Rubble. Or broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is R T International im john thomas certainly glad to have you with us and we start with breaking news from beirut there has been an intense standoff in the lebanese capital where there is an outpouring of grief and anger over tuesdays deadly explosion Security Forces have used rubber bullets and tear gas to break up crowds calling for officials to be brought to justice. Was. It was. Because of this night. On saturday protesters stormed several government buildings in beirut Security Forces have driven out protesters who earlier stormed the Foreign Ministry they took over the building and declared it a headquarters for a revolution. Wow. Wow. Now we are coming back to the property of our people is building belongs to the people of lebanon. We went to martyr square to set up gallows for those who did this to our country today will hang news of this and we wont let a single government ministers keep. The Police Starts fi
as the conflict nears the one-year mark, the russian president this morning is, again, falsely accusing the west of starting a war and claims russia wants to solve the conflict peacefully. meanwhile president joe biden is in poland as wool speak following his historic trip to ukraine s capitol. we ll have new details about the surprise visit including why the president chose kyiv. meanwhile the maga members of congress stay on brand criticizing the president for visiting the war torn country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. this morning president joe biden is in warsaw, poland, where he ll visit president aduda ahead of remarks. it ll begin at 7:20 eastern followed by a meeting leading to biden s speech marking one-year of war in ukraine. he is set to return home following that meeting. today s events come after president biden delivered a message to his russian counte
Ashley. Thanks for joining us. It happened while the dog walker was at city hall meeting with officials about racist threats that hes received in recent weeks. Abc seven News Reporter luz pena spoke to him and has the story. As ashes and debris flew out of the second floor of Terry Williams home, he described the frightening moments his elderly parents faced hours earlier inside the home. His neighbors going in to rescue his mom and dad. He said they couldnt get to my mom, my mom and my dads not strong to get my mom out, so i guess i wasnt here. So i was just getting filled here and they said the firemen got here fast. Think i applaud the firemen. Thank yall. When terry arrived, he tried getting to his mom, who was trapped on the second floor. A smoke and flames consumed the building where his family has lived for decades. I ran past everybody they told me ran out. Im trying to get to my mom. My dad said, well get my mom. So i try to run past everybody. I ran to. I ran to some farmers
Francisco police are still investigating the racist messages left at williams door. Happening now California State Senate is set to vote on three reparations bills. This would be the next step toward the state formally apologizing to black californians for slavery and decades of discrimination. One bill centers on restitution for racially motivated land taking. The other two would create an agency to oversee reparations, as well as a Funding Source to make those payments possible. Abc seven news anchor and race and social justice reporter julian glover, closely monitoring the Senate Hearing and hell have more on any possible results coming up on abc seven news at five. Alameda County District attorney pamela price came out swinging today against Insurance Companies that she accused of operating a widespread scheme on californians. Yeah, the practice that she says leaves residents underinsured for disasters like wildfires. Abc seven News Reporter Leslie Brinkley spells out the details.
Main jail with more on the investigation and how they caught up with their man. Investigators say he tried to cut a deal with investigators and surrendered to police today but this was a no go from the Police Department. Without a deal in place, he allegedly tried to run to San Francisco and avoid capture which didnt work either. Surrendering when we are about to arrest you doesnt really make us change the manner in what we are doing. The suspect did not give the victim a choice, we certainly were not going to allow this suspect to dictate how we were going to take him into custody. Chief eddie garcia says without a surrender deal in place, it is headed to San Francisco where he cut his hair in an attempt to avoid capture. The San Francisco Police Department made the arrest last night. Investigators say this is the same man seen here seen here in a surveillance video. Tuesday morning he broke onto the campus, prowled the hallways and cornered a teacher as she prepared the classroom fol