for example, this morning i was at a program at the tripoli port to see how we can use tripoli port andssistance to bring grain, all types of grain and cattle feed and animal feed and wheat as well using the tripoli port and having some installations there. yesterday i was examining the beirut port to do the same. the great news is that beirut port container terminal will practically be fully operational within a few days. with the crisis in your country is so severe, notjust all of the impacts of the terrible explosion but also the covid—i9 pandemic putting enormous strain on your healthcare system, the un saying that 50% of your population may very soon be going hungry with 75% reliant on aid. in that context, with every hour so urgent, why did you and all of your colleagues in government choose to resign and walk away? ok, let's be clear about a few things. number one — even before this terrible blast, the world bank estimates were that we were around 50% poverty level and that by the end of the year we would reach 60% poverty level. of course, this blast is going to worsen the situa

for example, this morning i was at a program at the tripoli port to see how we can use that port andistance 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 news is that beirut port container terminal will practically be fully operational within a few days. if the crisis in your country so days. if the crisis in your country so severe, days. if the crisis in your country so severe, notjust days. if the crisis in your country so severe, not just all of the impacts of the terrible explosion but also the covid—i9 pandemic putting an enormous strain on your healthcare system, the un saying that 50% of your population may very soon be going hungry with 75% reliant on aids, in that context with every hour, so urgent, why did you and all of your colleagues in government choose to resign and walk away? 0k, choose to resign and walk away? ok, let's be clear that a few things. number one, even before this last

, the ta kes 25% there is tripoli port, the takes 25% of the capacity.isks, you look at the region asa risks, you look at the region as a whole, the stability of that region. presumably, there are plenty of countries who will no that are destabilised lebanon is a very bad thing. do you think there is still that regard, that additional support can and will come in? i think so. can and will come in? i think so. we have seen offers of support coming from places you wouldn't expect, israel being the obvious one. iran even came out and blamed lebanon and the lebanese government for the accident on tuesday. there is a general consensus that lebanon needs help and lebanon should get help, and as i said earlier, how that gets in to the country and who manages that and how that gets in will be the two key factors in determining how quickly u nsuccessful determining how quickly unsuccessful lebanon is for rebuilding. absolutely. andrew, thank you very much indeed. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: european football is back. manchester united and inter milan

tripoli port is scrambling to get itself ready to accept vessels. than 40% of what the beirut port used to cover. as far as international organizations are concerned, it's also a concern for our pipeline to syria, because we received a lot of the humanitarian assistance to syria through beirut port. we had teams two days ago at the explosion site, checking the state of the warehouses, checking the state of the vessels as well that had just arrived, to see what we could salvage from our own assistance, from the warehouses at the port, as well as to identify the west course of action going forward. >> there's so much need, we wish you the best of luck in trying to fulfill it. thank you so much, international committee of the red cross in beirut, doing great work out there, appreciate it. >>> still to come, imagine being homeless during a pandemic. we're going to visit cities across the united states to see the extra challenges of caring for those on the streets in the era of covid. >>> plus, it's decision time for joe biden. he's expected to announce h

why the port of tripoli is 300000 containers however given the crisis the economic recession that lebanon is going through the port of beirut was actually having a 30 percent so the total bill was actually running at 300000 and they know why the board of people who was basically in the trillion and they were doing like 70 can did the right so you can shift everything to do we believe if the economy does not grow if you stay in every session now if you expect one day to pick up and and regain the growth you would really need to fix the political be too quickly right and the speed here is very crucial. of course now a lot of international aid is going to be arriving in terms of materials in terms of food in terms of medicines how is that going to get into the country. i had a lot of aid is being channeled through the airport right by my airplanes now of course this is much more expensive and i don't know if the air would have enough to do to get all of this and i think that we can transfer most of the shipments through the port of tripoli and i mean the port of to put it is good enough ther

trouble's tripoli airport people port because it was as important as well not as. big of the port but this or kid for who moved who made it didn't there was no other option except for here and c. because of the year of your geopolitical. surrounded by syria and his road it just difficult to send some winter and to be. roads and. maybe turkey. mediterranean because it's because i think is it. by sea to 2 books. from turkey or medicine to the troubles and the use that it's hard to know exactly what the government is thinking because they're dealing with so many issues you know of course this is part of my but all the other issues we've been going through as well so when we heard that president michel even has convened an emergency meeting of the supreme defense council leading to lots of troops on the on the street why would that be is up because of a fear of looting could could not be because perhaps there is more to this than meets the eye that they need to get a sizable military presence on the streets because they fear something more could happen it's a it's a pe

