to be disrupting th

the council's only goal was to unite society now other members of this coordination council that's really seeking dialogue have also been targeted have they not that's right former culture minister. was questioned by investigators on choose day he was forced out of his job as director of the state young. fear after calling for new elections and complaining about the brutal suppression of the demonstrations he's one of the highest profile civil servants to come out publicly against the regime and many actors at the theatre he ran have resigned in solidarity it's striking and perhaps also encouraging that literary voices are actually being heard in this debacle d.w. has also spoken to the young novelistic to martin you know that who is a critic of the regime yes our colleague. savina he's about spoke to him via video link he's one of the few people who are still in belarus in minsk who will speak to international media and we asked him about the role of intellectuals and about the dangers of speaking out for a look at that we have almost everybody silenced right now or dissidents who used to be in a position and who used to be imprisoned for many years there are silenced because t

ministers are not the government for failing to deal with. this current beyond the day we cannot. continue to push them to get. them suited to the holdings of council that. would like to see but in this kind of loop in a minister and the one team to. work. for safe this is been an interesting strain conversation because we spent so much of it talking about the lineup which is a very unusual thing to do if with thinking about what its real issues when the in opposition. in a sentence what would she say. i think the critical thing is that for once there is a need to put the people. as you can see from where it is on in schools because of poverty and justice system corruption the bad governance crisis that has been caused by the regimes have pointed out the public health system is on its way to ending. home and you know the public now all of them wildly and kind of after they have a public health care at the moment we've got a very uncoordinated testing system which has seen you know the cost of a diagnostic test as high as 16 u.s. dollars better than less than a nurse and currently as i've pointed out that stay $62.00 a mess a strike the minister of

minister of israel and the minister for the interior who has started taking a courageous decision but this investigation was tainted from the start with and the truth is that no law some of the council of europe warn that a series of magistrate should have been taken off the case because of conflicts of interest likewise the investigating police officer force claims that sayed said were made by the minister of the interior but progress in the investigation if that's not an investigation tainted with all because it did give results and 11 important point in all this is that there are other services involved including the report so even if there are elements who want to cover up that information is available to the force beyond so that is a good guarantee that the whole truth will come out that nicaragua leads here didn't have much that was nice to say about you did she. understand the 2016 she wrote if bartolo were decent and honest would be of stuck with the labor party since the 1970 s. of course not decent and honest people left in droves when they saw what was going on she's right isn't she and no i don't think so and i don't agree with her comment i respect what you have done bu

happening in the coming months now we've seen statements that include iraq's foreign minister who told the atlantic council of the project is on the verge of being defined and designed and put out to tenders as spokesperson for saudi arabia's energy minister also confirmed that the agreement is advancing towards completion so we could very well be seeing a large shift in power over the next year we're also seeing the united states make direct with with the rock what can you tell us about those well we saw a meeting between iraq's prime minister and president trump just last week and they confirm that iraq has signed on to $8000000000.00 in energy deals with u.s. companies now when we take a look at the companies specifically that are involved in those deals they include general electric honeywell international stellar energy chevron corp and baker hughes and in a statement washington's energy secretary referred to the deals as a key to a rock's energy future so it's interesting to see how not only is this alliance here but the u.s. is also directly benefiting it really is but why why is the timing now what ab

i have already hosted us afghan women's council there. new minister ofwomen's affairs came from afghanistan and we did videoconferencing with the ministry of education and the us ambassador to afghanistan, afghan ambassador to the united states was with us in dallas along with several fulbright scholars and other afghan women running projects in afghanistan and a new woman director secretary general of unesco came which is great because they are very active in literacy. the us afghan women's council was focused on literacy for afghan women and girls. i hope the united states will stand with afghanistan. it's important. if we don't i'm afraid they will go back to it they were. it's important especially for the women there. >> right before george and i left the white house one of them said this is our only chance. if we can't make it now then we won't be able to. so i do whatever we can to support the people of afghanistan. >> lisa from humboldt texas. did you ever cook at the white house? >> no. [laughter] >> i haven't cooked for 15 years now. we had a ch

