Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240712

Prime minister says people have a right to be angry after decades of what he calls an unbelievable corruption. And in other news ridiculous and barbarous china condemns u. S. Sanctions on hong kong leader its police chief and other officials and marie as a state of environmental emergency after a massive oil leak from the japanese are unsure. If you just image with. Clear coach most. Of the term knocked out of the Champions League. Tuesdays port explosion in beirut has ignited a wave of anger towards the government right now thousands are protesting in the center of the lebanese capital have a look at these live pictures police have already fired tear gas to disperse demonstrate. As outside Parliament Leaders are accused of corruption and in action which led to tuesdays devastating blast which killed 158 people and wounded 6060 people remain missing around 300000 lebanese it was so homeless because of the damage caused 3 m. P. s from the opposition Christian Party could quit earlier that makes 5 resignations in total well thats now speak to our correspondent anna coren shes on the ground there for us in beirut as Martyrs Square they know were seeing these protests heading into their 3rd hour now already plenty of tear gas how have demonstrators there been responding. Defiance that has been the response as you can see behind me people have not left Martyrs Square they conferred steere earlier today in the hope of raising their voices they want to demand justice and revenge for the victims of tuesdays blast what is happening now is running battles in central beirut as some of the antiestablishment protesters try to storm the Parliament Building the Lebanese Army is calling on the protesters to stay peaceful saying that they will not allow them to destroy public or private property the internal Security Forces also issuing a statement saying that we understand the anger of the people but stay peaceful but for people here they tell you enough is enough the army cannot continue to support and protect a Political Class that has bankrupted us the country and starved us and now killed us those are the words were hearing starved us killed us bankrupted us this is a country where 50 percent of the people live below the poverty line you can see that the final people are chanting revolution revolution weve seen things like this before over the past few months when our antiestablishment Movement Began in october. But since then the movement largely fizzled out for many reasons but tuesdays blast really revived the momentum people say enough is enough so theyre demanding accountability theyre demanding justice for the victims of the blast that people here blame on the government they blame it on government negligence they blame it on government incompetence and theyre asking a lot of questions about their future were joined by Michelle Michelle lives abroad but she decided to come back to lebanon just 10 days ago shes going to tell us about her experience and the day on the day of the of the blast michele what happened to you as in a 1st. I want to thank you all i want to thank all the media for covering this for covering this beautiful humanitarian hopeless hour of live in these people trying to grasp onto their country i came from new york on 100 years ago i won i have a brand and you are but living on for me has always been my home so i wanted to come the produce my 1st collection and ive been on with hopes and dreams some goals like oh they live in you speak and on tuesday i was literally right there looking for an apartment so i can establish myself in lebanon for the time being and 10 minutes after we heard the explosion when the explosion happened i was on my way to my hotel and i was literally opening the door to get in and we heard this huge eruption in the hotel and we literally thought there was a bomb and so it was suites hotel and then all that got shot to madonna and then we looked around and we saw at the very root entire u. S. Destroyed its really looks like a war zone every night before i go to sleep i close my eyes and these are the images the stuff in my head the party with the dog all over the place running around confused with crying hopeless and who is doing all about. Hopeless many people believe this protest is hopeless that its very difficult to bring about change from the street because the reaction of the Political Class as well as the security establishment for the past few months now has been to clamp down on this movement to say that change will only come through the ballot box how do you see whats happening today. What i see today it is we are hopeless ive this point for hope this where we are literally we have survived the explosion but a part of all of us has died to be honest but what can we do i am one of the fortunate ones who can leave and establish myself outside but all these people cannot so what can we do of course were going to look hopeless against the army was fighting against us for me to get to right now i have to jump over the fence it almost died because i dont and you dont know what theyre throwing at trying for what. For a country for the people for the politicians that have sold us for 30 years over and over and over who is paying the price we are paying the price but what you see here you dont see a religion you dont see clouds you dont see anything you see lebanese people trying to survive trying to hold on to their country because theyre also going to go a lot of people here told me that theyre pinning a lot of hopes on the International Community that in one way or another in their words the International Community