At least 16 people have been killed. And hong kong chief executive carrie lam and 10 otherr officials s are sanctiononed bye u. S. Over a contntroversial securityty law. A familiar setting and a familiar story for World Champion lewis hamilton. He set the pace for the 70th anniversary grand prix. Anchor the u. S. State department has called a former top saudi intelligence official a valued partner. It comes a day after he filed a lawsuit in washington, accusing the Saudi Crown Prince of sending a hit squad to kill him. They say they are concerned s allegations and persecution of his family members are unacceptable. An extraditioned request because they said it was politically motivated. The state department comments were made in a letter to a democratic senator, who requested a formal update on the case. The department praises dr. Aljabris work with the embassy in riyadh, saying he is someone who responded aroundtheclock to threats to u. S. Interests in the kingdom. It adds, the department of state is concerned about the activities that led to aljabri s exile in canada. The state department is calling for the release of aljabris children, saying in the letter it repeatedly requested the saudi government clarify the nature of the childrens detention. Lets speak to my in washington. To mike hannah in washington. Do we know if they are prepared to take any further action over this . Itrespondent at this stage, is not clear. This letter was in response to a letter sent by Patrick Leahy and three other senators to the white house, asking for the matter of aljabris children to be addressed. Andchildren, now aged 20 21, are being held in riyadh according to aljabri as human bait to lure him out of hiding. Now, the senators have got a response from the state department. Interesting in that letter that they have already made repeated approaches to saudi arabia as to the status of these children being held by the saudi authorities. That is a very strong step forward. Aljabri has argued very strongly that he had to leave saudi arabia because he was worried about the succession to theman he was working for, former crown prince, who was usurped by the current crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman. In his court papers, aljabri says he was concerned for his own safety about this transition of power, and that is why he went into exile. The crown prince send him a number of text, asking him to return. According to those papers, he began to threaten him and send, according to the papers, a hit squad to assassinate him in canada. That was turned away at the Canadian Border by alert border guards. But one must stress that the state Department Letter confirms that aljabri was a valued intelligence asset to the United States. He worked very closely in the Counterterrorism Division and was highly regarded and highly respected by the u. S. Intelligence committee. We know from that letter, as well as many u. S. Senators who worked with him while he was basically the head of counterintelligence within saudi arabia. But what this all highlights is that Massive Division between the white house and congress when it comes to relations with saudi arabia, regardless of repeated allegations of humans violations. President trump to describe the crown prince as an ally and friend. Congress is different in that. Anchor also following the story, our first bonnet. Any response from the white house. Correspondent the response from the state department is certainly part of the Trump Administration. But at the same time, i want to build on some of the comments made by mike hanna. He talks about this relationship with saudi arabia. When you talk about the u. S. Relationship, it is fragmented. There is the relationship of the white house and then the relationship of the u. S. Congress. House,spect to the white the Trump Administration has made a strategic decision that it believes that saudi arabia is a valuable ally in order to counter irans maligned influence, as they call it. As a result, they have a strong and unwavering relationship with the kingdom. We know that Jared Kushner himself has a personal relationship with the crown prince. He gave an interview last week where he said that with regard to the ordered killing of Jamal Khashoggi, these were some missteps. In other words, he believes saudi arabia is a very good ally. This as the u. S. Intelligence overwhelmingly concluded that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Beenadministration has defending those denials. Congress and even members of the president s own party overwhelmingly have a different view. What we have seen is this concern from congress about the saudi record when it comes to human rights. At the same time, this administration has a loyalty so strong they have defied congress repeatedly. For example, the president used his veto power to reject legislation that would have ended u. S. The part for the saudi led conflict in yemen. The president later vetoed legislation to block a weapons sale to saudi arabia. Therehis administration, is an unwavering defense of saudi arabia, even as the u. S. Congress is infuriated by these actions. Anchor thank you very much. Unauthoring and a specialist on middle eastern golf issues joins me via washington. Do you anticipate congress will continue to put pressure on the white house to do more over the aljabri case, despite the incoherence of the u. S. Response overall, as kimberly was