thinks. we should ask. the president among the montreal heads to beirut for the 2nd time i've been under a month to press for political reform and with criticism france is acting again like a colonial power. president on italy's lampedusa protests the arrival of hundreds of new migrants with the local mayor saying that they are simply can't cope anymore. in charge of bills a new set of tech export restrictions that could further challenge the sale of business in the u.s. may growing tensions between the 2 countries.

either at midday here in moscow this is a. french president paying another official visit to lebanon his 2nd time there in just under a month will be holding talks with officials in beirut as the capital tries to recover from the deadly poor blast at the start of august but the french leaders attempts to push for reforms in love with criticism and accusations of interference he has the story. well this is president 2nd visit to lebanon in a month will it be another photo opportunity or will he be able to achieve something concrete his visit hard already to celebrate a 100 years since the creation of the lebanese state of course it comes under the cloud of those explosions that through this city. when he was just

a few days lost his visit was equally. criticized but some saying he was still acting as if france was a protectorate of lebanon not president who he thinks needs to happen in the country he's talking about reform and reconstruction he says an interim government needs to be put in place that needs to be an audit of the country's central bank and he's called for fresh elections otherwise he she is the worst of the country if we don't go and if we somehow leave it in the hands of the depravity of regional power was it will be civil war as well as the defeat of what is the very identity of lebanon now lebanon on loan that has had issues politically economically and socially those exclusions back in exposed to the rest of the the $190.00 people killed thousands injured and tens of thousands of people

displaced after that visit spearheaded a video conference to raise money for the stricken states and she 150000000 pledged from says foreign minister has said that 8 come only with strings attached we will not sign a blank check for a government that does not implement reforms that everyone knows are needed everyone knows what has to be dealt with the humanitarian and senator emergency for a population that is deeply wounded and the political emergency if this country to hold together the risk today is the disappearance of lebanon politics in. no one is a political minefield this is a country that has political representation for the 18 different sex. in the country so consensus between those is sometimes no easy task however the house because just welcome from some political factions for. the national.

good willing with regards to naming the prime minister forming the government so we will be co-operative contributed to pulling the country out of the power of vacuum we have always rejected and always against. hezbollah and its allies hold a majority in the parliament in lebanon also gives you a sense of how important that encouraged this particular party and these remarks suggest that it is open to dialogue what president is doing by including has been in these talks is something that essentially new with the west and has done that is open to the party politics in lebanon is a moveable feast though so if it seems that france is demanding too much it's taking too much of the role as a previous colonial power these talks could quickly. present not go on has a very difficult path to tread it is a thin line between being seen to be in lebanon and helping the lebanese people and

that interfering in the internal politics of the country. we spoke with french attorney who says the france's ground of paving the path for a form in lebanon will not bear much fruit. french presidents like to show the world and its population that france is still a superpower that's why people call the. number they are compared to not belong but for people that are against france are against the western point of you'll create you say france as. of course colonial superpower all comes and wants to say he worked for western countries foreign countries like great britain let's say you gonna say no it's france trying to help. a country that has a lot of problems as usual as we say the people of leven and not the gov look at them while it's the same because they go there for a day on interest and not for the people of lebanon i'm not sure but i don't think

it's going to change a lot of. even ones of quality and the economy struggling. residents on the italian island of lampedusa have staged a protest against the arrival of ever more migrants locals try to prevent you from disembarking produces menace as the situations become unsustainable a correspondent based in berlin peter oliver has more. well local government officials in lampedusa are saying the island can cope no more with the sheer number of people that are arriving on their shores in fact the mayor of lampedusa spoke to r.t. saying this he wants to see a strike a general strike on the island to try and draw attention to what's going on in a situation he describes as overloaded. the situation in lampedusa is disastrous in the sense that we have a full reception center in addition to the norm because we have 1260 people and

then tonight there was a landing of 300 $67.00 more people who can no longer be taken in here they've been brought to a facility made available by the church we always carry out our job even with the total indifference of the italian government but here the problem is objective we're not in a position to host more people well as we heard from the mayor there in the early hours of sunday morning around 370 people arrived in the port of lampedusa on board a fishing boat now they received an angry reception from locals. here we're here for peace we just won the legal migrants to go back because we are tired to night long produce a thorough enough. we are not understanding anything here in one producer we are all dying here the migrants aren't leaving because they are left alone we are all together in this tonight land because the 3rd is enough all on saturday around 50

