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ALJAZ NEWSHOUR July 13, 2024

Start to screen passengers from china as fears grow over the spread of a new virus. With the top stories from europe including people. Refugee crisis. At breaking point. And. Chrono mcgregor makes his much anticipated return to action the irishman is taking on american donald surrounding later on saturday with the hopes of winning for the 1st time in 3 year. We begin with breaking news from lebanon where police have been firing tear gas and water cannon the protesters who are demanding a speedy resolution to the financial and economic crisis that these are pictures from close to the Parliament Building in the capital beirut hundreds of protesters have been involved in running battles with Security Forces the demonstrators are angry over plans by the ruling party to form a government from the current Political Class lets go live to beirut. Has been out of on the demonstrators for the last 3 hours now weve seen these running battles zeta bring us up to speed with the situation than now. Yes adrian you say 3 hours it hasnt and the running battles continuing fierce confrontations between Security Forces and antigovernment protesters here Security Forces firing tear gas to move the crowd from marchers where we are in the center of beirut the protesters are very defiant theyre playing tough and really with the Security Forces they managed to push them a few 100 meters back with them and they moved forward again as you can see ambulances in the streets evacuating the wounded dozens have been wounded and the ongoing conference has got them on the protesters as well as the Security Forces protesters are hurling rocks after the Security Forces this all began outside Parliament Building which is approximately 500 where we are the protesters the i think a lot of protesters who are demanding a change in leadership in this country try to storm the building they try to reach the building so Security Forces responded with tear gas and water cannon. This is the 1st i took violence since chinas day when activists announced a week of rage thats what they called it the week of rage they plan to escalate the protest action after their movement to the momentum of their movement slowed in recent weeks they are growing increasingly frustrated theyre saying that our Peaceful Movement are peaceful rallies and theyre doing nothing to convince the leadership to leave power to have those the power to end the pan the government this is what people want you can see theyre taking away a people have their. Life but also. You can see the firecrackers thats the way for them there is how to provoke the forces so that. Theyre not back. The place the president of the public michel aoun has called on the king to restore. Him is great but at the same time were protecting public opportunity at the fact that he spoke protesters but people here are and weve been speaking to people and they say that the Economic Situation in the country ringback is so 2 bad that they have to behave left to live and theyre promising to stay on the streets to pick up the momentum and still have the Political Class there to to power. Why this escalation now weve seen you here since october 17th you havent left the street life. Because we dont have social justice in this country we have nothing. At this point in life at this point is not its not worth living if this doesnt change and we are in the common economical crisis our system as. Theyve theyve been just theirselves how much of a failure there are in every single way we have no Ministry Working we have nothing we have nothing people are dying by books and you think hell think this is the system do you think that any change can happen theres no or no way its been its been almost a 100 days nobodys listening theyre still forming the same. Lets not use our story but this is how it is we dont want to use the cursing word but which is what theyve been doing is crime theyve been their criminal is real we are ruled by criminals very words theyve done the civil war and this didnt present during us ok but do you really think i mean do you have all the support that you meet and there are still people who support those in power how would you could how youre going to convince them to side with you if order and order the food in a fair and where we are in an economy. Crisis everybodys going to get hungry everybodys going to need to do this soon and i dont have to convince anybody about whats happening today its clear whats happening who can get a hold of their money in the banks who has electricity and. Water how can you resist this season that were breathing now how could you really were on air. Sick with tear gas smoke and the smoke from fireworks those explosions away hearing fireworks those running battles continue you keep having to move position to talk to us because of the tear gas and the the riot police who are trying to disperse the crowds. Yes you can see the stuff thats even in front of us even more tear gas. Right hundreds are trying to do over this past week or way to leave a marker where this is the epicenter of the protest movement where it all began on october the 17th where we saw thousands and thousands of people gather in peaceful. Rallies to demand a change in leadership to demand politicians who have been governing this country since the days of the civil war to leave office they blame them for the dire Economic Situation for mismanaging the country they say that they have basically privatized their country and they are benefiting from the states resources and not the people the people keep giving they keep being taxed and they get nothing in return that they have no basic services. And this is