The freeman founda on by judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; rsuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thk you. Washington dc, i am Laura Trevelyan a minute of silence in beirut for victims of the massive explosion. Rescue search the rebel rubble for survivors one month after the blast. Officials cannot cope with the number of migrants risking everything to cross the mediterranean. Ad in the is an explosive mix. Laura millions of americans are on the move for the labor day weekend, sparking years they could spread coronavirus. The president defends his handling of the crisis. Welcome. Rescue workers in beirut are in search of a miracle, trying to find a possible survivor of the haexplosion devastated the city a month ago. Search efforts began after a sensor found what could be signs of life. Rescuers cannot confirm if someone is still trapped. We have this report. Reporter probing for signs of life. Hidden from view, sensitive scanning equipment in the hands of a Specialist Rescue Team from chil on thursday morning, they picked up what seemed to be breath sounds. For two days, they have been searching. Painstaking work. Much of it, done by hand, a clawing awa ruin that could collapse any second. The dust and debs, being sucked out to clear a pathway to the secondloor, the focus of the search. Ngwhile the work is contin here, they are trying to lift away the rubble with extreme care and work your way down through about five layers of concrete. Many have been unwilling to leave, hoping a survivor might be found. The lebanese filmmaker was one of them. She could not tear herself away. Nd i just wanted to come think that it was an instinctive d reaction to just come ane and hope. E becausis, i think, we are all holding onto a small ray of light after everything that has happened to us. This was thfosignal to call complete silence, so rescuers could scan again for signs of life. Af but late thirnoon, they could no longer detect any breathing. Hopes of a miracle were fading, as lebanon approache6 p. M. Local time, the moment of the blast one month ago. Church bells tolled to honor the dead. Some stood in silence, remembering lost friends and colleagues. Others stood with ropes and their hands, a noose for the entire political ldership here bbc news, beirut. Laura so much sadness in beirut tonight. It is five years since the height of the european migra now a wave of new revive arrivals is stoking political divisions yet again. Italy is saying it cannot cope th the number of people crossing the mediterranean from north africa and the mid e over 19,000 people have made the urney. That compares with just over 5000 in the whole of 2019. This tiny island is at the front line of the crisis. Reporter f he joy ogetting a chance at life. She is named after a miracle. Intensive care, they almost did t make it. The bbc met them back then. Now they are settled in sicily. Was everything yout wrough worth it . Yes. Mostng people are traio be in my shoes. You have kids outside the country. I should be happy for that. Reporter they werell among ions of migrants who made it to europe at the height of the nicest of 15. Changing society and politics. Thousands more drowned, nameless in the graveyard of the mediterranean. They are still coming. They come south of sicily. So far, arrils this year are one third of what they weren 2015. Yet this camp is already waypa capacity. And then throw coronavirus into the explosive mix, pushing migrants to flee sufferingon ies, reawakening the old tensions in italian society. In squalid conditions, migrants here say they know of several cases in side. The is pressure to clear the camp and reduce the burden on this geway to europe. He tells me he wants to work toc send moneyto his wife and daughter. We took the risk of dying at sea. Now we areis at of dying from coronavirus. If i had known what misery would be here, i would have stayed in tunisia. Even life there is better than this. Reporter hey are expecting arrivals. This new camp is being used at an airbase. Roat is stoking opposition the far right. The European Union has left alone. Ndle the situation there is a danger to public order and now also a health risk. Reporter fanning the flames of racism by speaking of an invasion. We would use the same language w ife were being invaded by the english or the french if tomorrow, 1000 french landed on the coast, i would also speak of an invasion. Reporter some migrants are settling here. They are being taught italian as they are woven into therfabric of mitaly. A story about security, identity, is far from over. Laura here in the i u. S is the start of a long weekend. Fear that coronavirus willntists spread. All of this as prenddent trump de his handling of the crisis, which has seen more than 6 Million People iected and left 187,000 dead. Here is theresident on the race for a vaccine. We are rounding theurve. Laura we are joinedgiy an epidemio and senior fellow. Thank you so much for beh us tonight. You heard the president say we are rounding the curve. How concerned are you about americans on the move spreading the virus . Ihink we are worried about t vaccines beiback. Dr. Fauci says College Students who are infected and on ese camp this, do not send them home. The thing you can do is to send all of these infected College Student on campus back there homes across the entry and the world. It ia very risky proposition. Laura we will get to the vaccine in a minute. An influential model that is ely followed by the whit house is addicting that 41000 could die from coronavirus by the end of the year. I dont think it assumes 1900 deaths every day until the end of the year. That is just a little bit too much. I think it will hit a quarter of a million. These forecasting models are really hard to predict. They doha not know they are going to do about public interventions. Some of the early estimates have been misus. That is not how you should interpret those. Many scientist like me are skeptical about that. Laura p tsident keeps saying there will be good news very soon. The cdc says a vaccine could be ready for distribution by november 1, although the chief vaccine scientists says that is possible but unlikely. It is verconfusing to the public. That is conveniently right before election day. Ot there is af concern that the vaccine is being politicized. We should wait for the phase two trial to come late. Even if it exceeds the 50 threshold, thrte is wide unnty. As far as the safety and efficacy. Rushing it will only create more uncertainty. That will hurt us. Laura very briefly, any hides that the raliva test could help get kids back into the classroom . I hope so. More of these. Ey need to approve weitould dnd identify people earlier and isolate