is going to say the people of lebanon do you see that as a possibility to be honest me and my friends abroad and a lot of people are brother doing a lot of donations and we do ask the world to stand with us and hold their hand during this this devastating catastrophe to keep sending aid because a small donation can go a long way but if you add up all the expenses to fix beirut its going to take more than that its going to take getting rid of getting rid of the government 1st and then trying to bring aid from the outside directly to both lebanon and then establishing a government thats going to stand with 7 on its people if we do not do that nothings going to happen weve been doing this since october 17th and has changed and done no one more can we are we going to wait for her all dads to role victims that people need to wake up especially the people who are still supporting these politicians exactly exactly this is this is something we really need to point out that this is not the majority or at least its very hard to say who is the majority and who is in the minority but definitely there are still people who support the Political Parties what is your message to them why do you think that they continue to support those in power who many blame really for running the economy into the ground you know what im not in the shoes and i always try to put myself in peoples shoes but when you create here and people when you when you weaken the people this is what happens they are controlled by money and theyre brainwashed and im here to tell them one thing even though they sold us theyre going to so. And you because this is politics you never know who is on top and whos going to win in this going on whos so stand with your people hold their hands lets bring back 11 on were living abroad its very hard to live abroad even though i live in on its like all my friends explain to me everything but this is our country i want to come back i want to build myself here i want to live with my people with my family and theyre the ones are sending in our ways our government is a terrorist group and theyre supporting it look around you look look at that look what theyve done to be roots. Michel i can understand you or your concerns about the future yes that everyone is talking about leaving if there is a possibility of a way out are you going to stay or have families you know why its for now im planning steak is this my country is nothing going to stop me and even though you dont see many people here dont forget we are facing at sundown nick so i do ask people to be careful but still look at us were here because we are survivors and were resilient and were going to get our country back no matter whats what when you saw the french president to visit the devastated neighborhoods of beirut its a question weve asked many lebanese in the past few days what what what went through your mind when you saw the scenes when he was among the crowd. I appreciated his presence among the crowd because it gave hope to the people but to me that it didnt really take an explosion half of the people to suffer and now and then tire beirut to fall on its on on its knees for people to look our way and politics everyones involved so you think the International Community. In one way or another could be exploiting. The situation the latest crisis that lebanon is that this is a country that which is deeply divided it is a country that has long been a battleground for different foreign powers as they vie for control i dont think anyone has been on since interests in their hearts and in their minds and its all a Monopoly Game thats all that. Its a conspiracy i dont know what it is but were the ones who are they for you and the people are for us thank you michelle so as you can see the. People want change but they know its not going to be and thats a fight. Indeed and lengthier very very frustrated angry fires indeed then a holiday on the streets of levon on the for us on the streets of beirut im sorry in moscow square well be following those protests very closely indeed just to remind you that there have been these protests they have been continuing for or even 2 hours now and we have seen clashes with the police well be bringing you all the latest here from the streets but in the meantime lebanons Prime Minister has india has says he understands the peoples anger and that corruption has been going on for decades i dont mind meeting the people i am part of the people go out there and deal with peoples anger will you answer the questions about occupation or words around have a problem doing that is no doubt that there is a lot of corruption over a period of 3 decades theres a political that has been ongoing for too many decades and we are here facing all of these accumulated problems from over 3 and 4 decades but are you going to go into the streets today this weekend and speak to me when im going on the streets about why you would fury im not afraid of People Security but of course they have the right to be furious saluted they have the right to be angry and furious not just because of this this is absolutely diabolical what happened but however. Also if you it is even before that forward to be the case of unbelievable corruption well lets dig into this with more on bashara hes al jazeera senior political analyst and he joins us now from london by one weve been hearing these politicians say they admit theres been corruption and that they are standing with the people what does that actually mean i mean no one seems to be going anywhere. You know because this. Is the politics. Which means. Its the us or because they are liars. They need to just explain what exactly is going