either something tragic or. Theyre trying to reclaim their country when you talk to the go wrong at all i dont own a boat. As you can see people are wounded this is this is an ongoing confrontation and the problem is or the biggest question is if this keeps continuing and this unrest continues in the streets of the capital theres a political vacuum an economic crisis and people are armed this is a country where people are armed as well so this is a fear that many people have where is the country heading to and this is but but if you ask people here they tell you or well i we dont really have a life we dont have a future and so were not going to lose anything by continuing to do this but we talked about a few 1000 people here its very important to mention that those in power the mainly sectarian parties who remain in power do have their supporters who believe what is happening here is a conspiracy and they believe that they should be given a chance there are talks to form a god. But its not what the people here demand the court demand here is we want an independent government the ministers need to be experts they sit and be affiliated with the different Political Parties and they should work for early elections thats the commander in the street but the Political Class has been responding say no were not going to give up power we want and that can take thousands of interim and tell populace for a couple of us from the street you need to topple us from the ballot box yes we will create a government of experts but those experts will be named and referee Political Parties id say that many thanks indeed i was there is a lot of their lives on the streets of beirut amid the running battles between protesters and police which have been going on for well over 3 hours now. Thick with the smoke from gas and fireworks abraham name is a Civil Society activists and a University Professor in urban planning he joins us now live via skype from beirut. Professor what do you make of of this where do these protests go for me yet. To be honest no one can tell what we can see is the progressive accumulation and escalation. As it is old of the of the rising and. Frustration and rage from the people because the current political powers are not that you desponding in any positive manner to the demands of the people that have been brought this thing for over 90 days peacefully in the streets they continue and deny and they continue in their gains and public sharing. Of the forming government they continue to ignore the demands of the people like nothing has happened since october 17th and this is the resulting in people had a feeling cornered and thus the violence. Coming out like that not to forget that the recently had been also us getting from there by a continuous oppression detaining young people. And using force and this also resulted and any action from the people with violence from their side. What several 100 perhaps a couple of 1000 protesters out there on the streets of beirut right now have their frustrations shared by the population as a whole does does everyone agree with what theyre doing. What to be honest i feel that the economic crisis that we have reached and we are suffering from a now i think it teaches everybody the problem is that the sectarian part of this that dishman are using their propaganda and their sectarian tautog to charge people against the revolution and somehow there are some people who are still believing in this discourse unfortunately but i feel that the economic crisis has reached the pockets of all the lebanese and many are unemployment rates are very high the devaluation of the bins pound is also growing things feel out of hand the prices of commodities have been rising with no control we had a total chaos in this country and i feel that no one here has not is not feeling frustrated the problem is that some people feel that they should be more peaceful and theyre using the this aspect of their volution to do a counter attack on the revolution but i feel that all people are cornered in some way or the other and theyre bound to reach that point the eventually we spoke to a commentator earlier who said that today was a turning point for lebanon after these protests and i will wake up to find a very different country to more well i tend to share this opinion too that today is really a turning point in the under evolution. The excessive power that have been used by the Security Forces burning of the revolution leigh. And the square there using and also the very simply using live ammunition i think this level of the. President of violence will trigger more even says severe reaction from the people and. No one knows how it will escalate but definite. At its maximum today tonight. For really good story many thanks indeed for being with us. Now to the latest developments in libya the state of oil firm has been forced to close 5 eastern ports that have been under attack by forces loyal to the war Khalifa Haftar its expected that the move will result of the loss of 800000 Barrels Per Day of output meanwhile in less than 24 hours all eyes will be on the german capital berlin thats where a peace conference is set to take place World Leaders have been working diplomatic channels extensively in the hope that after the un recognized government of. Will both attend turkeys president one is the latest politician to voice his opinion ahead of the conference in a newspaper column he warned that if the libyan capital tripoli was afford to have to it would become a Fertile Ground for the rebel groups to keep banks the government that has recently deployed troops to help against forces. In just a few moments well take you live to hushmail whos in berlin ahead of the conference which