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Attorneys have the n. R. A. In their sides triggering lawsuits designed to dissolve the gun rights group. As the people of lebanon grieve for the victims of tuesdays blast the french president emanuel macron has been touring neighborhoods devastated by the chemical explosion as despair turns to anger people have been calling for change president adding his voice to calls for reform. The death toll from tuesdays explosion has risen to 149 and its expected to rise about 5000 people are injured many of them being treated in hospitals that are completely overwhelmed dozens are still missing more than 300000 people have been displaced from their homes shopkeepers and residents is still clearing up the rubble that litters the streets up to 8 kilometers away from where the blast took place or has called for a transparent to National Inquiry into beiruts massive ports explosion the french president met with lebanese political leaders after surveying damage from tuesdays blast he was also mobbe
Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the program whats the best way to secure the European Union unions future in the age of the coronavirus pandemic thats one chancellor Angela Merkel and french president Emmanuel Mcconnell have been discussing near berlin today the latest acknowledged differences between a u. Countries about the most viable approach when germany takes over the rotating presidency of the European Council this week it will try to pull the union together to support a budget and recovery front is what merkel had to say in the coming months we are going to Work Together and to make sure a fit for tackling this crisis this crisis thats going to last. Only germany. To take over the rotating presidency on july 1st and i am very happy that we agree. On the challenges that we want to master them together and help each other. The expectations are high and of course we know very well when france and germany agree that does not mean that the whole of europe agreements but when france an
A free city you may go to a street and demonstration but in china the simple ways we dont know exactly what happened happened really happened in Mainland China we dont know what exactly happened why it happens and the police have a very strong hand and they would make you disappear for long periods and thats very risky for all the parties but theyre ok were going to focus more now on the propaganda war being waged on numerous fronts by beijing those fronts include Global Social media platforms state run media from entertainment to films to internet news sites and of course to state run t. V. As well. This is how Chinese State media are presenting the situation in hong kong as a city in chaos with mass protesters prepared for violence. May accuse of being bandits and terrorists. This is the Chinese Governments take on the temporary occupation of hong kong airport. We express our strongest condemnation of this new terrorist act and express our deepest condolences to be injured maine and