lebanon became her new home.e refugee population, the crisis has been particularly hard. there will be a delay in the management of this baby because there is not a place in the hospital. a delay in management would lead to complications, maybe he will need to be intubated, maybe he needs — he's gonna — he's gonna — one of the complications is probably him dying if he is not transferred to another hospital. cries. the logistics and the bureaucracy of the healthcare system as a whole is killing our chances of being good doctors. i think a medical system — successful, proficient system — has many building blocks under it. one of them is the availability of resources, other is the technology present, others is the logistics, then you have the human resources and so on, and what you see right now is those building blocks crumbling down or disappearing bit by bit. lebanon has been without a government for over a year. essential services and public institutions have become increasingly reliant on international aid. i t

lebanon's fight for survival. lebanon's fight for survival.oes run out of fuel, a lot of people will lose their lives, it is as simple as that. you realise that one reason they— you realise that one reason they are _ you realise that one reason they are dying. it is the country— they are dying. it is the country they are living in. —— that— country they are living in. —— that is— country they are living in. —— that is not— country they are living in. —— that is not the reason they are dying — you can't not fall in love with babylon _ you can't not fall in love with babylon. —— lebanon. it is less forfree— babylon. —— lebanon. it is less for free spirit to flourish, futi— for free spirit to flourish, full of— for free spirit to flourish, full of beautiful diversity. it was — full of beautiful diversity. it was a — full of beautiful diversity. it was a true home for me. dr firas was a true home for me. firas abiad was a true home for me. d firas abiad is a second—year resident. she has spent much of the last year working on hospital's overboard.

yes, i wouldn't be surprised to find lebanon in the top three.dramatic impact of the climate change, or are there other effects of the climate change in lebanon? climate change has many faces. water scarcity is definitely one of the most apparent and most visible impact of climate change, especially in our region of the world. coupled with this increased frequency of extreme events, so more flash floods, heavy rain, severe storms, but also an increased frequency of hot days and nights where temperatures are above 35, so this is all exacerbating an already very fragile ecosystem and infrastructure in the country. and reports, undp studies, have shown that a lot more hot days and hot nights will be coming in the future, going from 35 to 90 days by mid—century, which means a whole summer. so a whole summer of high temperature will lead to drought, water scarcity, which will threaten food security, energy security and the livelihoods of a lot of lebanese. lebanon is facing, at the moment, so many crises. one of them is, of course, the energy crisis.

and lebanon has had a turbulent pass. this is a decades old frontline and we've seen confrontations over the years throughout the years, but nothing like that. and like i mentioned the investigation into the bay report exclusion that massive explosion last year in august that the short neighborhood investigations as and who was responsible for that, that really cause the tension industry escalation, really dangerous escalation. zayna don't ask us to take a breath for another. let's just listen. i'm taking the c food stamp call from you and on a brief pause in the horrific sounds of gunfire. who knows how long it will last, a very disturbing scene that is emerging a picture that's emerging from the lebanese capital, making it even more painful is the news announced by lebanon to administer, that the casualties has indeed gone off. now, he's told you about 6 people killed. our correspondent zayna full. he's live at the scene, the front line battle of the fire. sammy zayna, windows kind of situation happens in lebanon, altho

so this is lebanon. you can wake up the next day as if nothing happens, but they don't resolve the core issue. and the core issues are, this is not a country, a piece. the people of this country are not at peace. there is a deep divide and it is a dangerous deep divide because politicians are able to exploit it. exploit the sectarian differences in this country to tell one group that the other group we are protecting you from them and they are here to hurt you. this is the narrative you here time sam again, from lebanese politicians who try their best to maintain support among their constituents. so the guns have fallen silent. after 4 hours of confrontation, gun battle that raged in neighborhoods in residential areas where people were trapped for hours. just looking at the picture day and now it does look like things have changed a bit on the streets. people are standing around the golf fire trucks and emergency crews look like they're moving in as well as civil defense trot. there is that they want to

qatar urged all parties in lebanon to avoid escalation. they are just national interest to be emphasized. russia said it was concerned and called for restraint imprudence. they can -- iran condemned the killing -- let's bring in our guest. in beirut, the director of the institute for strategic affairs indo hall. also, an activist and independent energy upon -- policy consultant. let's begin with you, on the surface this looks like has blah and a mall bullying the government and judiciary to making a change they want, is that a fair assessment? >> i think that is a fair assessment. this is a frequent reaction. the action is totally unacceptable. shooting demonstrators is unacceptable. however, it is has blah, the blocking of the judiciary, trying to block justice procedures, which triggered these reaction. we do not know if these clashes were a genuine reaction or is this something staged. we will soon know. if the outcome of this will be the suspension of the judge for the reason that social peace should be kept, that would mean we have wi