reporter: the port of tripoli was never the preferred point of entry for container ships applying lebanon with essential goods. with beirut's infrastructure destroyed, the situation changed. [speaking foreign language] reporter: lebanon produces little and relies heavily on imports. to avoid shortages, staff and the tripoli terminal have been stepping up efforts. beirut,g the blasted the economic effects felt 80 miles south. >> [speaking foreign language] reporter: an investigation is still on the way to identify the exact cause behind the devastating blast here at the port of beirut. british and french ships notably managed to dock your to bring in much-needed aid. authority said the port could operate again but the level of destruction is such that the situation is extremely complicated and there are no longer the necessary warehououss to store the goods coming in. thanknks to him, thanks too yoyou for watching, stay with u. there is more to come. today warns of the planet where the economy has collapsed. the air is unbreakable, new diseases have been unleashed. a planet no longer fit f

percent of the grain reserves of the country being taken out it poses a significant questions the port of tripoli is being really purposed to accept. cargo flights have been coming in in the past few days it's too early at the moment to understand exactly what the consequences are on the market but it's safe to say that we expect to see very significant potential impacts on people's ability to access today in the coming months violet you heard carlos speaker earlier about how vulnerable the refugee populations are in lebanon you have 1500000 syrian refugees you have hundreds of thousands of palestinian refugees i want to ask you specifically about child refugees in lebanon how vulnerable are they right now well they have been to a very very vulnerable already that's a large segment of the pashtun population that we've been dealing with and supporting for many many years now and already maybe year and a half ago their livelihood opportunities were really already taken away because the economic crisis and the lebanese were prioritise meaning that the small jobs that they might have had his parents

the main port is out of action of getting it in what other stuff is queuing up at the other ports in tripoli foodstuffs medicine is so it's a whole combination of challenges that they face in the french military assistance so i was speaking to earlier on they say could be many many months of rebuilding is difficult to say how long it's going to say but there is an enormous task at hand one of the biggest challenges that the people i've been speaking to say that face many thanks bernard smith reporting live from that school in beirut. there was a certain nights of unrest in belarus last night sangar and accusations of election fraud continue to grow it follows the election victory of the president alexander lukashenko thousands of opposition supporters have been detained during the protests which began after the vote on sunday the opposition candidates for atlanta took on skaro is now in neighboring the few ania. still to come here on al-jazeera back out in force on the streets of mali the opposition rejects pleas from regional mediators. and strangers in some of the water argentina turns up

they'll have to open a second port in tripoli.hey were already importing 80% of their food. >> i saw one story it may have been a toxic and fatal combination of the toxic amonium nitrate which you use as fertilizer unbelievably a fireworks storage depot next to that amonium nitrate. >> right all i say to that is it is lebanon and things have been happening. you'll see how difficult it will be in this country in the mist of the crisis to pull itself out from the deep crisis it is in and countries in the surrounding region have pledged support but are they going to pony up dollars. in the past, they are existed on the lebanese money sent back to beirut as a result of covid hitting all of the economies of the region, particularly of the donor states like saudi arabia. >> truly the pictures we are seeing are terrifying. videos on social media showing the actual blast thank you for joining us >>> on deck, the decline of american dairy we'll speak with a member of a multi-generational farm that has left the business and the changing lan

twisted remains of the country's main port warehouses everything in there food included other goats destroyed or traffic has been diverted further up the coast to tripoli the 2nd port but it is having trouble managing with the capacity and managing with the demands of taking in extra supplies it is really at the same time a devastating and a shocking scene. while there is plenty more ahead here this news hour including a tribute to brazil's coronavirus victims as the country reaches a somber milestone. ridiculous and barbarous china condemns u.s. sanctions on hong kong's leader its police chief and other officials and the controversial car being dumped the pink lafave creates a big surprise in qualifying for sunday's formula one race. brazil's death toll from the corona virus pandemic has now passed 100000 and so wild west outbreak after the united states. reports from rio de janeiro. one time bus driver i was 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 sun will solve a cemetery on the outskirts of rio de janeiro. we had

