The freeman foundation. By judy and peteti blum kovler foun; pursuing solutions for americaneglected needs. And by contributions to this pbstation from viewers like you. Thank you. America. Katty a teeger under arrest in connection with the deaths of two people after a thorough night of protests over the killing of jacob blake. Beiruts port exploded, thsands of homes have been destroyed and over 100 people ve died. Now they have a covid spike as well. And the republic and party needs to win over women voters, whichs may be whyo many of them are eaking at the convention. Aand the campaign is o thing, voting is another. We look at accusations of Racial Discrimination at the polls in america, echoes going back decades. Katty co w to bbc world news ameri. Three weeks ago, an explosion killed hunoueds and left nds homeless, that also ripp through four hospitals and beirut. Ly infection rate h doubled since august 4, and there are around 600 cases now. Doctors told the bbc that the cases are ring exponentially and to say the next few days will be critical. Ournt corresponas more from beirut. Correspondent on a street in beirut, the challenge is immense. The losses are counted in more the house comes second, because i have friends that have died, twoe lost. And we have like 25 in the city that have died. But the govnment, we do not see them. Correspondent this man stands inhe wreckage of his 100yearold house. He is trying to rebuildn the shadow of covid19, under pressure on every front. That is the nightmare of the whole thing. I do not know hoan survive. I do not know how people will people are getting economically, you know, pressurized. I do not know. I do not know. There are noords that can describe what we are feeling. Correspondent a country sti reeling from this massive explosion at beirut port. Doctor say that chaos following thelast on august 4 created a perfect storm for the virus. And hospitals here were casualties too,ncluding st. Georges, wherehe explosion destroyed a 50 bed covid unit. Overall at this hospital, 31 people died. Right there is the port. 800 meters from the blast. Actually, the second the blast happened to, though small hospital became dysfunctional, so w you could nk anything inside. System is still going off. Arm you can see here the force of the blast, it ripped the door clean from its hinges. Every poss being taken here to contain covid19. The explosion put a stop to that. The hospital chief of staff says that cases were increasing before the blast, and since then they have doubled. We are in a delicate time now becausthere is community spreading of the virus, we lost testing capabilities, and we lost at least two hospitaco admitting thna patients. Correspondent most patients are being treated at lebanons laest public hospital, which escaped serious damage. Im going to go to the patients room. Correspondent this doctor is on the frontline. She is anti infs disease specialist. She filmed this footage for us, so we did not use any of the hospitals ppe. Hello. Correspondent she says the next few days will be critical. It is a big problem, so hopefully wel w not fall into the european scenario, where the patients do not have any place. The i see you is full. We are struggling with patients who are very sick and we t are hopingy will not go to the icu, because the number of beds are limited. Correspondent Something Else in short supply is faith in the power of the lebanese state, such as it is, to get the virus, or anything else,. Under control ee, under control. For many it is hard to focus on covid19, when lheires are already shattered. Katty financial collapse, politil chaos, nowhe rising of the cases of covid how much more le the people of non have to go through . We are learning more about what happened i kenosha, wisconsin last night, although there are still questions. Video shows aoung white man jogging through protesters, armed th a gun he stumbles and shoots into th crowd. Two people died and he teenager is now under arrest. Authorities named him kyle rittenhouse. All during the third night of protests after the Police Shooting of another black man. This report contains a scenes you may find disturbing. Correspondent tensions on the streets here have increased dramatically. At times, it is barely believable that these are scenes in a small city in aricas midwest. And there is a new dimension to the chaos, aon confrontati between protestersnd Security Forces, fireworks and teargas, now vigilantes saying they are protecting property from getting damaged. He shot h. Correspondent phone footage appears toch cathe moment somebody with a rifle you shot him. Correspondent fires on protesters. It leader zooms in on somebody on the ground, motionless, as others run to help. Another video shows a similar incident, again, a protester gunned dow [gunshots] two People Killed and a third here was injured by gunshots. Somebody who appeared to be armed was later seen walkang with his h up towa police. Trght ahead. Been charged with firstdegreeas murder. But many here, including local officials, defendant vigtes. For those that want to protect their livelihood, that is the right and do something that every american is guaranteed. Even if it could lead to thei losso . Any responsible gun owner, myself included, i own firearms, none of us havenghe goal of ta life. Correspondent it is a reflection of the polarized way in which americans view what is going on. Some see young people tired of police killingvomaking their es heard,se others wanton destruction. Peacefully protesting, go for it. But do not burn down the buildi windows, and do not mess up other burning, unfortunately, that is part of it. Howmp do you e brick and mortar to life . Correspondent but this did start when 29yearold jacob blake was shot in thek b several times by police in front of his children. His family confirmed he has bn paralyzed from the waist