begins on sunday 1st though lets cross to tripoli aljazeera has more of the one head is standing by for us bring us up speed. The situation on the oil ports the National Oil Company has declared a force. Well. Before i speak about the situation. To the country. The spokesman of the operation the governments counter military. Stated they have documented a clear violation of they have to plane and the. Plane. Green. He calls it a clear violation of the cease fire. Only 24 hours before the meeting in berlin the situation in the oil terminal is in the east of the country remains a very uncertain as the blue cade continues and the n. O. C. That the state with the National Oil Corporation has been warning that the only loser in this game is libya while other well put up producing countries will increase their Production Capacity taking the advantage of. Libya now. Also says that its now if this blockade continues it will be losing about. 55000000. 00 a day or about 800000. 00 bad it is a day this intuition also remains a very chaotic dead as there. Are 5 major Oil Terminals in the east of the country have been blockaded by protesters including militia men tribal militia men along with the poor have to groups and then protesting what they call the military existence in libya here in the west of the country or the camp led by the you know recognize the government of National Court there is still a question mark what will happen in berlin especially after both qatar and tunisia have been excluded despite the fact that the government have been insisting on germany to invite both countries. After what had live in tripoli lets go back to berlin. Any kind of unified position among the various World Leaders who are going to attend tomorrow what are they really strictly expected to come out of this please. Unifying adriane of the 12 states attending the berlin peace talks is going to be the biggest challenge facing german chancellor Angela Merkel she needs to navigate through the complex Political Landscape that has divided keep players about libya she held talks a while ago with the. Prince mohammed bin zayed whos not going to attend the conference itself to model and both discuss the need to and the political crisis in libya both insisting that this should be no military solution a solution to the crisis in libya guess what the government of National Accord in libya for example accusers the United Arab Emirates for exacerbating the situation there by providing significant military assistance to the warlord. Who controls more than 2 thirds of the country and this is one of the things that america has to overcome the situation has become so divisive. What you have on one hand countries like turkey qatar italy to some extent and the International Community providing assistance of the government base in turkey of the other hand you have the moderate is the egyptians the saudis the russians and the french assisting general highly for have to if you could because it consider him to be the only ball work against the rise of armed groups militias and extremism in the region and i think tomorrow when merkel meets with all the leaders attending the conference she would have to tell them its about time to solve the crisis or as were going to see in this report libya could become a nightmare scenario for the International Community. This was the moment to leave years archrivals were supposed to agree to a cease fire Prime Minister face the stars and warlord highly for half the. In moscow for a meeting brokered by Vladimir Putin and. But hafta walked out of the last minute the collapse of those talks has been a setback for International Efforts to end the conflict many are now waiting to see whether leaders from 12 countries can achieve in berlin what eluded put in and done in moscow and persuade rival factions to reach a truce while the bill in conference is try to do is get agreement between the states meddling in libya to stop their support of the warring parties problem is that western states on operated put pressure on half that front office in particular the u. A. E. So the promise is that the foreign medicine medical billing it in ring hollow german chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing for a permanent ceasefire in libya and implementing an arms embargo but that may not be an easy task libya has been marred by an Armed Conflict for years after is leading an offensive to capture tripoli backed by the u. A. E. Eurabia friends and russia the general has brushed aside reconciliation efforts. Hes intent on defeating his opponent as Prime Minister of the International Recognized government based in tripoli. Any talks taking place when tripoli is under a question is an absolute disrespect for those who are killed for the sake of democracy it is a disrespect for those forced out of their villages and cities hotter has a list of demands he wants armed factions in the west to disband and his Libyan National army to take over has also made it clear that the military and maritime deal said was just government signed with turkey should be scrapped for the leaders attending the berlin peace talks the libyan conflict has reached a Tipping Point violence is on the rise and an arche has paved the way for a wave of mass in areas to join the conflict raising fears it could be a prolonged and spillover threatening your security thats why the International Committee is determined to end war in libya. He is a political analyst and director of the tripoli based Sadeq Institute he joins us now live from london good to have you with us given all that weve just heard what if anything can we expect from this conference more absolutely nothing. In

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