people were processed by the italian coast guard those migrants have been rescued from the mediterranean sea by the boat the luis michel that is the vessel it's funded financed by the street artist banksy it skip it by the german captain. now she is credited with rescuing at least a 1000 people from the mediterranean sea between 2011 and 27. but she was also charged with colluding with people smugglers by the authorities in italy and 2019 charges that she strongly denies however you look at the situation in the mediterranean though regarding migrants it doesn't look good we're saying calls from the united nations and n.g.o.s operating in the area for the european union to do more and for membership states to share the burden of migrants that are currently arriving on the shores of lampedusa other italian islands what we are

saying though is the situation in lampedusa is really our breaking point. the mayor of the tiny mediterranean island has said he fails abundant and the island feels abandoned by both the governments of italy and the european union will give them a sort of i say that nothing has been done to solve the problem of migrants because in italy we speak only and exclusively from the point of view of differing factions but this moment is more of an electoral campaign than a solution to the problem we have 2 factions one that shouts yes and the other that

shouts no but they never set out on paper how to solve the problem and therefore the problem both in easily and in europe is very serious we need to face up to it in a radical way and will continue to witness everything that is happening on the island i don't understand why transfers are not carried out with military ships what are these military ships for given that italy is not at war with anyone europe has done nothing for lampedusa on the problem of migrants no one listens and there. the deafening silence from the european and italian institutions even those who are tasked with taking an interest in the phenomenon have basically left it alone well numbers of migrants crossing the mediterranean is continuing steadily it's a perilous crossing at the best of times as we head in to the autumn and winter months it's only going to become more and more dangerous and require more and more people to matley being rescued from the waters of the mediterranean. but the fate of the popular tick-tock gramp in the u.s.

still uncertain china's introduced a new set of restrictions on its tech exports from now on such technology content recommendation speech modeling and voice recognition can only be exported if approved by local commerce off already and that means that the sale of tick tocks u.s. business something demanded by donald trump if it wants to avoid being banned could hit another stumbling block skip taylor reports. laing snooping on stealing if you believe the us these are china's favorite hopis china is rampant the intellectual property is real that after years of targeting our industries and stealing our intellectual property you should know there is enormous risk risk to america's national security as well the theft of american jobs and wealth. has come to an end and deny the chinese communist party access to the private information that belongs to america but in a twist only 2020 could provide it's no be showing he's getting touchy about its

tack such an technologies will not be subject to export guns or restrictions meaning they have to be green that by the chinese government someone who would be doing a 15 2nd synchronise jig to celebrate this news byte daunce take talks parent company because all day rough couple of months involving volatile and legal disputes talk about of an executive order we're looking at it we may be bending to bear that the use of tiktaalik by all federal employees i don't mind if others microsoft or somebody else a big company security company very very american company by the chinese company has to sell off its u.s. operations because donald trump said so on because there's 100000000 users in the u.s. can't be abundant enough that dominance the slip sinking for a while but i mean from us and given it's basically a direct line to millions of young people right for odds research and data

collection which don't worry is totally acceptable what america not the chinese communist party is doing at right facebook take talks about us tech giants chomping at the bit i mean who wouldn't want to piece of this pie. bizarre as it may seem right that is a gold mine and for some it really has washed its weight in gold tight juggernauts microsoft and oracle said to be leading the race in a potential deal i don't want him to take out a room at $22.00 thoughts he $1000000.00 bill to don's the way to ownership of the

outrageous the successful app i need now a gas who's also eyeing up a piece of this pot are you were it's microsoft or somebody else or it was the chinese what what the price is the united states could should get a very large percentage of that prize and we think we deserve to have a big percentage of that price coming to america coming to the treasury while chumps teaming take talk treasury may not be such a sure thing if i don't find it still roadblocks by beijing's new regulations even truman ties teenagers from new york to california straight to bat for me was their identity either way it must be sad for a 9 snooping and stealing up to talk show and tell us how the knot of supes was and that willing to splash all kinds of casts to get it into bad you know there are many laws that are that have already been passed and so several more there are that

are working their way through congress and certainly will be signed by the president that are banning chinese apps and chinese tech products and i think in one sense trying to want to get ahead of that it's embarrassing and so you know by passing their own ban on cells. it's a way of regaining some of their national face what we're seeing now from the chinese side might prevent tech talk from selling to an american cup. like microsoft or wal-mart they see this as an attempt by the u.s. to basically force a fire sale of cutting edge attack that undercuts the value of the chinese companies but also chinese are u.s. companies access to technology that they don't have. and the race. is heating up with. full black votes will be looking at the latest polls after this break.