of the e.u. council to take action against the bulgarian government has seen more than a month of protests people there accuse the prime minister and chief prosecutor of corruption and demanding their resignations. too but there was now and a rare public apology from the government for a violent crackdown on demonstrators in the wake of sunday's disputed presidential election thousands of people again to to the streets of the capital minsk on thursday. test few days but now the government says the protesters will be released . may 5th the night of protests there appears to me no letup in the people's push for change. thursday crowds of people took to the streets of the bella racine capital to denounce a police crackdown on demonstrations over sunday's disputed election many women wore white and carried flowers condemnation of the extension of president alexander lukashenko 26 year old rule is gathering momentum across. the e.u. and the us have both said the elections were neither free nor fair russia on the other hand says foreign interference is to blame for the protests. i want fair elections i want to see a free belarus with

you it is exactly as the president of the council said the commission stands ready to support because it is a very detailed process with a lot of scrutiny. but the minister for foreign affairs now the european council are very clear and we will work hard till be ready as soon as possible with a list of specific persons targeted for sanctions another question. for jennifer ranking the guardian jennifer are you there. yes i'm there near me yes if you switch on your camera makes it nicer for us. ok just bear with me i cannot stand they really can't thank you very much this is a question to the president moved out of sight of the thank you mayor and president mr use but you president putin yesterday can you say whether you see the russian government as an ally or a destabilizing force in resolving the situation in batterers and what is it exactly that you would like the russian government to be doing thank you. lou we sent a very clear a very clear message sure we think that the future of belarus has to be decided by the people in belarus not in brest some snot in that must go and we think there is a national crisis and we would like to entrench all the posi

of the e.u. council to take action against the bulgarian government well there is seen more than a month of protests people accuse the prime minister and chief prosecutor of corruption and they're demanding their resignations. is a look now at some of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic. germany has recorded more than 1440 new corona virus cases for the 2nd day in a row is the highest level of new infections in 3 months new zealand's research and corona virus outbreak has spread beyond all cloned us despite police imposing roadblocks to stop people leaving the country's biggest city and south korea has reported one of its biggest jumps in infections in months the korean center for disease control reported 103 new cases on friday one of the biggest headaches facing e.u. foreign ministers of the virtual meeting this friday will be the growing conflict between greece and turkey tensions have been rising ever since turkey launched oil and gas exploration work in a disputed area of the mediterranean france has called for each new sanctions against turkey and on thursday held military training exercises with greek forces

of the e.u. council to take action against the bulgarian government or gary has seen more than a month of protests people accusing the prime minister and the chief prosecutor of corruption and they're demanding the resignation is. in historic move israel and the united arab emirates have agreed to a full normalization of relations under the u.s. brokered deal israel will suspend plans to annex large parts of the occupied west bank u.s. president trump says the agreement will be signed at the white house in 3 weeks time for their part the palestinians have rejected the deal calling it a betrayal of their calls it's only the 3rd time israel has struck such an accord with another arab country and the 1st in a quarter of a century. i historic agreement the united arab emirates and israel 2 countries that never had any diplomatic relations until thursday's deal. and idea was clear that israel would come out of the 3 way calling with the united states to stop being and exceed suspending. at the same time we will be able to also i know that we will begin what will what i would call a normal relationship with various various areas israeli

of the e.u. council to take action against the bug darian government protests have been held for over a months now demanding the resignation of the prime minister and chief prosecutor they accuse. of corruption. almost a 3rd of bangladesh still has now been inundated by floodwaters from extreme monsoon rains affected residents have received emergency supplied supplies by boat more than a 1000000 people have been displaced and many have died in the floods which the country's agriculture minister ministry has called the worst in more than 2 decades . a fast moving brush fire north of los angeles has prompted action of some 500 homes or the 300 firefighters have been deployed to battle the flames the blaze has forced more than 4000 hectares near lake hughes in the angeles national forests. media mogul jimmy has urged democracy movement supporters to be persistent and patient in their fight for freedom in an online address after being released on bail on wednesday the newspaper publisher was arrested under a draconian new chinese laws which restrict protests and trial rights in hong kong . lebanese lawmakers are meeting today to approve emergency m