on and why they are not sponsored. Also. And. Will not possibly to their citizens they have been. Involved in production. For nothing. But they have no other way and when we are faced with. A momentous event last tuesdays. To react this way trying to get away with what. Was in the streets of baghdad on with less. And not one where watching the scene along with the rest of the wilds of the police and the parliamentary protection out on the streets with their riot shields lots of tear gas i mean in some ways it does also feel like these protests are a show for the International Community to weve been hearing that from demonstrators and thats the same International Community here tomorrow will be pledging money to try to help fareed how might all of this affect perceptions of global even before that video call. Well if its important but its been going on. For 10 years now it has been. In the people. You know one day it was hard because it refers to what some of the press. Is on now for months for years. But it is clear to me before we get to the introduction. This is important for me to say not just read just a few moments ago. Which is yes we can bump or was the 1st to fight the 1st of us but unlike egypt theres action. I like with. Brando knocking and then going to the davy the Political Class of the existed then up and on has been elected democratically and no one for cricket in the eyes of the downside. Of admitting this is of action so if most people are in the street so they lose another streets another season to live on one day a different system they need to organize into political funds the 2nd not just completely and to get me wrong i think that once people are some of the most people not only for all but in the order general but they cannot hole their way i suppose they cannot belong straight their way out of this they cannot even express their anger honorably they cannot organize were going to group they want to replace the bird was this big an act organized political want to do and they can hope for an insurrection we know from the existing government who for the most the weakest trough for governments of 2nd across if another wants for free apps because in the end of the day you know you have various people who are then dont bother myself and take care of sewers whatever and that is missed in a big political fight that i need its to actually see what where the country is headed im out with it beginning with economics im inside the issues not so on so forth so much so that when you think youve got to do this i think theyre going to find this the matches even if the to some degree or sponsor their demands for more democracy less notice the sensitivity for. Who the senate was for not having growth. Its nice because the you know your structure part is great. Britain with nepotism law should and confidence are now the poor and it will explode but we did well looking at domestic politics maulana mean president michel aoun has promised this investigation hes insinuating no that the blast couldve been caused by external influence weve seen has been out trying to distance themselves from all of this there have been resignations as well from other independent m. P. s and from other parties i mean theres clearly plenty of people here trying to pass the blame around do you think that will see further rift than within the Political Leadership in the oven on. What clearly there are to be. Scenarios if you were one of some sort of a nation or so but a lot of the thats one of the why well they are a big story. Or and theres. All sorts of. Words there. Since the. One where something is very clear. Which is that its. French american involvement more. Meaning. To be putting his. Money in that big. Or economic. I found to basically it ordered him for them to stay in the thong and that the perception of it was. Such an unknown so i think were going to see a lot of precious. Little going great over that is already getting into the wrong city. And the europeans. Or. On the. War the more pressure is bergdahl the less should or should be the government is gone and. So. I do want to remember remind our viewers im sorry because even before this time to make we were looking at 25 percent unemployment nearly as bad as people in lebanon living under the poverty line the u. N. Is now also saying that were looking at a humanitarian crisis and we all katie looking at a very syosset to a sion hand where do we go from here were going to see the fundraising come to Conference Tomorrow old effects down a landfill and perhaps being being put on the lebanese Political Leadership but beyond that how do we start addressing the Economic Issues in terms of currency devaluation unemployment how does that get addressed. This is it being one of the most part of the goal and by extension one of the sadhus aspects of whats happening in lebanon before q 3 and after. Which is as i said earlier the names of some of them was in bus 3 s people in that region are beyond their capacity to get any kind of the point if he is i know they are the financial and economic and other experts that you see in the different banks or Financial Institutions from the gulf region to europe and the United States they are there x. Factor of unity in Africa Latin America and the west is more of a gamble what to hell so the lebanese people are capable of putting their economy up on its feet of course with the help what it actually needed but that cannot happen if corruption and nepotism if the political system is so bad got that you cant even have one can force it to simply in a country like the movies. I dont believe it is so what we saw. Over here are reports are so you can