Attorneys have the n. R. A. In their sides triggering lawsuits designed to dissolve the gun rights group. As the people of lebanon grieve for the victims of tuesdays blast the french president emanuel macron has been touring neighborhoods devastated by the chemical explosion as despair turns to anger people have been calling for change president adding his voice to calls for reform. The death toll from tuesdays explosion has risen to 149 and its expected to rise about 5000 people are injured many of them being treated in hospitals that are completely overwhelmed dozens are still missing more than 300000 people have been displaced from their homes shopkeepers and residents is still clearing up the rubble that litters the streets up to 8 kilometers away from where the blast took place or has called for a transparent to National Inquiry into beiruts massive ports explosion the french president met with lebanese political leaders after surveying damage from tuesdays blast he was also mobbed by residents in the city demanding justice and accountability for the disaster. Just. What i know is that the people of lebanon have electricity shut down every day and its not working the provision of imports and exports has collapsed because of the Financial System so there arent as for the short term that we need as we know the answer is to fight corruption reform the energy and electricity systems the customs we need transparency for imports and exports we need reforms for all the sectors and insist on these changes quickly it will public anger against lebanons ruling class is growing many holding them responsible for the new economic collapse of the country and as a no one reported from beirut the state has been noticeably absent from the recovery operation search and rescue teams are still digging through the rubble at beirut port the site of massive explosions that damaged or destroyed much of the lebanese capital families are desperate for news about their loved ones dozens are missing there is pain and grief zainab fears she will never see her husband allie again. Theres a still image still you know i dont know where he is i havent heard from him since 6 pm monday i want to know if hes alive or dead. Rescue experts from abroad have started to arrive to help a country that wasnt prepared to cope with a disaster like this all of us are. Hoping to each other with army to find more corpses theres still a lot of destruction we need to move the stock to building to find theres somebody. The blasts were felt kilometers away killing dozens and wounding thousands buildings homes shops all destroyed 300000 people displaced billions of dollars in damage investigations are focusing on possible negligence in storing tons of highly explosive material at the port officials have promised assistance and compensation to those affected by the explosions but driving around the city the state is noticeably absent in destroyed neighborhoods like this one it is the people who are helping each other they are cleaning the streets clearing the debris and distributing food and water to those in need public anger against the Political Class many believe is responsible for lebanons near economic collapse is not new decades of corruption and neglect triggered an antiestablishment Movement Last october weve been fortunate growing used to this not being present for its citizens we dont have properly just city we dont have a proper garbage infrastructure we dont have proper water infrastructures and unfortunately the people have gotten used to it but its its its a time for change its weve been asking for change for quite some time and i think this last catastrophe is going to make change for the country much better the priority now is to help the victims many are still in hospital in Critical Condition calls for accountability and justice are growing louder for now people are focused to rely on themselves i need money tools. Myself. I need everything. I didnt want to be. So this is why im here i want to. At least meet. Some may call it resilience but for many this is about survival nearly half the population of 5000000 lebanese were below the poverty line before this disaster the situation has since got worse. Beirut. Lets go live to our correspondent burnitz myth in beirut tend. Present emanuel not quite i suppose trying to bring a message of reassurance to people that there is consensus that there must be change in lebanon but perhaps not clarity on how its supposed to happen or what we sent word from emanuel not drawn on what he did was step into the void left by lebanons own political leaders when emmanuel markram was mobbed on the streets of beirut earlier today when he went out went on a walkabout there were people that calling for the return of the french mandate from the colonial power before independence and hes because macron has been able to offer fractal support in terms of medical teams search teams as well as moral support to the people of lebanon both things that their own leaders have not been able to offer and have been conspicuously silent while bunny will mock from arrived here very quickly and without offering support so an indication really of the extraordinary frustration and anger felt by the lebanese here whove been essentially left their own devices to to try and clean up by government totally overwhelmed already on its knees in the face of an economic crisis a collapsing currency and an increase a spike in an outbreak of 90 so a real real stresses in the system. As you say the country only seems to reach new depths of crisis there and were just looking at pictures of people trying to clear up if you know if theyre not getting much help from the state and as you say people are feeling very angry and abandoned i mean allan a managing. Right now because there arent many people there in the city whove been left homeless by this explosion. All we saw all day on the saw mainly young people out with brooms and pickaxes and shovels trying to clean up and trying to clean up a disaster