describing . And i wouldutely, add that l job breeze that aljabris decision to pursue this through the court is a strategic decision in order to shield the outcome from political pressure. As we know here in the United States, courts are politically independent of both the executive or the congress. Strategy through the courts, he is hoping the courts will rule ultimately in his favor, and that way the government, whether it is the state department or the white house, will have to enforce the ruling. I think that is exactly the strategy here. Anchor what do you make of the timing of when this was alleged to have happened, the plot to kill aljabri around the time of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi . What sort of questions is this going to raise . Guest i think that the real most likelythis is the real explanation for why saudi arabia severed diplomatic i can hear you, can you hear me . Can you hear me . Anchor we can still hear you. Sorry for that. I think there might have been a bit of interference, but please continue. Canadai was saying when and saudi arabia had their biggest diplomatic crisis, it was supposedly over the canadian ambassadors criticism of Human Rights Violations in saudi arabia. Is i think the real story saudi arabia severed relations with canada because canada foiled the plot to kill aljabri in canada. I think that is the real story going forward. Anchor how likely is that to play out . Here in thenk United States, it has already been established what kind of an actor saudi arabia under prince Mohammed Bin Salman is. We know the relationship is a is it is one, which not with an individual leader, but with the government. For that reason, we need to interpret the state departments statement just this afternoon saying aljabri was a valuable partner. That is coded language for the american government, saying to the saudis do not try any of these games again because another scandal of the magnitude of the Jamal Khashoggi scandal cannot be tolerated, and it significant implications for the u. S. Saudi relationship. That is something the americans are trying to put brakes on. Anchor thank you very much. Joining us from washington, our guest. Guest thank you so much. Anchor the newshour live from london. Asking at chinese influences political tensions grow over president trumps plans to ban tiktok. Unemployment showed signs of easing in the u. S. , but tens of millions remain out of work and politicians still cannot agree on emergency funding. The head of World Football reacts to a criminal case being launched against him in switzerland. Anchor as anger rages in lebanon following tuesdays devastating explosion in beirut, an investigation has been launched. The blast which killed at least 150 seven people could have been caused either by negligence or a missile attack. 19 port officials have been detained. Questions are being raised as to why nearly 3000 tons of the chemical compound Ammonium Nitrate had been stored inside a warehouse for six years. Fears are growing about a humanitarian crisis. Lebanon imports much of its food through the port. Officials are estimating losses of up to 15 billion government inquiry ledth led bye politicians and Security Officials who they believe should be the ones questioned. There is a problem of trust between the political system and the population. This has existed for years. Thenow the problem is that committee of investigations, the person in that committee, they are part of the Committee Services that people are asking questions about. Correspondent french president Emmanuel Macron will visit the devastated neighborhoods on thursday, joining voices calling for an independent international inquiry. But the governing alliance headed by hahezbollah has said this. I would like to emphasize that we reject that we have materials at the seaport. Not a single bullet, weapon, ammunition, or a bomb. Nothing at all belongs to hezbollah. Even the materials, the Ammonium Nitrate, does not belong to hezbollah. I believe there is a consensus with a all lebanese comprehensive, transparent, and fair investigation must take place. Correspondent they welcome humanitarian assistance, which has started to arrive in a country already broken before the disaster. But they are against internationalizing the crisis, which would wewakeaken their control. Calls against the government are on the rise. There are plans for mass demonstrations. The priority is no longer just the humanitarian emergency. There are attempts to revive the momentum of the protest movement that began in october. But bringing about change wont be easy. Joined by a now professor of clinical emergency medicine from the American University of beiruts medical center. When we spoke a few days ago, you told me you were concerned about a shortage of medical supplies and a lack of what can you tell us about the capacity in hospitals to be able to continue treating patients . Thank you for having me. When we talk about capacity of hospital beds, it is about functional capacity, not only physical space. Having a bed is not all you need. A needs to be staffff by qualified people, having the capacity to actually provide care, meaning providing medication, qualified help, qualified nursing and medical personnel, qualified investigational studies from labs. Care of them if we do not have this tent . It costs to purchase, and our money is evaluated and the country is bankrupt. How