them faster. Th will be more eful than a pcr test. Laura thank you so much for joining us. Law enforcement officers have shot dead and antifascist activists in portland, oregon, whawas suspected of killin supporter of a farright group area this happened as agents swooped in. Night marks 100 nights of portland unrest. We have more. 100th day of protests against Police Brutality and racism, the consequences of the stations law enforcementthis man was susf killing anooting a member of a farright troop. He was shot dead as investigators attempteto arrest him more than 100 miles north of there was a confrontation tween the officers on scene. And the subject. The subject was armed. There were shots fired into the vehicle. There were eight additd. Nal shots fi reporter witnesses describe the mayhem. I walked outside because i it was chaotic. Didnt even know what to think. Too close to home. Reporter he said he acted in selfdefense during classes between black life matters or tests and supporterst of presid tru, who for the third turday in a row, paraded through central portland in a convoy of 600 vehicles. D havey in an interview, he gave his account of the altercation. I have a choice. I couldve sat there and watch them kill a friend of mine. I was not going to do that. Ha ad i ned, im confident that that we wouldve been killed. Repoer america has been on edge all summer. Rochester, new york became the Test Community to express outrage. Police around their headquarters with reiki here after seven officers were vended and nsdemonstratioroke out. The cou orys reckonir race comes at a time of hyper partisanship, after a summer of teaming tension, the election awaits. Laura il just two months u that election. Re than 4 million brazilians have tested positive for coronavirus since the pandemic began. The president has played down the severity. Computer hackers in belarus have added the pre ldent tot of wanted criminals. They accuse him of war crimes d seizing power illegally. Belarus has been rocked by protests s andikes. Israeli archaeologists say they have found a palace. This is three kilometers from toulouse arms jerusalems o city. They say it was pbably destroyed during the babylonian conquest of jerusalem. Still to come, back to school for mexican students this week but they are learningot ry due to coronavirus. Millions of kids may just drop out. New zealand has seen its first covid19 that the more than three months, raising the death toll to 23. Y the counpeared to have curbed the virus until a fresh outbreak appeared in auckland. Repoer it is related to the cluster in auckland that started in early august. 100 days with no communityd for transition transmission before that. 23 have died down the country. The ramifications of that ispl that now pare worrd. This is another marker for new zealand. Laura mexican children went back to school this week in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak wthey areching classes from tv at home. Many are worried that many will drop out. Education has been disrupted. Reporter in mexico, the School Ground has been a place of learning at home for some. About 13 Million Students from primary to high school mrt tune into f different Television Channels for their classes. Some families have no access to the right stations. We can only find cartoons and news. Even in the capital, studying by tv itough. This 11yearold is trying his best. But his mother is not convinced he is learning. There is no alternative with isandemic. So we have to adapt. My as 2. 5 million children might drop out. 2 million more may abandon private schools and join the overstretched public syste in mexico, the dangers are especially bad. Children often cannot leave home because of drug violence. There is a strong whether we like it or not. It has to be a key part of school infrastructure. Duof thetional budget. The Mexican Government should adapt to that. They should make sure all ithools have internet access. There are possibs to learn. Reporter f now, the government has turned traditional emies, asking media moguls to overcome the mexico has one of the poorest education systems. The government admits lessons may continue this way for some time. We all want to return to classes in the company of friends. The reality of the situation has reporter parents and children alike are desperate for things to return to normal. But th the social and psychological effects of this crisis may be laura india has now reached 4 million coronavirus cases, with figuresco reaching levels almost every day. India iseeing the Fastest Growing of new infections. We have a report from themy mumbai. Reporter another day on the covid frontline with no end in sight. The doctor who sents this video has been treating critical patients for month. He has had to tell thousmids of falies their loved ones have died. Exhaustion is beginning to wear doctors down. A few weeks ago, it seemed as though the capital was coping with the pdemic. But once again, resources are falling short. There are smaller towns around. Those are lifesupport systems. That is what worries me. That is what this is all about. Reporter he succumbs to covid earlier this week. City whic a smaller is now the worst affected in india. His family says there is a shortage of facilities. If an ambulance had been available to take into critical caree , my brother would hen alive. Reporter endia is doing m than one million tests a day. But that has not been enough t herb the spread. Another lockdown is not anti for an economy already in turmoil. The government has been highlighting that the number of deaths, compared to the size of the relation, is lower than other countries badly hit. There are only speculative theories about why that might be the case. Even with a low death rate, if the virus continues to spread, esat still means hundreds of thousands of livre at risk. All eyes are on aaccine. India could be a big part of the global polluti solution. This is a factory of the biggest vaccine maker. It is already producing tens of millions of doses of five covid vaccines each month. 70 of the worlds vaccine capacity is from india. Reporter i asked the chief executive when a vaccine might be rdy. It takes 35 years normally and we are all rushing it. Ihink in a few months there will be vaines licensed. Willhey be the best . I do not know. Repoer even if the vaccine is a success, inoculated more than one billioneople will need a lot of time and money. Laura before we go, covid19 has meant less trouble for most of us. For those who love the freedom of flying, one restaurant in nigeria has a plan. Th are offering customers the allusion of flight. The windows b showe skies and puffy white clouds. 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