site 3 kilometer radius from outside the port has been impacted shattered glass everywhere buildings in a dangerous peril perilous condition of risk appalling and people have been left without any guidance without any management from the government to try and clean up themselves its been very very difficult for people to do that finally some foreign rescue workers in an area we were a not who did and started to close off roads and stopped people walking underneath buildings that night but in these in these initial days after that explosion a real sense here that people are on their road and there is no government. To help out about is a potentially very dangerous atmosphere and already receiving we have to see a little bit of confrontation between some people strolling stones at the security sources thank you very much Bernard Smith in beirut. A lawsuit in washington d. C. Has accused the Saudi Crown Prince of dispatching a group of hit men to canada to kill one of his top former intelligence officials mike has been following the story and joins us now mike what does the middle seat claim. Well its 106 pages that has been filed in the Washington District court and certainly it contains exhaustive material about allegations that the crown prince ordered this hit squad to assassinate dr. But he and he is arguing that this hit squad actually attempted to enter canada to kill him. But they were turned away by border officials who realized that this large group of men knew each other now contained within the court papers is a chart which shows a relationship between the crown prince and the various members of the hit squad alleged hit squad its got their names its got their faces the allegations within the court papers is there the number of the men in the hit squad operated within the United States planning the assassination within canada it also alleges that this hit squad had carried out a number of other attacks against saudi individuals opponents to the crown prince and could also have been involved in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the 20 1018. 00 so exhaustive detail in terms of the crown princes activities dr saeed algebra he was also a intelligence official within saudi arabia he served the previous crown Prince Mohammed bin nayef and says in the court papers that he left saudi arabia becoming concerned that a coup was being planned indeed that then happened and bamber been selman subsequently sent him a series of Text Messages which are contained in the court papers asking him to come back to saudi arabia to assist with the transition and then increasingly threatening him with assassination if he did not return so certainly this is the most exhaustive and detailed claims against the crown prince yet made. So those the allegations just tell us briefly why the case was filed in the u. S. Rather than canada. Well the our number of u. S. Laws that enable this to happen of the torture victims protection act for example which this case is brought under allows for nonu. S. Individuals to bring civil action against officials of a foreign state who are accused of extra judicial killings or indeed of torture theres also the alien toward statute which allows individuals nonu. S. Individuals bring action against foreign nationals who are acting in official capacity for a foreign country so that is the legislation that can deal with this but in addition as well. Had very close relations with the u. S. Intelligence according to the court papers in addition as he mentions in his court papers those hit squad actually based in the United States to plan their sesson ation attempt to cross the border in canada so in this theyre just lation as well theres the insistence that the cases got to touch and concerned the United States well the court papers would appear to indicate that the activities of this alleged hit squad certainly did touch and affect the United States thank you but the latest on that story from washington mike hanna. With al jazeera live from london well still ahead we heading out with argentinas Security Forces battling a surge in poverty and crime caused by the corona virus pandemic and hiroshima marks 75 years since the 1st atomic bomb and calls for a Nuclear Weapons free world. However got some lovely summer heat spilling across much of year it now losey fine and dry we have still got a nasty little clutch of storms there just around the balkans but elsewhere you can see how the skies are opening up nicely and we are going to see Something Like heat wave into the northwest of here well see temperatures in london getting up to 34 celsius on friday saying what about the seasonal average the average is actually 23. 00 degrees in london 3 consecutive days in a row where the temperature is 5 degrees or more above that africa constitutes a heat wave in that you can see is going to be with us for much of the week ahead that warm sunshine extends across much of europe as a said we do still have those showers down towards the southeast just around the balkan southern parts of italy greece seeing some rather lively showers as we go on through the next couple of days but elsewhere as you can see was very hot sunshine coming through some absolutely lovely conditions there full value for the organ stem pushes then were going to see fine and dry weather to across northern parts of africa still got those life showers still story around the sun help pushing across a good parts of sudan south sudan through chad easing of it was more than parts of nigeria little further north and they should be southern areas of nigeria still with a few showers but largely fine and dry for many. Once welcome now fear. Of dividing a nation. Aljazeera explores germanys long Term Economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more gentle and syrian. Are much money those are richer get those people put up food from deutsche one german and american the new germans on aljazeera. Who lose. The a. Quick look at headlines now top story of course french president