how is a ron's role viewed there in lebanon? well, the hans role in lebanon is very divisive. it's a ally has for law controls, political power, of course, along with its allies. they control parliament, they control government. but critics of the group believe that it uses its weapons because this was the only group that was allowed to keep its weapons after the civil war. in 1990 to impose its will on the lebanese state to impose iran's agenda in lebanon. in fact, they accused iran really using lebanon as a bargaining card in its negotiations, either with the americans or the saudis. lebanon is entangled in the regional conflict. there were some protests yesterday. some of the people described iran's role as one of an occupation that lebanon isn't occupied country, but his visit comes really at a critical time for lebanon. you mentioned the economic turmoil, lebanon is a much need of hard currency dollars. this is something iran cannot provide, so lebanon is reaching out to the international community, the west, the international monetary fund. but if the international commu

and the logic of rule in a country like lebanon isn't to govern. it's to divide up the wealth and power of the country. so it was a corrupt political that has agreed to put this in the port of bade. and that just blew up. and no budget to now is has accountable for that. i will live in that much corruption that even human lives. it's not worth it anymore to those people. it's not just that they feel us. it's that they are terminals. oh, i have an n g all. so when the explosion took place, unfortunately, we had teams in place for instruction because you had already done that because you have to know that in lebanon, it's personal initiatives and civil society who does the work of what a state should be doing. because we do not have a state that has me so so he is going to be my, i'm not going to be going to go. so we'll see can have some heads up can and they know what the know about. hey, they alyssa, media, media. why defeat on the sad, lately calling from the ok. so have the muzzle title and seizures in this little little have of i live mr. the n

lebanon has always been an unequal society. one of the ways in which they have done that is through the subsidies program that has been mismanaged, and abused by certain classes of people. this is of course at the expense of the majority of the population that continues to be sinking deeper into poverty. the minimum wage is less than $40 per month and to talk about covid, the mismanagement of the vaccination program was really what was expected. the lebanese ministry of health decided to buy some of the most expensive vaccines, by using some of the world bank loans that they had received, about $40 million. less than 19% of the population is full vaccinated and the program in general was in complete disarray, mismanaged. some people were allowed to cut the line ahead of others. some of the most vulnerable of the population were placed at the end of the line, then we saw government officials at the very front. i assume that one of the reasons that lebanon hasn't been hit by the delta variant as hard as other countries is because

let's bring in rami hoary into lebanon. has the right of free assembly has the right of to protest yet they will snipers. they show into the crowd. we don't know who they are. what is going on is this, you know, change by violence. well, what's going on is something, unfortunately, that has happened before and lebanon. people take to the streets, unknown gunman or non people, but explosives. it. the tragedy is that it could be any of 2 or 3 or 4 possible groups or, and people who might want to do this to shoot up the demonstrators initially, the marchers who came into the area, of course the, the march was provocative, was just going near the christian majority area, some of them like she, i, she also, there was some provocation there clearly, but that's the whole point actually. situation from the m a side was to assert themselves saying we're not going to accept this, this investigation the way it's going now. and then people shot at them. so these things happen unfortunately regularly because the country has never figure

yes, i wouldn't be surprised to find lebanon in the top three.t dramatic impact of the climate change, or are there other effects of the climate change in lebanon? climate change has many faces. water scarcity is definitely one of the most apparent and most visible impact of climate change, especially in our region of the world. coupled with this increased frequency of extreme events, so more flash floods, heavy rain, severe storms, but also an increased frequency of hot days and nights where temperatures are above 35, so this is all exacerbating an already very fragile ecosystem and infrastructure in the country. and reports, undp studies, have shown that a lot more hot days and hot nights will be coming in the future, going from 35 to 90 days by mid—century, which means a whole summer. so a whole summer of high temperature will lead to drought, water scarcity of which will threaten food security and the livelihoods of a lot of lebanese. water scarcity, which will threaten food security, energy security and the livelihoods of a lot of lebanese.

