The president agrees to set for 400 taliban prisoners. Hoping to shake up the Political Landscape in belarus an unexpected kansass find to push out europes longest serving president. And a move thats inflaming tension between washington and beijing a top trump official visits taiwan the highest level u. S. Visit in 40 years. And in sports at Destin Johnson takes a one shot lead at the u. S. P. G. A. Championship in american has moved within sight 2nd major title at its career. As we begin this news our World Leaders are trying to work out ways to help rebuild lebanons capital but embarrass a growing clamor to rebuild the whole political system the information minister became the 1st Senior Member of government to resign since tuesdays port blast menow abdel summers says theres little hope for change 5 m. P. s have also quit and there are reports that many more may soon follow at least 158 people were killed when Ammonium Nitrate exploded causing billions of dollars worth of damage arou
Protectors of the amazon rain forest from covert 90 and as another 606 people die in brazil. Gas cars starts exporting a horrible tonic its president touts as a coronavirus cure despite the w. H. O. Warning there is no proof it works. Hello thanks for joining Us Health Officials in afghanistan fear of the corona Virus Outbreak there is spreading far more rapidly than previously thought it follows the random testing of 500 people in kabul more than 150 of them tested positive suggesting around the 3rd of the capitals residents could be infected meanwhile in russia to run a virus cases are continuing to surge its registered its 4th record one day rise with over 10000. 00 new infections bringing the total there to nearly 135000 but both italy and spain 2 of the countrys worst affected by the pandemic have registered their lowest daily number of coronavirus deaths in nearly 7 weeks so as infection numbers rise in Afghanistan Afghan Migrant Workers who fled iran when its death toll soared a
To the president has announced tough new measures in an effort to stop 3 weeks of antigovernment protests descending into more rioting and looting president Sebastian Pinera is proposing laws to congress to toughen penalties for looting and acts of violence especially by people hiding their faces with hoods and mosques but a protest is attacked upscale areas of the capital santiago on wednesday a series of concession measures have failed to pacify the protesters who are angry at economic inequality with latin america at its newman is live from the capital santiago you see how significant these new measures. Hello charlie well they are and theyre clearly a response to growing pressure on the president not so much from the people who are out in the streets protesting clearly but rather from his own support base right behind me is the headquarters of a Political Party that is part of the Ruling Coalition and it was attacked by a group of people according to its leaders to the leaders of t
Hello to you. The consequences of President Trumps decision to pull us troops out of syria, effectively giving the green light to turkey to send troops across the syrian border, have been deadly on the ground. And the backlash from his own party is growing in washington. 129 of them voted with the democrats in the house of representatives to condemn him. Then a letterfrom mr trump came out, urging turkeys president not to be a tough guy. And a white house meeting with senior democrats ended with an exchange of insults and the democrats walking out. Heres our north america correspondent, peter bowes. President trump under fire from all directions over his decision to pull us forces out of syria. The house of representatives voted overwhelmingly to condemn mr trumps actions in the strongest terms. The president s impulsive decision to leave syria without any deliberation has ignited a conflict in one of the most volatile regions on earth. More than 100 republicans voted with the democrat
During the morning the city center was almost completely deserted thats not to say necessarily that lots and lots of hong kong wasnt chosen like part of the strike but what the process to say early on monday was they stopped people from getting to work for example they used the their bodies to block the doors of subway trains so the subway system was completely shut down for about 6 hours on long time likewise they saw lots of the main roads coming in to the center of hong kong which meant that around here in the Central Business district it was almost like a ghost town people have started to come back in now the protests of changed tactics theyve moved on the subway system is operating and you can probably see some people in the background behind me right now though as well the big protests going on in 7 different locations around the school most of them so far weve just come from one the reason we black that is that with so many people that thousands on thousands completely covering