the same it was. 15 years ago in 2005 off that the ice to see nation of the former prime minister rafiq how do you read and the world will be watching to see what takes place in tomorrow's meeting as i read in beirut to thank you for your reporting thank you well there it was an important issue today in an international donor teleconference a co-hosted by french president. and the united nations to drum up emergency aid for lebanon for more let's go to our brussels bureau and a d.-w. correspondent of band regard to 36 countries and international organizations participating a what appears to have come out of the conference the donor countries pledged to come up with major resources in the next days and weeks that they promised in the final statement the goes to raise 100000000 euros for disaster relief and this goal is easily matched if you add up all the donations we lend to 200000000 euros the biggest a nation coming from the european union 63000000 euros so soon those move thursday to see who's not participating for example iran is not pledging anything over the iran is backing the major

each other as what happened in 25 of the city nation the prime minister rafiq how do you do. so the situation now is going to be a good one i'm going to with this political more especially the formation of a new government government it seems that it's not possible especially that it's a region into the cadence in such issue in lebanon i think everyday on the latest developments and lebannon thank you very much thank you. china is ramping up its crackdown on pro-democracy activists and hong kong police in the territory say they've carried out a national security operation that has seen several people detained among those arrested are activist agnes chalo and media tycoon jimmy lay mr lay is hong kong's most prominent pro-democracy campaigner and an outspoken critic of beijing's policies in the territory laze own newspaper reported he was being held for suspected collusion with foreign forces under the national security law introduced in june this was the moment of arrest to be lie put into an on mock police man outside his home in hong kong. then driven away. police raided th

ringback 15 years after the former lebanese prime minister rafiq ul how the resistance to nation a un backed court convicts the lead suspect. everybody's expectation was much higher than what came out but i believe that that tribunals came out with or their results that is satisfying.

verdict in the trial of 4 hezbollah members charged with conspiracy to kill former prime minister rafiq and how d.d. and $21.00 others. yash was found guilty the city others were acquitted because the circumstantial evidence was not strong enough to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt. prosecutors have based their case on evidence of a phone network that monitored how d.d. months before his death that went silent following his murder. how did he son saad himself a former prime minister was in the court in the hague for the judgement he welcomed the verdict vowing not to rest until punishment was served and calling on hezbollah to cooperate. with them in the name of the leader's family the martyr rafique hariri and in the name of all the families of martyrs and victims we accept the court's ruling and wish for justice to be served to be clear that we are not giving up our blood right. judges did say there wasn't enough evidence to prove direct involvement by hezbollah's leadership or the syrian government which was in control of lebanon at the time of the murder they did note i asked his a

verdict in the trial of 4 hezbollah members charged with conspiracy to kill former prime minister rafiq and how d.d. and $21.00 others ayyash was found guilty the 3 others were acquitted because the circumstantial evidence was not strong enough to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt. prosecutors have based their case on evidence of a phone network that monitored how d.d. months before his death that went silent following his murder. had even the son saad himself a former prime minister was in the court in the hague for the judgement he welcomed the verdict vowing not to rest until punishment was served and calling on hezbollah to cooperate. with them in the name of the leader's family the martyr rafique hariri and in the name of all the families of martyrs and victims we accept the court's ruling and wish but justice to be served to be clear that we are not giving up our blood right. judges did say there wasn't enough evidence to prove direct involvement by hezbollah's leadership or the syrian government which was in control of lebanon at the time of the murder they did note i asked his a

tribunals which has been investigating the case of the assassination of the former prime minister rafiq and how do you think that was back in 2005 and not explosion was just this massive but the one that explosion was a political earthquake the whole process the capital the whole country shook following his killing 3 days from today the verdict is going to be issued this will be the 1st time in a history that a fascination or a political killing is investigating and murders murderers are uncovered and. a police attempt to create the pertussis so you already have all see. this this political athletes here in the cut through. then you hear this not the most and so could you imagine what is going through the mind. every level. they play i didn't. know we cannot. not say whether or not this bet on the oh yeah whether it's a rock or whether. we're seeing pictures which show clearly signs of absolute devastation at the port area and it these pictures appear to be. the size of the explosion itself that you see that massive blast wave. heading out across the capital beirut. firefighters can we go back

even if that's the murder trial of the former prime minister rafiq hariri just after tell us a little bit about rafik hariri and then he. yes so how are africa area was the prime minister of lebanon he was a sunni muslim he den was replaced after his that he well he was replaced by his son. so in lebanon polity you have the president has to be a create a christian maronite the prime minister has to be a muslim sunni the president of the speaker of the house of the parliament has to be a muslim pure so there is a big divide inside within in lebanon with lebanon polity thought people feel it's hezbollah who committed this crime who killed their africare we saw on the verge of this very day so people might think it might be the hezbollah and other people might think it might be. in that take by israel because israel a few days ago or a few weeks ago had done the same if we had fewer explosion in iran saw people still don't know but it's it's kind of messy the whole lebanon is kind of messy with rafik hariri with the economy crisis and the with the unemployment going skywriting the lebanese prime minister has the. a day of mourning fo

how does their ascent acts palestinians. be the hero the world needs right now. a special tribunal convenes to decide a verdict on the assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafiq hariri. i'm all about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. testers and bellows heckled president alexander lukashenko none the main.

how to reports from beirut. this special tribunal for lebanon reached its verdict in the trial of 4 hezbollah members charged with conspiracy to kill former prime minister rafiq ahead e.d. and $21.00 others ayyash was found guilty the 3 others were acquitted because the circumstantial evidence was not strong enough to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt. prosecutors have based their case on evidence of a phone network that monitored how d.d. months before his death that went silent following his murder. had a son saad himself a former prime minister was in the court in the hague for the judgement he welcomed the verdict vowing not to rest until punishment was served and calling on hezbollah to cooperate. with them in the name of the leaders family the martyr rafique hariri and in the name of all the families of martyrs and victims we accept the court's ruling and wish but justice to be served to be clear that we are not giving up our blood right. judges did say there wasn't enough evidence to prove direct involvement by hezbollah's leadership or the syrian government which was in control of lebanon at the time of the murder they did note i asked his aff