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the u.s. presidential election is looming and with both republicans and democrats having not held their conventions the latest polls show donald trump and gaining a little ground on joe biden who's lead us to look comfortable with candidates also have lately been actively trying to woo the black community but i'll have a great vice president at my side. senator kamel iris she knows about all the obstacles thrown in the way of so many in our country women black women black americans south asian americans immigrants the left out of the left behind and i

have done more in 3 years for the black community then joe biden has done in 47 years. when i'm reelected the best is yet to come. by and see if it's the when black vote simply picking come along as his running mate he's the 1st black woman on a major party's presidential ticket on also gave an interview to the right. however some of the things that he's been saying have decidedly missed the mark. you've got a moral question by telling if you have a problem figuring out where you're from mere trump and you a black unlike the african-american community with notable exceptions the latino community is incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things. biden's approach to criminal justice is also alienated some in the b.l.m. movement who want to see the police defunded his policies would see an increased police presence in some black communities human rights activists or german baraka

says this all gives the impression biden doesn't really get black voters. it was quite clear that the. troll forces. targeting black voters they believe that some sectors of the black population is in fact in play that is that they can be persuaded to support a dumb troll and it may be successful because of the fact that other democrats don't appear to be offering anything different than the campaign they invent in 2060 min their reason is that to support a truck if you have a black person the bits of you like remember the words lance but they also made it resources that use give you a vote to the democrats if you are a black person and in particular a member of the black working class so you know this notion that biden understands

black folks that he has some kind of understanding of what great people need in particular like working class is never reflected in his policies. and his positions over the course of his 47 years in congress. the ecuadorian government and the international monetary fund have struck a new $6500000000.00 economic relief over the lifeline is prompted fears of more painful austerity measures that could also been in the grip of an economic crisis for years and the i.m.f. has helped to prop it up financially with loans to secure them to slash funding for the public and healthcare sectors that critics say has left the country vulnerable during the pandemic that is among the hardest hit by covert 19 in latin america.

i am i am. i am. i think the everyone in the entire population had this coronavirus but we did not have medical help because the doctors did not come here they are only in the city and we had to go and look for them so people used home remedies. like. in a can you can't imagine how bad the hospitals were they didn't want to admit anyone else so instead they took my parents to work you'll be back my father and my mother both died there.

in brain simple receiving that sum of money for a country in crisis sounds like good news well did they believe that detail these agreement is not a free lunch for a while or it comes with the star condition and is imposed by the i.m.f. which continues to promote these astra's a story on the c.c. other these policies are breaking how book on the country's economy as well as its health care system leading to systematic by all the shots of the economy can social rights that the other young constitution and the national love effect. before the pandemic public anger over austerity so people taking to the streets students civil servants. police officers are among those who took part in until government actions so head on is again says the imus intervention needs reassess and. there you have

never really wanted to support it but they organise it soon they've got these. following measures 1st it's probably us says this human rights impacts of the conditions attached to its lungs and policies that impose a cost on that must be said that the sectors including indigenous peoples must be absolutely. second it should respect the democratic process for economy this year making agreements must be negotiated transport presently and this means refraining from excerpting any you influence over fiscal policy decisions in the country finally it should recommit them from alternate the right space or lease to expand his base these include a progressive tax reform in order to doc's large fortunes and the excess profits of large corporations and to meaningfully combat tax evasion and avoid that it would

also mean calling that old trick to rebuild their rule preventing this in front of it whether from acquiring the securities to buying us weekly to the problems in crisis situations such as the current and finally it will mean to provide support for an orderly the restructuring process of the nationals in line with the united nations' basic principles or sovereign debt restructuring versus its. terms may be tough in ecuador but couple is celebrating they've just been crowned the world's oldest married couple after being together for nearly 80 years. i have this image of the you know it's a couple of dad and mom doing everything together from the schedules of children both to help with our homework we always were celebrating birthdays and

anniversaries and of course sometimes there was an argument which is normal but never in front of us. i joined him because i was in love and because he wrote very beautifully he wrote me verses and letter. this thing without international you're out of today don't forget that you can check out plenty more stories if you had told website.

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