like this is where will that world are well into. question. in the headlines this month of the tense of all the pressures on lebanon's leaders over last week's deadly blast that killed more than 150 and left the port area there in ruins woman who lost her husband has been telling r.t. how a family's been torn apart. i promised my son that i meet and he is that going to be in his birthday and i broke this promise. also in the headlines this morning by the rose sees its largest protest in modern history as the country's long time leader lines up a landslide 6 office. to.

france reportedly says it's going to cost britain tens of millions of pounds if it wants its help to patrol the english channel as more migrants make the perilous crossing to try to reach the u.k. . morning live from art international's world news h.q. here in moscow my name's kevin 0 in here for the next 30 minutes to take you through those headlines just heard in more detail over the state with me to 1st nearly a week since beirut was shaken by that deadly chemical explosion the ensuing antigovernment protests showed little sign of abating 2 ministers of resign but that's not enough for the protesters who stormed government buildings demanding proper accountability for the $150.00 plus deaths from a blast that laid waste to a swathe of the lebanese capital.

thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate ignited on choose day leveling that port area shocking pictures where they are 158 people are known to have been killed so far but dozens are still missing so that number is expected to rise even still further thousands of when injured in the explosion it's overwhelmed beirut's health system which is already grappling with a pandemic scores of buildings were damaged and destroyed as you saw it's thought up to 300000 people have been left homeless the prime minister is calling for early elections now in a bid to try to quell the unrest the numbers of course don't give the full picture

of how many lives there are now changed forever it's an added tragedy for one particular family already dealing with their daughter's cancer they were in hospital when the blast struck the father didn't survive artie's been hearing their story. these summer months of always being synonymous with joy and celebration for suez family the birthdays of the children and husband the anniversary of their wedding all of which falls during the sunny season but this year trouble started to loom on the horizon early when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer they called me in the morning they confirmed that it's classical heart i knew that it wasn't informed by that time gemma's immune system had been shot to pieces but hodgkin lymphoma is not a sentence for children it's curable and doctors have been reassuring sue her husband jihad was called by the news abroad in nigeria but couldn't stay away in

a crisis like this so several dozen covert tests later he came to lebanon to be with his family we slept in the hospital the same bed the same everything me her and her gemma's hospital room was where the port explosion called the 3 of them the windows of the buildings in front of me crashing and then one by the like this. like this i didn't see if fair i didn't see my daughter either then and anything but i wanted to pull his head like this i felt that all smashed all all all so much that i was not sure that he was alive i saw his soul leaving his body i saw it but i didn't. i wanted to move into another hospital jihad died right before his daughter's eyes at only 6 gemma faces 2 battles most adults would struggle to win cancer and coping with her father's death she drove for me around

a circle she said she color that was red i knew it's her bed. and it was full of blood. suhas heart breaks when she blames herself for letting her daughter witness all that and letting down her son by promising that his father would be at his birthday which is this week i promised my son that are me and his they're going to be on his birthday and i broke this promise and everyone's going with happy birthday for my son it's his birthday on the 30th of august. so. we love you we love you. i ask sue her if she wants to take a break from the interview she refuses adamantly there's just so much she feels she

didn't tell her husband enough i love you i love you i love you are you hitting me i love you i love you i love you forgive me if i did anything for me you carry or if i hurt you forgive me i love you i know of you i love you i love you for 2 hours i used i love you oh you know you were you know i love you i love you. sue has biggest concern now is her daughter processing their loss. she told them he was listening he heard her and i prefer can i not i'm not a but i'm not able to give details because they are killing me from inside me. so can you imagine. herself can you imagine the images in her a passing whenever she closes her eyes. suah finds redemption and relief in family

pictures now as she relives the fondest of memories this is how we used to sleep playing our head on each other because you know as whenever i put my head on his saw that i feel secured even when he's at around i don't gossip or markets i don't do anything for the house to fix care of everything everything here's a think a lot of clothes from my shoulder now this is the last photo of their family together she shows it to me as i'm sitting on the very couch where it was taken this story has been gaining traction across me jean the arabic world and we were the 1st she so kindly let in as she struggles to deal with the pain of the loss in the home she herself can face yet how am i able to come back to this house through visit. her. oh my supposed to put. this you know in this room and. it's whatever is above there will never be

