Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 International Im sean thomas glad to have you with us we start with breaking news right here on our Team International a devastating explosion has hit lebanons capital beirut government Officials Say at least 73. 00 people are dead and around 3700. 00 injured the blast went off in the citys port area destroying buildings with a large radius. My. But we heard from 2 reporters in beirut. And owen hall 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 blouse 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 for and through it as lebanons here shima course theres no compar
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
Country was once a model for its Pandemic Response but no more and remembering the victims of the srebrenica genocide 25 years ago. It was the men who were taken away even little boys from the age of 8 even 90 year olds. W. Hears from survivors of the massacre who will never forget the pain or the brutality 8000 muslims killed the images on toes who lost their loved ones. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program theres been a 3rd night of protest in serbia against the governments handling of the coronavirus pandemic thats despite an official ban on gatherings of more than 10 people the protest began earlier this week after the government proposed a 2nd lockdown due to a sharp spike and covert 1000 cases which some blame on the serbian president s decision to hold elections. Large protests defy the new ban on gatherings in belgrade but they remained largely peaceful thank the preceding 2 nights when rioters attacked the Parliament Building these are scenes the serbian government hopes have
The peninsula starting to drop a lot of mid 40s. A northerly breeze up to about 25 or 30 Miles Per Hour in some of the higher elevations. Look for a drive pattern to take us into this week, although it will be blessed the blustery. Early in january looks dry. 50s on most of the temps here. Do this morning, chp investigating after a person was hit and killed by a car on highway 101. That collision happened on the northbound side of the freeway south of brokaw a road around 11 30 last night. The freeway was closed for more than two hours overnight for that investigation. So far chp is not identifying the victim or the driver. No one else was hurt. This is the first time a pedestrian has been killed in san jose this year. A group of homeless mothers who moved into a vacant house in west oakland are due back in court this morning. We are live in hayward where a judge focused on the mothers and their children being allowed to stay. Reporter thats right. Court begins at 9 00 a. M. The mother
Welcome to the Washington Institute for near east policy. I have the pleasure of directing the institutes rinehart pergamon counterterrorism intelligence and i am very pleased to be joined here today by the acting director of the National Counterterrorism center, russell travis. Todays conversation is part of the ongoing counterterrorism lecture series. Russell took office as the acting director in august but its not his first, second or third time in the building. He told many other leadership positions in ctc including a director at the office of Data Strategy and innovation, chief data officer among others. Hes held positions at the office for Defense Intelligence agencies, National Security council, the u. S. Army, joint chiefs of staff so we are very thrilled that he has been able to carve time out of his busy schedule and spend some time with us today to talk about counterterrorism in the era of competing priorities. One russell will deliver some remarks from the podium and then