Devastating wildfire in california could spread even further as people have warned of stronger winds well take you live. To begin in lebanon whether it is high tension on the streets of the capital beirut supporters of hezbollah which is part of the government have been tearing down tents put out by demonstrators police also moved in to break up street battles which asked us have taken to the streets for a 13th straight day theyre angry over economic mismanagement and corruption. But lets show you if i can just at the moment a podium with a flag and rafik hariri the former Prime Minister of lebanon that is where Prime Minister saud had 80 i think carried. Will address the nation shortly that. Address is due to begin around about now well keep an eye on that situation that podium and well bring you that the Prime Minister will bring you that address as and when it begins in the meantime lets bring in our correspondents anaconda whos out on the streets of beirut where we sponsor an hour ago she was in the midst of a what looked to be a running battle between Security Forces and protesters take us through what happens in a. Well yes atrium but as you can see behind me here the streets are still tense there was unrest. It sure made archly in the lebanese capital the heart of beirut really which was well antigovernment protesters were blocking the roads until supporters of. 2 parties in the Ruling Coalition imo a movement that has a large descended from their stronghold to our right towards the highway they clocked. That weve lost a lot of this thing when youre using. This portable Satellite Technology anyway heres the Prime Minister assad heavy lets listen it didnt look passionate 13 days ago the lebanese people have been waiting for a political solution that put an end to the deteriorating situation throughout this period i have been trying to see find and exist. Through which we can listen to peoples. Voices and see that our country away from any political economical. Or any other threats today with odette we have reached a deadlock. And we need a shock in order to break through the crisis im heading to the president ial palace to render down there is a commission of the government to his excellency this president to machine and to the lebanese people whatever they are this is in response to the will and demand of thousands of the police who took to the streets demanding change it is based on our duty to approve fied. Network and it is a safety net to protect the entire country from plunging into may i call on all the lebanese to give precedence and priority to lebanons stability unity and civil peace and to steer the country away from the economic crunch and all Political Partners i say it is our duty today together to safeguard lebanon and to steer it away from any pearls. It is our duty to bring our economy back on its feet in a genuine stand that we shouldnt be wasted i will render my resignation and i was place it under the disposal of the president and all the lebanese offices come and go however our country must live intact no one is above lebanon may god save lebanon may lebanon live on. A very short very short statement from the Prime Minister saad how d. D. In lebanon he said that he was on his way to the president ial palace to tend the resignation of the government and his own resignation do we have. Back with us. Out on the streets of beirut 1st of all before we get to the reaction like the reaction to that is going to be. What are we to make of what saadi is just done. Well he has resigned it was a demand by the protesters they wanted the government to resign the ruling elite to be replaced by technocrats who dont have any political affiliation in order to carry out much needed economic reform so he is he doing that amount of those who were in in the streets now what this means theres a political crisis in the country a vacuum now that he has resigned what is going to happen next he blames his partners yet again because this is 2nd time here trust me i dont know maybe shocking since the protest Movement Began 13 days ago the 1st time he blamed his partners in the government for not allowing him or obstructing his work he wasnt able to carry out reforms and he gave them a free day 72 hours to try to come up with a solution they came up with an economic reform package but it wasnt enough for the people on the ground he says im trying i was trying to find an exit to the crisis and what is needed is a shock there is no doubt the Prime Minister resigning is a shock trying to find an exit to the crisis he has been holding talks with ministers representing the different parties over the past few days his partners in government yes he calls them partners but he is not a member of the Ruling Alliance he is in the opposition its a very complicated picture but one has to mention this those who. You are in control of government those who are in control of parliament this is an alliance that is made up of the president the House Speaker and husband they control the government and parliament but they need him they need saga heidi he is the main some new leader in this country and this is a country where the political system is based on sectarian sectarianism so the main son the leader of the country resigning means a whole community has now been sidelined and i think this is what how do you do it is trying it is betting on hoping that this will put pressure on his quote unquote partners to compromise to find a consensus to come up with a with a government that will be acceptable to people on the streets because at the end of the day has