can you take care after the attacks, of torn arteries and injuries . Correspondent can i ask you, it has obviously been several days since the explosion. What are you starting to see in hospitals now . Are you seeing patients with more serious injuries . Receive some cases that obviously had been extricated from the rubble. We provided them the care. I mentioned the other day that some of these cases have a higher morbidity in the third wave of patients after a masscasualty incident. Ist i need to tell you something we did not give enough attention to last time. Ist i would like to say while the American University of beirut has the capacity to have a Search Capacity to serve our people very well, i can tell you that the other casualties we received, 400 to 500 casualties, only 10 of the casualties across beirut. That means the other 30 hospitals in the area took care of them, took care of the other 90 . I cannot relate to you what a great challenge this must have been to everybody, especially in institutions that did not have elevators functioning, were functioning with collapsed walls, with dead nurses. Four nurses at medical centers, one in the rosary, they lost their lives. There were a lot of people wounded. Among our staff and among their staff. Anchor of course, you know that the hospital staff has been putting out an incredible effort at their own lives and health risk as well. Wondering, are any of the patients you have seen, families you have met and i know it has been a very traumatic time for the country, particularly people like yourself. Is there any particular patient or case that is at the forefront of your mind . Guest of course. At 3 00 in the morning, coming back from five hours in the ed, i received calls from families asking me to go back and look for missing individuals. I had to sleep. I had to be back at 8 00 in the morning. I went at 8 30 with a picture of a young man who was 30 years old looking for him in the eight bodies we have unidentified in the morgue. I found him. He had a small beard, that is why people did not recognize him. Then i had to call his mom. After 30 years in the field, after all the masscasualty incidents i have seen, i still have an awful time, nightmares, thinking about this mother who was holding onto my scrubs and telling me, why couldnt you save my son . Lost today a fouryearold. A fouryearold was announced dead. She passed away. This image of a mother asking me, how could i not save her son . Me and my colleagues. We lost anywhere between 10 and 20 people during the night. We saved many others, but this is a story that happens in every emergency department. Father have images of a asking me to see his sons body, and i tell him that your son is one of eight bodies that have been charred. When he isring him totally burnt . Your body shrinks down. You cannot tell a male from a female. You cannot tell nothing. What do i tell a father who is crying, holding onto your body, telling you, please let me see my son . That does not happen typically in the first three hours. When everyone is bludgeoned and we are trying to take care of patients, we maybe can turn off this side of us. It is harder to turn off with little babies. But we have to move on and take care of patients. But the day after, every single one of the nurses, physicians, personnel, rescuers who took care of these people must be feeling awful the next day and the day after. We are angry. We are fed up. For years, decades, bomb blast after bomb blast. All we see is lipservice corruption, mafias and militias. Enough of them. We want what we heard president macron say. We know what we need. We need the right people at the right place. We need people to be ethical and to have a minimum degree of government leadership integrity. Now i am talking political. I should go back to medicine. I dont think, we can imagine what everyone has been through the last few days. I am very sorry to hear this. Guest one last thing. Who wereost rescuers called in to put out the fire by people who did not have the decency to go down and open the doors for them. These are nurses, firefighters who died to do the dirty work most of the time. These people dont have anyone to take care of their orphans or their parents. Who do you think is going to take care of them . A government that has not paid our own university 45 million of medical care when all the hospitals in lebanon are owned by the government . Almost 2 billion of medical care has not been paid for. Every institution cannot continue operating when our government is busy spending their money on projects that they dont need. Then they go out publicly and say we are covering the expenses of these injured. When . How . What they can afford is private when they should learn modesty and integrity. Doctor, thank you for giving us some insight into this situation. Situation. Lenging i know you and your colleagues are having to deal with it. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Thank you. Guest thank you, and thanks to all our colleagues who served in the disaster across all other hospitals. Anchor we want to turn to some other stories now, particularly one story we have been following out of india today. At least 60 people have been killed in a plane crash. The plane slid off the runway as it was coming into the airport. Officials say the pilots vision was impaired due to heavy rain. This happened in the Southern State of kerala. Correspondent the desperate search for survivors from an Air India Express flight, which had been bringing people home from the uae. Crew were ons and board the boeing 737 when it overshot the runway at the airport in kerala. The pilot had apparently tried to land minutes earlier in heavy rain. Officials say the plane landed at speed and skidded before coming to a stop. It broke into several pieces. Fallen intoto have aditch, because there is division between the runway and other parts of the airport. Because of that impact, the breaking of the fuselage into two, and the front portion has been badly mangled and damaged. Correspondent it is monsoon season in india, making the rescue even more difficult. Many of those injured are being treated in hospital. Both pilots were reported to be among the dead. There are currently no commercial flights in or out of india. This was a Repatriation Flight from dubai, bringing indian nationals home who had been stuck overseas because of the coronavirus pandemic. In a tweet, indias Prime Minister said he was pained by the accident. Thoughts which will be shared by the nation. Investigators will want to know how and why this accident happened. Now speak to the journalist, who joins us on the phone from kerala. Any update on the casualties . Correspondent the latest that we do know, and this is information coming from officials, that there are 17 casualties. The latest we do know about. Apart from this, two pilots have died. This is part of the 17. Crew wereur cabin part of the team. They are safe in the hospital. Who werehese people returning to india were people who had lost their jobs due to the covid crisis in different parts of the world, or they had visiting visas, many of them were senior citizens. They were on priority lists for the country, and that is why they were being allowed in as part of the mammoth exercises of bringing them back into india. Shockiterally coming as a to many people who were looking forward to returning to their loved ones back in their country. What we do know here in india is the chief minister has also designated a minister to oversee the entire operation. When this accident happened, there were locals, allce, fire rescue teams, of them who were pressed into action just to be able to ensure that people could be rescued. Around 190 people. Apart from that, of those that could be rescued, they have been sent to around 30 hospitals around the airport. Anchor our correspondent, thank you very much for updating us on that story. Newshouratching the live from london. More still ahead. Election win. After a ship is stranded with tons of fuel. In a sport, we have cricket action with england fighting hard against pakistan. England is into a threeday heat wave. The rest of the european plain, it will probably last longer than that. ,here are a few showers around tempering what it feels like in greece. System will edge temperatures out a bit of ireland and scotland. Nevertheless, we are in the 30s quite happily. There is a northerly breeze coming in as well, knocking temps back a little bit. We also maintain the heat, injecting more humidity. There will be more clouds and a few more showers developing in that heat. In the heart of it, paris at 39. The temperatures do not drop that much. It is a humid field. Heat across north africa. August is the wet season for sudan. Seen this as far north as the gambia. Now,are not that far north but they are significant and they fall into storms in the atlantic. Anchor welcome back. A quick run through of the headlines. The u. S. State department is saying a former saudi official saad aljabri is a valued partner. The countries crown the countrys crown prince allegedly sent a hit squad to kill him. As people continue to deal with the aftermath of the devastating explosion in lebanon, an investigation has been launched into what happened. The president says the blast could have been caused either by negligence or a missile attack. After aeople have died plane crashed on landing in india. The air india jet broke into two when it overshot the runway at a n airport in the Southern State of kerala. In other news, the u. S. Is imposing sanctions against hong kongs chief executive carrie lam and the current and former police chiefs. The sanctions imposed, under president trumps executive order last month, seeking to punish china over a sweeping National Security law imposed on hong kong. China insists the law is needed to criminalize acts of secession, subversion, and terrorism, but critics say it has been wielded to silent dissent. With growing tension between the u. S. And china over president trumps plan to ban the popular social media app including video sharing app tiktok, but china using thiss. Is to suppress them. These videos have earned her 1. 4 million followers on a video sharing app, the chinese version of tiktok. The 25yearold uses the app every day and is not surprised it has become so popular in the u. S. We are very proud of anything that originated in china. Of chineseample ingenuity. Correspondent she is alarmed by president trumps executive order to ban tiktoks use there unless the app is sold to an american company. I am not sure how the company would develop if the owner changes. I believe every company has its own soul. If you replace that soul, something will be lost. Correspondent the u. S. Government says it is cracking down on chinese apps, which it says spreads propaganda and poses a Security Risk to americans. Beijing says the move is a pretext to suppressing chinese companies. The u. S. Approach has no factual basis at all. It is clearly malicious smearing and political manipulation. The point of the law is to maintain its hightech industries. Bytedance is in talks to sell the app to microsoft. Tiktok denies sharing data with the communist party and is threatening legal action against the u. S. Government. It is not the only chinese app in the firing line. Which hasapp wechat, 1. 