down. They shot my son. Seven times, seven times. Like he didnt matter. But my son. Matte if jacob knew what was going on, as far as that goes, the violence and destruction, he w ould be very unpleased. Correspondt a mothers hope of healing have been far from realized. And there is no telling where this goes and how Dangerous Things get now. Katty we have a reporter from wisconsin. The 17yearold arrested lived in illinois, arrested in illinois. It does not look ecke he was prng his property in kenosha, he did not even live there. Corresponden that is right. Many people have been accusing the protesters of causing the agitators who have to causede trouble, and now we have somebodyho has come from outside, apparently because he wanted to ta to the streets. We do not know his motives shot these people, but we know that he was not protecting his business, or his family. He had come from outside. Of course, it has beenom divisive, fr the shooting of jacob blake to all the events since. And what everyone i spoke to agreed on is the Security Forces have b behaved extremelyly, but on one hand they say they shouldave used more force,e thshould have been more of them. We are likely to see tt. But on t other hand some say that sometimes it looklike they have been using something akin to military force against citizens, and that should never happen. But they are also asking w they allowe peo roam around with guns, like this 17yearold did, and only got things under control after two people were shot dead. Katty ok, thank you. Th e is a curfew in that city now, 7 00 p. M. Kenosha time. Donald trump has a problem with women voterey elped him win the white house in 2016, but some have become disenchanted, which is why the National Convention is giving a lot of time to women speakersnd voters. These before she lves the administration, Kellyanne Conway will take the stage. Last night, his wife, Melania Trump, made remarks from the rose gden and other women made their pitches, too. To mothers and parents, you are wor warriors. Champion for women. As been a he has more women on his team than any president before. He willh fin what he started, to keep this a land of opportunity for everyone. We must make sure that women are heard, and let the American Dream continues to strive. Katty despite those statements, pollsha showmr. Biden has a sizable lead when it comes to women voters. He is currently beating the president by 16 Percentage Points among female voters. It may not be as domant as it that Hillary Clint won thewed female vote, but still lost the election. So it is questionable if that lead can carry joe biden into jane, the first night of the convention we heard about the dire situation there would be in america if joe biden was elected. Lastom night, a softer tone the speakers, trying to appeal do they feel it isorking . Jane h i think of any pers any direct impact on the women voters it had to be Melania Trump last night, not because she showed the sof ar side of thinistration or you mooted or was empathetic or sympathetic to the plight of women suffering from the pandemic but because she of all women arguably must have been most affected by Donald Trumps behavior. Shely has been publumiliated by allegations of his infidelities,d the sor details, yet her message last night was if she could move beyond that, if sheheould see whatresident had done, then so perhaps might women who also might be put off. Byav his br and who may be having second thoughts, but maybe they too could see past the headlines, the twitter eds, and all of the sordid details coming out over the last three years, and all the this he has sai i think that was her real message, itd was, look bey this. E supported her i suspect that mightve been the appeal with the most impact. Katty i thought it was one of the more effective speeches of last night in favor of donald trump. Tonight is about heroes. What can we expect . Jane well, we can expect a lot of donald trump and his family. We are hearing from his daughterinlaw. It is the trump show,ls but an effort to get back to women agai we will be hearing from Kellyanne Conway, who has been the face of his Administration Since the word go. Stepping back now for personal reasons. But she is still there and she is very rare in that she has survived she has not fallen out with him, she has not been exposed to the tactics he often reduces his other officials to. Another woman that has survived, ambassador to the ormer nations, who was a daughter of immigrants. So women who have been able to hold down a goodelionship with him and have gone on to other things. I think that collectively those women mayki be a good pitch to those women in the suburbs, in particular. Katty ok, two more nights of the convention. Hong kongteolice have arres 16 people who took part in prodemocracy protests last year, including politicians. Its understood they were detained in connection in a clash between protesters and a group at opposed them at a train station last year, during those demonstratis. Iran has agreed to grant inspecters from the ational Atomic EnergyAgency Access to two sites. The locations have been of particular concern to the agency, who believes iran may have carried out activity there in the past. You are news. G bbc world still to come. [yelling] katty when t carnival festival was cancele performers and workers were left without an income. We look at how brazil is coping with the virus. Katty police in belarus have brought more oppositioninigures, incla nobel prize winner, in for questioning in connee ion to what esident claims is an attempt to cobble topple his government. Now. Ve the report correspondent we are outside the center of minsk, where a string of prominent figures have been summoned here for questioning. Today, it was the turn of the wbel literature laureate, is a member of the opposition council, now coming under pressure from the authorities. That counsel says it is pushing for new elections and transfer of power. But the authorities here accuse her of attempting a coup. It is an intereing situation because on the one hand presidenlukashenko is trying to increase pressure on his opponents in the opposition, but the street protests are maintaining pressure on him. S it imething of a stalemate. Katty the u. S. And brazil suffer the rare distinction of the world to have more thans in 100,000 covid related deaths. We will cus on brazil, where yesterday another 1200 people died. The country has more than 3. 