imagine what you were going to be so it does unfortunately for were fixing the political system because were back this far is this where it got more bitter that the vikings the lebanese being amongst themselves. Has run out their pizza has grown up where nobody wanted war has run out of sources to feed most what we. Are our government thats why changing the its the changing of the political process or. Its going to be indispensable in order to build a liberal or greedy if there are a whole pile of work around the system. Bashar their political analyst making to us from london moment always great to get your thoughts on out there thanks so much for being with us again. Catch is one of 3 m. P. s from the opposition Christian Party could time hes resigned in the past few hours and yet he told us why. I was elected to make a change and ive been trying with my. Other. One of them. And weve been trying to make this change again this regime that has proven. Weve been right and after. That happens. That is the result of their. Corruption and then once we decide this. Government that anyone is not one of them and. We need this is a clear. Black and white sneakers. And we had it on trying to be more. Blended with this. Popular. Fears. Revolution that has happened in that subject over separately but now its not just. The suction today were not promising anything joining the people that evolution from today weve been in the streets since 17 and maybe we were the only m. P. s to be in the streets with those people who didnt reject all politicians the big problem is that we dont have trust in the politics. We dont have trust between the people and. This is that if this is the reason why we think i am and you dont and the russian community. And people. Well it is estimated that the bill last caused 10. 00 to 15000000000. 00 worth of damage to the ports and the wider area in beirut but it smith has been getting another perspective on the wreckage. Its not until you move away from the beirut shoreline that you get a real impression of the scale all the devastation just over my shoulder the orient queen boat that was capsized by the force of the blast and every building you see along that skyline has been impacted there isnt a single pane of glass left and damaged over that just on the other side is the remains of the grain silo and the grain silos. Was most of the grain supply for lebanon there is no Strategic Reserve and all around the grain silos the remains twisted remains of the countrys 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. Lets 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 kongs 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 Political Freedom in the city prodemocracy activist joshua wall was quick to applaud the decision if high for the world to realize that they need to reassess their Foreign Policy toehold call and try to otherwise the situation in hong kong to escalate is high for the world those that were caught the sanctions were prompted by president Donald Trumps executive order last month denouncing chinas imposition of the law which criminalizes acts of suspicion terrorism and subversion hong kongs chief executive says the lower is crucial to restore order in the special Administrative Region where theres been months of political unrest carolan described the sanctions as despicable and barbarous and says the government will not be intimidated her response was echoed by commerce secretary. I dont fight any sort of valid reason for this blatant if youre an on call affairs 5 on country if i dont think this is necessary for a civilized man to do so chinas response was also swift with his top official in hong kong ridiculing sanctions who are claiming whos also on the list says he doesnt have any assets in the United States sanctions are a wasted effort this latest round of sanctions is a dramatic escalation in tensions between beijing and the United States the Hong Kong Government has ruled out targeting American Companies and individuals operating here that move could be next sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Now afghanistans highest consultative body the loya jirga has recommended that the government release 400. 00 taliban prisoners but it says they should only be freed if they promise not to return to fighting this release is seen as the last hurdle before peace talks with the taliban can begin and its now up to president to make the final decision which could come as early as sunday while still ahead here on out of there well be back live in beirut for all the latest on the protest ban process the president of the batteries faces his toughest challenge yet as he runs fast 6 times why hes still expected to win. And golfs 1st major and i havent yet its fast chinese leader thats coming up but pete settle in for me. Its been raining quite heavily in pakistans a bit more of that to come the Close Friends crossed. But its sort of dissolving by sunday will be a few showers up in the mountains i think but maybe not widespread rain a lot more clouds were stretches back towards the quarter and to some degree or cutoff whats been a fairly stiff and draw and dusty wind coming out of iraq down towards qatar which means the term she will probably be reflecting a humid environment on the hot saw it still the monsoon is still blowing across the im on the coast the dollar will have 3 more days of drizzle sometimes even forecast as proper rain but it will turn green or so this is right for the time of the year. Across the sahara its dry heat but this obviously represents thunderstorms a long way north they come through in clumps and they comes here and drop a lot of rains and the army has registered 101. 