you have some political groups and lebanon. the she are parties has fallen among, they don't support the judge. they want to deter removed, they say he's politicized. and then you have the opposition and the victims, families who believe that judge baton is the right man. he's the one of the rare judges who is not politically affiliated and he will pursue the truth. so this, this man really is now at the center of a back thought, really some, we'll say he's becoming here. he is really assembled for those who want to push for accountability and those who do not. so the guns have fallen silent. there seems to be an undeclared truth. oh, we do not know the guns just suddenly fell silence. so it seems that behind the scenes negotiations were taking place between the different political parties who really had nothing to gain if that spread out of control. so the inquiry into the court blast is ongoing. does that mean that there's an expectation there of more trouble still to come xena? well, yes, like you mentioned this, the court d

that is how about the situation is in lebanon. and then we've got the biggest numbers of few and capable individuals emigrating a double digit numbers of our house. good workers, half left, half businesses have closed. so we're in very bad shape. and yet arms comes to you to slaughter us in the streets because they want to fight political battles using the blood off and the some people in the streets returning to that conflict this morning. the interior minister says, though, is he prepared for the demonstration as showed us that it would be peaceful. and the shooting began with snipe is taking aim at people's heads. what ye make of his comments, that they were assured that it would be a peaceful demonstration. that would be an excellent line and the stand up comedy in those has been on how to get emily, except if he just came to the country yesterday. i think his statement is a covered up for his bottle and i'ma, and he should be condemned for that. not only that is an active judge who asked to be part of this government and cond

so they're all vying for influence in this country. lebanon is the battle ground, and lebanon, really is the battle ground between the u. s. and, and iran is through their 3rd local allies in the country are done. and thanks for that, that's a bit from barry to zenato. the world health organization is backing the roll out of the 1st have a vaccine against malaria. it is a big step in the battle against of ours, which is one of the leading killers of children. it's recommended. the job should be given to millions of children across africa to work and because it's being described as a game changer for child health, a vaccine that could help save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children each year in sub saharan africa. monica has been with us, poor, millennial, and the dream of my letter. boxing has been a long held but unattainable dream. to day, the oddity as, as money vaccine, more than 30 years in the making changes the course of public health history. the vaccine smith klein vaccine has been given to infants in gonna kenya. i'm allowing since 2019 as part of a pilot program, i

let's remind you of lebanon's precarious situation. the currency loss board 90 percent of his value in 2 years. people can't afford food medicines all fuel, nor can they rely on basic services like electricity, healthcare, or even rubbish collection. many lebanese blame politicians for years of corruption and mismanagement and law. she is beirut pulp. last killed, more than 200 people, is seen as a symbol the states failure. now thursday began with sheer groups including his bala holding rallies, calling for the removal of the judge. investigating that pope lost their cues, tara baton b politically biased. now the army initially said snipers fight the demonstrators. it's since blame the funds on a dispute between protesters and another group. so the holder has more from boot. there is a cautious com after nearly 5 hours of a deadly clashes along a dividing line that dates back to the days of the civil war that ended in 1990. the guns may have fallen playland, but the crisis is far from over. the tensions started up because of a judge.

we will stand by lebanon, with all our power in order to break the turn of siege that lebanon has going through at such a critical time in its history. iran's ally has below managed to bring in iranian fuel through us sanctioned syria a few weeks ago. it used it as a political tool and declared victory. the move wasn't approved by lebanon's government prime minister. and as you may anti said, it violated the country sovereignty. nevertheless, he received the iranian diplomat and far, bernice is completely and is complete the last 2 hours in face all this breach of the key, but more important misdemeanor government are you in order to, to find a way to get out of this economy and financial crisis lebanon is in economic turmoil. it's seeking a bailout package from the international community. this could undermine iran's influence, since the much needed hard currency will have to come from the west and lebanon's, traditional allies, gulf arab countries. as of late, those governments shunned lebanon because of iran's influence here, as it is caught in the middle of different rivalry with sa

the problem with lebanon is for his bullet. his bala is bumping up against the, the constraints of the area and political system in lebanon. it is today the dominant party in lebanon, but increasingly we're seeing violence are up not only with christians as we thought to day, but also earlier in the year in to new areas. commuted simply do not want to be beholden to his bala and it's around your bumper and we're having some break up with the picture. but let's just persevere. i'd like to speak to you particularly about the visit of the u. s. and the secretary of state victoria newland, who happened to be in a lebanon today in the u. s. is going to give $67000000.00 to lebanon's army. she also spoke about, basically the us working with the world bank and humanitarian relief agencies to try to help the awful economic situation in lebanon. what do you make of any potential any further, or hasn't there been enough, or any kind of external influence from countries, perhaps like the us, because i know that they're trying to pull out

