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Total anarchy, madness and chaos. Now his party takes to the stage. The choice the American People face. The Gop Convention just 24 hours away. Our special coverage starts this morning with white house chief of staff mark meadows. Biden deputypaaner kate bedingf. Plus, insight and analysis from our powerhouse roundtable. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. The democrats have wrapped up their First Virtual convention and as we come on the air this morning, our brandnew poll shows it may have done joe biden some good. His favorable rating is up eight points from ten days ago. The gop kicks off monday with President Trump set to appear all four nights. The first lady and the president s Adult Children also slated to speak in primetime. But as we come on the air this morning, a different trump Family Member now in the spotlight. In audiotapes given to the Washington Post by the president s niece mary
Hunger during a pandemic warnings coronavirus restrictions could cause thousands more people to become malnourished in india. Ok lets start with a developing story one month after the explosion in beirut rescue teams have been digging into the ruins of a collapsed building there after finding signs of life underneath it scanning equipment has picked up indications of a pulse and breathing the search teams include volunteers from chile the disaster on august the 4th was caused by a large stockpiles of badly stored Ammonium Nitrate ignite sing at the port in beirut all than 200 people were killed 6000 were injured hundreds of thousands were left homeless is our correspondent near that search and rescue sites in beirut theyve been digging all night. How close to they think they might be. Close this is what we understand the search operation almost 24 hours ago it began when a dog as well as machines belonging to a team from chile who were really just surveying the damage to check the stru
Broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our Key International and sean thomas lets get right to our top story this hour youre looking at live pictures or were going to have live pictures here in a 2nd there you go the russian Opposition Leader elect. Me is currently boarding an air ambulance in the city of it will take him to germany for Emergency Medical Care you can see theres a helicopter which is airlifted him to the scene an ambulance and that plane with the german markings is going to take him there for the medical treatment of the Anticorruption Campaign or fell critically ill on thursday while en route from siberia to moscow he is currently in a coma his supporters believe that he was poisoned and the medics who were treating him. Said however that they had not detected any toxic substances in his system the vollies team had been pleading with the doctors to allow his evacuation you could accuse me of emotional has more than. The doctors in charge of treating alex
Other you watching our team to National Thanks for joining us this morning. First this hour a plane carrying alexina valley has left for berlin where the russian opposition figurehead will receive medical treatment the familys been in a coma since falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday russian doctors have previously deemed his condition as too unstable to be safely lifted joining us live on the line now from the german capital is arties correspondent peter all of it peter good morning as we understand the. Way to the country should be close to landing by now youre. In the valley is on his way here to berlin right now doctors in the russian city of all men. Agreed to release him into the responsibility of german doctors and his family medical professionals in russia had previously said that he was too weak to the journey however they relented at the since of his family. Were doing but we are not in favor of him being taken anywhere from this hospital but considering the requ