the hezbollah led alliance needs he gives them political cover the International Community supports him if they appoint a Prime Minister who is allied to them there is a very big chance that the lebanese government will not gain their legitimacy and the International Community already already the United States has been imposing sanctions on a main player in the government the iranian backed hezbollah so if this government becomes purely a hezbollah backed led government then lebanon as a country could be sanctioned by the u. S. So he knows this this is a card thats how to how to be has in his hands hes playing them playing them maybe it is a negotiating tactic but right now his decision is is to side with the protesters in the streets i would say that for the other many thanks indeed lets go elsewhere in the city aljazeera Stephanie Decker is in beirut stephanie you do you can see the pictures that were showing our viewers at the moment scenes of what can only be described as celebration after the violent scenes we saw earlier in the day protesters pretty happy theyve gotten what they wanted the government is no more does that mean an end to the protests what happens next. I think its very early days we are outside the residence of the Prime Minister you saw earlier things in this country can change in a 2nd. Dividing. Tendered his resignation we have had warnings of a power vacuum in this country what happens now well the Political Parties in parliament will need to head for consultations with the president this can take time but a name needs to be decided of course it needs to be the new leader according to the constitution this again can take time and then they need to form a cabinet level that person is so you are heading into times of uncertainty here so there may be celebrations but as people will tell you there are many different parties that have many different interests on the ground this is a country that is incredibly well armed you have parties that have militias attached to them the population in general the majority of them have weapons at home it is a concern i mean just earlier before this speech happened we saw people in our building leaving their offices early going home of course theres theres a question more people are nervous as to how this is going to play out they havent been here before in terms of this exact way of course love madonna has had political crises before its had no government before its had no real leader before but now the people yes they said they wanted the entire government to resign i think it is a welcome 1st step of course because as you heard from the Prime Minister there he was directly addressing the people saying this is a response so were going to need all of the events are just Political Partners we know theres been bickering between decides not agreeing as to what he wanted saying that it is our duty to safeguard lebanon so again i think its too early days to predict everyone weve been speaking to over the last almost 2 weeks now will tell you its very difficult to predict how things are going to go on people who would say they didnt see a resignation of a government that has now happened on certain times. They can be dangerous times as you saw on the streets earlier today things change in the 2nd supporters of those 2 main movements the ammo movement has by law clashed with protesters moved on to martyr square started slashing down the. Police came in a little late to try and disperse them so anything is possible these are Uncertain Times now lets wait and see how things are going to play out yes people are celebrating but i think certainly too early days for any kind of jubilation there are major challenges ahead one thing you havent mentioned stephanie is whether they will little have to be election now i mean the government has essentially collapsed the private is to going to president to tend to his and his resignation and the government. The president will now encourage the various parties to try to form over government. Yes elections is something that the protesters want but the protesters dumonds all that they have now there is an interim government cabinet made up of technocrats individuals who are not linked to any of the Political Parties of course the protesters have been calling also for a change in the city and its the system here principle system that has been in grave here for decades these are huge challenges huge jobs so what they want is a government interim government of technocrats independent people until new elections are going to be called is that going to happen we dont know certainly at the moment we heard from the Prime Minister hes heading to the palace to tender his resignation to the president then were going to have to wait and see what is going to happen next with those going to be addressed or whether or and again this is going to take time but were talking weeks and weeks down the line potentially this is not going to happen tomorrow what is going to happen on the street earlier today we were hearing reports that the protesters were going to regain their momentum in response to those counter protests that we saw earlier today and returning to the streets i think at the moment everything is still. Up in the air as to how this is going to play out of course the protesters are welcoming this but because of the political dynamics in this country they are incredibly complicated theyre not only internal they are linked to the entire region they are linked to saudi arabia theyre linked to iran they are linked to other countries it is an incredibly complex web of