how is iran's role viewed in lebanon? well, that runs role. iran's role in lebanon, lebanese politics is a divisive issue. you, of course, you have its allies in lebanon, has the law, they control political power. here. they control parliament. they control the government along with their allies. they have the blocking. 3rd, there are critics the, the critics of hezbollah. they accused them of really, for the ring, iran's agenda in lebanon. they have accused the group of using its arms to impose its political will. in fact, some of the, in the opposition say that this country is occupied by iran. so that's why this, this visit really is devices you have iraq asserting its presence, asserting its influence in the country, giving this message at a time that lebanon is negotiating with the international community, in particular, the west to try to bring in much needed hard currency because you mentioned this country is an economic turmoil, if any agreement is reached with the international community to involve reforming, the

, but his visit comes really at a critical time for lebanon. lebanon is a much need of hard currency dollars. this is something iran cannot provide, so lebanon is reaching out to the international community, the west, the international monetary fund. but if the international community gives them that money, then reforms will have to be carried out. traditional parties like has the law will weaken their influence over the state. so iran's influence will weaken. so it ran really trying to assert its presence her show, and that it is the main player and lebanese politics. and it, too, is a stakeholder at a time that are many western envoys are, are visiting, are visiting lebanon. the world health organization is backing the roll out of the 1st of a vaccine against malaria. it's a big step in the battle against the virus, which is one of the leading killers of children is recommended. the job should be given to millions of children across africa, rhetoric. and because this report is being described as a game changer for child health, a vaccine that could help save the lives of hundreds o

and the logic of rule in a country like lebanon isn't to govern. it's to divide up the wealth and power of the country. so it was a corrupt political, has agreed to put, my son is joseph. and the board of bade work and that just blew up. and no budgeted now is has accountable for the i we live in that much corruption that even human lives. it's not worth it anymore to those people. it's not just that they failed us. it's that they are to me oh, i have an n g all. so when the explosion took place, unfortunately, we had teams in place for construction because you had already done that because you have to know that's in lebanon. it's personal initiatives and civil society who does the work of what a state should be doing because we do not have a state that has me so so he could be an associate will see can have that. so that can and what about media media defeat on live equipment. ok. so have the muzzle title and seizures in this little a little have of i do live in the initial they can actually oh the the entering and autonomy which cannot see the ni

they're, they're pretty equally matched the 2 sides and lebanon. now, me korean, it's a very difficult situation. and there's no clarity about how it's going to, and remy apologies for interrupting you there. but we got a good sense of what you think this might go next. thank you so much. still come here on al jazeera, for a gypsy offices, accused of killing the italian student julia rey, genie in 2016. go on trial in road, but they will not appear in court. high level talks in london, the, the u. k. need to discuss the future of the border between northern island and the republic. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day of 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways, boated world's best airline of 2021. whether alerts fill in play for southern sections of india. hello everyone. let me show you. i'm talking about care la rate through into time on that do the risk of flooding is still here. now at the same time, we are seeing rain filling across the bay have been gall ploughing right into areas of thailand and me, and mar, you know, around to b

i just arrived actually here and from lebanon. so i was there in september and, and i think, i actually think the very interesting question because most of the questions that we have been asked or for the past 2 years is about, you know, being qualitative. how are you going to make the change? how are you going to change its ruling class? and i think this such as to the human that we still are as the population and that we tend to forget. and how we feel is that we feel cornered in prison who feels forgotten. i mean, we feel bad and we thought that after one of the biggest explosions in the history and this, this is going to be the, the maximum of our suffering. and this is going to end. and yet we fold down every day more and more. so i think that we feel stuck, some of us are trying to find a way out. and some of us are trying to find a way out still being am in be lute and, and, and, and yet i feel that all the rage that we have poured on the streets and that we have stored in on august for after a year of the explosion is alwa

the move wasn't approved by lebanon's government prime minister. and as you may anti said, it violated the country sovereignty. nevertheless, he received the iranian diplomat and by means it is completely, ann is complete. the laugh, our hearse is all this breach of the balance of a key. but more importantly, mr. me and his government are you, in order to, to find a way to get out of this economy and financial crisis. lebanon is in economic turmoil. it's seeking a bailiff package from the international community. this could undermine iran's influence, since the much needed hard currency will have to come from the west and lebanon's, traditional allies, gulf arab countries. as of late, those governments shunned lebanon because of iran's influence here, as it is caught in the middle of the hands rivalry with saudi arabia. and the united states has bella is armed and along with its allies, controls, political power in lebanon. critics say it is for the ring, iran's agenda at lebanon's expense. we don't feel that libyan is besieged boy merrill by any c

