Just run. And we go inside the anatomy of a blast. Nightline starts right now. With byron pitts. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. It is one of the oldest cities on earth, once a shining capital on the sea, the paris of the middle east, more recently caught up in conflict with forces near and far. Tonight beirut devastated. And the wound apparently selfinflicted. Heres abcs ian reporter in the midst of chaos and horror, a mother comforts her 4yearold daughter with a lullaby. As their ambulance, packed with the wounded, navigates the streets of beiruts lebanon after a massive explosion tore through the city. I am thinking i should be stabilizing these patients. I should be working on them, but whos going to hold my daughter if im doing that. Im trying to position myself in a way that prevents my dotter from seeing complete carnage. Reporter the doctor, trained to work in combat zones, finding herself in the middle of one at home. Now switching between pediatrician and parent. Im t
In new zealand where eight people they were there outside, too. Are missing, feared dead. And new evidence says Climate Change is causing greenlands ice sheet to melt seven times faster the us has blacklisted four than twenty years ago. Of myanmars top military leaders, for alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other ethnic minorities. The sanctions come just hours before myanmars de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is due live from our studios in singapore and london, to defend her nation against charges this is bbc world news. Of genocide, at the united its newsday. Nations highest court. Nick beake reports from the hague, where the genocide hearing has been taking place. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, there used to think Aung San Suu Kyi 1am in london, and 8pm in washington, dc where democrats was the epitome ofjustice, not in the us house of representatives have set out articles of impeachment thats formal charges against president trump. Anymore. Today they
Four million year old skull of an ape in ethiopia raises doubts about how humans evolved. And coming up on bbc news. In her bid to win a 24th grand slam title, Serena Williams comes from a set down to make it through to the third round at the us open. Good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. The government insists mps will have time to debate the uks departure from the European Union, despite plans to suspend parliament for five weeks. Yesterday, the queen approved Boris Johnsons request to prorogue, or shut parliament, until october 14th, less than three weeks before the uk is due to leave the eu. Today, lord young, a conservative whip in the house of lords, resigned in protest at the decision, saying it risked fundamentally undermining parliament. Heres our political correspondent, jonathan blake. The morning after a day of drama at westminster and the fallout continues from the Prime Ministers decision to suspend parliament. It is business as usual as far as the governmen
about credit conditions. major us stock indexes fell more than 1% each on tuesday. shares in several regional banks in the us have dropped sharply, as investors fear the banking crisis is not over. another area of concern is the labour market, which, while still strong, is showing signs of cooling. so what will america s central bank do and say? the bbc s michelle fleury reports from westchester, new york. losing momentum after nine rate hikes in the past year. the federal reserve s efforts to cool the us economy are having an effect. this is a chain that you ll see on like roller shades and vertical blinds. something bill, who runs a family owned manufacturing business in westchester, new york, is seeing first hand. right now, we re expecting some softness in the marketplace for probably six months or so. we re seeing a lot of softness in the marketplace as far as demand, the commitment in terms of like long term blanket orders with customers. we re not seeing that either ri
it signals concern about the health of the sector, following the collapse of first republic and its acquisition byjp morgan chase. the wall street giant said it would pay $10.6 billion dollars to the federal insurance deposit corp, after officials shut down the smaller bank. first republic had been under pressure since last month, when the collapse of two other us lenders sparked fears about the state of the banking system. meanwhile, the managing director of the international monetary fund kristalina georgieva says she expects more weaknesses to be exposed in the banking sector. so just how vulnerable is it? let s ask the chief global investment officer of oreana financial, isaac poole. i think there is a real risk of that. this is probably not the end of bank failures. we are seeing these problems in the smaller, regional, medium sized banks, really exposed to higher interest rates. we are going to see another interest hike from the fed which might add extra pressure on dep