1 billion users worldwide, is also facing a ban. The banning is likely to cause problems for chinese users and businesses dealing with china from the u. S. Here, the platform is more than a social media app. It is used to buy products, invest in shares, travel, and check a persons covid19 health status. Washington is expanding its socalled Clean Network initiative, which aims to root out Major ChineseTech Products from the u. S. System. Analysts say the move is part of Donald Trumps tough on China Campaign ahead of the u. S. Election. For domestic Chinese People, especially those who have very fond memories of the u. S. , this came as a surprise and many people are pissed off because it seems that Chinese People are bullied. I dont think it is a good sign because we have seen antichina sentiment going on around the world. Correspondent the Chinese Government is urging the u. S. To rollback the move or face retaliation. Trumps executive order deepens the Digital Divide between china and the u. S. , adding to diplomatic tensions and a growing list of disagreements over geopolitics and trade. Now to sri lanka, and the rajapaksa brothers have consolidated their hold on power in the country with a dominating win in the parliamentary election. As our correspondent reports, they plan to change the sri lankan constitution. Correspondent celebrations in the heartland. The reason, a majority in sri lankas new parliament. On thursday, well wishard cute to see incumbent president gotabaya rajapaksa, who secured the highest number of votes. Similar scenes at the house of another top performer for the governing sri lankas front party. Now we have a two thirds majority in the parliament. Can be developed within a very short period. Correspondent this family says the strong support for Prime Minister rajapaksa and his brother, who is president , just five years after they were voted out, is a message from the people that areerhaps the reforms [indiscernible] which is also the message that has been sent since the election. That has been the clear message. Now what the people are moreding is economic development. Correspondent he predicts the new government will increase the president s powers, get rid of independent institutions, and an amendment on power sharing in the north and east. When they walk into the Parliament Chamber on august 20, seating arrangements will have changed to accommodate one of the largest number of mps to sit in government, and those in their ranks who face a series of economic and political challenges. He has been struggling to keep his factory of in difficult times. It is made worse by the covid19 crisis. The cash flow situation when it comes to markets, negative sentiment, then with the covid market contraction, we are 80 of our business gone. Correspondent it is a common complaint among small and medium businesses throughout sri lanka, and an indicator of the difficulties facing the new government. Two things are critical immediately. One is to provide stability of policy. One of the big challenges is the sense that sri lanka makes policy, remakes policy, and it continues in a way that creates stability. The second is confidence. Correspondent despite the mandate, the rajapaksa brothers still face allegations of war crimes and forced disappearances 11 years after they oversaw the defeat of their opponents in the civil war. The leader of the National CivilRights Commission voiced these concerns. We also see a rise in buddhist nationalism. It seems like that is what is taking hold and shaping the policy of the country. So this means that minorities in particular feel frightened because if you are critical of the government, you can be called a traitor, a terrorist. You can be arrested for expressing an opinion. Correspondent balancing the multiple challenges facing sri lanka will not be easy for the new government. But for a majority of people here, the rajapaksaled government is the best option for now. Germany and france have both abandoned talks to reform the World Health Organization out of frustration with the u. S. Attempts to dominate negotiations. The move is a blow to president donald trump, Whose Administration had hoped to have a sweeping overhaul of the who before the election. Frances Health Minister says the u. S. Should not lead the reform after already announcing it would be leaving the organization. Trump accuses the who of being too close to china and of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic. India is now the third country in the world to record 2 million coronavirus cases. The covid19 count has doubled in three weeks with a record daily jump of 60,000 new infections. It puts the country only behind the u. S. And brazil for the most number of infections. People have died. 150 million has been awarded to make vaccine doses for india and other countries. And theto the u. S. , economy added 1. 8 million jobs in the month of july, a slowdown from june where 4. 