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A reporter killed. From malaysias Prime Minister we report on a state election that could determine his future on the national stage. The conservative. Who could be the next u. S. Supreme Court Justice donald trump prepares to name his replacement for ruth bader. And in sport the Boston Celtics are still alive in their n. B. A. Playoff series. 6. So that hes been in the job just 27. 00 days but the man chosen to be lebanons next Prime Minister has now resigned so to the country back to square one. For a new stable government says he simply hasnt been able to form a government of specialists in a country where power is shared between different. Sex the former ambassador to germany was named Prime Minister designate at the end of august and thats when the previous government resigned amid protests in the wake of that huge explosion at beirut port which of course killed 192 people and devastated the capital. Well my will soon measure as the efforts to form the government reached their fin
A supply of p p. And after 9 months of fighting code the very notion of the International Community looks frankly pretty tattered and we know that we simply cant continue this way and listen we get our act together unless we unite and turn our fire against our common further we know that everyone will that is the inevitable outcome will be to prolong this calamity and increase the risk of another now is the time that for here what i devoutly hope will be the 1st and last ever zoom under. Humanity to reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts lets heal the world literally and metaphorically and lets begin with the truth because as someone once said the truth shall set you free. And with nearly a 1000000 people dead with colossal economic suffering you already inflicted more to come there is a moral imperative for humanity to be honest and reach a joint understanding of how the pandemic began how it was able to spread not because i want to blame any country or government or to scor