Announced that theyll normalize relations at a white house meeting their leaders also committed to opening embassies in jerusalem. It has one of the worlds lowest ages of consent we look at the fight to protect young girls in the philippines. And in sport leno messi is to remain a boss on a player messi says hes changed his mind about wanting to leave to avoid a legal dispute with the club. Commemorations have been held in lebanon marking one month since a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut people poorest in a moment of remembrance at 6 o 8 pm thats the time almost 3000 tons of Ammonium Nitrate ignited in the ports sending a devastating blast wave across the city 200 people died and thousands will. One of the many buildings reduced to rubble one is now the focus of a search for a possible survivor off the signs of life were detected on thursday but so far scans of the building a fail to find anyone alive what we have seen so far is unfortunately no trace of any big
Can osha wisconsin testifies from his hospital bed as he faces charges of Sexual Assault. Lebanon fall silent a month after the explosion the toll through the capital beirut. And the philippines considers raising the age of consent from 12 to 16 we meet the activists behind the nations fight for womens rights. And i welcome to the program 2 countries that for one of the most devastating wars in the balkans are normalizing economic ties in a deal announced by the u. S. President on trump trump has called the equipment between serbia and kosovo a major breakthrough kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008 but is not recognized by the government or its allies trying says serbia will also follow his controversial diplomatic policy and move its embassy to jerusalem while kosovo will establish ties with israel lets go live now to the white house our correspondent kelly halkett is following all of these developments and of course kimberly President Trump will be hoping that these cour
Haftar. And the u. S. Steps up its campaign against the International Criminal Court Investigation of war crimes in afghanistan who cannot and will not stand by as our people are threatened by a Kangaroo Court. And an industry that severely stalled or fear that manufacturing is on the brink of collapse in the United Kingdom as thousands more jobs are lost and he just came out of all your support nascar bans the Confederate Flag from all its events following the protest of the death of george floyd. Welcome to the news hour a sudden rapid rise in corona virus infections in parts of africa is worrying the World Health Organization now it says the pandemic is accelerating across the continent at an alarming rate it took 98 days to reach 100000 cases past 200000 in just 18 days now the reason for this is an upsurge in Community Transmission in more than half of the 54 countries in africa now the worst affected country is south africa where there have been more than 55000. 00 cases and as i
Neighbors theres still no end in sight for the worst political crisis in the gulf region. All creatures great and small we look at the role biodiversity plays on our planet and the unprecedented threat its now facing. Ok well begin this news hour with developments in libya where fighters linked to the government of National Accord are celebrating after retaking the city of tal thats the last stronghold a walkway for half dot and western libya about 65 kilometers from the capital tripoli on thursday the u. N. Recognize government announced it had regained full control of tripoli hothouse forces still hold a lot of swathes of territory in the east and the south of libya ill go ahead has the latest from tel who now. As you can see here. The Government Forces. A lot of now in control of this is the one i absolutely can get the victory. Of happiness forces in the city of. Now by losing. The major lost assumed holes in it listed in libya as you know that. Swift. Of. The swift seizure of the
Businesses in kenya are suffering ahead of the 8 holiday. Welcome back to tourists in spain terrorists are being allowed to return to the beaches bars and boutiques in july. We begin in libya with new developments in the fight for tripoli Government Forces have seized control of 3 military camps on the outskirts of the capital from warlord after are now the latest Success Builds on recent gains by the tripoli based government of National Accord or d. N. A. Against after at his selfstyled Libyan National army earlier this week jan a forces took over several towns and an air base near the tunisian border used for half dollars airstrikes his forces launched their offensive to capture the capital in april last year but have failed to get very far beyond the city limits lets go now to mahmoud of the wellhead whos standing by for us in tripoli mahmoud just explain to us why these recent gains are so important for the g n a. Indeed there are on not only for the g n a but also for have to the