8 million. Jobs were added the Unemployment Rate fell to 10. 2 in july, down more than 1 from june. Although figures are encouraging, they represent a fraction of the jobs lost in the march and april when lockdown measures were introduced to curb the spread of the virus. On top of this, the safety net for those unemployed is shrinking. The weekly unemployment benefit of 600 a week has expired. So far, democrats and republicans have not been able to agree on a new package. Than 30ndent for more million unemployed americans, warm summer days fade to sleepless nights. I never anticipated being on unemployment, period. That was never something that i thought would happen to me in my life. Correspondent among the newly unemployed since march is sarah guard, who lost her Human Resources job and fears losing her identity. It takes from my family what it takes for my family is being able to maintain the life we have. Correspondent when u. S. Job losses began to accelerate dramatically early in the covid crisis, Congress Took the unusual step of creating a 600 weekly subsidy for the jobless, in addition to state Unemployment Insurance that averages a little over 300. But that funding expired last week. Since the coronavirus shut down much of the United States in march, the u. S. Economy has shrunk by one third, the fastest drop in u. S. History. According to a new study by the Associated Press and at the university of chicagos National Opinion research center, half of americans believe the jobs that have disappeared are gone forever. As Congress Debates renewing jobless payments, the virus is researching, spreading to tens of thos thousands of americans every day. This thing is coming back around and traveling from other states. If we had gotten it under control earlier, we might not be in this position now. Correspondent as washington struggles to respond to the virus and the unemployment crisis, americans face insolvency and hunger. Thousands hourly at this food bank alone. When covid happened, i had no money. Correspondent and now for millions coping with unemployment, often for the first time, joined ling hope. Dwindling hope. Is ar Kathy Feingold director of unions in the United States and says employers are using the crisis as an excuse to lay off workers. Guest we are seeing in the garment supply chain there was a report released showing how many of the major brands produced in countries like myanmar, bangladesh, and cambodia, the suppliers are using this opportunity to fire workers, especially workers who have been speaking out against the lack of health and safety protections in these families, the lack of wages owed to them. This is a real crisis. Really important that Major Companies respect work or rights, make sure they are respecting the contracts, and ensure there are safe workplaces for workers. Anchor now to the u. K. Economy. It is facing its biggest annual decline in a century. The bank of englands forecast hammers home the impact of the pandemic, even though there are perhaps some signs of recovery. It could take more than a year to get back to prelockdown levels, provided there is not a second surge. It is rush hour, but there is little on the move. This coffee kiosk normally serves long queues of customers, powering workers of surrounding offices, but the Small Business is under pressure. And economic storm is brewing. I have a team of seven people, and currently at the moment with the way things are, i would be lucky to bring one or two back. If it remains like this, i think it will be very bleak, especially for small independents like ourselves that rely on cash flow and foot flow to come through. Correspondent it is a similar story in londons financial district, where every day feels like sunday. This week, the bank of englands forecast the economy would contract by 9. 5 over the year has left severe the first thought, but it is the biggest annual decline in years. By the end of the year when support schemes come to an end, the bank believes unemployment will double. With many office staff now working from home, the streets and alleyways in and around londons financial district have fallen silent. That is catastrophic news for all of the local businesses that depends upon passing traffic. Covid19 is redefining the countrys cities and towns. You can see that from the beginning of march, it started to decrease rapidly. Correspondent data scientists have been watching our changing behaviors since the start of the pandemic using tracking technology in shops and high streets to find out how, where, and when we spend our money. They are the economys vital signs and point to a slow recovery. When lockdown hit, it dropped like a stone. We were looking at drops of over 90 in london, where the streets were deserted. We have opened hospitality. We are encouraging people back to work. All of those things created boosts in footfall, yet post those boosts, we are still 40 lower than we were last year. Correspondent the figures are going in the right direction. A surge in online sales is keeping parts of the economy afloat. Could cause surge another damaging lockdown, denting consumer confidence, silencing the nations high street for potentially years to come. Anchor early voting is taking place in the belarus president ial election, ahead of the official voting day sunday. Despite criticism of the president s handling of the crisis, he is still expected to