Save the soul of beirut we visit the historic neighborhoods in the lebanese capital devastated by the port explosion. A National Strike in belarus is piling new pressure on president Alexander Lukashenko workers from state owned factories have walked off the job its just gone 11 am in the capital minsk and this was the scene at the state tractor factory than other protesters marching towards the compound where the president is expected to visit employees of the state Television Channel also on strike broadcasting an empty studio joined news bulletins that bastien is immense can joins us now on the phone so stephan extraordinary day of state companies strikes took us through what were seeing across the capital and the perhaps the country. Yes im here in front of Fitzgerald Lachance great care a real and to a very few thousands want to pass the cap and here they are asking us for strike also for auto work where operation conducted strike 2 choices 6 what its like i saw a large crowd of o
Its one of the lowest rates in the world. Reeling from the effects of the pandemic japans economy suffers the worst contraction on record. And a race to save the soul of beirut we visit the historic neighborhoods in the lebanese capital devastated by the port explosion. For the 1st time since a contested election by president Alexander Lukashenko has hinted that hes willing to share power it comes as hes under increased pressure from protesters workers from state owned factories and walked off the job other protesters are marching towards the compound where the president visited employees at the state owned Television Channel are also on strike broadcasting an empty studio during the news bulletins of correspondents step vasant is in minsk and she joins us from outside one of the factories where the workers are on strike and the president s that we turned up just a few just over an hour ago didnt he to talk to the strikers what did he have to say. Exactly im here at the large truck whe
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Brown in hong kong outlines the possible reasons behind the recent spike in cases. Up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks weve had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that its complacency hong kong that its guard down after social distancing rules were relaxed several weeks ago that meant that people returned enthusiastically to bars restaurants and of course to the beaches medical experts offer a different view they point to hong kongs existing quarantine arrangements which exempt from quarantine people like pilots and crew mariners sailors as well as the drivers of lorries bring essential Food Supplies into hong kong now the Hong Kong Government argues that if they were to place that category of workers into the current quarantine restrictions it would effectively put hong kongs food supply of risk and theyre not prepare
In getting your citizen tree where masks masks are important as part of the physical distance physical distancing is the most important but practically when youre living your life and trying to open up the country youre going to come into contact with people and for that reason we know that masks are really important georgias governor is urging people in his state to weather but he refuses to back down on his ban on local authorities making masks mandatory and public. Many well intentioned and well informed georgians want to mask manda and while we all agree that wearing a mask is effective im confident the georgians dont need a mandate to do the right thing our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett has more on why its become such a contentious issue. Well this is a country that is really founded on revolution its also unique system of government its not a federal system but instead its one that has strong states rights so in many ways the United States is like 50 countries all jo