is the 2nd port up in the north in tripoli it's a much smaller hold and it's very close to the syrian border also security concerns hold. destruction of that by report is really. not only to import essentially you know goods but specifically food and other essential. all right christoph klayman with the foundation thank you very much thank you let's switch gears and go to africa now president félix just a lockdown plan was supposed to protect the democratic republic of congo from the chrono virus pandemic but was ease that the end of july inflation was up to 17 percent and that's left many facing ruin. fishmonger amelia kapanga is in a bind she buys her fish at the local wholesaler for prices that keep going up and she composite the difference on to her customers. we are fed up used to buy small fish for 20000 francs but today there are over 33 and we used to buy big fish 435000 products and now it's 45 it's really difficult there's no profit. when it's. money changes on the streets revealed just how much the congolese frank is falling in the democratic republic of congo many things a

is the 2nd port up in the north in tripoli it's a much smaller hole and it's very close to the syrian border also a security concern told in that sense the destruction of that by report is really. not only to import essential. goods but specifically food and how they essentially . all right christoph klayman with the foundation thank you very much thank you. there were wall street now where the 2nd quarter was a bloodbath for many companies but investors expected worse and that's helped push markets back up to record territory with more than 400 of the s. and p. 500 listen companies having reported earnings were 22 percent above analysts expectations for that period covers the lock down heavy months of april may and june detector the nasdaq index has already reached a new record all the s. and p. 500 is nearing its previous record set in february. and let's look into this with our financial correspondent in new york korda. yens investors seem happy but the reality is that a lot of these companies really got hit hard in the 2nd quarter is wall street's on a different page than main str

short term solutions as basically redirecting imports through some of the other ports such as the one inside the north tripoli or the one in g.l. as well so this is where you are a basic the you will manage to maintain some sort of security and also maintaining the electricity to a certain love and through importing the fuel however in the long term i think a project similar to china growth initiative would be a bit more suitable despite the criticism about the chinese loans. right a harrowing picture there in lebanon at the moment i some casa bia in dubai thank you very much thank you and let's go over to africa now where tourism is a major industry in capetown bringing in money and jobs and otherwise struggling a cock khana me thinking the pen demick south africa like much of the rest of the world is at a standstill and that's put 90000 jobs on the line the government is trying to help but some think that it might not be enough. it's been voted africa's top tourist destination many a time but like numerous destinations around the globe cape town's tourism industry has been hit hard by the pandemic hotels ar

the short term solutions is basically redirecting imports to some of the other ports such as the one inside the north tripoli or the one in g.e. as well so this is where your basic the you will manage to maintain some sort of food security and also maintaining the electricity to a certain level through importing the fuel however in the long term i think a project similar to china and growth initiative would be a bit more suitable despite the criticism about the chinese loans. right harrowing picture there in lebanon at the moment i see some concept be enjoyed by thank you very much. thank you. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona. covert 19 special next on d w like like the gentleman with. any time any place. video never. have i don't the benefit of. songs to sing along to download seems to come from soup. to a guy. very clipped into active exercise is the hard thing about the devil you don't come slashdot on facebook in the uk still. german for free w. . america has become. a flyer. believe me. this means. same place o

secure a ceasefire in the divided country turkey and qatar support that tripoli based government government troops are surrounding a port in mozambique after it was captured by isis a link to find his last week it is the 3rd time that markham bowed to pressure a key town and a gas rich province has been attacked this year regional leaders have agreed to support mozambique in combating the threats. and parts of argentina's capital of them brought to a standstill by protesters calling for an end to months of coronavirus restrictions sunday mots the latin american countries 150 a day in lockdown though it still has one of the highest corona virus infection rates in the us there you go you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera people history has called it the great war in the 2nd at the center of the declining also an empire forges its alliance with germany and the central powers as the war gives birth to 3 nationalist movements that will determine the future world war one through our of the eyes on al-jazeera. best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is als

