The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler undation; and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Ank you. Katty im katty kat in washington. Is increasing tension in places where guns are never far away. Katty redent trump flight to he says it is Forest Management. Joe biden says it is climate change. The people want the flames to stop imigrants want to move on from lesbos. Local residents want them gone, too, but the prime wants them to stay. Iyou knowf he in planet of women and love,co but it d also be the planet of life. We will explain. Katty o elcomeorld news america on pbs and around the globe. When a huge blast in the lebanese capital, beirut, killed nearly 200 people, it also exposed longstanding structural issues and a country long in crisis. A blend of corruption can distrust of politicians, and crippling poverty have led to factionalism and violence on the streets. Six weeks aftethe blast from our middle east editor jeremy bowen has returned to beirut look at how and if the. Untry can he jeremy poverty and pain run through this stronghold for sunni muslims in beirut. Apart and diedgrew apart and died young, shot dead in a street battle with arrival family. Like most people who gathered emr his funeral the next morning, he was oyed. His uncle, like almost all lilebanese, es corrupt politicians we wantecent people in the government. They need to understand the suffering of the people, not tsjust filling their pocke jeremy the women threwddtheen s inou mingir and to show the strength. Disputes often turned violent in thisei nborhood, but they said at the economic collapse is making it worse. Ryit is veard to see how this ends well. Lebanon is bng eating by poverty,li and in communities this come it is increasing s nsion and anger and fear in places where gune never far away. Many who can leave the country are getting out. Inhis father was hoping to him a job abroad. Razor wire cannot protect the central bank from the anger of lebanese 11 locked out of their accounts while elites transfer aliens abroad. Governor for 27 years, he says the economic crisis is not the banks fall. We e the central bank, not the government. Jeremy you think you are being forced to take the blame that others should accept . Im not forced. Im not accepting theme b whoever is in power is responsible. Jeremy people dont believe that politicians anymore. Jeremy it is a problem for lebanon. I didnt vote for tm. Jeremy the leaders of lebanon tree power is personal possession. Graffiti lampoons former warlords who carved lebanon up between them o since the e the civil war. Im part of the system, yes. Jeremy is it healthy that in this countrya lot of the ruling class, theop men in the country, are people who were the leaders, maybe even warlords, in the civil war . Not so healthy, but set to see this washe solution to end the civil war in 1991. Jeremy an a womans hu was one of the firefighters killed in the explosion. Five months pregnant, she visits his grave every day, grief mixed with rage at the failure of lebanons leaders. They are all criminals. They should all burn. That is what they deserve. Jeremy beirut port is still not safe six weeks after the explosion. It took days to put out a big new fire in a warehouse containing tires and oil. This bankrupt, burning country has an ultimatum from th french predent. E aid they need to rebuild if reformed, sanctions if they dont. Rmthefound more explosives at the port. Politicians havent agreed on a new government, let alone a new future. At happens in lebanon meadows to the rest of us. The rld does not need another collapsed and broken state in most dangerous and unstable region, and that is the risk right now if this downward iral doesnt cease. Jeremy bowen, bbc news, beirut. Katty situation in lebanon is suffering so much, and it is very clear who they blame, but corrupt political system and corruption among politicians. The scenes are apocalyptic. The sky is red and smoke fills the air. Spare a thought for residents of the west coast of americas wildfires rage throu the neighborhoods. President trump flew there today and found record 5 million acres burned across the regionou and nds of homes destroyed. Our correspondent Aleem Maqbool joins us from eagle creek morgan. I think we are used to forest fires in california, but i was thinks of oregon damp and wet and rainy and not a place for forest fires. And yet there you are with us tonight. Aleem that is why so many people have been caught unawares here in alwere gonein particular for in oregon in particular. There are many people ive spoken to who said in living mery they never expected Something Like this somewhere like this. Across this region, more than 90 major wildfires are stil burning, including some close to where i ameg in central. But of course with such little time left an american election, even a Natural Disaster has become a huge political football. Weave to remember, as you say, more people are being affected. Every day we hear of more people reported missing and of course, what people are counting the cost of what the fires have takenway. It was like a journey into a eerie twilight zone. Few have been lowed here since the fire swept in with such rage. The most people scramble to get out with whater they could, it was in this area that lies had also been lost. Lives also been lost. There were some people we found wondering and you will did. I lost everything except wha. Was in that b everything. And i didnt have insurance. Ive insurance except for all had insurance except for me. Aleem he what made fires recordbreaking was the high winds that came with them, accelerating their frightening and destructive passage through vast areas of the state. We keep hearing from those who said they were fleeing for their lives. It is only when you are on the ground and you see the destruction as w have been able to and the warped the landscape, you get a sense of there night they were running from. Been called a imate arsonist like his democratic challenger, provided, who blamed by his democratic challenger, joe biden, who blamed gloprl warming. Thident himself said the fall lay elsewhere. Pres. Trump this is one of the biggest burns we have ever seen, and we have to do a lot about