win. His leading opponents were not allowed to register and rallies by other candidates were canceled by the authorities. The president has ruled since 1994, winning five elections by massive margins in what critics have called europes last dictatorship. The First Nuclear power station has been opened. It was built by russias nuclear corporation. Kilometers from the lithuanian capital. Monthsading will take before they begin generating electricity in november. Oil salvage experts on mauritius are hoping to save endangered coral reefs after a grounded japanese tanker started leaking oil. The panama flag ship ran aground off the island two weeks ago with 4000 tons of oil aboard. One of the main tanks has been breached in rough seas, which thwarted attempts to stabilize the ship and pump out the oil. An environmental engineer and oceanographer says the impact will not just be ecological, but have an economic effect in terms of fishing and tourism. It is unfortunate that this occurred in an area where you have two international wetlands. We have 38 coral species. Subject to wetlands, intohe oil is spilling those sensitive areas, threatening biodiversity in a unique area of mauritius. This would cause more damage in the area. The impact will not only be ecological, it will be economical, because people derive their livelihoods from fishing in the area. There are a lot of hotels in the as awho market this place site in order to get clients. You have a lot of people earning their livelihoods on the coastline, where you have people getting and visiting. The destruction is not only ecological, it is also economical in terms of tourism attractiveness of mauritius around the world. There is also a health hazard. You have now the odor of the hydrocarbon, which is now in the town of m. It is a multiple crisis occurring i mauritius. Wilill still ahead, we tell you about the chinese golfer who has taken a commanding lead in the pga championship. All of that and more very shortly. Anchor time now for sports with lee. Correspondent the Champions League returns after the competition was halted for nearly five months by the pandemic. There were two huge ties that had not been resolved. Manchester is through after completing the job against 13 time champion real madrid. In march, they increased their lead in 10 minutes. Goal hit back. They are through to the quarterfinals. A team they will play in lisbon is leon. To anent further ahead. Enterultiperiod Cristiano Ronaldo with a goal. It is leon through. And scotland, it has emerged have broken rules by going to bars and two have tested positive for coronavirus. Aberdeens next game is canceled, and scotlands minister is not impressed. They broke the rules that had which to put it mildly is completely unacceptable. Football has been given the goahead on the condition that players abide by the guidance that has been a great. If they dont do it, they put at risk the professional game. Correspondent ahead of World Football, the criminal investigation has damaged his reputation and that of fe five. The president has written to all Member Associations about anonymous complaints about meetings he had with the swiss attorney general. His replacement says the meetings were not secret or illegal, and hopes the facts emerge. Fifa has tried to clean up its reputation after corruption that emerged under the last president. Now to formula one, and all eyes on the race heading into this weekend. Sergio perez will miss the second race in a row after failing another coronavirus test. He has also been handed a fine and docked 14 points. Ruling body claims they copied parts of the last year car. We did nothing wrong, so that is unfair. There are always two perspectives. The fia were the arbiters on this, and we now have to discuss with the fia what is going to happen going forward. We cannot unlearn what we have learned. Correspondent not surprising to hamiltonionship loomis topping the timesheets again. Lewis hamilton topping the timesheets again. We are waiting for the second round of golfs championship. Stars competing in san francisco, but it is a chinese player who has taken the tournament by storm. ,e has moved to eight under par one clear of the field. Two more top 10 women tennis players said they will not play in the u. S. Open. Follow ashnd bertens barty who pulled out due to coronavirus fears. There has been another positive test for the st. Louis cardinals baseball team. Their game against the chicago cubs has had to be postponed. They have announced 13 tests. The cricket world cup will be t delayed until 2022. It cannot be Held Next Year because there was another one planned in india, which is still going ahead. It is confirmed that the womens over 50 cup has been moved also to 2022. Pakistan is in position to win against their opponent. They are fighting hard to get back into ththe match. They have taken eight witches. Pakistan building on that advantage. They lead by 244 runs. We finish with positive news about fabienne yet cups in, who jackobsen. Ibio he collided with a fellow dutchman, who was disqualified and can face further sanctions. Apologized. He underwent five hours of facial surgery. Doctors expect a full recovery. The patient is conscious, follows orders, and has been disconnected from the ventilator. His Blood Pressure is also good and we are satisfied. I think he will definitely return to sport. 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