the government has already said they are going to use the port in the city of tripoli.nclear if that will be able to fully compensate for the loss of such a major artery for the lebanese economy. francine: thank you so much, our bluebird middle east executive editor riad hamade. joining us now is yacov arnopolin, pimco emerging markets portfolio manager. should lebanon at this point ? how doesreign aid the economy look, given what we know about lebanon and the if closing yesterday -- and the explosion yesterday? yacov: thank you for having me on. first of all, this is a tragedy. our thoughts and our prayers go out to the people of beirut and the people of lebanon. this is probably the biggest in the country since the civil war that ended 25 years ago. having said that, everyone is still puzzling over what exactly happened, whether this was an accident or a terrorist attack. , obviouslye latter it is very negative because this sectarian tensions among the various groups in lebanon. if it is with an accident, that may prompt the downfall of the government, which is alread

tripoli based government. government troops surrounding a port in mozambique after it was captured by isis a link to find his last week it is the 3rd time that to pray a key town and a gas rich province has been attacked this year regional leaders have agreed to support mozambique in combating the threats in parts of argentina's capital of them brought to a standstill by protesters calling for an end to months of coronavirus restrictions sunday not the latin american countries 150 a day in lockdown though it still has one of the highest corona virus infection rates in the us there you go you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera people history has called it the great war in the 2nd that the sometimes the declining onto an empire forges its alliance with germany and the central powers as the war gives birth to 3 nationalist movements that will determine the future world war one through our of the eyes on knowledge is iraq. best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is also a major cut to make the western locals long delayed these tests of the toxic e

which produces $300000.00 barrels a day and russia's control of oil fields and ports means the un recognized government in tripoli can't pay its civil servants russian private military contractors are active in 16 african nations that's according to africa washington has threatened to sanction have to are it was a u.s. citizen and a former cia as it owns property worth more than half a 1000000 dollars in the united states so what is russia's end game and caught in the middle of all of this are the libyan people themselves let's bring in france's guinness in tunis he's a north africa analyst and former financial times correspondent frances this conflict is turning into a real mess isn't it i mean russia is printing money for have to as political base in the east and having lost the battle to tripoli russia now seems to be going after the main economic resource which is of course oil. well i think in a way all this is sad to predictable because when the french took the decision to cheerlead britain and america into libya their intent was to protect the inhabitants of being down there but it quickly turned into an o

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 mining but a lot needs to go wrong because such a big blast the blast we saw on tuesday that is because ammonium nitrate is not flammable on its own instead it acts as an oxidizer that increases it's burning decomposing or a stored for long periods of time in the wrong way it can become contaminated making it an accelerant during intense heat could lead to an explosion the blast in lebannon may have started with a fire and one of the biggest known nuclear explosions ever recorded hey mr gordon is a chemical weapons expert he said to us a little earlier ammonium nitrate should never have been stored in this way. most countries around the world the very strict regulations on how you store and i tr

turkey and qatar support the tripoli based government and they defeated a 14 month campaign to seize the capital by world order and the fafsa. government troops are surrounding a port in mozambique after it was captured by eisel linked fighters last week it is the 3rd time the moken border prayer a key town in a gas rich province has been attacks this year regional leaders have agreed to support mozambique in combating the threat lebanon's health minister says the country's overwhelmed by new coronavirus infections following the deadly port explosion in beirut earlier this month a record 456 new infections were diagnosed on monday edging the nationwide total closer 210000 the health minister says a new 2 week lockdown is needed after the blast but some hospitals are out of action had been a lockdown plan but it was then postponed when thousands of people were less homeless by the explosion. finally parts of argentina's capital of been brought to a standstill by protesters calling for an end to months of coronavirus restrictions the latin american nation has been under lockdown for more than $150.00 days but it still has one of the highest rates of corona virus infe

twisted remains of the country's main port warehouses everything in that food included all the goats destroyed or traffic has been diverted to. the coast to tripoli the 2nd but it is having trouble managing with the capacity to manage with the demands of taking in extra supplies it is really at the same time a devastating and a shocking scene. well let's take you back now to the streets of beirut you can see those fires there still raging and those clouds of tear gas that have been fired at demonstrations they are very much still out on the streets despite prime minister how sunday of speech our correspondents anahata is there amongst them they know we heard as we were talking about earlier promise to introduce the suggestion of the elections on monday and you mentioned earlier the demonstrators there are calling it a win but they don't seem to be wanting to leave the streets anytime soon is the anger that is still palpable and is there a way for the current government to try to to stem that with the suggestion of any elections or is are not really going to make a dent. well he proposed to us just a few minutes ago i'm not sure if everybody here

