Host thank you so much for being here, debora mackenzie. Much of your work over the years i was delighted to read your book which is the first that youve done in this way. Guest the first that ive written. Host it must have been challenging to create such a factual account of a pandemic while it is ongoing. Can you tell us about that . Guest i understand why people would think why are you writing about this now. I deliberately took a step back. As things unfold im not about this misstep or that by the government. Not that level of. What im doing is saying why a pandemic, why now and this is something i could do because if youve been reading my book you would say this is going to happen, these are the viruses we need to work on and this is what we need to do. Its already obvious those productions were spot on and we havent done what we need to do so this is kind of the moment to repeat that stuff at the time that people can understand it and it would make sense to them and therefore the
Battles to contain an oil leak from a grounded ship. International leaders hold virtual talks in the coming hours to raise a day for the lebanese capital that stands the cleanup continues in beirut from tuesdays huge explosion swards of the city were devastated when 2700. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate exploded at the port france and the United Nations have set up a Donor Conference to help u. S. President donald trump said hell be joining back or its estimated the blast at the warehouse caused up to 15000000000. 00 worth of damage at least 158. 00 people were killed and rescue workers are still searching for the missing more than 5000. 00 were injured in the explosion which left 300000. 00 homeless. Outrage over the explosion spilled on to the streets of the city on saturday thousands of people rally the games the government the protests to stand in 2 hours of street battles between demonstrates is and Security Forces then a call the reports from beirut. They stood their ground in the fa
The kids had a ball we loved it. Jersey was great the people of jersey were great to us. The water by the way the water is i mean, the ocean beautiful. Drinking water in jersey still is probably my only complaint. I have to go brita or bottled. But i got this tattoo which i know that you guys showed off last week. I got a lot of neosporin on it right now. Just to keep the bacteria, thats what they say youre supposed to do but at some point well show it off and do the grand reveal. They asked me if we wanted to show it and i said no he never liked it on twitter and im not sure that he really liked it so you brought it up. I wasnt going to bring it up. To be honest with you, i came to it late i was actually trying to not even be on twitter that much and i saw it and it was too late to start retweeting because it was a day after clearly you had shown it off and i didnt realize that i had sent that picture to you but i didnt realize that everybody would get to see it this way. It was fun.
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
Hello again im peter w. Watching al jazeera live from Global Headquarters here and also coming up thousands of homes uninhabitable dozens of schools destroyed one week on from the beirut blast cleanup efforts reveal the extent of the damage. Growing concern over russias corona virus vaccine germany says the product must be safely tested before being released for general use. And reports of a social media post considered offensive to islam sparked violent protests in southern india. Begin this bulletin of aljazeera will accuse with the latest fallout from sundays disputed president ial election in belarus state media is reporting that several protest organizers have been arrested on weapons day in minsk that brings the total number of opposition supporters detained. More than 4 thumbs the country could now face sanctions because of suspected vote rigging and violent crackdown on demonstrators e. U. Foreign ministers are expected to meet on friday to discuss what to do next correspondenc