00 millimeters in the last 24 hours or so has that clump of cloud went through which is now on its way through mali and will go off shore somewhere west of getting another we watched the next one develop the cancer in masses this one is little bit further south but again youve got orange to share with. A mostly dry picture i have to say forecast wise is a little the warm side for port elizabeth. But. History has called it the great in the 1st episode conscription draws hundreds of thousands of arab troops into both sides of the conflict their story is rarely told but had a huge impact on the course of the. World moonwalk through our bodies on aljazeera from top to old jazeera we ask is the government not taking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues that we listen i still think that at travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on aljazeera. Because what. And again im assaulted today and holloway lets take you straight back live to the streets of beirut where police are trying to break up protests outside the Parliament People there are angry at the government claiming corruption and inertia an explosion at the polls on tuesday that killed a 158 people or 5 lebanese opposition m. P. s have already announced their resignation from parliament 3 members from the Christian Kotite party mourning the death of a colleague also called on other politicians to follow suit and lebanons Prime Minister has india because people have a right to be angry often decades of what he calls unbelievable corruption hes described tuesdays explosion as diabolical and that the people of lebanon are facing an accumulation of problems well lets go straight back to our correspondent zanuck rada shes on the streets there in moscow square for us then we have seen scenes like this before and where approaching now by my count nearly 300 days since protests 1st broke out have the dumonds and the sorts of people that youre seeing on the streets that changed. What people remain defiant there is standing their ground you can see the excessive amount of tear gas that the Security Forces have been using over the past 2 hours and a half yes sometimes people are forced to move back because of the smell but then they come back and then they chant revolution revolution and they chant and so direct it at the president at those in power people here say there are nothing else to lose they say the government has robbed them from their lives from their future most of them cant find jobs even though their university graduates. They believe the political and security establishment which has been governing this country since not just the end of the civil war some of them were warlords during the civil war theyre responsible for years of mismanagement and corruption that has led to the collapse of the lebanese economy the foes chanting felder are thought of revolution weve seen scenes like this before since oct since a protest movement calling for a new leadership began in october but this time people are angry or they say that this is no longer about the economy those in power are killing us they refer to the blast choose those blasts that the steroid many areas of the capital killed dozens of people. So theres a lot of anger but the question is they are up against a militarized state theyre up against people who are politicians who are refusing to step down so its not going to be an easy battle and nobody here is under any illusion that this will be an easy bottle. And you mentioned a militarized state that we have been seeing plenty of police and also the parliamentary protection detail out on the streets lots of tear gas these running battles that you were describing earlier what is the scene like there now them to the moods that youre getting from the protesters. Its the finance people believe that this time around they cant take a step back because if they do theyve already lost so much and theres just nothing left because the blast really for many here it was the last straw 300000 people were made homeless and they lost their livelihoods shops were damaged other shops destroyed taxi drivers lost lost their vehicles already the economy was in dire straits already 32 percent of the workforce was unemployed 50 percent of the population and this is a tiny nation of approximately 5000000 people 50 percent living below the poverty line if you can see the young boys in the distance those young boys dont they feel they dont have a future mothers many lebanese maybe luckier that they have they hold another passport than are able to emigrate there is a fear of a brain drain this is what experts have been warning of because those graduates feel that theres just nothing left in the country for them they feel those in power. Dont treat them as human beings this is something you hear time and time again they dont look at us as if were human beings they dont care about our future they steal our money and they make sure that their children are educated abroad and that their children have a good life but we are not able to provide for our children save the children talked about 500000 children going hungry and the beirut area alone. So the situation as you can imagine is quite dire in terms of. So the the social situation the Economic Situation many people earn in lebanese liras lebanese the lebanese leader of the local currency lost 80 percent of its value over recent months so people salaries are worthless and when the financial crisis began you can see the excessive amounts of a tear gas but i have to mention that the Lebanese Army issued a statement saying that we will respect. You if you remain peaceful we will allow