tripoli heikal massa pressed for an end to the conflict is warning that the situation is deceptively calm no more leaders must keep up the reference to negotiate a peace deal government troops are surrounding a port in mozambique after it was captured by ice a link fighters last week it's a 3rd time and look into the prior key town in which province has been attacks this year on groups who carried out a series of attacks in the coverdale gado region over the past 3 years hundreds of people have been killed and tens of thousands have been displaced u.n. officials have documented reports of kidnappings and torture was a big sami has a large presence in the region and private militia groups from russia and south africa have also provided assistance south africa is reportedly considering deploying troops to the region but might also include contributions from zimbabwe and angola leaders of the southern african development community have held of virtual meeting on the issue on which has this update from hadi in neighboring zimbabwe the annual site it heads of state meeting ended with leaders say they're going to collectively assist mozambique deal with the violence in the north but they didn't say wha

twisted remains of the country's main port where houses everything in that food included other goats destroyed or traffic has been diverted further up the coast to tripoli the 2nd border but it is having trouble managing with the capacity and managing with the demands of taking in extra supplies it is really at the same time a devastating and a shocking scene. let's move on to some other news now and hong kong is condemning the u.s. for imposing sanctions on its top leaders calling the decision despicable and shameless chief executive kerry lamb and the current and former police chiefs are among 11 officials whose u.s. assets will be frozen. reports from hong kong. the united states went directly to the top singling out hong kong chief executive kerry land and imposing sanctions on any american assets she has also targeted is hong kong's police chief chris tang his predecessor and other officials americans and u.s. businesses are banned from dealing with them the u.s. secretary of state said the sanctions target individuals responsible for imposing a national security law in hong kong my compiler says the sweeping legislation is unacceptable and cartels

twisted remains of the country's main port warehouses everything in their food included all the goats were destroyed or traffic has been diverted further up the coast to tripoli the 2nd border but it is having trouble managing with the capacity and managing with the demands of taking in extra supplies it is really at the same time a devastating and a shocking scene. with the news hour live from london much more still ahead. protesters are back out in west jerusalem calling for israel's prime minister 6 to step down. afghanistan's highest consultative body recommends the government release $400.00 taliban prisoners but only if they promise not to return to fighting. and the controversial car being dubbed the pinkness sadie's creates a big surprise in qualifying the sunday school no one grand prix. the main opposition candidate in belarus his election has gone into hiding in the past few hours after 2 of her top aides for the. by police so that lynette to kind of skye is running against the man who's been called europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko her supporters have been taking part in a car protest on the streets of the capital minsk making the opposi

remains of the country's main port where houses everything in that hooting polluted other goats were destroyed or traffic has been diverted further up the coast to tripoli the 2nd point but it is having trouble managing with the capacity and managing with the demands of taking in extra supplies. well ammonium nitrate is believed to have caused the blast on tuesday in the beirut port area is the most common fertilizer used globally and the main component in explosives often used in mining but a lot needs to go wrong to core such a huge blast that's because ammonium nitrate is not flammable on its own instead it acts as what's called an oxidizer that increases the burning and decomposing aura stored for long periods of time it can become contaminated making it an accelerant during intense heat that could lead to an explosion the explosion we saw on tuesday the blast in lebanon may have started with a fire and is one of the biggest known nuclear explosions ever recorded hey mr breton gordon is a chemical weapons expert who joins us on skype from a mish welcome back to the news how can anybody in any country get to the stage where so much ammonium nitrate i

of 2004 and then so ruled in tripoli and made in january 2005 to $21.00 known men parts of the counter were recovered at the crime scene and in the waters of the nearby port the engine block identifies it as the japanese can't. mr herrera's convoy was equipped with jamming devices designed to prevent the remote determination of a bomb they were activated and work in on the fatal day the consensus of the various lebanese and international investigation teams was that a suicide bomber triggered the explosion the trial chamber agrees each team eliminated the possible means of determination as inappropriate for the target in a move in convoy of vehicles this leaves only the possibility of a remote control device or a suicide bomber the trial chamber has found beyond a reasonable doubt that a suicide bomber triggered the attack. 23 people died in the explosion or in the aftermath of the blast included in the suicide bomber however. 20 watching are just there and we are listening to the reading out of the verdict and the special tribunal for lebanon on this is the case against 4 hezbollah members charged of the assassination of rafik hariri some 15 years ago th