Welcome to the program 16 people have been arrested in lebanon as frustration grows over the governments response to tuesdays port explosion among those whove been taken into custody or officials from beirut pulled the death toll is now starting at 149 but search and rescue teams continue to scour the rubble for any survivors there were protests against the government of those the evening crowds also rallied as the french president manuel micro toward the damage streets hes backing calls for a new political order in lebanon Bennett Smith has more from beirut. Weve seen thousands of people out on the streets with shovels pickaxes brushes doing the cleanup because the government isnt we are just across from the main blast site youll see those standing grain silos and so the right of those where the explosion happened is a destroyed ship just beyond that and that everything that was in the way of the shockwave in the few just seconds it took to push out has been hit and destroyed and i am
Saudi arabia we have hundreds of thousands would be on making the annual migration of the new tourists to see them ill be calling you why. Thank you for joining us we begin in hong kong where prodemocracy activists joshua wang has called the decision to bar him from running in september his election invalid and ridiculous wong is one of 12 opposition candidates disqualified from the Legislative Council polls he says a new National Security law is being used by the government as the legal weapon to silence dissent electoral fortys accuse wong of advocating said vesey of ideas and canoe dealing with foreign forces. Beyond any doubt if the most scandalous Election Fraud air front in hong kong history they could disqualify us they could arrest us every once in which they could even call of the election and create a pop up. Parliament elsewhere just gather with beijing loyalists however long of this overturned a strong mandate for modest 600000 hong kong who are past the pale its the citys
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Control and know under pressure. Mine is a toss about off the coast of normandy where great fishermen worry the breaks it will deny them access to u. K. Waters and destroy their livelihoods. And muslims around the world celebrate with many of the strict coronavirus restrictions. With the sports including. Was all. The n. B. A. Returns with social justice high on its agenda teams and officials male and an anti racism protests ahead of the opening games well hear from the bron james later this hour. Welcome to the news hour we begin in hong kong where an ongoing political crime. Has deepened even further the citys leader is expected to announce a delay to Septembers Legislative Council elections for up to one year on thursday electoral or fortys disqualified 12 prodemocracy candidates including joshua ward he called for the decision to bar him from running invalid and ridiculous while says a new National Security law is being used by the government as a legal weapon to silence dissent wh
Dozens of people remain missing many of them employees at beirut port the site of those massive explosions they were telling us its not enough that these the authorities were that diligent enough to keep highly explosive material at the ports but the search operation is just so slow but we managed to talk to red cross workers in the Lebanese Army and theyre telling us that the destruction its just very very difficult because lebanon does not have the equipment and now rescue teams from abroad are coming to help in the search operation but there is little hope that they are going to find more people alive over 100 people dead and thousands injured many of them still in Critical Condition one woman said i dont know if ill ever see my husband again he was a daily wage earner barely earning 2. 00 a day and now she has nobody left to help her feed her 3 children so there is anger at a government that has not stepped in at a time of crisis and this anger like you mentioned is not new levanon