Except. Mali and soldiers speak of getting things back to normal after a coup that isolates the country from its neighbors. Flooding in southwestern china forces hundreds of thousands from their homes some laps at the base of a unesco World Heritage site. And in sports and byron munich are taking on the all for a place in the Champions League final the winners will play p. S. G. For the biggest title in European Club football. Ok lets get going the European Union says it rejects the results of the disputed elections in belarus that have kept the president Alexander Lukashenko in power and after an emergency Virtual Summit today the e. U. Also announced targeted sanctions against those it deems responsible for brutally suppressing protests against a landslide victory. Today here we gave them 3 clear messages. Firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. Secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and falsification of t
A week after the devastating ports explosion. Also ahead a historic choice the democratic president ial hopeful joe by name senator harris as his running mate. 3 people have died in violence in the indian city of bangalore sparked by an allegedly offensive social media post about the prophet mohammed dozens were injured when protesters clashed with the police who fired on the crowd the post on facebook was made by a relative of a local politician Elizabeth Duran im as your correspondent joining us from new delhi liz hi there just explain to us take us through what happened here. Hi peters so bang a lot of police are saying that what theyre calling a very large mob of people gathered outside the home of a politician who belongs to the Congress Party and that they say it calls on fire they say that the mob was angry because of an alleged post by this politicians nephew which was offensive to islams Prophet Muhammad they say that a very large group of people then just that they went aroun
Week on from the beirut blast cleanup efforts reveal the extent of the damage. Growing concern over russias Coronavirus Vaccine germany says the product must be safely tested before being made public. At reports of a social media posts considered offensive to islam sponsored violent protests in southern india. And in sports the European Champions League returns to action with an all new 4 much 8 same dream portugal for knock out so one of them that will decide this season is once. We begin this news with the latest fallout from sundays disputed president ial election in baylor reuss state media is reporting that several protest organizers have been to rest is in minsk brings the total number of opposition supporters to tame to more than 4000 the country could now face sanctions because of suspected. Vote rigging a violent crackdown on demonstrators is e. U. Foreign ministers are expected to be on friday to discuss what action to take thats take you live down to bins as you saw just you
Governments handling of the pandemic and the alleged corruption of the Prime Minister. A pm here in moscow a very warm welcome from everyone at all to International Banks your company as we take a look at the biggest stories of the day starting with the u. K. Which has suspended its extradition treaty with hong kong its part of the continuing fallout over chinas new National Security or british rule makers fear that if suspect the son to hong kong they would later be transferred to Mainland China. Consulted with the home secretary the justice secretary and the attorney general and the government has decided to suspend the extradition treaty and immediately. Well weve seen the u. K. Responding of course to National Security or why the Chinese Government and the u. K. Saying that theyre concerned that some of the definitions of some of the parts of not law could impact people who have been actually 200. 00 cong as part of the treaty for example the more seeks to redefine terrorism it see
Conflict foreign interference has reached unprecedented levels. Eat out to help c out the u. K. Offer is half price press trying to meals to kick start its economy. And im santa how much now have all the sporting commuting International Cricket makes its return the following a coronavirus break with the 1st test between angle in the west indies behind closed doors. The Prime Minister of ivory coast ahmed do go no coulibaly has died at the age of 61 the president says the nation is in mourning bali was taken to hospital after he fainted during a Cabinet Meeting he had returned to ivory coast last week after a prolonged stay in france for a horse exam well lets speak to Nicholas Hawker who is following developments from dakar in senegal for us so because what else do we know about the events that have surrounded the Prime Ministers this. Well it was announced just moments ago as you mentioned and president wants are described him as his little brother even his son thats how close he was