6 million infections, and even before the also struggling economically. Our south american correspondent is reporting from saw apollo. Nd correspot they call it the greatest spectacle on earth. For brazil, carnivale everything. But behind the scenes is a year of preparation. And resilience also say the euro over. Not start until carnival is but e pandemic brought the year tot a halt befored even begun. Normally, this place would be buzzing, carnival finished in bruary and by july they would be dismantling these structures andloats, rebuilding for the next year. But carnival has been postponed it is not clear exactly when it will be, or even whatikt will lookin 2021. For sergio, who is head at harmony, a top school, plans have been turned upside down. We have families that directly and indirectly depend on rnival, and without knowing if we will have carnival, none of our staff can work. Correspondent upstairs, the costume maker mourns what should have been. I miss the commotion and busyness. He fell in love with carnival eight years ago wn he started working here, and says he will not give up. Butis life ot easy for julio ke houses are p in this block where he shares a place with his friends. He used to earn about 500 a month making clothing and itpplementing his income w carnival. But it disappeared overnight. Lucky, picking up sewing wk and 100 in the form of a handout from the government. He government helped, i have to he used to dream of having a car his own studio, but he could not see how he can do that now. Half of bzils workers are unregistered. They are getting a coronavirus voucher. Or than 60 Million People have benefited. It has helped to boost the president s approval but it is costing the government and there are fears about what is around the corner. What happens when the handouts end . What wilit do to the president s popularity . And what will happen to the economy . No doubt the crisis would have been worse if t most vulnerable would have been left with nothing, but this means and the brazilians will be paying for the pandemic for years to katty this friday, thousands will gather here for a march on washington to cl for criminal Justice Reform and racia equality. It falls on the anniversary of the other march on washington, the one in 1963 when dr. King made his famous i have a dream speech. A key part of the voting law was later struck by the supreme court, leading to new measures to suppress black votes. On Voting Rights, here is our correspondent. It court order on voter registration. Correspondent alabama in the 6s, black americansrying to register to vote beaten by the police. In march of 1965, attacked by state troopers in selma. The images shocked the nation, mobilizing congrs to pass the ting rights act. President johnson sne the landmark law, the achievement of dr. Martin luther king jr. And his followers the act is actually successful civil rights acts. So before 1965, you had pervasive this commission in voting. You have the application of things like a literacy test tt prevented africanamericans from voting. Correspondent in 2013, the supre court struck down a provision of the act requiring Southern States to get fedoral approval b booting before changing voting laws. The late john lewis, who led marchers in selma, faced this ominous moment. History cannot repeat itself. Walkn shoes. Correspondent the Voting Rights act,hich followed the walk on washington, was supposed to end Racial Discrimination in voting, but some Legal Protections have been removed. So now as america faces a reckoning over ranial injustice a highstakes election, there are increasingly questions about whether barriers toot vg based on race have really been removed. The court called it the most restrictive voting law the North Carolina has seen since the era of jim crow, saying the provisions a target africanamericans with almost surgical precision. Those states have tried to introduce changes, saying they will prevent voter fraud. Ou have seen the assuring of a lot of different kinds of quirements that make it more difficult for low income people and people of color to vote. Thgs like i am getting rid of early votinpo closing the ing stations, and particularly closing these polling stations in minority neighborhoods. Correspondent more thaafhalf a centurr the march on washington, the legal barriersal against raci discrimination, leadersvil rights fought so hard for, are no longer fully intact. Will they affect the 2020 election . Where will t activism of presentday Racial Injustice lead to mo black americans ting . Katty we will have full coverage of fridays event here on bbc world news. If you are like me, you could use a day on the beach. Safety would be imptant. Given the covid restrictions, how would you avoid persontoperson contact during a rescue . You bring in the dogs. At a beach north of rome, dog handlers have been training canine counterparts to reswie strugglingers. They have reassuring names like butch and thor. There are 400 of them. And another change during the dog days of summer. That was my producer, once narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and re. Raymond james. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Yuyi i came to the uniteds. States when i was di years old. 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