Assembly i have the honor to welcome to the United Nations his excellency emmanuel macron, president of the french republic. And invite him to address the assembly. You have the floor, your excellency. President macron thank madam president. Ladies and gentlemen, heads of friends. Nisters, we are here at the general at a time when the secretarygeneral has chosen such an extremely important topic, but climate as our central topic, which we discussed yesterday and we see and inpatients everywhere we are seeing more and more around the world that many things can lead us to feel pessimistic. We are not meeting the challenge. The demand that we have set for ourselves the goals we have set for ourselves in the area of Global Warming or the combat to protect biodiversity. There are many tensions. The level isrld unprecedented when we see what just happened in the golf a few days ago the persian gulf or when we see the challenges that many of our friends are facing and i see many Friendly Face
Expressed admiration for the heroism of the tankers and the president s press secretary reported this in the kremlin. Dmitry peskov, this footage was taken from a drone and became available on the internet last week. One russian tank immediately came out against a convoy of vehicles , our crew with the call sign alyosha was able not only to stop the advance of the enemy. Come on and come out victorious and bout with eight Armored Vehicles. Of course, this is such heroism , such professionalism, it causes admiration and a sense of pride for our military, it really is so. This is absolutely unique shots and a unique situation, which, of course , can be almost parsed in textbooks. In the southdonetsk and zaporozhye directions, our position is defended by infantry with the support of a strike group of ka52 helicopters, pilots perform tasks and day and night, our correspondent maksim akhmetov watched the combat work. Our attackers ka52 helicopters returned and literally in 15 minutes. A new
Stop the russian trert terrorists, stop the propaganda, and therell be no need for any humanitarian aid. Rory challands has more were moscow. The ukrainians appear to be getting cold feet. They feel it may be a trojans horse and there are doubts theyll let it across the border into the ukranian territory. The russians are sending in 2,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid, including grain, sugar, first aid, power, generators, that sort of thing. N. A. T. O. Has been saying that the chances of a Russian Military invasion of Eastern Ukraine are getting higher and higher, and nato has been saying that russia may use a humanitarian pretext, a peacekeeping mission to justify the military incursion. Many are unhe ise. Russia is uneasy. Russia is busy, trying to expand its influence in the middle east. Vladimir putin met with abdul fatah alsisi. Egypt agreed to increase agricultural shipments to russia. Russia is seeking now Food Supplies after banning imports from United States, canada, australia a
Unprecedented destruction. Plus. We remember Robin Williams, comic genius. The political crisis deepens in iraq. Prime minister al maliki is refusing to give up his position, and the fight continues against sunni fight nertz north. He has the support of u. S. , iran, turkey, the American League and the uk. They say his actions are a violation of the constitution. Translator i really urge you, the iraqi military, to uproot the Islamic State group. You are responsible. They are a cancer that can spread. We are all responsible for the safety and security of our country. Kurdish forces are continuing to battle Islamic State fighters in the north of the country. The u. S. Has been backing kurdish soldiers with air strikes on Islamic State positions in the area as well as supplying weapons to them, but the humanitarian crisis is continuing to mount. Thousands have fled their homes in fear of fighters advancing on towns. Britain and france pledged more aid and money to help groups in Northern
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Unions representing doctors and nurses in the uk express concerns about new guidelines allowing the reuse of Personal Protective Equipment. Amidst a global shortage some hospitals in the uk warn they may run out of the equipment this weekend. Its a real disappointment to us that the government has been unable, even after a month, to address this progressively worsening shortage of ppe. President trump angers democrats after tweeting in support of protests against stringent lockdown measures in three democrat run us states. Russia records nearly 5,000 new cases of coronavirus
in the past 2a hours its biggest daily increase since the start of the outbreak. And in a few minutes, well be speaking live to the Prime Minister of mauritius about the countrys lockdown measures. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments, both here and g