down to. 000 thing for him just to put to hard for me to put his arms to feel secure. what i'm going to. give when they're in 3rd when they smell his clothes there's some mean for not removing his clothes from the house i'm not going to remove them but sooner realizes that her life is not over she tells me its whole life mission now to eliminate the shortage of cancer medicine for lebanese children even with her mask on i can see her smiling when she talks about her children though as she ordered them frozen as our. unicorn because she lied about this one is very special i told her you see this is my hair because mom when you're going to take this medication your hair is going to fall down you're going to lose your hair so what i can do this is my hair i'm going to give it to you so you would wear to cater on i'm going to make her happy i would do whatever she wants the bill smiling

her and her brother he was dying of reporting from lebanon r.t. . big story this morning stun grenades and tear gas were used over night in the capital a better roast during protests over the country's closely watched presidential election then the past of the state news agencies reported early results putting longtime leader alexander look at shanker now it 80.23 percent up early exit poll result which sparked fear among our position supporters as the polls closed. please. i. i i. that. you should for us to do well yeah he said i mean.

i. sort of like the catholic banner is the scene is the largest protest in the last 10 years at 10 pm people began to gather near here a city ordinance for the path was blocked by security for the offices then began to mark 1000 seats and soft pushing back the resistance is the 1st time in the history of valerie's special crowd control measures including stun grenades were used some eyewitnesses claim they saw rubber bullets being fired. well though around $120.00 arrests in the capital jeering polling according to human rights groups opposition supporters were swift to claim the elections been rigged alexander look has been in

power there now since 1994 but this election is thought to be his toughest yet with unprecedented security and protests some pretty nasty scenes as you saw at times parties during the hawkins' outside the belarusian embassy here in moscow a morning again updated saw the big queues of expert voters yesterday but back to this hour the final tally is expected so it's really a pretty tense election throw doesn't it. there has been a time so election very much so you're right there was a big crowd here at the embassy yesterday yes thousands of people waiting. to cost the queue stretching all the way around the block in terms of the numbers the exit polls predicted a victory for alex on the show that was little doubt about that and the preliminary results of the central election committee weren't far off or around 80 percent give or take a couple of percentage points for the incumbent around 10 percent for his closest rivals of lot of different scale the main opposition candidate while the result was

predicted before seen by many as what happened after that nobody could have for see the crowds here hundreds of people yesterday stayed at the embassy to show their indignation about an election they feel was rigged out of election with a few live votes were taken away that was one of the compared what was happening in but. throughout the likes of children forces broke up protests of thousands tens of thousands probably around the whole country with people marching through the streets building barricades some of them chanting police help was also given a lot to use violence against protesters all those pelting them with bottles now security forces were very quick to respond with stun grenades with tear gas water cannons. rubber bullets the reports multiple injuries images of bloodied and bruised protesters around the world stephen even though there were internet blackout some problems with communications across the country all saudis initially denied any injuries took place that was evident from the photos though that was

very different reports of hundreds of arrests as we said earlier point human rights organizations the protests went beyond borders there were protests out the better russian embassies in kiev and warsaw even as far afield as televisa as well. campaign was widely criticized hovan abroad for the arrest intention of journalists of opposition and that its activists as well come with himself said he didn't

expect these elections to be widely recognized internationally as free nor fair for the way they've been handled by the russian authorities though have opened trouble probes into these protests saying that the rioters as they call them could face between the age of 15 years in jail. himself saying those who took to the streets to destabilize the country will face the consequences. just as you should be able to uproot you through in the u.s. if you're going to go against our country or even in the smallest way try to plunge the country into chaos and destabilize it you will receive an immediate response from the. well for the moment or the process seems to have died down what's going to happen to later tonight we can't tell but suffered a lot of as we said the main opposition now that it has already said she's going to fight these results in court she says she doesn't recognize that when she's calling on police and security forces not to use violence against protesters to stand down

