Roosts russias Prime Minister reiterated force as Alexander Lukashenko grapples with a political crisis. At a quarter of a century after ebay went online find out how its founder is backing efforts to rein in a breakup tech giants. We begin with breaking news nato has announced that greece and turkey will hold talks to defuse tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean theyve been locked in an escalating dispute over Gas Exploration flights secretary general the and stoltenberg says that both nations aim to reduce the risk of accidents that could lead to a military confrontation. U. S. President donald trump has backtracked on his suggestion that photos should try to cost the ballots twice and move them the selection he urged people to send ballots by mail then tried to vote again in past to test the mail in Voting System democrats accuse the president of encouraging voters to break the law hes not changed his position saying that those voting by post should go as a polling stations to make
A super tanker off the coast of sri lanka its carrying 2000000. 00 barrels of oil. And it has one of the worlds lowest ages of consent to look at the fight to protect girls in the philippines. Commemorations have been held in lebanon marking the exact moment one month ago that a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut people paused in a moment of remembrance at 6 o 8 pm thats the time almost 3000 tons of Ammonium Nitrate ignited in the citys ports sending a devastating blast wave across the city more than 200 people died and thousands were wounded lets go live now to beirut aljazeera is zenyatta is the senate will talk more about that ongoing rest. Behind you in just a few minutes but 1st talk us through what happened an hour ago during that commemoration. Lebanese that marked the one month since that explosion at beirut ports which really changed the lives of so many people in this city damaged and destroyed neighborhoods some 191 People Killed 7 people remain missing 6
The coronavirus pandemic in india cases past 2000000 were live in new delhi. And donald trump signs an executive order banning americans from business with the chinese owners of 2 popular apps. Welcome to the program its an election victory thats expected to cement the power of the rajapaksa brothers in sri lanka the governing party has recorded an overwhelming victory with nearly 60 percent of the votes these peoples front is that by go to by and hinder rajapaksa who serve as president and Prime Minister along with their allies that has secured a 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to make sweeping changes to the constitution lets bring in our correspondent in Alpha Landers whos been following the election and the vote count its in colombo force me now a huge mandate really and an opportunity for really the country to see its constitution change how soon could this happen. So were waiting to hear sort of details of how the rajapaksa want to take this forward north that th
Leaders remain divided over how to implement a massive covert 19 recovery package and britains plan to encourage weight loss to lighten the impact of the coronavirus. Hong kong is tightening coronavirus linked restrictions after recording its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the territories leader kerry lamb announced the measures after more than 100 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign of it coming under control lets go live now to hong kong to aljazeera as adrian brown so adrian until now hong kongs low infection rate made it the envy of the world whats gone wrong. Well its interesting isnt it adrian if this was the United States india or brazil an infection rate of just over 100. 00 a day would be considered you know a good day but thats not the case in hong kong because of course up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks weve had more th
Central government and. Im lawrence lee in the northwest of england at the height of the tourism season some hoteliers a warning that their livelihoods are being put at risk because some visitors are failing to follow basic guidelines to control the spread of the virus and i mean wellings who to sports news and a major setback for the u. S. Open tennis tournament rafael nadal confirms he wants to find his title this month in new york because of coronavirus fans. We begin this news in lebanon where politicians have declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut following tuesdays devastating explosion the death toll continues to rise 135 people are now confirmed dead 80 others are still missing around 5000 people injured several port officials are being put under house arrest from beirut and as a result a honda begins our coverage. The people of this disaster stricken city are starting to assess and come. They hand the extent of the damage of a blast that was far more destructive than a