you to gather at the square but you cannot destroy public and private property we are forced to respond. And the internal Security Forces and other Security Agency issuing a statement saying that your anger is understandable but we will not accept you to destroy public property. Actors not just here in central beirut a number of protesters were able to storm the Foreign Ministry a short while ago and they took down the picture of the president so there is a lot of anger when we 1st arrived here approx 3 hours ago many people told us its us or them but we asked them campbell what can you do this protest translate into change. And they say they do realize that it wont be easy because the army is not on their side the Security Forces continue to support those in power those in power really are entrenched in a in the system and from the scenes here their message is we are not leaving power absolute is a no we are seeing more and more of these standoffs develop between the International Internal Security Forces and protesters even more tear gas being fired. Naturally as were having this conversation seeing some quite astonishing pictures from mountain square i do want to ask you because all of this is also taking place as people are still trying to recover from from tuesdays blast and rescue still going on 60 people still missing ill be seeing more of a government presence on the streets now to try to help with the clean up i mean there was so so obviously not over the last few days. No the states remains noticeably absent and the states is close to bankruptcy the government is cash strapped they defaulted on their debt a few weeks ago and they arent able to help the people at this point in time even if they wanted to distribute. Food water even if they wanted to rebuild peoples homes they are the foreign currency reserves are when dealing theyre printing. More and more local currency inflation is high prices of food is soaring so people are suffering Economic Economic hardships in this country and then choose that is last for many that was. That many of them couldnt comprehend how those in power had knowledge of the presence of highly explosive material at beirut ports and beirut point is not very far from where we are its less than a kilometer in fact you can see it in the distance. And they acknowledge that they were aware of the presence of this explosive material and nobody did anything about it in fact they have been blaming each other on who should have been responsible the president himself yesterday saying that he was told of the explosive material on july 21 and that he gave the orders to do to do what needs to be done and he said that is my responsibility. His critics will say youre the president of the country and youre the head of commander in chief of the armed forces why didnt you take action in order to remove the explosive material that was stored in an unsafe manner they are lobbying tear gas in the middle of the crowd its clear that the Security Forces that want to kill are you to disperse the crowd empty the square and weve seen this happen in the past hours of running battles in the streets before the Security Forces are able to push people away and just the spurs the protest for now the people remain defiant standing their ground but the question is for how long its very difficult as you can imagine just breathing the air at this point in time so they wont be able to stay here for long. While we will be staying across that zana what are their lives in moscow square for us in beirut the lebanese capital with those protesters thank you very much sanna and do stay safe yourself lets now take you to some live pictures now it started with a Lebanese Foreign minister religion as in i was just describing protesters have stormed and tearing down a number of pictures and this is all of you see happening as thousands and thousands of people are gathered in Martyrs Square and we are seeing those running battles develop between or thirtys and those protesters plenty of tear gas as i was describing will be staying across all of that for you here on out as they. 2 want to take you says the mother news on marie has declared a state of environmental imagine see a japanese own ship began spilling tons of oil the islands appealing for help from fronts but a volunteer cleanup operation is already underway and these 2 reports. Aereo and Satellite Photos show the extent of the oil spill off the southeastern coast of. The japanese owned ballcarrier waka sheol ran aground late last month and began leaking its 4000. 00 tons of fuel into the indian ocean all 20 crew were taken ashore but rough seas hampered attempts to stabilize the ship and pump the fuel off after declaring a state of environmental emergency Prime Minister pravin juggernaut appealed for help from france he says islanders dont have the expertise to clean up the spill president emanuel qualm promised to send teams and equipment from the nearby French Island off. While the governments waiting for french help to arrive some volunteers have started their own cleanup effort building sea booms with straw to soak up the spill. He says im still movies with we are here to see what we can save everyone here is trying to save what they can of our ocean which gives us so much and which supports us the border this is our heritage and its good. To see as youre a leader we can see the situation is going to last this spill is affecting so many sectors tourism the economy ecology. Some salons are offering free haircuts this weekend as hair can also be used to soak up oil. While 4000 tons of fuel may seem like a relatively small amount compared to major oil leaks its impact on