Protests continue against president look at shankars victory in an election denounced as a sham. And neglected during years of war in yemen the ancient homes of some asshole city are ravaged by flooding. Lebanons Prime Minister has resigned along with the government saying hes stepping back in order to stand with the people its in the wake of the beirut explosion which has on dab says was the result of a corrupt political system protesters unmoved by his words have been out again on the streets the blast on tuesday killed more than 200 people injured thousands more and left huge numbers homeless from beirut but it smith reports. Lebanons government has finally caved in like the shuttered buildings along beiruts waterfront it took an explosion of 2000. 700. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate to bring down the Prime Minister and cabinet. Today we followed all of the people to hold accountable those responsible for this disaster that has been in hiding for 7 years and their desire for real change from the corrupt destructive state state of brokerages and theft to a state of law and justice and transparency to a country that respects its people theyd only been in power since january sworn in to replace a Previous Administration forced out after lebanons Banking System and currency collapsed now they have a new crisis to add to all the others. The Justice Minister was asked if she was running away from her responsibilities which i dont know if youre going to let anyone put themselves in our position no one wants to be in power under such circumstances when facing everything a financial collapse the current virus this National Disaster were facing so police its nothing like running from responsibility but even one of the biggest nonnuclear explosion since hiroshima might not be enough to bring significant political change here the countrys parliament an election system is controlled by a political elite the divided up power and influence after the civil war and this got busted up and this crisis is not in our unfortunately for them to be convinced because most of them were the actors of the war. And they do not think properly peacefully and civilized way in order to get the people the power they want to keep the power in their hands. Many people describe their circumstances as like being held hostage. Here and. If the government resigned then there is hope to be able to build the country and live our lives like we want to we wanted to become a proper state we do not have a country and were not able to live in one month when i. Want to a National Unity government do after just destruction and death we can change your many educated people who are suitable to run a country. That frustration with a government that seems to have left the cleanup operation to its citizens exploded Near Parliament on monday evening. Possible names for a new Prime Minister include saad hariri he held the post until january but was forced out when the Banking System collapsed its not the sort of break with the past people here are looking for and the cabinet has just resigned was dominated by the iran backed Hezbollah Group and its Allies International donors will expect to see members of the opposition in the new cabinet before they consider releasing billions of dollars in reconstruction aid. Aljazeera beirut u. S. President Donald TrumpsCoronavirus Briefing has been interrupted by a shooting outside the white house. A secret Service Agent deliver the news to trump and quickly ushered him out of the Briefing Room journalists were left confused when the doors locked the president returned a few minutes later. So thank you very much for the the there was a shooting. In seems to be very well under control id like to think the secret service for doing their. Always quick and very Effective Work but there was an actual shooting and. Somebody has been taken to the hospital i dont know the condition of the person well mike hanna joins us live now from washington d. C. Mikes our president Trumps Press Conference there abruptly interrupted by his secret Service Detail what more do we know about the security incident itself. Where you could hear the secret Service Agent saying that shots had been fired and then escorted him out the room as you saw President Trump returned in a matter of minutes and resume the news briefing to a battery of questions from reporters outlining his version of the incident right there as you heard it was a secret service involved shooting it would appear it took place 2 shots were fired just west of the white house beyond the eisenhower building on the corner of 17th street and pennsylvania avenue the condition of the person who was shot unknown at this particular point but President Trump confirmed as well that he spent the few minutes that he was out of the Briefing Room in the White House Oval Office he was not taken into a protected area that is underneath the bolding and then he returned as we saw and resume that News Conference yes mike and when he did come back as you say he talks up the economy the stock market he also spoke about the coronavirus pandemic will more that he have to say. Well he repeated the questionable claims that the United States leaves the worlds in its rate of testing that despite the fact that the number of cases has now gone past the 5000000 mark he continues to insist that is administration is doing better than anybody in the world in terms of combating the virus this in defiance of what many Health Experts believe he also repeatedly is call that all children must go back