. critics say it is furthering iran's agenda at lebanon's expense. we don't feel that liberal is besieged boy or by any country. the only country that is so feuding or making rubin and severe really. and the factors relations was the international community. is the malpractice over u. m. and it's proxies. the visit by iran's foreign minister was more of a message than one of substance. and while he received a warm welcome, lebanese officials were careful, at least publicly, not to position themselves firmly in one camp center for their elder cedar beirut. has promised we want to bring in the testimony of the former you especially envoy for haiti before the house foreign affairs committee. ambassador daniel, for to resigned in september after criticizing the decision or by the by didn't administration to deport thousands of haitian migraines from the us mexico border. let's watch and listen. are we recommended that the national police establish an anti gang task force with several components, including commandos communicators, intelligence, people wit

lebanon's national grid was already weak. - electricity. lebanon's national grid was already weak.icity. lebanon's national| grid was already weak. when it works it is only for one or two hours a day. before the country's poorest it is a vital lifeline. people here are dealing with crisis after crisis and while the blackout was not a surprise it is just another thing to make an already difficult life even tougher. this is keeping the lights on for 300 flats. those who can pay for expensive private generators but prices have doubled in the last month and they are getting harder to afford. and they are getting harder to afford, , .,, afford. some people text me that we don't _ afford. some people text me that we don't have _ afford. some people text me that we don't have much - afford. some people text me i that we don't have much money and we are helping them but it is difficult for us as well. so without all _ is difficult for us as well. so without all of this and without you, the people are in complete darkness? yes, unfortunately. a ship carrying fuel is on its way. it is anothe

. critics say it is for the ring, iran's agenda at lebanon's expense. we don't feel that libyan is besieged by them by any country. the only country that is so feuding or making rubin and severe really. and the fact to its relations with the international community is the amount of practice over yolanda and it's proxies. the visit by iran's foreign minister was more of a message than one of substance. and while he received a warm welcome, lebanese officials were careful, at least publicly, not to position themselves firmly in one camp center for their elder sita, they wrote. the families of people have disappeared in mexico are searching the countryside for their bodies. some 80000 people have vanished many of them, victims of criminal gangs or the ongoing drug. boy, john hallman spent 4 days with one group of families in the western state, a metallica when. okay, to begin with, we're heading into a ranch in which we can state southwest mexico. a group of families have come here to search for their treasures. oh, that's what they call that disappeared r

in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on out jazeera ah a day of morning in lebanon after the biggest st battles in bay route in more than a decade. ah, i'm sammy's a dan. this is al jazeera live from dell hall. so coming up, a pledge to help africa, 5, the pandemic, the u. s. president promises to send millions more vaccines to the continent. standing up for their former president protest is in georgia. call for the release of mikhail sac ashville li, indonesia is resort island of bali reopens for international travelers. but it's little comfort for businesses relying on tourism. ah, lebanon is observing a day of national morning after bay roots, worst street violence in more than a decade. 7 people died when the city was rocked by gun fire and rocket propelled grenades on thursday. many more were wounded to day began as a protest organized by has belie its allies over the bay route port explosion investigation. but it soon descended into hours of gun fights with unidentified snipers on rooftops. let's go live to santa horace. she joins us now from beirut. susanna,

and poverty that has never been seen in lebanon. so had a station price increase, the risk evaluation. this is the economy, the more inequality we have, the less democracy we have. i know nothing about equality of incomes. it says nothing about a quality of wealth, but it does say that everyone must be politically in. rather, the problem really is when social and economic inequality seats into the political sphere, there is no doubt that wealthy citizens have more influence over political outcomes than poor ones. those who are already very wealthy use their wealth to corrupt politicians. so when you have concentrated well, the temptation of the extremely wealthy is to use their economic power to convert it into political power through lobbying and political control so that they can then reproduce their can amik concentration of wealth. and you get into a vicious cycle ah, democracy does not succeed in the ad words, because we do not know how to deal with democracy. we have dictators there just people who just want to fill their pock

