Reforms and early elections. Cracking down on dissent and bellows disputed Election Results show the long time president Alexander Lukashenko on course for an overwhelming victory. In u. S. Court has issued a summons against the Saudi Crown Prince in relation to a former intelligence agent subtle jobbery the court order also covers a dozen other people including residents of the u. S. Its not our job or he felt a lawsuit accusing the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin cell man of sending a hit squad to kill him 2 years ago hes now in canada where police and private security guards are reported to be giving him increased protection Abdulaziz Alomari art is a saudi human rights activist he says saudi arabia is putting itself in a vulnerable position. What mohammed bin salon is doing is no good for nobody because at least 10 belies asen and saudi arabia is a very dangerous situation i was born and lived up to be up 6000000 people if any trouble can happen and the system that we out couldnt even drink water because we get our water from there at sea and from that arabian gulf so saudi arabia is a very in a very vulnerable state and having and we dont like mohammed in selma is not taking things to a more safe state also weve seen that mohammed bin samantha talking about starting relations with china and america so the old alliance between america and so if youre a viewer is not even value it by so the. d routine mohammedan someone is willing to walk with the americans or europeans or whoever with them oh and there are and the following terror that how much are they willing to walk away to an undemocratic behavior on. War crimes if anybody is not willing to play his game he will cut relations it really ok ok lets stay with the story joining us live bruce fein for me us associate Deputy Attorney general hes talking to us out of washington bruce good to get your thoughts on this developing story as of issuing a summons what does that mean. Well 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 not a long time. But i think having myself litigated many cases under the torture victim protection act that it signals that m. B. A. s will now the gristly lobby President Trump and secretary of state might pump a 0 to issue whats called a letter of suggestion of immunity its rather an odd. Realm of law but basically it asked the court to dismiss a case because it would interfere with the Foreign Relations of the United States in relations with a head of state or high level officials it is not required that a court accept a suggestion of immunity by the state department but the cases ive litigated theyve given great deference to it but that means that november will be critical for saudi arabia. Under that doctrine President Biden could revoke any suggestion of immunity and reinstate the case but i can guarantee you right now saudi arabia and the crown prince are talking his head off with pump a 0 in trying to get me out of this conundrum ok unless a community bruce does not cover the case ok sees yet to come or does it cover the individual i. E. Does it gave m. B. s blanket immunity from anything that may yet also as well as this becoming down the line. A suggestion of immunity only covers that a particular case so it wouldnt reach any other lawsuits against m. P. s and it wouldnt reach criminal cases against m. B. s a suggestion of immunity is relevant only in a civil case where youre seeking damages so its not a get out of jail card free for all time it sounds as if this will be a long drawn out Legal Process overlaid with clearly kind of like politicize ation of the relationship between the trumpet ministration and the powers that be in riyadh yes i believe thats true but remember we have an election in november and their relationship could be dramatically altered if mr biden wins the election. I think the consensus in washington is the only true friend if you want to call it that since mr trump pretty doesnt have friends hes narcissistic and does things for himself but the only advocate for saudi arabia in all of washington is President Trump and his son in law and shared question are there no members of congress that champion saudi arabia there are no other members of the administration in fact the Intelligence Community is outraged at what happened to mr algebra because he was an informant an intelligent asset for him but mr trump has given little weight to the intelligence communities actually derided it from time to time but because the lawsuit is protracted the november elections loom very large in its ultimate outcome and is there another facts of this which makes it inherently different to what happened in terms of International Law and legality and the application of the law when we discussed you and i discussed for a long time of the period of many weeks months the death of jamal and its this the allegation seems to suggest and i say i stress seems that some of this failed operation some of the planning took place on american soil because they went to try to get into canada literally 2 security guards they got a red warning flag for some reason and they would deny that access to canada so they were on american soil when this was still in the planning before it got to the execution of it. Well that is a critical difference because and because show be case all of the actual action was either in saudi arabia or d in turkey but theres another element thats very important for us law and then it is the allegations are that the wrong if you will the attempted assassination was targeted at the United States because it was seeking to disrupt a relationship with the United StatesIntelligence Community so it had and purposeful impact on the United StatesIntelligence Community that is important because theres a previous case i was involved in against a sama bin laden relating to the Embassy Bombings in nairobi and tanzania and there the court upheld jurisdiction over asama bin laden because it was said even though the explosions and the terrorism was in Foreign Countries it was directed at the United States and to frighten and terrorize the United States i think thats what gives this particular case much stronger legs than a suit by mr kushner. Ok we must leave bruce consortiums find the former us associate Deputy Director in washington thanks much thank you. Lebanons cabinet is using meets in the coming few hours to discuss possible early elections anger at the government has been boiling over after a catastrophic explosion in beirut last week robin 2 days of violent protests in the capital with more planned for monday 158 people died in the blast 21 assume missing he says theres little hope of finding any more survivors protesters say they want a complete overhaul of the political system to government ministers have responded to public pressure and they have resigned the environment minister. Qatar has confirmed he is following the information minister abdel samad 9 m. P. Use of also quit the parliament in 130 love this is the point of no return people are starving the economy has deteriorated the economic crisis is heightening our families children friends have just been left behind fear and disappointments lives within them in this fateful moments we cannot just sit behind we have to stand in dignity together as a nation i feel that i need to send an apology to the liberties people because we failed to achieve their ambitions due to the difficulties. To martyr square in beirut and correspondent zain a harder zain whats the minimum that the protesters would accept coming out of this meeting today. Well thats a very difficult question at peter because what people want is an overhaul of the political system that has been in place for decades what they want is the whole Political Class out of power a Political Class that has been governing this country not just for the 3 decades that followed the civil war some of them were warlords