the reports are that that has happened or how it happened last night in some cities in belarus as well whatever the result was going to be tonight it was clear that this would be some sort of turning point for domestic politics in belarus as those official results will come out it's likely that people may take to the streets again the how but the russian authorities respond to force will dictate the force of events over the next 24 hours here down came across who for a title or because there is central moscow so the better russian embassy for now well one of the key opposition politicians who was barred from running accuses look retaining power by force here yes this. is clear this has nothing to do with normal exit polls these are just numbers off the top of someone's head the real results are exactly the opposite we support citizens are doing because their votes have been stolen. you started this campaign with a brutal violation of the constitution. who is now seizing power by force he's the

one who's carrying out the coup. political analyst marta mccauley and also the director of the crisis research institute model marc ullman give us their thoughts on the unrest in belarus and what it could mean now for the country going forward. the irony is the same could also be. sort of way a bit more of the last verse you can like benefits because then of course you have to get on i suppose the world will. still bar. who most of us have to be down which is staffed. 26 years so we get the situation hold of our people growing up and if nothing else they're bored with the side. not seeming to have a clear direction to whom things in the group of things are going to go home to familiar strange they loyal and they're willing to grill blood then look at chic will stay in power because that will then develop because if love is shared then that could

infuriate the population more and more people become more active because you find with a revolutionary situation that people act differently this. time and again the revolution . type of fever that takes over and people become they act and sit there and they act really really of with violence and crude as can build up and again we come back to the question of who is loyal to the. regime in the military and the police if they stay with look at younger looks younger will survive. it 17 hours minutes past 10 of the morning moscow time things take the time to be with us this is a head cover it's been hard for all of us a course but for undocumented migrant workers in one west african country the pandemic there well it's blow from the scale of the inequality they're up against just one of the stories after this break.

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during this year we talk about all those crazy problems out there and then during the summer we deal with solutions that's right so lucian's and today we're going to be talking with the nose of coin floor. u.k. . thanks choosing out c. for your news update today next and france reportedly wants britain to pay 30000000 pounds to help stem the flow of migrants crossing the english channel requests not going well in westminster though which accuses from sin turn of trying hard enough shall do been ski reports from paris on the growing spat. well the clash over migrants between the u.k. and france seems to be escalating and that comes as there has been in recent arrivals from france to the u.k.

which has put the 2 countries that owns the number of illegal smuggled crossings is appalling and unacceptably high the figures are shameful france and other e.u. states are safe countries genuine refugees should claim asylum they're not reach their life's and break the law by coming to the u.k. france is apparently demanding some. pounds from the u.k. government before it says it will do you with the issue of these illegal crossings properly on the aids now that's left parity westman pretty scathing this shut down those proposal saying it won't hand over any will cash and less it has a hand in how the money is spent now there are also accusations that paris is trying to milk the u.k. all while these number of illegal crossings are increasing day by day let's have a look at some of the figures now just a few days ago on august 6th 235 people made it across from

france to the shoes of england now in 2020 so far more than 4000 people have succeeded in making that crossing that's double the number in 2019 so a real increase that we've seen now french patrols are trying to stop some of those migrants leaving french coastal shores and we know that the french interior minister has sort of back saying you since january operations have stopped 5 times as many people as they did in 2019 in the same period but for the u.k. it's just north and nothing so much so you can go sector pretty big. has announced a new appointment this is the appointment of contest dying channel direct command of the somebody who is going to be monitoring all the agencies that channel for

things like illegal migration somebody who should be able to sort the problem out and do you take up with this evil suggested that it may have to use its own maritime assets to deal with this we determined to stop this illegal route into britain for humanitarian reasons as much as anything else we were talking to our french counterparts and we in order to find a solution using maritime assets as they call it to try and return folks to france trying to prevent people from leaving france in the 1st place while talks between the 2 countries are due to continue this week but the core is taking up the moment the u.k. has the right and of the dubreuil has said that the asylum seekers back to france but that will end at the end of the break that transition period which will finish in december 20. 5th months away that's of course unless the 2 countries reach a new deal something at the moment that seems highly unlikely given that the 2 countries

are not seeing eye to eye on this issue. more restrictive measures during the pandemic vary from country to country of course for some of the world's poorest folks making life almost impossible right now until really no documentary makers redfish been following undocumented migrants in west africa if you want to see it history on you tube here's just some of what the team found. as i would have been the whole month on. monday to fill. in for now that unless it is going on. in october offical you'd only enough to do to help on a feel of the whole of africa but i will. look for the most. first them lists. to add.

