And all the other hardships and the pandemic. Really, i think, was a wake up call. Politicians in peru are going through the process of selecting a new interim president after Emanuel Merino resigned. Hed only been in the job for less than a week, having replaced martin biscardi who was impeached. The syrian foreign minister Walid Moallem has died at the age of 79 state television confirmed the news not long ago, but there are no details yet about the cause. Was a close confident a former syrian president Hafez Al Assad and then his son, bashar al assad. Throughout the war, he served as ambassador to the u. S. Between 1992000 the leader ethiopias to grey region has confirmed that his forces fired rockets at the airport in eritreas capital. The attack marks a major escalation in the 12 day conflict. The u. S. Has recorded 1000000 new Coronavirus Infections in just the past 6 days. Johns hopkins university, which is tracking the outbreak globally as count of more than 11000000 u. S. Case
A lot to chew over as we watch our World Leaders deliver their messages over the course of the day as we said weve been tracking the opening of the general debate of the u. N. General Assembly Meeting in new york our chief International Editor Richard Walker with us here in studio and richard youll be keeping an eye on the u. N. G. A. For us thank you so much for joining us here in our studio. And lets move on to some other news now countries across europe are scrambling to contain the coronavirus pandemic after a surge in new infections british Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the u. K. Has reached a perilous turning point as he laid out new restrictions today people across the continent will be forced to curtail their activities in hopes of reopening later in the fall. Hes waited 6 months for this bear for the 1st time since march pops in islander again pulling pints but the industry remains wary of a virus that hasnt gone away because we didnt believe until this morning we tur
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia the government of indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved a pair of bills that would change the way farmers do business in the country and that has triggered protests among them and among lawmakers from the opposition and even the government indias minister for Food Processing resigned last week in protest against the bill. That. Protests on the streets of delhi an outpouring of anger over a new farm bill that many see as anti farmer. Opponents of double edged black law and say it was rushed through Parliament Without proper debate and consultation was 7 originally we had protesting the way the government passed the phone bills in such a dictatorial manna modis claim of being a supporter of farmers has now proved to be hollow it was about time was drugged sundays vote in indias upper house of Parliament Spot chaotic scenes 5 was m. P. s shouted slogans against the bills forcing several adjournment was others tore up copies of the legislatio
Has been in power since the 99 teams that this time around hes facing a serious challenge from this point. Welcome the Afghan Government says its on the verge of peace talks in its war with the taliban after trying to late is agreed to release 400 prisoners the loya jirga a traditional meeting of Afghan Tribal elders and other prominent stakeholders decided on the release in order to remove the last obstacle to real peace talks the islamist taliban would still control much of the country had said they would not talk with the government until the prisoners were released. In cobol the move to replace things tele band prisoners has been very controversial what do we know al the about those prisons. Thats been the question so far is that you know a consultative was established on friday it just ended today and they gave had to go ahead to release the 400 prisoners but the issue is that for the majority of the public theres very Little Information about who exactly these prisoners are there
Disaster. B. S. Welcome to the show we start in lebanon where protests against the political establishment have left one Police Officer dead and more than 100. 00 people injured demonstrators have stormed several official buildings setting fire to at least one Government Ministry the country has been deeply shaken by choose days a devastating explosion in beirut support the blast killed more than 150 people injured thousands more and destroyed large parts of the city. They came from near and far and their message was clear. Down with the government amid anger of political elites. They say are incompetent and deeply corrupt and what happened on tuesday was the final straw for them. Nearly 3000. 00 tons of highly explosive Ammonium Nitrate exploded devastating large parts of the city that chemical had been stored for 6 years without adequate Safety Measures in a warehouse at the port the explosion they cannot get peoples discontent with their leaders. I am here because of this devastatio