blast essential across beirut shattering windows destroying buildings. and injuring hundreds. the streets were filled with panic and confusion forces so you know my call was down there it rolled over i think my injuries all because of the loss the loss cut me up my call was like this i don t know about i don t know what happened i was fishing i heard there was a fire so i began to hit home and then i heard something explode and then this happened i got injured this is all i know. rescue work began quickly and emergency vehicles converged on the side of the blast. putting out fires. and getting the injured to safety lebanon s internal security chief confirmed the blast originated in the port district in a section housing highly explosive materials. lebanon s prime minister has addressed the nation promising that the victims would get justice for what happened . it will not post without accountability those responsible for this catastrophe will pay the price this is a promise t
raped. jubilation in rio as flamengo win the showpiece tournament of latin american football beating river plate, in lima. let s start in hong kong, where local elections are under way. the authorities have threatened to suspend voting if there s serious trouble but pro democracy campaigners have told their supporters not to cause any disruption. this vote is the first to take place since protests and often violent clashes with police started back in june. so it will be a test of support for pro democracy and pro bejing candidates. the poll is for the lowest rung of government in the city. more than a thousand candidates are running, competing for more than a50 seats throughout the city s 18 districts. a number of seats currently held by pro beijing incumbents, are being contested by pro democracy candidates, butjoshua wong, one of the prominent protest leaders is banned from running, because he called for self determination for hong kong. he sjust given his reaction to r
this vote is the first to take place since protests and often violent clashes with police started back in june. so it will be a test of support for pro democracy and pro bejing candidates. the poll is for the lowest rung of government in the city. more than 1,000 candidates are running, competing for more than a50 seats throughout the city s 18 districts. a number of seats currently held by pro beijing incumbents, are being contested by pro democracy candidates. butjoshua wong, one of the prominent protest leaders is banned from running, because he called for self determination for hong kong. jonathan head joins us. it is early in the morning, but what is the mood like where you are and what is the turnout been like, from what you can tell? a very impressive turnout, and we are getting a report from other polling stations as well. in fact, at this one, people came down pretty much on time and the voting started at 7:30am, about an hour and a much on time and the voting starte
a number of seats currently held by pro beijing incumbents, are being contested by pro democracy candidates, butjoshua wong, one of the prominent protest leaders is banned from running, because he called for self determination for hong kong. let s go to hong kong, where our correspondence jonathan head let s go to hong kong, where our correspondencejonathan head is with us. correspondencejonathan head is with us. jonathan, how high up the list of priorities is the protest in hong kong for voters, do you think, there are other issues, obviously, but the protests are the things everybody is talking about, and which seem to have blighted the lives of so many people there? yes, i think for everybody here, the so called five demands being called for by the protest movement, embraced by large numbers of hong kongers, the polls suggest a large number of people are sympathetic to those demands, though of course not everybody supports the way the protesters have expressed their opposi
the rules why a tweet by the manager of an american basketball team has sparked a political firestorm in china. turkey s defense minister says its forces are ready to begin a military offensive into northern syria the us president has begun withdrawing troops from the region and threaten to destroy takis economy as a tax cut despite his there will be live on the takesh syrian border in just a moment but fast can be helped at reports from washington d.c. where transactions are drawing criticism from across the political divide. as u.s. troops begin pulling out of positions in northern syria their commander in chief donald trump defended his decision to withdraw now we ve captured isis we ve done what we ve done we had 50 soldiers in the area talking about it and i said we want to bring our soldiers back home it s been a long time it s a major shift in u.s. foreign policy one being criticized by members of the president s own republican party senator lindsey graham one of trump