Violent protests over the election results. The top story the lebanese Prime Minister and president were warned by Security Officials last month about the explosive materials stored in the beirut for syria that caused last weeks blast documents seen by the Reuters News Agency say leaders were told the Ammonium Nitrate posed a Security Risk and could destroy the capital if it exploded it comes as Lebanons Parliament now has to decide on a new Prime Minister after house and finance he and his government would step down the decision follows widespread public fury blast killed more than 200. 00 people injured thousands more and left hundreds of thousands homeless burnet smith is our correspondent talking to us this out of beirut so whats going on around where you are right now. Peterman the mama hail parts of beirut and im in front of prime multi 1000000. 00 apartments with an uninterrupted view of the sea because a front of me is the ports d where those 2700. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate exploded last tuesday to every Apartment Building shattered or destroyed in that building in the one to its right along all the way along the waterfront and inland a 3 kilometer radius from the port cleanup operation still ongoing of course its going to be years long but most of that cleaning up being done by volunteers and theyve been out in force again this morning the government the local government now estimates 70000. 00 homes have either been damaged or destroyed as a consequence of that explosion and we already know about 250 and maybe as many as 300000 people have been left homeless most of them taken in by relatives elsewhere in the country or being put up in hotels or other peoples friendly helpful neighbors have pizza and what else burna do we know about these reports with that were filtering our way through saying that local politicians were warned in july about potentially what could happen. Well we understand that the president and the Prime Minister were explicitly sent a letter warning them 2 weeks before the explosion of the danger of storing Ammonium Nitrate in the port in an urban area and they were told it could flatten the city and it did but that wasnt the 1st warning theyd been warnings for years and years and years almost every 6 months or so some department would warn the judiciary that this Ammonium Nitrate needs to be moved but nothing was done that but it was passed on and on and on and nobody moved it and what infuriates people here not only why was it stored there in the 1st place where the people knew people were warned that it was being stored there and yet still they did nothing so the preliminary investigation has told us what a lot of people already suspected that people knew it was there and did nothing about it further investigations whether they ever get to the truth why it was left for so long what interested people have been leaving it there for so long and not moving it and why wasnt it taken to other places so many questions remain to be answered but what people want is reconstruction help and they wont get that they wont get the money from overseas that they need until there is what the overseas community considers an acceptable cabinet the current one dominated by hezbollah and its allies is not accepted internationally its isolated there will be a new cabinet there is enormous pressure to make sure that that cabinet is more representative and includes the opposition although they have been resistant to taking part in any cabinet with dominated by hezbollah and its allies pizza ok byrne and thank you very much smith our correspondent in beirut lets bring in mark from beirut as well hes a former lebanese para parliamentary candidate mark welcome back to aljazeera 1st of can i just ask you for your reaction to these revelations and claims that people in the political orbit in lebanon at the highest level were told in july this is an accident waiting to happen. Obviously its a proof of the incompetence of those and their struggle just to get to power without any sense of Public Service i think this is flawed claimed that this is borderline crime against humanity because you cannot be so negligent with a capital city that includes 2000000. 00 it living it and that with the size of that explosion and again this acquires that and the International Investigation because its very obvious that what happened here is not yet accident it is criminal negligence of health and safety of the entire population is there a chance that once these claims and revelations filter through to the Wider Population because theyre taken up 24 hours a day with this cleanup operation with thoughts of rebuilding or changing locations for their businesses thats what weve been seeing in the past 2 days now will these revelations simply refuel and re energize the anger thats led to the protests that weve seen between tuesday and yesterday. I believe so yes that is an incremental increase and the violence that the government has undertaken and i guess the protesters just imagine 5000 injured because of the explosion and close to 250 dead and then 2 days after when that even went to protest the Security Forces cause 400. 00 injuries among the protesters 400. 