and the logic of rule in a country like lebanon isn't to govern. it's to divide up the wealth and power of the country. so it was a corrupt political class that had agreed to put massive explosives and the point of bade was, and that just blew up and nobody to now is, has a town to before this we live in bad smarts, corruption, that even human life is not worth it anymore to those people. it's not just that they failed us. it's that they attribute with i have an angie or so when the explosion took place. unfortunately, we had tim's and place for unstructured because you had already done that because you have to know that in lebanon, it's personal initiatives and civil society who does the work of what a state should be doing. because we do not have a state that help with so whoever, so he a for, could um to look in on a list. i mean, i know that will be an issue and it's gonna go so chip or he can hear that good. so how that can and when they know what the month of our most they they aletha near me away the film and saddle. libby coming from us in

it seems to syria and lebanon, said that that can be used to generate electricity. there is a battle for the future. and the, the, the energy basis of lebanon, between the united states, on one hand, and has been on the other. really good to get your thoughts on this, andrew tell, but we appreciate you being with us and i'll just 0. thank you very much indeed. thank you. taliban delegation is in turkey, as it continues a diplomatic push for support and international recognition. they've met the turkish foreign minister in ankara comes a day after talks and cut off with a group appealed to us and european officials, the end of kind of stands, isolating the taliban once the west to east financial restrictions that it says are crippling the country. and we advised to taliban administration once again that they should be inclusive for the unity of the country. we told them the importance of including all ethnic and religious groups in the administration of the country. we've underlined one thing and do not see this as a request from the west, but an expectation from the

and a columnist for l monitors, lebanon poles. he joins us from skype from bay, wrote up semi, you're obviously inside your home. so your say what have you? so i'm in this is, i mean the defects upward is like the beginning off. i said, the lord and the message is the clear by those who are the staging the scenes, whether you're punting, you know, with justice process with the investigation or are you afraid is the civil war. and because it comes within a context, this comes with a line based off. it's your 1st of all to intimidate the judges for prosecutor term. the judge, the dog. and ben doesn't judge so long. the one, 0, reason time kemi, i, you. so there we just want to make sure that sammy is still there. we may have lost our guest unfortunately. so what we'll do is we'll cross back to those live in beirut, and we'll let you listen to some of that gum fly that you can me a very loud and clear. i believe we, we do have the semi out our guest at semi naida. we have him via just audio at the stage. sammy, just give us a context

usually lebanon is in this price to do the way sion that may lead to civil war. and then everybody, every time, everywhere during the summer on all the political use and when employees however, maybe has to assert himself as the main play of as the main the core to play it of the politic 11. and because what, what we've seen from has been we have seen, also organize on before. you know what any thoughts it is not. however, everybody is using drugs be thought as $1.00 to $5.00. yes. am going to think is what is the size in life, even in the united states of america and living on the judges are assigned by politicians and they bring their own people to this place. but this guy let him play because i think he followed certain areas. he said everybody that really received a letter in the letter about the, you know, and it throughout the ammonium will be asked for responsibility. you know what i mean. so why we don't like this a play goes on and goes on plenty more still to come for you here on the news r, including norway says an attack by a man using a bow and arrow

the overwhelming majority of people around the world who deal with lebanon want it to happen. they want to stop these situations where people are killed and explosions happened, whatever, but they've never been able to come up with an agreement on how to do it. so we just have to wait and see where the balance of power is when the dust settles. well, i guess the difference between what's happening now and you know, what history, what was in, in the past in the context of course, is the context lebanon today, experiencing an economic crisis like no other with power caps. people not able to withdraw their money from banks, it's the country really are on the brink of economic laps. and that we've seen the international community in countries like france called carmen. so on, is there anything the international community can do? is there any leverage that it has right now to try and put a lead on these political tensions given, given this economic context and that the countries experiencing today, recent, experienced in the last 2030 years? so just that, no, there is no internatio

and 19 people arrested in lebanon, just days after the was fonts and decades. we will have a live uptake from barrett and his fault, sir, killing him by fe, is the match, went affirm perry sanjay man and by firing his st. civic g o. j, extending beast was laid off the french late. mm. so assigning his out with that kind of stuff we're tell about leaders are sending a delegation to is becca stump. this is part of a push for more support and recognition, but really there are big security issues at home right now to deal with after another major attack i saw in afghanistan, who said it was behind the killing of 48 people in a she or mosque and the taliban stronghold of kandahar nearly 100 others injured with several suicide bombers reported to have been involved. it follows a similar attack in the northern city of condos last week. let's start with stephanie deca in kabul. and stephanie, just in the way that over the last decade, oh so we would immediately assume it was the taliban behind her attack. now it's starting to look like iso. absolutely, and i think it w