to this is. the am. i but i'm a mental then after. them after me and you have to contract in our care act ok. after sitting through you have to contrast the i'm going to get the country i mean. for me sounds crazy to me and everyone said oh no yeah you get there put. me in haiti so yeah margaret opened up on. the northern toronto. canada more less than a bit. down in our. time is where i want to and. it's making me crazy.

new york's summer shootings saw deaths rise more than 59 percent in july compared to a year ago despite that the mayor is shifting a $1000000000.00 of the pie. lease budget under pressure from defund protesters in the wake of the country's race and brutality riots all the same time as polls among black americans is ignore people we think whether it is wise to reduce resources in law enforcement as caleb maupin reports. across the country many cities have cut the number of police officers and reduce the funding for police departments in response to the explosive mass movement of protests against police brutality. you know. all that.

but. oddly polls show that this is not exactly what the public wants 81 percent of black americans say they want the police to spend the same amount of time that they already do in their communities or more this may be influenced by the overall breakdown in law and order gun violence in new york city has risen by a 177 percent this to wine and at the same time as a rise in crime is taking place homelessness is also on the rise making many locals very disturbed it's not the city that it used to be before march you have to take certain precautions judge me out to be in fear of these men doesn't mean it all

these men know predatory but a lot of them they'll start shelf pleasure ising them show up she'll pass out on the street from cage to smoking crack shooting her when i haven't seen anything to do with there have been subverted in the neighborhood and that i that doesn't make me feel that a woman was attacked in my building at that day and it was only 10 o'clock at night so i haven't seen anything but if i did it would certainly bother me but it may be just because these people should be taken care of and obviously the rest of us should not be you know that that's a concern for somebody who's not in control of himself. causing trouble if you have men with drug problems why would you put them into. a place where there is no security whatsoever to make sure that they don't keep feeding the abbot the rise in crime and homelessness has got many new yorkers fearing this could be a return to the old new york of the seventy's and eighty's many wealthy folks are packing up and leaving governor andrew cuomo is urging them to change their minds

begging wealthy folks to stay even offering to cook them dinner you gotta come back when you come back we'll go to dinner buy a drink. come over i'll cook but despite his pleading he admits new york city is getting the last say we're trying to get them to come back. under control we're going to make progress helping the homeless we're going to clean up the graffiti we're going to fix these problems of rising crime homelessness and violence on the streets of new york are something that most average new yorkers can't afford to just pack up and run away from it governor andrew cuomo has given attention to these problems that affect lower income new yorkers then perhaps the same problems that are now driving the wealthy folks away wouldn't have risen so dramatically up and artsy new york yeah not sure what we're talking about so far this so so much more of a social media to throughout the day on the t.v.

sort of things will keep you posted from a very studious and great news teams around the world for now though reporting from moscow is kevin i wish you a great day. is it really who slipped through is there any truth in the news also with this one creature known as abrams say about trump's. i'm afshin rattansi and you're watching another lockdown edition of going underground this time the penultimate episode of this season coming up on the show

after 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of beirut killing injuring and displacing thousands what caused lebanon's biggest ever explosion. we speak to a former lebanese member of parliament got some look a bit about an arguable israeli p.r. exercise in the wake of continued bombing and space violations and the book of those black lives matter protest is continuing the fight against racial capitalism in the u.s. learn from that country's history of oppression and imperialism around the world we also act because the author of the wire and spike pleased to 5 months told us more coming up in today's lockdown edition of going on the ground the 1st let's go to beirut to form a lebanese m.p. for the 10 in east beirut. all our condolences on it some days after the.