The rising tally of destruction in lebanons president says last weeks explosion in beirut caused more than 15000000000. 00 in damages. And the u. S. President ial hopeful joe biden and his running mate kaamelott harris make their campaign debut. In just 83 day so we have a chance to choose a Better Future for our country. Is the country with one of the Fastest Growing coronavirus outbreaks anywhere in the world today india has reported its highest number of infections in one single day the 67000. 00 new cases bring its total to nearly 2400000 official figures put the number of deaths at more than 47000 but Infectious Disease experts say the country is still months away from hitting its peak and its a serious correspondent elizabeth branom following that story for us out of new delhi liz good morning why are these numbers going in totally the wrong direction. Hello peter so yes yes again and now the single highest day rise and we also know that one of the reasons that the numbers are go
Joe biden and his running mate kaamelott harris make their campaign debut. In just 83 days we have a chance to choose a Better Future for our country. Lebanese leaders are meeting right now to discuss their ongoing response to last weeks devastating port blast in beirut likely to be on the agenda will be calls to extend a state of emergency and the latest in the only growing investigation into the explosion Bernard Smith joins us now so burn it this political process could be law long and drawn out. While the political process to appoint a new cabinet could be longer and drawn out the lebanese people are relying on a cabinet essentially of National Unity to be appointed to unlock the billions of dollars in foreign aid at the lebanese because its the foreign donors that have sad the new cabinet cannot be dominated should not be no matter dominated by hezbollah. It needs allies and now so as a parliament to appoint a new cabinet and a new Prime Minister i have to say is that the real dis
Inoculated. And from a massive tours to so for safaris hope virtual tourism is providing an escape from reality during the pandemic. Lebanese leaders are meeting right now to discuss their ongoing response to last weeks devastating blast in beirut on the agenda will be appointing a new cabinet and Prime Minister forming a new government will help unlock billions of dollars in foreign aid that the country needs to rebuild with an extension of the state of emergency is also expected to be ratified by the parliament that gives authorities more power to crackdown on street demonstrations burned smith joins us live now from beirut so bernard theyve started talking what are their options on the table that they are discussing. Yeah the discussions going on behind me and the streets closed all the way around where the session is taking place a very long cordon set off much further down these roads in the anticipation of protests although we havent seen any protests as yet this morning now bury
Town thats at the center of a battle between the military and armed groups. Police in belarus serve detained another 700 people on a 4th night of unrest over sundays disputed election they joined 6000 already in custody women in the capital minsk have been marching against the Police Crackdown on demonstrations that follows the death of a protester in Police Custody on wednesday the unrest was triggered by the president Alexander Lukashenko election victory which the e. U. Says was neither free nor fair the opposition candidate spent lana to come off sky left the country earlier this week shes now in neighboring the few ania. The u. N. Human Rights Office has condemned the violence against protesters and is calling on belarus to release the detainees. We do have reports that people were ill treated both during the process of arrest while they were being arrested but also in detention and we do underscore that there is an absolute prohibition on the treatment and torture with very conce
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