avram say about troops. in the headlines this monday the 10th of august the pressures on lebanon's leaders over last week's deadly blast that killed more than 150 left the port area in ruins of woman who lost her husband has been telling us direct how her family has been torn apart. i promised my son that i me and his dad going to be on his birthday and i broke this promise. this is in the news as well the largest protests in modern history as the country's long time leader lines up a landslide 6th term in office. and

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. . good morning just 10 11 am here in moscow life martin to nationals world news center here one is kevin 0 into delighted to have you company hope you stick around as well for maybe the next half hour to take you through those headlines in more detail nearly a week since beirut was shaken by that deadly chemical explosion the ensuing antigovernment protests show little sign of abating 2 ministers have resigned but that's not enough for protesters who stormed government buildings now demanding proper accountability they say for the $150.00 plus deaths and the blast that laid waste to a swathe of the lebanese capital. thousands

of tons of ammonium nitrate ignited on chews day leveling the port area 158 people are known to been killed so far but dozens still missing so that number is expected to rise even further thousands were injured in the explosion it's overwhelming beirut's health system which is already grappling with a pandemic scores of buildings were damaged or destroyed it's thought up to $300000.00 people have been left homeless the prime minister is calling for early elections in a bid to try to quell the unrest the numbers of course they'll give the full

picture of how many lives there are no change forever it's an added tragedy for one 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 this story. these summer months have always been synonymous with joy and celebration for sue his 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 was 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 i didn't see any any anything but i wanted to pull his head like this i felt that all smashed 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 drew for me around

a circle. she she colored that was red i knew it's her bed. and it was full of blood sue his 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 i 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 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 6 you i love you. sue has biggest concern now is whoa daughter processing their loss gemma seems to be protecting her mother by not sharing her feelings. she told them here was listening he heard her and i prefer can i not i'm not 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 whenever i put my head on his soul that i feel secured even when he's around i don't go so far marcus i don't do anything for the house who takes care of everything everything here so think a lot of loads from my shoulder. 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. they're used to. her. oh my supposed to put my ribs on

this you know and this little and don't know is forever is about a 1. 000 thing for him just to put to hard for me to put his arms to feel secure how what i'm gonna. give when they entered when they smell his clothes there's some room for nothing more his clothes from the house i'm not going to move them but suha 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 a 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 or this is my hair i'm going to give it to you or so you would wear to cater

on i'm going to make her happy i would do whatever she wants the business my link her and her brother it was done of reporting from lebanon r.t. . your family going through real agony there are they. some other news this morning speaking the headline stun grenades and tear gas were used overnight in the capital of belarus steering protests over the country's closely watched presidential election election commission's early results put longtime leader alexander lukashenko at 18.23 percent up in the exit poll result which sparked fear among opposition supporters as those polls closed last night.

to have one but that. should for us to do well yeah he said it. so it never means the catholic banner is the scene is the largest protest in the last 10 years at 10 pm people began to gather near the hero city of leeds but a path was blocked by security for the offices then began to mark 1000 citizens after pushing back the president for the 1st time in the history of valerie's special crowd control measures including stun grenades were used so my witnesses claim they saw rubber bullets being fired. while there were on $120.00 arrests in

the capital jury in polling according to human rights groups opposition supporters have been swift to claim the election has been rigged election look showing has been in power now since 994 but this election is thought to be his toughest yet with unprecedented scrutiny and protests during all kittens reports from outside the belarusian embassy in moscow where expert voters formed lengthy queues on sunday. hundreds of people yes they stayed at the embassy to show their indignation about an election they feel was rigged out of election where they feel a vote split taken away that was one of the compared what was happening in but. throughout the night security 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 the police also even looks 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 even rubber bullets to the reports of multiple injuries images of bloodied and bruised

protesters around the world stephen even though they went into that blackout some problems with communications across the country the protests went beyond but a russian borders there were protests at the better russian embassies in kiev and warsaw even as far afield as televisa as well. as campaign was widely criticized the home and abroad for the arrest and detention of journalists all physicians in the town but it sounds like the stars well the

film was himself said he didn't expect these elections to be water broke the law is the nationally we will fare for the way they've been handled by the russian authorities though have open 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 he should be able to blood youth in the us 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 as for blood to head off 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 them and she's calling on police and security forces not to use violence against protesters to stand down the report said that that has happened or have

happened last night in some cities in but it was 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 down organs that one of the key opposition politicians who was barred from running accuses the good of retaining power by force. yes. it is clear that 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. started his campaign with a brutal violation of the constitution. who is now seizing power by force he's the one who's carrying out a coup. i know of course a lot of eyes on this think he was going to go next to let's get some for tonight got a political analyst to me too about which russia's reign obviously needs agency morning to me treat yes what do you think with your best education he know this area well what is likely to happen next. well i think it's