00 injuries including that of it well its about eyes on the problem that says that its this is not in quality of either ship but been a big part the people who know all the threats and i think they know action is a fact and i think that those individuals should be criminally investigated for their crimes against the population i think its implemented and it will build up and i think the pressure will build up as people feel that immense impact on their businesses on their likelihood oats and even on their Mental Health that kids i know are sleeping next to bills on the windows up at areas because they can no longer sleep and their beds feel unsafe this is the mental state of an occupation that has been propped by a quasi if you look at explosion and their methods we have to leave them out thank you very much for joining us from beirut the russian president that even france in says the country has become the 1st in the world to approve the use of a corona virus vaccine and follows less than 2 months of human trials the president says the vaccine has been given to one of his own daughters speak to the rollout has raised concerns that moscow may be putting National Prestige before sun science johnny angela as our correspondent following that story so this story developing quite quickly over the past 90 minutes or so charlie what else do we know. Weve known about this vaccine being developed by the russian Government Institute since june they started with a phase one trial of 38 participants which they said developed a good immune response they then may have moved on to their phase 2 trial involving 100. 00 participants but theyve yet to start their phase 3 trial which would involve a much larger group of people and of different ethnicities from different demographics with a much wider age range so i think to have this vaccine approved before the results of those faves 3 trials does seem quite perimeter and thats whats worrying the Scientific Community but as you said president putin says his daughter was given a dose he says she suffered no ill effects just a slightly raised temperature for 24 hours and it is very unusual for putin to talk about his children he has faced he protected their identities from the press so hes obviously incredibly proud 1 of this Scientific Achievement for russia he says the vaccine is now registered and will be approved it now its approved manufacture is starting and it will be available within 7 days in russia so it seems that the vaccine which the cooling sputnik 5 after the soviet satellite for the International Community comes in 2 doses the 1st dose is given develops a small immune response after 21 days the 2nd dose then reportedly doubles this immune response and they say that that can last for 2 years though its very unclear how theyve come to that conclusion the Russian Health minister says that doctors and teachers in russia will be given the 1st doses they will then start a Mass Vaccination Program in october with 30000000 doses being given to russian citizens theyre also talking about interest from 20 other countries for more than a 1000000000 doses and reportedly saudi arabia and the philippines will be manufacturing partners of the philippine. Didnt present deter to his offer to inject himself publicly to prove the safety of this vaccine so hes oversleep looking for i think some free 3 doses there but as you said theres definitely questions about the speed at which russia is rolling out this vaccine and the w. H. O. Weve just heard from in the last hour has said that they are in contact with Russian Health authorities discussing the process for possible w. H. O. Prequalification and theyre saying that they 1st need to rigorously review and assess the scientific safety and efficacy data theres also going to be questions about the contents of this vaccine after Britains NationalCybersecurity Center accused hackers backed by the russian state of trying to steal covert 19 Vaccine Research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world those allegations that moscow denies but britain u. S. And canada stand by them does this mean for other vaccines in development we know there are around 100 being developed around the world at the moment therefore theyre in phase 3 trials the most prominent being canada and china and the u. K. I think until the w. H. O. Has approved this vaccine from russia i dont think we can say that moscow has run the one the race for Vaccine Development for covert 19 understood charlie many thanks john and so the reporting on this story coming to us from. New zealand has announced its 1st Community Transmission of the corona virus in more than 100 days the use in Prime Minister just into our house all but all collected lockdown after 4 new cases were confirmed. And leave all 3 your ass to stay at home in your bubble other than for essential movements such as going to the supermarket or local recreation if you are in or clint you must work from home unless you are an essential Service Worker all schools in child care facilities in oakland are closed as of tomorrow morning except for the children of essential Service Workers and those who are who are involved will remember that it leave all 3 we allow you to excess go and do a childhood for a level 3 for a scene chill service with his son lee or public facilities as restrung same businesses must close by midday to morrow. Well that comes as a retirement village in Christ Church has gone into lockdown after residents showed flu like symptoms the facility told families that 8 residents were affected swabs to test recovered 19 have been sent to a lab already. Still to come here on aljazeera beijing passes a resolution that will extend the time of phone calls parliament by another year. And united again signs we look at whats driving the movement in germany against coronavirus restriction. How low weve got more unsettled weather just around northern parts of asia pushing over towards the Korean Peninsula and into japan north says heavy as it has been recently not as