to school completely there must be no virtue education children must attend classes in person cyteen unproven claim that children are less affected by adults than adults by the virus. That they will catch it easily dont get very sick and according to the people that ive spoken to they dont transported or transferred to other people or certainly not very easily so yeah i think schools have to open who want to get our economy going. Well just to make clear as well the opinion of Health Experts is that it is not clear at this stage to what extent children can be carriers of the virus and to what extent children themselves can get badly infected by it just on another note President Trump confirmed that the g 7 conference would take place after the us elections perspiring a by a number of months and controversially he said that others who were not members of the g 7 would be invited this is taken as a reference to bludgeon me and putin the president of russia despite the fact that his intelligence agencies have just stated that russia is continuing to play a role in the us electoral process are i to my kind of a life for us in washington d. C. Mike thank you. Now the number of recorded corona virus infections worldwide house apos 20000000 thats according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker which also shows global deaths at more than 730001 about 12000000 people have recovered the us brazil and india remain the worst affected countries with more than 10000000 recorded cases between them the australian state of victoria the epicenter of the countrys resurgent outbreak has reported another 19 deaths in 24 hours there are rules and more than 330 new infections victoria announced its biggest one day rise in deaths on monday it began a 6 week lockdown last week including a nightly curfew in Melbourne Australia 2nd biggest city the us Inspector General says a us arms sale to saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates did not break the law made last year the trumpet ministration issued an Emergency Declaration to push through an 8000000000. 00 deal without congressional approval President Trump fired the departments then Inspector General steve linnik it was looking into the certification his successor stephen the card resigned last week after recusing himself from the probe the final report was completed by deputy lets bring in Mark Fitzpatrick hes a former Deputy Assistant secretary of state and joins us live from washington d. C. Mark so this final report by the Inspector General found that mike pompei is emergency certification on arms sale to saudi arabia didnt break the law are you surprised by the findings of this report. Well i think we have to really wait until we can see the full report all we know is one finding that secretary powell did not break the law thats a low bar you know and he i assume that the report is very critical of him in other respects breaking the norms breaking the rules breaking the congressional understanding spent ok he didnt break the law im not so surprised by that i think when we see the full report were going to see a much more critical. Explanation of the investigation what he did not list comes against the backdrop of trump firing that then Inspector General steve linnik who was looking into pump a 0 certification but why do you think nick was removed. Well lynn it was investigating several things that were problematic for secretary of state trump. Our sales to the saudis and the United Arab Emirates was not the most troubling one there was a investigation ongoing of pompei it was a use of assistance for personal errands which is a violation of the law if proven and then there was an investigation of the political appointee ambassador to the United Kingdom trying to prevail upon the british authorities to hold the british open in one of trumps golf courses thats a clear ethical violation if proven so those 2 investigations were causing a lot of trouble not just for pompeo but the british one for the president and you know they couldnt stand it so they fired the Inspector General and an ma Inspector General role itself seems to be a bit of a poisoned chalice i mean it was the 4th government Inspector General to by trump in recent months how much concern does this raise that trump is trying to cut sales oversights a point which youre making about and what would the president have to hide do you think. Its a its of grave concern to those of us who. You know are just as so embarrassed at the way the u. S. Government to system is is not functioning the way we all thought it would with checks and balances the Inspector General was part of this check and balance so that the head of an agency cannot run roughshod and those reports over the years ive been involved in and the receiving end of many of them because they just they inspect everything in the state department all the embassies and so forth and they always uncover some things that we need to do better but so. When and when that trumpet ministration can just a fire Inspector Generals its a form of creeping on for tarion is something that is very worrisome in the United States just a final thought to you that been considerable objections to military arms sales to gulf countries including saudi arabia by congress but none of these seem to have got in the u. S. So what more action do you think congress can take. 2 well congress cant and i think their hands are tied in this case because im determined his face was able to use this a loophole declination of an emergency to override the congressional oversight