Republicans as donald trump attempts to discredit the claims against him the whistleblower. Revealed because the whistleblower gave false story. Tens of thousands of protesters on both sides of the political divide a rallying across lebanon both for and against the government large numbers turned out in beirut calling for a complete overhaul of the ruling elite and the current political system which is split along sectarian lines the protests began last month a devil ready for Prime Minister saad hariri to hand in his resignation a general strike has been called for monday. Is that those protests in beirut. Inside political establishment protesters are back to close roads they believe that this is the only way to maintain the pressure on the ruling elite to resign a few days ago they agreed to leave the streets after the Prime Minister saad as submitted his resignation but now people here believe those in power are progress than that they should have by now created a technocrat governm
ah, i m really mohammed walking to the program. ukraine has warned that russia plans to attack more countries and expand its war president vladimir lensky said neighbouring moldova should be concerned about russia s latest military strategy. moldova is home to trans mistrial. a breakaway pro russian region, which borders ukraine. russia is in control of ukraine s south east regions. the scene here in blue, a top russian commander says moscow s forces. want to push west straight across southern ukraine. ha, keep on fire. a hospital in the dawn bass. even in the countryside. no, escape from the bombs in eastern ukraine. now the deputy commander of russia s central military district says its forces want to push westwards towards moldova. on friday he told state media control over the south of ukraine is another way to trans in history. where there is also evidence that the russian speaking population is being oppressed. the president followed him as a lance he focused on the com
hospitals, for instance, is the e. you prepared to impose more sanctions on russia. alexander, they are not only prepared to do that. they are already working on a new package. it would be the tense package of sanctions. however, the question is how powerful those sanctions could be. we are hearing that they warned, for instance, to target dual use goods. they re also saying that they would like to focus on loop holes still existing la posts, they would like to target entities and countries who have been working to circumvent the u sanctions. alexandra, thank you for now. that s our brussels bureau, teeth, alexandra phenomena there in brussels. as we prepare for president lindsey s speech, and we will be bringing you to lindsey s speech live when it happens. so stay tuned for that. meanwhile, returning to our main story, the united nations is hoping to resume a deliveries to syria, broken off by the earthquakes rescue efforts, and syria are being complicated by the 12 year ci