forestanagement. Obviously, Forest Management in california is verye mportant. Ths to be good, strong Forest Management, which ive been talkingbout fort three ars with the state. Inflatable srt doing that that. Ully at will start doing aleem this family has been we found them in the. Displacement camp. They have a flight fires three times in three different locations in the past week. My mom had 10 minutes tget out of h place. She got the clothes oheher back and cat, and that was it. Her house is completely it wiped out everything she owned. That is what we heard. We are not se as of right now. Aleem it was summers town i visited earlier. The signs arent good. For all theit pols at the heart of this disaster are hundreds of thousands of americans who faced fear, displacement, and loss. Aleem maqbool, bbc news. Tty that family moved three times to escape in a week. It is catastrophically people out catastrophic for people of west at the moment. E greek Prime Minister says a permanent migrant camp will be built on the island of lesbos to the cap that wa destroyed last week. Some residents say it is to much of a burden, thoh. Many migrants say they want to be resettled elsewhere. Our correspondent since this report. Reporter eople are slowly being processed here at this new camp on lesbos. Once they are inside and they fowill be give and water and shelter and they will be tested for coronavirus. But many other migrants and refugees are singly refusing to come here. People are living in and around the burnedut ruins of the old camp, and that is where we met woman and her companions from out in a. They say they are not moving. They are taking us to prison. We dont have freedom. We have been here for nine months. I lost m twoanda halfyearold son in the sea. They want to take us from one prison to another. We came here for a better life for ourselves and our kids can but i dont see the difference between here and afghanistan. They have built a camp and want us to live there is prisoners. Food and drink is not everything. If you try and animal to a tree and give them food and water, they will stay silent. But we are not animals. We fled afanistan because suicide bombings and kidnapngs. We came here for a better future, but our future has been destroyed. My children are mentally ill. Theyab have nightmaret the fires every night. Reporter e many of these peo were hoping that the destruction of the old camp would mean they would get resettled to other parts of europe. But the greek government says it is planning to build a new asylum processing centehere. That is a solution that pleases neither the refugees nor the local greeks. Katty bethany bell reportg from lesbo. A quick look at other news from around the world. Th poisoned russian Opposition LeaderAlexey Navalny can get t of bed, according to the berlin hospital treating him. He collaps on a flight from siberia last month and tests showed he was poisoned by the nerve agent novichok. Supporters say he was poisoned on the ord ps of vladimin. The kremli denies any involvement. Russian president Vladimir Putin has pleed 1. 5 billion in loans to belarus. Mr. Putin may be offered during a sitdown with the president of belarus in the Southern City of sochi. Their first meeting sin mass protests broke out ov last months disputed president ial elections. A new treatment for9 covid that uses artificial antibodieso is to be tested in u. K. Hospitals. Will be given th treatment to see if it is effective in fighting the virus. Our science correspondent cca morelle has mor rebecca antibodies other warriors of the immune system, playing a vital role by attacking the coronavirus. Now they are being harnessed in a promising new treatment. Currently there are very few medicineso lp covid19 patients. The most successful was discovered by the u. K. s recovery trial. Now they will be testing antibody made in a laboratory. They will be given to thousands of patients in u. K. Hospitals to see if they were. I think the reason it is so exciting is this is the first type of treatment that is targeted for this is specific virus. There are lots of goodns rea for thinking it might well be effective at stopping the virus from reproducing and stopping the virus from causing its damage and improving survival. We need to know, and the way to know is to do the trials. Rebecca how does this work . When anf person isted with coronavirus, they produce antibodies. The virus, blocking it from of entering ourselves. Owe make hundredifferent types of antibodies. Scientists sifted through them to find the best that sticking to the virus was tha chose two because they attempt to slightly differentikarts of the if the virus mutate and the structure changes, lease one will still work. Both antibodies are multiplied in the lab and produced es huge quanti they are then mixed together and given to the patient, immediately boosting their own immune response. Monoclonal antibodies are expensive. They are relatively new type of medicine. T they are used for othe diseases including some types of cancer. Treatment has used thed technology to successfully treat ebola. Erare high hopes. We are very excited about o r these highly potent neutralizing antibodies, which will boost the human response and will always be needed, even when a potent vaccine is available, because rvey are going to be under populations that we dont want to neglect. Becca with covid cases rising, newreatments will be essential. The recovery trial will tell us if the promise of monoclonal antibodies turns into a reality. Rebea morelle, bbc news. Katty i think i speak for all of us when i say i wish them all the luck. We need something soon. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come on this program out on the silver screen. How hollywood plays and attention between america and china. In the tension between america and china. Israel has become the first country to impose a Second National lockdown following an upsurge in cases. The tough new restrictions will begin in the country friday. Reporter israel had a very good performance early on in the pandemic, where it imposed tight rder restrictions, also had a very effective trackandtraced system. That fell apart as many experts believe schools and businesses were aowed to open too quickly. It was a question about whether ere should be in the red hotspots, the places with the highest incidents of coronavirus run the country, new strictions put in place last week. It was local opposition to that. Those locations were concentrated in arabof israeli parthe country and areas where there are high numbers of people who are ultraorthodox. Now israel has had a cabinet voting on this Second National lockdown due to last for three wes. It is estimated it will cost to the economy just under 2 billion. Y ka the shifting ground of theio chinau. S. Relhip is now playing out on the big screen. Disney spent five years and 200 million remaking mulan, only for the film to become embroiled in controversy about the studios relationship with beijings government. Lm the kers thanked 8 Government Entities in xinjiang, the region where uighur muslims have been detained in internment tense. The Chinese Market for films is huge. Box Office Revenue in 2019 was 9. 2 billion. Number has tripled sinc back in 2012. R more on this, im joined by the authorf hollywood made in media studies at the university is hollywood capitulating to china . Hollywood studios, i they want to keepaking bigbudget films can have no choice but to make films achealing to the ese market. It is mo than likely that the u. S. Market, if not this yearthe the next year. Katty at the moment, movie theaters in america rgely shut because of covid and they are largely open in china and that makes china even more important. Absolutely. The year on yearerformance is bigger in china, three times larger in comparison to the u. S. Katty is there a way that American Companies and Film Companies cod navigate this more effectively than disney seems to have done . Did disney need to thank those Government Entities from xinjiang . Hat the question was did disney need to fill menon the other question is why did they decide to release the fil of these scenes . One thing theythrticulated is the film was shot in a wide variety of different locations. As the human rights abuses continue with it. It draws into real question the corporate leadership. Katty do you think that having seen what has happened to disney and their experience over mulan , other Companies Might american companie might reassess how they do business with china . Or do you think they will just reassess how they cover their tracks more effectively than disney has done . Tnk that probably both things will be happening. We have alreadyeen dreamworks pulled out of the joint venture, oriental dreamworks, inethe chinese ma weave seen u. S. Companies reassess their strategy. Disney has a lot more skinthn the game i sense that in addition to the film release, they have massive amusementpark investments in china. They have a lot more to lose. Katty i guess the question is is it possible for American Companies to do business effectively and profitably in china without becoming embroiled in chinas political system . Businesses and politicare very linked in china. I think that it might be possible for some sectors, but particularly for the media duries, it is extremely difficult, because the politics of content reduction are somethingcontent production are high profile not just for the National Peoples congress but for president xi himself as. Katty thank you very much for joining us. It is getting a lot of attention on social media and causing problems for disney. Thank you for having me. Katty it is the question always asked about the possibility of life beyond earth. Well, a team of internationalha astronomer detected traces of the gas in the atmosphere of venus tvey belould be produced by microbes in the planets cloud. The microbes could in turn suggest life. Here is our sides how gosh science correspondent pallab ghosh. Pallab venus, could it be home to extraterrestrial life . There is new evidence itight astronomers have discovered a gas in thes planet atmosphere. They think it could have been produced by tiny microbes living in the clouds. I was really surprised. I was pretty shocked as well. At first i didnt quite believe the detection. I just couldnt believe we had found it. But once we set out an independently detected it through another telescope, that is what i knewsoe really had a d detection and that it was real. Pallab the discovery was confirmed by the alm telescope in the mountains of chile. It is one of the most powerful arrays under earth to the discovery of life in another world would be one of the grtest scientific discoveries ever made. But researchers are not making a claim, at least not yet. The gas could have been producee by some othes. But its presence on venus is still a sensational finding, the strongest evidence astronomers have ever had for the existence of alien life. The big problem is venus is hostile to life. A soviet spacecraft landing in 1992 confirm scorching temperatures, up to 450 degrees celsius, and clouds of suuric acid able to disinnggrate any lihing in seconds. What some think buthi som that even here, like could be possible. There is a habitable zone, a range of altitudes on venus where it is not to hot, that life we understand on earth, survival superherotype cells could survive the environment in the venutian clouds. Pallab is many scie still think that e conditions on the planet are too harsh to support life and that there is another explanation for the presence of the gas. But at this stage, it is harder to rule out the possibility that neien life could exist on of the nearest planets. Halep gos pallab ghosh, bbc news. Katty i have a personal interest in the story my daughter is workinon that telescope in chile. Just a proudummy moment. It is only recently that professional sports are starting to come back following coronavis cancellations, and that has some sports fans jumping out of their seats with citement wishing they could get in on then. Actio 12, that is what happened at this 100meter dash iistanbul on saturday. Except the overly excited fan s a cat. Did you miss it . I did, too. Lets slow down and take a second look. E the athletes wken by surprise, with some even swerving to make room for the cat. Im not sure whether the cat was placed in the race, but i love that he was there. 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