A plant. Pulling out thousands caught in the flood waters of chinas 100 provinces back on high alert after battling the corona virus outbreak. The u. N. Secretary general has warned that the conflict in libya has entered a new phase with foreign interference reaching unprecedented levels until hugo chavez was addressing a virtual session of the Security Council on the violence the head of the session russias foreign minister said hes in talks with his counterparts in turkey about a possible ceasefire this isnt the 1st time that a cease fire has been proposed while Khalifa Haftar said he would consider one after his forces began losing their major strongholds the libyan conflict has been fueled by a number of International Backers the u. N. Recognize government in tripoli has been backed by turkey all huffed are has had support from russia egypt and the u. A. E. Hes not on our side in libya. The conflict theres a new phase foreign interference reaching and dissident levels very concerne
Coming on well britains foreign minister James Cleverly he briefed the u. N. Security council telling israel it must end Settlement Expansion the demolishing of palestinian homes and saying that netbios an exception of the west bank is an acceptable. Well with the greatest respect to the foreign minister and clearly britain and israel have been allies and friends for many years having said that what is happening today is quite a bit different that what the foreign minister is suggesting to the Security Council or to the United Nations overall and that is that israel may apply in coordination with the United States civilian israeli law in place of military law in jewish communities where 500000 jews live east of the 1967 lines which is known as disputed territory it is not occupied palestinian territory that is just simply a legal mistake that many of our friends in europe continue to make and in fact what israel is doing with potential to applying israel on the Jordan Valley is to set
Joining me from beirut this week is the countrys foreign minister. As level negotiates urgently for assistance what guarantees can he get that his government is any better than the previous ones. Welcome to the conflict zone thank you 2 weeks ago your Prime Minister mr d r brought an article in the u. S. Paper pleading for International Assistance and blaming lebanons dire situation on a combination of political mismanagement and corruption why do you think that the rest of the world with its economy in tatters from the coronavirus should simply hand you huge sums of money and let you do the same thing all over again. Well 1st and foremost because were not going to do what happened before from day one when we started working in this government our plan is clear is to fight corruption to go for structural reform and drive structural reform its not mine the reforms its basically forms and if you also feel of the economy not only in the Financial Sector but the economy which is the basic
Of its army to enforce coronavirus lockdown measures. And the special precautions that this already isolated community is taking to protect itself from the pandemic. Now the u. S. Has called for iran to be held accountable after the iran successfully launched its 1st military satellite runs revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space washington has accused iran in the past of using its Space Program as a cover for Missile Development reports. On wednesday morning the world a will to news of a secret operation carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. The newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives irans military new strategic advantages or that. It is a necessity for such powerful Defense Forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capa
Giant alliance geo were going to discuss that all right its time to boost your views you. Tensions are once again rising in the persian gulf after a brief confrontation at sea between the u. S. And iran now that Close Encounter resulting in president calling for the take down of iranian gunboats quote harassing u. S. Warships arties Rachel Blevins is following the story shes joining us now from the news room with the details on this rachel well manella President Trump is now arming the u. S. Navy with a shoot down and destroy order after a Close Encounter with iran has increased fears of escalation in the persian gulf trump took to twitter wednesday morning writing quote i have instructed the United States navy to shoot down and destroy any and all iranian gunboats if they harass our ships see his warning fall. It was an incident last week in which the us claims a lot of investors from irans revolutionary guard came within just 10 yards of u. S. Navy and coast guard ships in the gulf n