For a long period of time focused on arabic and palestinian, visavis, the israeli. Now, at least you have got three, the palestinian, israel confrontation still there. We have the gulf region and the east coast and the west coast. They are opposing each other. The third one is about the traps significance. Started from tunisia, now to many countries. So the missions are changing. And the United States meeps areans are changing. Secondly the mekchanisms, the ways of dealing with the complex situation are changing as well. For instance, the United States used to rely very much on the socalled quartet which excluded china from that. Now, with this Iranian Nuclear issue, we Work Together for p5 plus 1. This also shows china wants to play a role. Although the United States still is the first fiddle and china is the third one. The second one is the europeans but we are learning. We are still in internship to have a digression. You have your American University in beirut for more than 100 yea
Their efforts to find any more survivors of sundays deadly earthquake tehran declares a day of National Mourning for the well over four hundred people who died in the disaster. And the soccer powerhouse italy will not be at next years world cup after the fourth time winners failed to beat sweden in their qualifying playoff. Loss will have a special report on refugees returning to prostitution right here in berlin failed Asylum Seekers with no right to work legally desperate to help family members here at home these young men are now selling sex will meet the prostitutes their customers and the charities trying to help them. Pay the. Fees that you read the protesters interrupt an american event to promote fossil fuels of the. Nations climate talks in bonn they say the world must transition to bring new level energies under the twenty fifteen paris climate agreement. Im brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we begin the story with around the government there has declared today a n
And the destructive impact that can have, the way they would close down roads, the difficulty they would create for people. And obviously the loss of livestock that comes with that. Weve seen over the years blizzards that have taken their toll on one of our states most important industries. But the storm damage that i saw yesterday when i toured western south dakota really was epic. You cant look at the mountains and branches that were piled high waiting fordice posal or the for disposal or scenes of pastures scattered with dead livestock. This snowstorm started out, madam president , as heavy rain. And i know the distinguished chair had much of this in her state of north dakota as well. But that soaked the livestock. Then it turned into a raging blizzard with heavy snow and sustaining winds of 60 to 70 miles an hour. These winds drove livestock for miles, some more than 12 miles from their pastures. The fortunate ones lasted through the storms miles from their origination but still al
We will inevitably have already reduced the number of people working in our shops reduced the number of people working in ourshops and reduced the number of people working in our shops and expect that to continue over the next five or six yea rs continue over the next five or six years as the demand for retail goes down but we are taking on people in oui down but we are taking on people in our call centre, training new recruits and our call centres and warehousing. Shoppers could face higher prices at the tills in the event of no brexit trade deal with the eu, according to a leading retail group. As royal finances are hit by the pandemic, new figures show harry and meghans last royal visit cost almost a £0. 25 million. And coming up on bbc news second practice is just starting, ahead of sundays russian grand prix. Valtteri bottas was found fastest in the first session, with Lewis Hamilton 19th. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. A Police Officer has been shot dead at a
Meanwhile cardiff, swansea and llanelli are put into local lockdown from this weekend it comes as concerns grow over the rapid increase in the number of coronavirus cases. The r number in the uk the rate at which coronavirus is spreading has risen to between 1. 2 and 1. 5. Hundreds of thousands of high street jobs may not survive because of the pandemic, says the boss of the clothing firm next. And as royal finances are hit by the pandemic new figures show harry and meghans last royal visit cost almost a quarter of a Million Pounds. Hello, welcome to bbc news. Two separate minutes silences have been held this afternoon in south london and at new Scotland Yard to pay tribute to a Police Officer who was shot dead at a Custody Centre in croydon by a man who was being detained. In croydon officers came outside the building and stood to attention in the car park and at the front of the building to pay their respects to their colleague. And at Scotland Yard, the met Police Commissioner, join