windy as it has been recently as well but certainly seeing some more showers along the spells of rain pushing through over the next couple days no the parts of china will say with a fair bit of cloud well see some wetter weather started to push its way through and gradually make its way of towards the yellow sea ahead of that still some showers there it says south korea ground already saturated of course still some showers there its a good part of japan but again not as heavy as they have been recently these will tend to clear through but still there nevertheless and then next area a very heavy rain an organized band of rain thats the my front of course that will slide its way towards the Korean Peninsula yet again further south while she tried to get it to the far south of china where we have fire weakening Tropical Storm gradually making its way out of the way but more showers along the spoils of rain to come for some showers along the spells of right mainly across the Northern Plains of in the at the moment but plenty of showers up the Western Ghats there we go through the place lots of showers here towards the foothills of the himalayas bangladesh else they say some shop shall as along with me and my. Once welcomed now fear. And dividing a nation. Aljazeera explores germanys long Term Economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more gentleman and syrian. I watch money does a richer get those papers put up think its been the its one german and im not the new germans on aljazeera. Already. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this half hour lebanons Prime Minister and president were warned last month about the explosive material stored at the be reported area that caused last weeks huge explosion of documents seen by the Reuters News Agency of the Ammonium Nitrate could destroy the capital. The russian president Vladimir Putin says the country has become the 1st in the world to approve the use of a Coronavirus Vaccine was less than 2 months of human trials. New zealand has announced its 1st case of Community Transmission of coded 19 in more than 100 days the Prime Minister was in the order as ordered all climbed into lockdown after 4 new cases of work and for. A shooting outside the white house interrupted us president Donald TrumpsCoronavirus Briefing on monday a secret Service Agent quickly us with the president out of the room he did return within minutes he then went on to talk about the controversy surrounding children going back to school mike hanna as more. President trump was minutes into the News Conference giving rosy predictions about the economy when he was suddenly interrupted. As a door closed behind him journalists in the Briefing Room turned to their pones to try and find out what was happening when it was reported that thered been a shooting outside the white house involving secret Service Agents the secret service issued a statement saying an agent and what it calls a male subject were injured and taken to hospital it adds that at no time during the incident was the white house complex breached or were any protect t. s in danger. President trump returned to a bare arch of questions and confirmed hed gone back to the oval office for the duration of the incident not to the underground bunker it might not have anything to do with me then it was back to business. With the baseless claim that children are less affected than adults by the virus i think that for the most part they do very well i mean they dont get very sick that it will catch it easily they dont get very sick and according to the people that ive spoken to they dont transported or transfer it to their people or certainly not very easily so yeah i think schools have to open schools have begun to open in a number of states some are conducting in person classes but a greater number are defying the president by continuing the remote education that was started at the beginning of the pandemic. And another questionable claim about the quality and extent of testing in the u. S. To great record to have in many ways we have tested i guess close to 65000000 people right now and nobodys even close to that number in hard hit states like california and florida theres widespread concern about the delay in test results i havent talked about and microsoft founder bill gates has sharply criticized what he calls the testing insanity in the u. S. Adding and i quote its mind blowing that you cant get the government to improve the testing because they just want to say how great it is as is interrupted News Conference continued President Trump finally confirmed he would postpone the g 7 gathering until after the u. S. Election in november and repeated an earlier statement that what he called certain people who are not in the g 7 would be invited raising again the possibility that president putin would be asked to attend this despite the fact that his own intelligence agencies state russia is actively planning interference in the american voting process mike hanna aljazeera washington. Protesters in berlin russa being urged by the opposition president ial challenger spent lana to come up skier to avoid endangering their lives she confirmed in a video message that shes gone to lithuania now following a 2nd night to find them protest against the results of sundays president ial election the Election Commission says longtime president on the sound of the one violence like the opposition says the election was rigged boston has more now from minsk. It was a fairly dramatic statement i thought one of the kind of guy basically period she told all her supporters that she made a fairly very difficult