Reacting to growing anger over beirut standing in court last lebanons Prime Minister considers reforms and early elections. And also ahead cracking down on dissent in the roofs disputed Election Results show long time president Alexander Lukashenko on course for an overwhelming victory. Top story the police in hong kong have made their highest profile arrest yet under a Controversial National security law imposed by beijing the media tycoon and activist jimmy law is among 7 people detained in raids on monday an executive in his media group says hes been held on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers sarah clarke joins us live now from outside the apple daily newspaper headquarters in hong kong where those raids are taking place sara what do we think is going to happen to him next. Well at the moment her paper we have a hive of activity behind us as you mentioned we are at the headquarters and are at least 200 police here now searching this particular building you see the vans on my
Way for peace talks in afghanistan the president agrees to set free 400 taliban prisoners. Protests have erupted in cities across bella russas president aleksander local shankar claims another win to lengthen his quarter century in power but testers have set up barricades in the capital minsk while riot police have responded with stun grenades a police van drove a crowd of protesters and ambulances have been called in for the injured protesters as an internet blackout of belarus is so step vast and is joining us on the phone step i know you were out on the streets when the protests began just talk us through what youve seen. Yes well that its now well 2 oclock in the morning here in minsk and still the city is filled with with anger and frustration just only 2 hours after the polls closed the sense of people took to the streets going to a Central Square where they were gathering to protest against what they call again fraudulent elections when they tried to write their police was alrea
I museum. And i also was one of the consultants on the vietnam exhibit that began at the New York Historical society and has traveled here. And it was a real pleasure to work on that. And i hope that you all get a chance to see it. Its an interesting exhibit. Today im going to talk a bit about my current research, which as camille said is how the u. S. Army as an institution was trying to manage a crisis that its leaders perceived during the war in vietnam, a crisis around race. And as i imagine almost all of you know the u. S. War in vietnam was the first major conflict at the United States fought from the beginning with an integrated armed force, with racially integrated armed force. And for much of that war that process was treated as a Great Success and in combat it almost was without exception was. But by the end of the 1960s army leaders were talking about the war within the war and trying to figure out how to manage a racial crisis that they saw as starting to tear the army apar
A family in the occupied west bank about their ordeal. Now a volcano off the coast of new zealand has a ruptured as tourists were visiting at least one person has died up to 50 people including tourists from a cruise ship were on white highland when the volcano sent a plume of smoke and ash thousands of metres into the air rescuers say its currently too dangerous to go to the site you zealands Deputy Police commissioner says 23 people made it off the island but many remain unaccounted for some of these people have been transported to shore however theres a number still remaining on the oil who are currently unaccounted for. I can confirm theres one fatality and based on information we have is likely to be more now speaking at an emergency briefing new zealands Prime Minister just under a durned confirmed to a group tour groups rather world on the island at the time of the eruption we know already that there were a number of tourists on or around the island at the time both New Zealande
Been starker. And coming up. The billionaire former mayor of new york Michael Bloomberg announces he wants to run for president. Hello, and welcome to world news today. The first results from hong kongs local District Council election are coming in and they show the pro democracy parties making big gains. Theyre on course to all but wipe out their pro beijing rivals. Theres been a huge voter turnout in comparison to elections in 2015. With slightly more than half of the count complete the numbers just a few minutes ago showed pro democracy parties have already taken 196 seats. While pro establishment parties have just 27 so far. These are the numbers being reported by local media and there is still a way to go yet, of course. Now, some notable names ran in the elections, including pro beijing lawmaker junius ho. Hes one of the most controversial politicians in the city and is reported to have suffered a shock defeat. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonell is in hong kong. Stephen, this cou