normally the congress can can veto an arms sale if they have a sufficient number and im not even sure they would have a sufficient number to to veto it if if the trumpet ministration wanted to really push it through because there are enough members of the senate on the republican side who basically go along with whatever truck want spent but some of them really dont like whats whats going on in the in the middle east state theyre skeptical of the saudis for various reasons and im afraid in this case. The sale is going to go through Mark Fitzpatrick good to get your thoughts thank you very much for talking to aljazeera happy to talk to. Break here aljazeera when we come back a u. S. Court issues that someones facade a crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon of allegations he ordered the killing of intelligence agencies jobber. On flooding in one of greeces biggest cities kills at least 8 people more in that state. Hello zhang me maybe a Tropical Storm but youd be forgiven think it wasnt the speed is moving right as they did zip across the far south as ask area and its carried on the same vein that you can always make it disappear from the map it goes just north of the card its no longer be registered as a tropical anything its just a mass of showers and its left in its wake a bit of a lull in the weather there are a few light showers in south korea but there are heavier showers now in the southern part of japan and virtually anywhere in china those brief lighting in beijing from rate recently and as you can see big orange means sunder storms in the south as well help hong kong included but it looks as though if anything the concentration the seasonal rains are going as far as is going to go into almost into mongolia and certainly seeing rain in siberia helps to dampen down some of the fars its been burning there so if all the weather is going north youd think that should be a quite a spot in malaysia and indonesia not search big enough gap in fact if anything is an increase in the likelihood of showers in places like java theyve been going on anyway in borneo but java in sumatra been largely dry that may not be the case the next day or so even jakarta could see a thunderstorm or 2 where the concentration of heavy rain is further north in thailand. History has called it the great war in the 1st episode conscription draws hundreds of thousands of our route troops into both sides of the conflict their story is rarely tours but had a huge impact on the course of the war world moonwalk through our robot bodies own knowledge is if we know whats happening in our region we know how to get the playfield that others cannot fire and then im going out there waving you tell the story is what can make a difference. Welcome back im out of the top stories here at this hour lebanons Prime Minister has resigned along with the government in the wake of the beirut explosion on the upset the country shackled by a corrupt political system protesters unmoved by his words been back out on the streets again demanding change because president Donald TrumpsCoronavirus Briefing has been interrupted by a shooting outside the white house a secret Service Agent pretty ushered in the president out of the room trump returned a few minutes later. And policemen better reuss of say a protester has died after a bomb exploded in his hands during a 2nd night of antigovernment rallies. Thousands of people are demonstrating in the capital in minsk after the Election Results showed a landslide victory for president Alexander Lukashenko stepped us reports from mints. Explosions rocking the bell of russian capital a few hours after polls have closed a position supporters have come out in thousands to protest the initial Election Results riot police is blocking the entrance to a large square. And its firing stun grenades into the crowd. A police truck drives into protesters. I. Am balances are rushing in to take the injured to Hospital Police threw the grenade into the crowd and the lack of well was broken into 2 parts it was. Oh and. Take fear and go with you. Here tonight i want some changes in my country. You know im tired of that. Ship must so be canceled protrusion so would miss that and i want to live in a free country and my children to live in a free country i want them to have a future i want to live here and work here not be forced to leave the country my granddaughter 16 years old and asks me where shall i go. Thats just put up barricades on the main roads to prevent police cars of getting near them defiance and anger here on the streets of. Thousands of people have come out to protest they called free elections. Its going to spread all over this square not only here but on the other side of the police like way over there thousands. And theyre not waiting for him to live. Any longer earlier in the day their candidate spectrometry kind of guy had come out of hiding to cast her vote she had left her apartment on the eve of the elections fearing arrest at 1st reluctant president ial candidate she has grown into the biggest hope of many belorussians have for change the kind of election rallies attracted the largest crowds bellows has seen in decades after casting his vote president aleksander look at shankar called the opposition weak for decades hes enjoyed solid support in the former soviet country lately hes faced criticism for downplaying the covert 19 crisis and worsening economy. Criticism that has rapidly grown into the largest threat to his 26 years rule well before the authorities may have managed to control the opposition