and that is easier said than done because the transition process is quite its quite difficult and the message you get from those in power is that were clinging on to this power yesterday 2 ministers resigned there were reports that are. Their ministers are going to tender their resignation the Prime Minister held an emergency meeting and telling them wait till today lets discuss during cabinet session today but statements being made by some ministers this morning and late yesterday one minister said were not going anywhere the government is still sounding were going to carry out our duties another minister says that it makes sense to have resigned in the immediate aftermath of the bomb blast but the blast they scuse me but resigning now really will not help. Mean that we cannot carry out the responsibilities for the people so really the people have little tools in their hands in order to overthrow those in power street pressure they were they were basically attacked by Security ForcesSecurity Forces used Excessive Force to clamp down on the on the protests and the opposition is unable to push for political change through state institutions because the government the parliament the presidency is controlled by the governing alliance and briefly the reality is from a financial point of view lebanon needs an awful lot of money billions of dollars it needs it but its not going to get it without political reform when youve got someone as powerful as emanuel macro saying youve got to change. I will answer that question in just a 2nd but i just want to tell you another minister has resigned the minister of justice yesterday she did mention that that this was possible now were getting confirmation that she has resigned so now 3 ministers have resigned yes levanon needs money 1st for reconstruction immediate assistance to all the people who are affected by this blast 300000 made homeless many many people cant even afford to eat or or to buy medicine yesterday we saw so many volunteers in the street distributing medicine distributing water and the International Community is ready to help to provide relief to the people of lebanon but the International Community made it very very clear that theyre not going to give the government billions of dollars that it has been requesting for some time now to kick start the economy there saying that the government should carry out reforms should fix corruption and state institutions so far the government and the Political Parties thats really backed this government have been reluctant to carry out reforms because it will weaken their hold on state institutions so yes this country is in dire need of money the International Community is making it clear theyre standing by the people theyre not standing by the government they will stand by the government if it carries out reforms if the government decides to do that like we mentioned they become weak they lose control over the states resources and with all this International Intervention a lot of them feel that the crisis has now been internationalized and they will lose but at the end of the day it is the people nearly 50 percent of the population now live below the poverty line 32 percent of the workforce Unemployed People are unable to even get their savings out of banks the dollar denominated Bank Accounts because theres just no dollars in the country so the situation is quite dire but those in power you know no showing at least no sign that theyre ready to make concessions at this point in time ok thank you very much an old reporting live from beirut. The police in hong kong have made their highest profile arrest yet under a Controversial National security law imposed by beijing media tycoon and activist jimmy lives among 7 people detained in raids on monday an executive in lies media group says hes been held on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers well heres the founder of the apple daily one of the most widely read newspapers in Hong Kong Aljazeera sarah clarke is a site is headquarters with the latest. Jimmy law hes one of us high profile arrests yes made under these National Security laws hes going to tiny early on monday morning arrested at his home and the potential charges he faces a collusion with a Foreign Force a foreign country and i should also start 2 of his sons have also been arrested in this particular sweep on monday morning now they are not affiliated with the likes of apple daily but we believe that may be part of a wider investigation into the likes of jimmy lise investments and we also believe 2 of quite high profile Senior Executives within the company that includes the c. F. O. The chief Financial Officer as well as the chief executive officer theyve also been detained as a result so the police have said the operation is going smoothly other continuing behind us as a searching devices investigating and talking to interviewing some of the stuff here but we also expect more arrests to be made as the day goes on and more people to be taken into custody as a result still ahead here on al jazeera attacked and so far away from the killing of aid workers. Hello the pensive crowd across much of indonesia but some heavy rain further to the north we see want to see scattered showers across areas of borneo across into pseudo se but look at all this rain here is on its way across to northern sections of the philippines and then back across the west weve got some very heavy rain developing of the next couple of days right there way down at the mill a pensiveness and heavy downpours as well across into thailand and very widespread in cambodia as well and also wanted to warn those showers back in the 4 calls for some ultra and across into java meanwhile into australia weather conditions to begin to improve this area of low pressure which has brought the battering waves the strong winds and the rain that is beginning to clear away but not before the rain produces flooding never this is about to the south this is to the south of. Sydney and as you can see here the floodwaters are very high again but as i say conditions should be improving winds are still pretty strong along these coastal areas and that system is now on its way across to the north island of new zealand and old this rain across the great buys that the rain through South Australia and on tools that a little bit cooler in perth 16 celsius cloudy skies the charles the few showers but really the heavy rain across much of the southeast and that very heavy rain from a system that that will work its way southwards across much of the north island throughout much of cheese day. 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Is due to meet to discuss the possibility of early elections anger at the government has been boiling over on the streets after a catastrophic explosion in beirut last week. The Hong Kong Media tycoon jimmy ally has been arrested under chinas new National Security law his company says hes being held on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers. The president of france emanuel is denouncing what he calls a cowardly attack which killed 8 people in southern asia they included 7 french aid workers and a local guide touring the west african giraffe reserve near the town of curry the defense minister says gunmen on motorbikes that opened fire its not known which group organize the attack. Is following the story for us from a butcher in neighboring nigeria so lets just take us through if you can what we know so far about what happened in. Well basically a french aid agency confirm that in fact these were members of its staff who visited the sanctuary at calais and they were attacked by a gunman on motor motorcycles. The incident happened in the better region which is arrested or seen a lot of activity. Much of it in that area as well as the times from across the border in from mali and blocking a fossil that region has seen so many attacks and in the