decision to leave the country she said i hope youre never going to be in a situation that i am right now and she hopes people will understand that you have people also hate me and condemn me for the decision but you set the whole life are worth this situation and also she said i. Call them all people to stay in city because its very worried i actually spoke to her at length before the election and she already looks very very scared and also said she is really not up to it its a very difficult situation of course in belarus theres a lot of pressure on her from the off or if you say shes been scared to her she was being threatened her children were threatened to be taken away from her she still could children already out of the country before the election and thousands set up chosen for my children and ive joined them now in lithuania so its a very dramatic turn of events here because of course a thousands of homes of thousands of people here are waiting for her messages chinas top legislative body has voted to extend the current term of the Hong Kong Legislative Council by the year elections were due to be held in hong kong in september theyve been pursuing because of the coronavirus pandemic but prodemocracy activists say thats a pretext to stop people from voting several opposition candidates have been banned from running for Office Adrian brown is in hong kong. When the Hong Kong Government you know hits a sort of political roadblock they tend to seek help from the Standing Committee of the National Peoples congress in beijing which is the most important political body in china now what happened is that when kerry lam decided to postpone elections here in hong kong for another year citing co that 19 that meant there was potentially going to be a political vacuum here in hong kong in other words what was going to happen to the Current Parliament so what happened is that the committee basically decided on choose day to extend the current of the Hong Kong Parliament for another year what is less clear is whether a number of incumbent opposition legislators who were disqualified by Election Officials because of this new National Security law will indeed be able to continue in the extended parliament it seems that the National Peoples congress may well have left it to Hong Kong Government to decide what to do with these that is slaters that means they might have to sort of issue some new form of both of allegiance to the Hong Kong Government so its not totally clear but what is clear in a sense is that you know the the National Peoples congress could have said you know these legislators will remain despite but they didnt and that might mean that this is a sop to the United States of that perhaps trying to modify the u. S. Government ahead of the president ial elections in november. Taiwans foreign minister has accused china of trying to turn the island into the next Hong Kong Joseph who issued the warning on the 3rd day of a visit by the u. S. Health secretary katrina you know from beijing. On the 3rd day of his visit designed to spotlight u. S. Support the taiwan the u. S. Health and Human Services secretary alex gave a speech to University Students in the capital taipei the highest level American Business here in 4 decades lauded taiwan success in containing coverage 19 and accused the World Health Organization of political 1000000000 by excluding the island from being a member of the United States believe i wanted to be recognized on the world stage and that taiwan should be able to share these lessons and if. It international or. Ive made that point repeatedly and the World Health Organization from which taiwan has. The last 4 years taiwans foreign minister joseph who thanked the u. S. Sports friendship highlighting shed Democratic Values in a defiant speech he said taiwan would never submit to china. Because. The u. S. Is reportedly in talks to sell for military drones to taiwans forces signaling its displeasure china sent fighter jets to patrol the Taiwan Strait on monday the taiwanese considered that to be harassment easels visit has angered chinas leaders who consider taiwan to be a renegade province valen to one day seize the island by force if necessary Chinas Foreign Ministry is urging the u. S. To respect the one china principle and avoid sending socalled wrong signals to promote independence forces. Stopping one sing their substandard relationship between the United States and taiwan and 100. 00 taiwan related issues carefully and the probably so as not to cost serious harm to china u. S. Cooperation in important areas and of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. Chinas government has described taiwan as the most sensitive issues and finally u. S. Relations officially alex is out of this it is about exchanging ideas for hundreds and hundreds of the team on the story this is designed to provoke beijing the u. S. Is already at odds with china over the newly imposed National Security law as well as strange and old with this high profile so support the taiwan washingtons relationship with the dream only to. Training aljazeera. In pakistan at least 68 people have died as heavy monsoon rains continue to lash many parts of the country more than 300 homes have been severely damaged or destroyed over recent days flash flooding has swept away bridges and destroyed roads which link hundreds of villagers heavy rain has brought flash flooding to large areas of Northern Sudan hundreds of homes and farms have been damaged or destroyed many of the affected areas are along the nile river which often overflows during the rainy season the japanese government is sending