by using force this time around people say and show that they are beyond fear step fast. Aljazeera means. Now u. S. Court has issued a summons against the Saudi Crown Prince in relation to former intelligence agents he has filed a lawsuit accusing mama bin soundman of sending a hit squad to kill him 2 years ago a job is now in canada where police and private security guards are reported to be giving him extra protection some of binge of aid has more the Saudi Crown Prince is again implicated in allegations of a hit squad sent to murder a dissident former saudi intelligence agents are the jobbery is accusing mohamed bin salon of trying to have him killed in canada 2 years ago government and private security has been stepped up in toronto real job resorted to be in hiding he was advisor to the previous crown prince and the saudi government has attempted to have him extradited several times a job reason launched a lawsuit in the u. S. Which says an elite team called the tiger squad tried to enter canada in october 28th in canada reportedly denied entry to bin salmonds person mercenaries. A u. S. Court has issued a summons to the sound the oil to acknowledge the Legal Proceedings against him the summons delivers the complaint to the various defendants that obligates them under our federal rules to answer within 20 days so it means that now the case is gearing up 20 days is not a long time. But i think having myself litigated many cases under the torture victims protection act that it signals that m. B. A. s will now vigorously lobby President Trump and secretary of state like pump a 0 issue whats called a letter of suggestion of immunity the alleged tiger squad attempt is reminiscent of what happened to some of the journalist tim i have also in 2018 International Investigators including the cia concluded been solomon was involved in the murder of the Washington Post columnist in istanbul jobby says the murder attempt on him was within 2 weeks of push obvious killing and he has implicated the same saudis named in the operation so i wouldnt have thought he was but its very famous person will be close to him and because of general those model a scottish cycle was used to be theyd all over his personal courts and there are a few others who are who probably have the same names and because of. And to all of the wealth of persons on our residents will be United States and that will be. Dangerous for him the u. S. President has stood by his middle eastern ally despite the cias conclusions 4 senators have written to the state department about the persecution of a job recently members in saudi arabia the department responded by calling the job a valued partner to the u. S. Government and requests have been made to the saudi government about the whereabouts of all jobbies son and daughter the saudi government hasnt issued a response this isnt say it is becoming difficult for trump to can. When you are defending the next in line saudi king you can see that come away said. Bad behavior that effect now lets take it from the american side like you can see this shifts and more than that political or more than america against the saudi regime so that congress is more. Active when it comes to issues with insights or the right job he says interpol rejected saudi allegations of corruption as being politically motivated prosecutors suspect the saudis will ignore the summons but Court Cases Involving yet more murder allegations dont bode well for the successor to the saudi throne on the job there heavy rain has brought flash flooding to large parts of Northern Sudan hundreds of homes and farms have been destroyed many of the affected cities towns and villages are along the nile river which regularly overflows during the rainy season talks on ethiopias ground renaissance dam a been postponed until next week so don made the request during a Virtual Meeting with ministers from ethiopia and egypt ethiopia says the largest Hydroelectric Project in africa a boost its economy but sudan and egypt fear the dam will threaten their water security which is almost entirely dependent on the river nile. The number of indian tea plantation workers killed in a landslide has risen to at least 49 search teams are still looking for more than 20 people missing since friday a landslide struck in kerala state when workers were sleeping more monsoon rains are on the way. At least 8 people have died in flash flooding in greece water and gulf the 2nd biggest city test along the cape its estimated as many as 3000 homes have been damaged the baka reports 5. Storm fairly abutted greeces eastern coastline over the weekend causing 2 rivers on the island of every year to burst their banks. Surrounding homes were flooded roads filled with. Among the dead an 8 month old baby that died after floodwaters engulfed the ground floor apartment the parents were unharmed. A man and woman in their eightys were found unconscious in separate houses and pronounced dead in a hospital search efforts are continuing for several others reported missing locals say they did what they could to escape the deluge. But we have been in the mud since 6 in the morning and there was nothing i could do i climbed up on to the table to save myself i was in the. Dozens of people have been evacuated from affected areas and rescue workers used helicopters and trying to lift some stranded residents to safety. The region is a popular holiday destination for athenians businesses hit hard by coronavirus now face a costly cleanup. Leave barca aljazeera. Thin yemen months of heavy rain of course significant damage to the ancient walled city of the capital sanaa the rooms of hundreds of buildings in the in esco World Heritage site of collapsed ground gupta explains. Dark clouds over yemens old city of sanaa where ancient homes lined ruins parts of us the World Heritage site has been damaged by months of heavy rain and floods the roofs of more than 100. 