we brought part of it here to lebanon, and who could build our collection here? we could make it available again for researchers. all the seeds that come here are tested in the lab for viability. some are then cross bred to increase their resilience and improve productivity. yeah, to make sure of 2 things 1st that they are free of diseases. second that they can actually germany. they can produce plaque. they're alive and working, live and working, see the each one of those samples should have at least 85 feed out of 100. that proud and give healthy class. that's the threshold that's that's fresh the seeds are thriving. but back in syria, the war has decimated the countries ability to grow food. one of the goals here in lebanon is to create a healthy seed collection to help ensure the future of agriculture and syria. when the conflict ends up here from the roof, i can see that there are fields, there are green houses, there's even some cattle. and it's not just about saving the seeds, but also testing them, trying to find out the best variations that can withstand

lebanon is in the worst _ country is in real distress.story. _ is in the worst recession in history. i— is in the worst recession in history, i think, is in the worst recession in history, ithink, and have no power for most _ history, ithink, and have no power for most of— history, ithink, and have no power for most of the day and night for the last— for most of the day and night for the last week, and now the echo of lui'i the last week, and now the echo of gun fire _ the last week, and now the echo of gun fire in — the last week, and now the echo of gun fire in the streets again, which is in a _ gun fire in the streets again, which is in a god — gun fire in the streets again, which is in a god lebanon's on the two recent— is in a god lebanon's on the two recent history. it'sjust a dreadful shame _ recent history. it'sjust a dreadful shame that this country, beautiful country— shame that this country, beautiful country cannot be lifted out and has no political — country cannot be lifted out and has no political leadership or any politica

usually lebanon is ms. price to do the way that may lead to civil war, and then everybody, every time, everywhere during the history on all the political use and let impose, however, maybe has been life threatening to assert himself as the main play of as the main, the quarter play of the politic level, because what, what we've seen from has been we have seen, also organized on before. you know what i mean? so it is not, however, everybody is accusing. doug, be thought as funny. yes, everything is what is the size in life? even in the united states, america and level on the judges are assigned by politicians and they bring their own people to this place. but this guy let him play because i think he followed certain areas. he said, everybody that really received a letter in the letter about the, you know, and trust ammonium will be asked for responsibility. you know what i mean. so why we don't let this play goes on and goes on to more world news now and a high level taliban delegation is in turkey, as it co

and i've had the baton lebanon, were a group of sciences, rebuilding a seed bank that was displaced by the war in serial i. o. in august 2017. a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing began in me in march. oh, the military and buddhist radicals claimed the lives of more than $6000.00 bohemia in a single month. fearing death, thousands more fled the country for the forest, the bung with oh, the scale of the exodus was enormous. to day they are still unable to return home with a 1200000 ro hinder refugees living inside of the falling cats. the band with this is now the biggest, not meant of refugees in the world. many of them have access to clean water sanitation, or even electricity good. after they arrived, the survivors space to new threats. while i was rampaging through a meeting and one of them witnessed the initial episode 1st hand it came from there with the elephant, came through on the past, from the jungle over that way, went directly to her and started beating her hat with this was no one not allison, struck repeatedly throughout the camp, killing 13 people in the space of 5 mont

what stage in the process is lebanon at? judge tarek bitar has _ in the process is lebanon at?is lebanon at? judge tarek bitar has been trying - in the process is lebanon at? irrrs tarek bitar has been trying to summon and charge a whole raft of politicians and security officials that he believes has grounds to charge with negligence, which led to, or other criminal malfeasance, which led to this devastating explosion. he has being blocked at every turn from actually bringing these guys and to answer questions. there has been several legal challenges made that have basically stopped his probe. and as we speak today, one of the final legal challenges was dismissed by a higher court, sojudge tarek bitar was being allowed to continue. but it's just every turn, the guy is being faced with new obstacles being thrown up by this political class that quite clearly does not want him to continue this investigation. clwyd, finally, presumably the challenges that inquiry is having is symptomatic of a broader malaise in lebanon. what efforts are being made to try to break out of the vicious