a team of experts to help clean up an oil spill in the russia the japanese boat carrier the workers she ran onto an offshore reef 2 weeks ago its leaked around a 1000 tons of its fuel experts are pumping the remainder off the ship before more pollution damage is coral reefs and beaches popular with tourists cracks are said to be widening in the ships hull and its fear it will break up in the indian ocean but then over the engine of the commandant of the Japanese Coast Guard instructed them to do their best to provide support on the ground in regards to the sensitive and it is cause huge inconvenience and trouble to related parties we would like to respond firmly and appropriately while closely watching the development of the situation. More than 20000 protesters floated social distancing and mask rules to march in berlin a little earlier this month or to elements of the far right and the left are trying to generate resentment of the Governments Health policies berlin correspondent dominic king picks up the story of. A sunny day in stuttgart and anti corona protesters are on the streets they believe their fundamental freedoms are under threat not from the virus but from the measures in place to prevent it worsening marches like this have been occurring sporadically for some considerable time most notably in berlin at the start of the month the common link between these political extremes is the feeling that ministers are acting beyond their constitutional powers the principle that was brought into our demand is basically going back to democracy away with these laws been imposed on us away with the masks that make us slaves the protesters are made up of many different groups some from the far left of society some from the far right one author says what unites this otherwise disunited group is a deep distrust of what they regard as mainstream politicians Mainstream Media and mainstream science these people are kind of. Lost for normal debate because they dont believe in the scientific texts anymore and as we all know its impossible to do like fire a lot of experiments in your home kitchen to prove it kind of so this is a very troubling situation specially in the pandemic the people who protested here on the 1st of all go through trying to highlight what they consider are infringements of their personal freedoms caused by the anti corona measures and yet paradoxically one unexpected effect of their protests is that now there are some senior politicians here in berlin and around the country actively considering whether they need to reduce those basic freedoms even further to try. Way to prevent a 2nd wave of corona. Certainly in the state which has suffered the most infections and their city authorities face an ethical dilemma. We want to protect peoples freedom to express themselves but they need to respect the social distancing rules and wear masks theyre promoting nonsensical messages but if the rules are broken this cannot be accepted the ministerial mantra jurong this pandemic has been to follow the science to trust that the experts who advise them know best opinion polls suggest the vast majority of germans agree but some among the minority who dont are taking to the streets to show it whatever the consequences of their action is dominant cain aljazeera. This is aljazeera these are the top stories lebanons Prime Minister and president were warned last month about the explosive material stored in beirut port the cause of last weeks blast documents seen by the Reuters News Agency said the Ammonium Nitrate could destroy the capitol the russian president Vladimir Putin says the country has become the 1st in the world to approve the use of a Coronavirus Vaccine it follows less than 2 months of human trials scruton says the vaccine has been given to one of his daughters. New zealand has announced its 1st case of Community Transmission of coded 19 in more than 100 days the Prime Minister just and has ordered or clint into lockdown after 4 new cases were confirmed. It leave or 3 youre asked to stay at home in your bubble other than for essential movements such as going to the supermarket or local recreation if you are in or current you must work from home unless you are an essential Service Worker all schools in childcare facilities in or quins are closed as of tomorrow morning except for the children of essential Service Workers and those who are who are involved will remember that it leave all 3 we allow you to x. Cisco and do a childhood for a level 3 for a scene chill Service Workers sign li or public facilities 3 strong same businesses must close by midday to morrow protesters umbrella russo being urged by the opposition president ial candidates to come up sky or to avoid in danger in their lives she confirms in a video that she has gone to the few ania following a 2nd one to violent protest against the results of sundays president ial election the Election Commission says the long time president Alexander Lukashenko won by a landslide the opposition says the election was rigged. Chinas top legislative body has voted to extend the current term of the Hong Kong Legislative Council by one year elections were due to be held in hong kong in september theyve been perspire than because of the virus pandemic but prodemocracy activists say thats a pretext to stop people from voting you are right up to speed with all the top stories up next its inside story adrian has another news for you from 13 g. I will see you very soon. President for a 6th about a russian leader claims a landslide victory the opposition call for vote rigging 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