Emmanuel Mcconnell has been visiting the lebanese capital beirut 2 days after its massive port explosion he has called for a transparent interNational Inquiry and says there must be a new political order in lebanon. Or the death toll from cheese days blast has now risen to 149 but it is only expected to rise people are still carrying up the rubble littering the streets up to 3 kilometers away from the portion of course theres still a search going on for those unaccounted for. And another bit of news a lawsuit filed in the u. S. Has accused the Saudi Crown Prince of dispatching a group of hitmen to kill one of its his top former intelligence officials side in canada. And now the attorneys general of new york and washington d. C. Have announced a lawsuit aimed at dissolving the powerful National Rifle association theyre accusing the organizations leaders of financial. Mismanagement you yorks attorney general a t. Shirt james says years of corruption and misspending has undermined its ability to operate as a Nonprofit Group the n. R. A. Is described the lawsuit as a baseless premeditated attack lets go to chaper tanzanias live in new york one of the allegations. 64000000. 00 siphoned off from the other raised funds in about 3 years by wayne la pierre the n. R. A. C. E. O. And 3 other executives the attorney general of new york says they used the n. R. A. As their personal piggy bank soufan the obvious lifestyle wayne la pierres 500000. 00 worth of luxury private jet trips to the bahamas not just for him but for the his family other extended family one is still up there wasnt even present as well as. Siphoning off money to various friends families Business Associates and rather dodgy business deals the attorney general wants that money paid back but she also says that the n. R. A. Has been so destroyed by this corruption it can no longer be registered as a Nonprofit Organization in new york so this will now go to court the n. R. A. Has filed a countersuit this is likely to take a very long time and as you suggested you had already is already suggesting in a very trumpy and fashion that this is simply a part of a witch comes that this is about the left wing agenda this is about people you know that the that the democrats coming off off to the to the americans right to have guns in that house proved very effective about this that i raise Membership Base and oppose however with this with this lawsuit there is the possibility that the major donors of the n. R. A. May begin to switch off the top you would think but it but its not not quite clear yet but this may have an enormous impact on the n. R. A. Itself in the future you know whether it has any impact on what the base things whether this is just a Conspiracy Theory isnt clear as you. Yes exactly i mean as the attorney general has pointed out and this is a very powerful Influential Group with very committed following. Right and thats the point it already has always had that was punched above its weight in the sense that if you look at the amount of money it actually spreads in low being in d. C. Its probably not that much compared to other lobby groups but what it does have is the ability to mobilize those supporters to go to the polls to definitely be that and vote against people who want gun control to vote for people who are against gun control and thats always been its its main power it has 5000000 followers or so interesting there is that sense that you have the n. R. A. You may not be around for much longer depending on although this may go on for a while but depending on what was already in financial trouble but one of the reasons why it was also in financial trouble but even before this little suit was because it had declining membership and maybe that was because donald trump was in office governors didnt feel terribly under threat now once again theres a sense the way they will feel under threat and if not the n. R. A. Then all the gun will be low be able to say shes made you quite quite well out of out of this city for donald trump theres that sense that they might actually begin to use this as well just at a time when theyre worried about flagging republican appeal that that actually that the base may not turn out in the doldrums or almost immediately tweeted just like the radical left new york is trying to destroy the n. R. A. If biden becomes president your great 2nd amendment doesnt have a chance your guns will be taken away immediately and without notice so whatever happened to the n. R. A. The right like you think of this is actually just what we needed just before the november election to get people to remember why they voted for trump trump in the 1st place this follows this idea of dissolution is conserved as consent of the dissolution of the n. R. A. As a Nonprofit Organization in new york even dole trump didnt seem terribly terribly bothered by that. Thats a very. Terrible thing to do is that. I think the n. R. A. Should move to texas. And lead a very good as you would a full life. And ive told them that for a long time i think thank you. That would be a great place or do another state of their choosing so this mail will be under the authority either in the short term or all the long term storage that weve seen that when we were growing robis all and retired followed by followers to mobilize all right thank you tense here with the latest on that story so some interesting developments in better reuss that the president there is saying that several u. S. Nationals have been detained in the lead up to the countrys president ial elections on sunday but Alexander Lukashenko did not specify who was arrested exactly when it happened or why the detentions were made the leader is facing his strongest challenge to his 26 year rule the run up to the vote has been marked by a crackdown on opposition figures who because of plotting with foreign powers to topple him well have been a results from sri lankas parliamentary election showing a big lead for the governing party the sri lanka peoples from par