a moral defeat for question and this was acknowledged also in the russian press if you look at the quantum interest and the more strongly people compare this election to elections there were held in 2010 or 2006 and this is the biggest defeat because you know broader started immediately after the results were announced very few people believe that will question of what 80 percent of the vote that's just not possible and very few people believe that his main rival red planet you were just 10 percent of the note that was congratulated by the cheney's leaders she didn't beam by the kazakhstan's president or are not yet by what you know that's what you say is a huge defeat for a bit of the days got over 80 percent just like last time end of the day nothing really happened last time is it why is it different this time round. well it's

a moral defeat as a set probably you will gain his power because of discontent and lawrence cannot talk all. you need bourse discontent and resources financial sector ego media resources sometimes from foreign countries that can talk all you look are shown for somehow managed to prevent the west from help in the process that's on the way maybe it was he was moved by arresting so it is we russians did since and the using russia and basically the russian government are trying to talk all him maybe that wants by right now i don't see any substantial western support for the front of the world like a little reasoning for why we are going to say i were likely to say what he did what i like to say what happened back in 2014 in ukraine. well we're not likely to see a repeat of my down because i've been one which is

a very different county and the situation is very different so i think for the time being able to shrink a little steam power but he also has a lot of really been it he went through a moral defeat and he spoiled relations with russia i think his main mistake was to include russia trying to cracow you know. a lot of his other statements in the last year and 2nd that russia and they also intend going to rise from sea and the part of the population that really want to get people who want good relations with russia and hope he would be the man to provide one of our own immediate hours and days are you talking to this reaction this lot are taken off because saying that she's still going to try and capitalize on the anti feeling here if you like but is it over as far as she's concerned is the opposition gone what's going to happen the next couple of days i think protests will continue for a few days maybe even longer but without all that out organized support they will

peter out simply because people cannot sustain a long blockade you know you need to go to work make a living also the police in there were just certainly more determined and more prudent at least in young college degree dimitri beverage free and obviously is agency say is kind of the program give us your thoughts appreciate it have a good day. thank you. just a bit minutes past 11 o'clock in the morning moscow time coming up. for all of us isn't it but so much so for so many other people as well the undocumented migrant workers in one west african country that. the scale of inequality. after this break.

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close game france reportedly wants britain to pay 30000000 pounds to help stem the flow of migrants crossing the english channel the request not gone down whether westminster though that is accusing france of not trying hard enough he's got the latest from paris. 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 lives 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 deal with the issue of these illegal crossings promptly on the aids. that's left a parent in westminster pretty scathing this shut down those proposal saying it won't hand 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 or 6235 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 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 all come back saying you since january its operations have stopped 5 times as many people as they did in 2019 in the same period but with the u.k. it's just north and nothing so much so you can sector pretty big. point with this is the appointment of contest dying channel direct command of this somebody who is going to be monitoring all the agencies that channel for things like illegal migration somebody should be able to sort the problem out and you take up with this evil suggested that it may have to use its maritime assets to deal

with this we determined to stop this illegal reach into britain for humanitarian reasons as much as anything else we're 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 clock he is taking up the moment the u.k. has the right and the doctor who rules to said that the asylum seekers back to france but that will end at the end of the break that transitional 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. restrictive measures during the pandemic very caution country the country but for some of the world's poorest is

making life almost impossible documentary makers redfish been following undocumented migrants who west africa the program have made history on you tube if you want to catch it early time but his just a taste of what they found. as i would have been the whole month on. monday to fill. in for now that i'm receiving support on an. inoperable offical you'd only enough to do that helpful but a feel of the whole of africa that i will. look for the most. first there. was red and. it was. this is. me am i but i'm a mental then after seeing. them after i mean 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 part. of me and it is who we are marketed. in northern toronto. canada more or less than a bit. down in our. time is where i want to and. it's making me crazy.

new york's summer of shootings saw death rise more than 59 percent in july compared to a year ago despite the mayor's shifting a $1000000000.00 of the police. under pressure from defund the protesters in the wake of the country's race and brutality riots all the same time as polls among black americans to now see more people rethink whether or not it's wise to reduce resources in law enforcement as color maupin's been finding out. 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.

things. 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 writing them show up she'll pass out on the street from k.

to smoking crack shooting her way i haven't seen anything do they have the same birds in the neighborhood 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 in any of the 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 the 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 to get minutes new york city

is getting the last say we're trying to get them to come back to cope with the 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 is given attention to these problems that affect lower income new yorkers then perhaps these same problems that are now driving the wealthy folks away wouldn't have risen so dramatically up and artsy new york well this is not a shot of the way things are looking so far for most stuff we're talking about so much more on a social media throughout the day coast looking for post on the t.v. side of things more good anchors great news teams you know studios around the world but for now for the most go and the things is kevin 0 in wishing you a great day. the

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