the riches is huge. Islands are surrounded by some of the worlds most valuable coral reefs and tourism is crucial to the economy the impact will not only be equal logical leap equally be economical because many people erode their livelihoods from the fish to fish in the area there are a lot of hotels also in the area who market which market these place sites in order to get clients and you have a lot of people owning their livelihoods also on the land leader say is to 1st time the 1300000 islanders have been faced with an Environmental Crisis of this kind experts fear the ship could break up causing an even greater fuel leak and inflicting catastrophic damage to marine life at least 2 aljazeera now britains armed forces are considering a government request to help stem the flow of migrants crossing the English Channel from france a record 235 people landed on thursday most of them from yemen egypt sudan and iraq critics are on the calling in the royal navys a bloc votes were in danger migrants lives britons and immigration minister im sorry is expected to urge france to take more preventative measures during a meeting planned in paris next week. Now the president of belarus is facing the strongest opposition yet to his long leadership alexander is expected to declare victory after sundays election his 6th and 25 years the opposition is vowing to contest the Election Results of course the reports from the capital. Election observation belorussian style. Because i am. Independent observers have not only been detained but also been barred from entering polling stations nonetheless they have found irregularities in the voting process that started on tuesday and will have its peak on sunday the 1st day of the elections. 39 people go out in the evening protocol. Commission so there where 89 so they added 50 people is the president Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of stealing previous elections but this time hes facing an opposition on a scale has not witnessed before led by this woman 37 year olds but lerner. She reluctantly decided to run for president after her husband a popular blogger was jailed suppose the elections were going to be free and free or how many percent of the vote would you get i suppose 6 to 5 and. You would be a big winner then. I would be here who would. But the woman who attracted large crowds does not expect this to be the official election result she has promised that if she becomes president the 1st thing she will do is call for free elections even if this. Doesnt happen now. Elections will be. I dont think he will. I dont know how can a person. Country where people. Softly speaking dont like him just. Most of them. And. But will he go quietly. The talk of this guy has accused the opposition of trying to cause a bloodbath and russia of provoking violence but analysts say these accusations are made to hide the countrys real problems. In the last 10 years they call them has gone down and society is not happy and basically society are united against looking despite their ideological position their values and their political priorities all of them think are the main obstacle for development. But as long as the president is still backed by the military and high ranking officials he believes look as shanker will remain in power the moment of truth for a look at shango will not be on election day but on the days after that if as announced large crowds protests what they believe will be another fraudulent election here at this square just read the file and scanned them become reality a scenario most belorussians want to avoid step fasten aljazeera minsk. Anti kremlin protesters in the far east of russia have rallied for whats now the 5th consecutive weekend demanding the release of their Regional Governor sergei fraggle was arrested last month and flown to moscow he denies involvement in the madness of several businessman 15 years ago protesters want him either freed or trying to in his home city of cover ups near the border with china. And antigovernment protesters and bug area have defied a police order and rebuilt their protest camps in the capital safina they want Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to resign accusing him of corruption and links to all of gods police cleared blockades on friday off to nearly 2 weeks of demonstrations and i was suicide bomber in somalia has killed at least 8 soldiers outside a military base 14 others were injured by the blast in the capital mogadishu theres been no claim of responsibility less than a week after a similar attack on a popular restaurant killed 4 people. 2 former members of u. S. Special forces have been sentenced to 20 years in prison and venezuela over an alleged coup attempt prosecutors say are in Berrien Luke Denman admitted taking part in a failed beach attack in may aimed at overthrowing president Nicolas Maduro the former soldiers are among dozens of defendants being tried over that operation which left at least 8 rebels dead the 2 americans have been widely shown on state television to highlight claims that the u. S. Wants to overthrow enduros government. After i had a pair on out of there 5 high 5 attempts goes wrong this baseball headspace i will tell you what happened and for. 