the region says that play each other out so there are you know positions of power in play that do not want to lose those kinds of positions that they have achieved over time so a big question mark this is a country that can be very volatile so i think too early to be able to predict anything at this point in time but certainly demand of the protesters one government resign weve now seen that happen to Transitional Government of independent technocrats is that going to happen and 3 early elections i think were going to have to wait and see time will tell how things are going to play out here i deserve Stephanie Decker live in beirut news once again lebanons Prime Minister saad hariri says hes reached a dead end and will submit his resignation to the president this is in the speaking just a few moments ago a few. Lets move on to what other news now the Top White House expert on ukraine is about to testify at the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump copies of exhaustive in bones testimony received in advance show in advance show that he raised concerns twice over trumps efforts to have ukraine investigate democrat politicians it comes as the u. S. House for the house of representatives prepares to vote this week on whether to formalize the impeachment investigation the move is in response to complaints from President Trump the process is illegitimate lets go live now to work capitol hill in washington d. C. Al jazeera hi joe castro is the heidi just how important to the impeachment inquiry will win this testimony be today and how concerned should the president be about it. Sure of him in is testifying right now behind closed doors and he is the 1st witness that these impeachment inquiry panels are hearing from who was directly on the phone call between President Trump and the leader of ukraine back in july and if you remember it was this phone call that prompted this inquiry in the 1st place according to the white houses transcript or lose transcript of that call we saw that trump asked Volodymyr Zelinsky the newly elected president of ukraine to do him a favor to open investigations on democrats and on joe biden the former Vice President who is a political rival of President Trump and listening on that phone call was vin minutes well as other white house officials have been is a member of the National Security council and he says it raise alarms and ill read a bit from his Opening Statement he said i was concerned by the call i did not think it was proper to demand that a Foreign Government investigate a u. S. Citizen i was worried about the implications for the u. S. Government supports a few crain i realize that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens. And barista it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintain this would all undermine u. S. National security the words from the Opening Statement of then human and he was particularly concerned about possible changes to u. S. Foreign policy toward ukraine because at the time that made this request he was withholding u. S. Security aid that congress had already appropriated to ukraine for its defense against russia and then those further in the statement saying that there were meetings at the white house prior to this call between President Trump advisors and a ukrainian delegation during which those same terms were brought up an invitation for the president to visit the white house in exchange for a Public Statement on opening those investigation into trumps political adversaries the korean president heidi says that this inquiry is illegitimate its. Is that how members of his own party feel. While republicans have been attacking the process of this impeachment inquiry they have said that because its happening behind closed doors that its lacking in transparency and theyre saying because the democrats never officially had a vote to launch this inquiry in the 1st place that its illegitimate and that is why on thursday were seeing House Democrats trying to take that argument away from republicans by indeed having that vote which really now is is just a formality the inquiry has already been launched and the courts have weighed in that it is legitimate but however House Democrats say go ahead and get on record to launch this vote with to launch this inquiry with a vote. Heidi many thanks indeed how does your caster then live on capitol hill in washington lets return now to the breaking news out of lebanon this hour the resignation of private assad how d. D. And his government lets go back to aljazeera says they know honda out on the streets of beirut at the moment is the mood has the mood noticeably changed since that announcement from the Prime Minister. Well his announcement really heeds the call of the protesters the antigovernment protesters who have been demanding a new government is formed one where ministers will be technocrats and not affiliated to any Political Party and that they will be able to carry out the necessary and much needed Economic Reforms to improve the Economic Situation the Living Conditions in the country so theyre welcoming that but what began as a spontaneous protest movement is today a serious political crisis the Prime Minister is on his way to the president ial palace and bob hes going to submit his resignation to president michel out president michel and can refuse to accept his resignation some believe the Prime Minister could be using this of some sort of a negotiating tactic telling trying to pressure. Trying to pressure his quote what he says partners in government to agree on a new government so this could be