Direct from our studios most of this International Incheon thomas and certainly glad to have you with us lets get right to our breaking news at this hour a devastating explosion ripped through the lebanese capital on tuesday government Officials Say im least 78 people are dead and over 4000 injured the blast went off in the citys port area destroying nearby buildings and causing chaos across beirut. Ard we heard from the 2 reporters in beirut. And oh in a whole the way they told us more about the fallout from the devastating explosion. The devastation here in the lebanese capital is very massive it is being estimated by tens of millions of dollars as we said earlier the last had was felt 10 kilometers away from the port where it took place i believe this is going to be a sleepless night for the lebanese and a very sad night on social media a lot of lebanese are faring through the incident unfortunately there are pouring through a 1000 levanon here shima scores theres no comparison betw
In the. U. K. Another Human Trafficking ring with authorities saying the victims are increasingly from Eastern Europe. To be just really. Pulled me. One minute past 10 am 11 pm in seoul 5 in the evening right here in moscow this wednesday july the 1st welcome to r. T. International. Its the final day of a week of voting thats been taking place right across russia on proposed changes to the countrys constitution while many have already heard their say by voting online president putin today a National Holiday to a lot of voters who havent yet done so the chance to cast their ballot. Lets go through it its a package of more than 140. 00 amendments many things social legal and economic and ts to the constitution one enshrines the minimum wage will not be lower than the cost of living another secures an adjustment to maintain the value of pensions and allowances also tougher requirements for Civil Servants such as bombing key officials from having foreign citizenship or Bank Accounts are br
Trafficking ring with authorities saying the victims are increasingly from eastern your. Story. Than usually pulled me. Live from moscow this is r. T. International my names you know me 30 minutes of news and views start. Its the final day of a week of voting thats been taking place in russia on proposed changes to the countrys constitution while many have already had their say by voting online president putin has the 3rd today a National Holiday to a lot of voters who havent yet gotten so the chance to cast their ballot. List weapons that is the culminating point of russias nationwide vote on amendments to its constitution and snow into the final number of followers here in moscow about russian citizens. Ballots and some people who poured on to the streets really to voice their concern over the proposed changes well to keep it all in for us this hour our correspondents. Here taylor so lets kick off with you lovely throw in there as well whats been the sunny day so far in moscow the po
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945 government that suited the creation of the n. H. S. He joins me now via skype from cambridge in england thank you so much for coming back on lord john birt im going to ask you obviously given that youve a campaign about the big issue the name of your magazine all your life it seems the government was able to solve the big issue overnight when it came to a pandemic does this mean that all these years it was a political decision to have homelessness in this country. It was a political decision it was a decision made in the late 19th fiftys and the 19th sixtys can still not allowing people to be on the streets because of the laws which were cool vagrancy laws which were victorian and made it look as though you were being very hard and tough on the poorest people who ended up on the street sure nobody was allowed to sleep rough argues a rough sleeper time so i know all about that what happened was d the laws were not changed but people politically different needs to know were not going