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Away for a workable i want to thank you a for for letting us host its our right to be able to play the 2nd leg here we played the 1st leg amid the pandemic at napoli stadium and we now want to create the 2nd leg at our home stadium like other teams are doing were doing this with the support of u. A. E. For as well as the local Health Authorities here in catalonia so we can guarantee that here in the city of barcelona the situation is under control and miss avies drive of all terry bought us will start from pole for sunday 70th anniversary grand prix potus who has signed a new contract with the team was just 6 2nd quicker than his teammate and championship in delhi this hamilton a big surprise in qualifying was german driver nico holcomb been standing in for surgery a paris who has coronavirus clinched 3rd place for racing point. Q 3 which is head down beans whatever i had been surprised to be honest to stand here but obviously a big smile on my face i just love qualifying so special it went goes well its a good feeling and really nice to get everything on out of myself and out of the park i wasnt great. But he did a good job and theres a lesson for me this wasnt a perfect loss that. Englands cricketers are chasing 277 for victory against pakistan in the 1st test its evenly poised on day 4 in manchester both sides are in with a realistic chance of victory at this stage england or 2045. Tong were going to day 3 of golf p. G. A. Championship with a 2 stroke advantage of some of the worlds best golfers the chinese player has already made history for his country as joanna goes a rough sketch explains. How tang has been on the verge of a golfing breakthrough for years and on friday the 25 year old finally got one around the 65. 00 at the p. G. A. Championship at the chinese play at the top of the leaderboard at the halfway stage is the 1st time a player from his country has led a major which is come as much of a surprise to him as to anyone yeah the anyone saw i can play those this way especially like you said again no cottons again no expense. As you know last a few moments are there are doing nothing for are just far out here have fun. Leads by 2 from a group of players that include 2 time defending champion brooks kepcher who struggled with a painful hit through the 2nd round englishman Tommy Fleetwood who has been a major runner up twice in the last 2 seasons is also in a tie for 2nd. Further back as rory mcilroy the world number 3 spent much of his round battling with the rough and he sits even par. And a shot behind his tiger woods whos putting let him down on friday it briefly looked like the 15 time major champion would miss the cut but a birdie on the 16th put him through to the weekend 8 shots back in what is a crowded field of former major Champions Join together oscar aljazeera. The n. F. L. And its Players Association have further tweak their coronavirus protocols the day after the deadline passed for players to notify their teams whether they would be playing or not the season the latest amendments means that if someone tests positive but is asymptomatic the player or staff member can return to work after returning to negative tests within a 24 hour period in total 66. 00 players have opted out of the season in the n. B. A. The Brooklyn Nets have confirmed their place in the playoffs after 119106 when they were the sec remain 2 kings on friday Jarrett Allen schooled 17 points and contributed 11 rebounds for a double double while joe harris was on form from outside the paint with 53. 00 pointers from 0. 07 for brooklyn the kings can still reach the playoffs but time is running out with only 3 games left to play meanwhile the philadelphia 76 ers made it 3 wins from 3 thanks 281088101 win over the will and a magic Tobias Harris contributing 23 points and 15 rebounds for philadelphia both teams are assured of a playoff spot. And Oakland Athletics bench coach has apologized after raising his arm in a nazi style salute while celebrating a win Ryan Christensen thats him they 2nd from the right for creating about the coronavirus protocols and attempting a high 5 after a 64. 00 win over the Texas Rangers club of also apologized for the faint of gesture. Meanwhile the Miami Marlins had some good news on friday francisco severely a home run helping them to a 43 win over the new york mets its a 6th straight win for miami who have had 10 games cancelled since m. L. Be returned because of a coronavirus outbreak. Well even if it almost falls news coming up again later in the thanks so much pisa well lets remind you now of our top story choose days port explosion in beirut has reignited a wave of anger towards the government right now thousands are protesting in the center of the lebanese capital youre watching these live pictures from Martyrs Square where police have been firing tear gas as you can see from the crowd from the crowds of of the gas that are still floating to try to disperse demonstrators who are also outside Parliament Leaders are accused of corruption and inaction leading to tuesdays devastating blast which killed 158. 00 people and wounded 6060 people remain missing and also around 300000 lebanese are homeless because of all the damage that caused 3 m. P. s from the opposition Christian Party have quit making 5 resignations in total protesters have also stormed the Foreign Ministry we will have all the latest for you here on aljazeera shortly. 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Delivering new life into some of the toughest living conditions. In a unique 6 part series aljazeera follows the lives of the remarkable people who work. And drive in the slums on aljazeera. Anger in beirut thousands protest against the lebanese government following tuesdays deadly port explosion live ammunition has now been reportedly used against demonstrators. Hi there im now starting it hey this is al jazeera live from doha. The. Tear gas is being fired at lebanese demonstrators trying to reach Parliament Others managed to storm the Foreign Ministry. They have the right to be angry and few