00 homes have partially collapsed yemenis such as mohammad ali say they have nowhere to go here me im not the much any longer the where where i want to we call all the organizations to save us my god save us from this hell we call on everyone to save us 6 women and 6 children live in the south we dont have anywhere to go son are famous for its unique burn to break towers and you metric patterns is one of the worlds oldest continuously inhabited cities many buildings were already in disrepair after years of war poverty and neglect the wait weather means theyre now even more fragile. We had 129 red flag buildings a number number has grown and is likely to grow even more because the weather hasnt stabilized yet and the consecutive rainfall and the negligence by homeowners have all contributed negatively we could see up to 200 homes destroyed or even up to 500 if we count the hires with cracks and other issues. While people in the capital struggle to save their heritage homeless yemenis in the port city of what they there are fighting for survival rising floodwaters washed away their makeshift shelters mohamed ama the irish is one of the many who had so little has now lost everything. Why get as near as the flood came it didnt and while we were sleeping in our homes suddenly we felt a strong flood we only took our children with us the ones who stayed at home a swift away by the flood left nothing behind the war between the who these and saudi backed Government Forces is into its 6th year the fighting has caused the worlds worst humanitarian crisis 24000000 yemenis need aid water fuel and medicine shortages are widespread the u. N. Says yemenis are again on the brink of a major food crisis then there is the threat of the current virus which Health Workers suspect is spreading undetected with more really likely soon more outbreaks of diseases such as cholera dainty unbeliever ria are feared plucked out his ear. China has imposed sanctions on 11 high profile americans including the senators marco rubio and ted cruz its in response to a similar action taken by the u. S. Over the security law imposed on the hong kong washington has frozen the u. S. Assets of hong kongs chief executive. As well as 10 senior chinese officials. A gas explosion in the u. S. City of baltimore has destroyed 3 rows of houses killing a woman and trapping many more people under daybreak 7 are in hospitals some critically injured while the cause is still being investigated there have been reports for years about thousands of kilometers of old gas pipes that need to be replaced separately discovered every day. For a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera lebanons Prime Minister has resigned along with the government in the wake of the beirut explosion said the country shackled by a corrupt political system protesters unmoved by his words have been back out on the streets demanding change u. S. President Donald TrumpsCoronavirus Briefing has been interrupted by a shooting outside the white house a secret Service Agent quickly i should trump out of the room the president returned a few minutes later. So thank you very much for that the there was a shooting outside of us in seems to be very well under control id like to think the secret service for doing their. Always quick and very Effective Work but there was an actual shooting and. Somebody has been taken to the hospital i dont know the condition of the person the number of recorded corona virus infections worldwide has a past 20000000 thats according to the Johns Hopkins university trucker which also shows global deaths at more than 730000 the u. S. Brazil and india remain the worst affected countries with more than 10000000 recorded cases between them. The u. S. Inspector general says a u. S. Arms sale to saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Did not break the law last year the trumpet ministration issued an Emergency Declaration to push through an 8000000000. 00 deal without congressional approval President Trump fired the departments then Inspector General steve linnik was looking into the certification his successor stephen resigned last week after accusing himself from the probe the final report was completed by a cards Deputy Police in belarus say a protester has died after a bomb exploded in his hands during a 2nd night of antigovernment rallies thousands of people are demonstrating in the capital minsk after early Election Results showed a landslide victory for president Alexander Lukashenko and heavy rain has brought flash flooding to large parts of Northern Sudan hundreds of homes and farms have been destroyed many of the affected cities towns and villages along the river nile which regularly overflows during the rainy season so those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after inside story thats watching. President for a 6th about a russian leader claims a landslide victory the opposition call for a vote ring 1000 protesters are arrested is this a turning point for the country this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the show im sam his critics describe him as europes last dictator Alexander Lukashenko is set to rule the roost for a 6th hes already been president for 26 years of fish