a robot must protect his phone. existence with the israel's air force has struck a ground targets in southern lebanon as a week of simmering. tensions in the middle east of results in the exchange of fire . and to cover up or not debate rages over how effective wearing a medical mask is in controlling the spread of current of virus. sweden dropped the requirement before recording 0 new coven cases, while the u. s says it's crucial to where one now are panel discuss the conflicting advice and they told us to wear the mask and then we will have locked down. so now we're doing locked down. it's one of the risk reduction measures. we need several helpers. think the behaviors ah

barbara kelsey my direct my studio. moscow. this is art international. i'm sean thomas is certainly glad to have you with us. now israel, the air force has struck ground targets in southern lebanon. it is the 4th round of strikes, response to what the id f calls that terrorist attacks from its neighbors territory . ari tease policy or reports defend forces has confirmed that it is conducted sykes in southern lebanon. it strikes a targeting area in some way. rockets will fight it as well during the day on wednesday, and that it's also targeting another area from walker's. we're fighting israel previously in a tweet to be is ready to faint forces said that it is targeting what a cause, infrastructure for terrorism. now this is the 4th round of israeli strikes in the past 24 hours. the initial 3 strikes were off to those $31.00 could were fired

from lebanon into northern israel, around in the day on wednesday. now, one of those walk, it's landed in lebanon while to landed in the territory. one was indicated by the lady and defense missile defense system. the i and, and another one landed in an empty field. there are no reports of damage or injury on these wally. all have a nice side except to know that if he's one person in his role has been treated for hysteria. now it did get an early warning that the town of catch me or know which of home to some 20 some of the ways it would be targeted and they were silent. sounding to the town. the rockets fell, not far from the town, and the town remains in a state of high alert from the ne site they have confirmed that in those 1st 3 rounds, so that is prior to the latest round of israeli strike $92.00 shells were fired at 11 on it also says that it is opened an investigation into who was behind the

filing of the initial walker and his role. however, the idea to go to statement saying that it holds the lebanese government responsible for what it emanates from lebanese territory. it's all does believe that it is palestinian groups that are affiliated with her mother who are responsible for the firing of rocket at the same time unit for the united nations into $411.00 on that morning. the situation between the 2 countries says that it is investigating the incident and following it closely. it has urged both sides to show restraint and at the same time as yet the cease fire, of course, will continue to monitor the situation and bring you updates as they developed. david broad, former executive director of christians, united for israel hope's the missile fire is just temporary, as best as we can tell his bullet did not order this rock and fire and did not even greenlight this rock a tire, which means his bull, at least for the time being understands that they don't want to attack israel,

they don't want a round of war with israel. and so my great hope is this is just a temporary missile fire from, from, from a group affiliated with a master, another health in entity, and will end with israel's retaliation. now that is shown, it's not gonna sit by and take this, but i find it a bit ironic. that unit still is calling for peace on both sides. una filled this human body. and so they're living on one of their missions at the end of the. busy last war between his ball and israel was to was to maintain the peace and prevent his ball from arming itself with mrs. since that time his, his arms, it's soft. hundreds of thousands of missiles while uniform has looked the other way . you know, to allow the situation to be created, where if and when his bullet decides to attack these missiles, there will be a terrible war and a terrible price to be paid by civilians. so i wish they had done their job, rather than now to send these, these worthless warnings to people on both sides to observe the peace showing comes on a grim anniversary for lebanon. it's exactly one year since

a devastating blast at the port of bay root claimed more than $200.00 lives. thousands have gathered in the capital on the tragic anniversary, brandishing pictures of the dead and demanding justice. police fired tear gas during the heated exchange outside of government building demonstrators, voice to anger at its failure to specify exactly what triggered the black sand, who was responsible. it is believed to have been one of the largest non nuclear explosions in history. and a bit of warning, you may find the following videos upsetting the ash human rights group. amnesty international has condemned lebanese officials for shamelessly obstructing a probe into the black. one of lebanon's oldest hospitals was devastated in the explosion as well. as you can see, there is a nurse who died there and a baby born both on the very minute of the blast. one year on the child is reported

to be doing well. we spoke to a nurse on the maternity unit that fateful day, who told us panic was no option because there was simply too much to do. and then i was funding my mother and about my day and the last i do remember my cleaning alone. feeling very bad that i did not know if i was okay to be able to be kid and didn't have an idea what had what has happened. so i, when i take my hands and i was able to, to cite actually i thought of to be the one to be where, where are they? they are okay. so this is what they would up and maybe see where they would and take them inside. we just went to bed. i had gone because i had the same way i could,

i could not go into panic mode. i had to stay close to the able be babies were giving me breathing and they did that and they had to keep going. and things to be able to i happened to babies that can put it in the go they doing very well. they go away and i'm in contact with the parents. every baby and me pick to it and they send me everything they how they play, how they feed into doing they wet and repair work is still ongoing in the port city. however, lebanon's economy is facing huge challenges from a plumbing currency and power outages to shortages of medicine and fuel, leading to most reconstruction work being funded privately or by non governmental organizations. now the owner of one damage historic property told us that they have been led down by all sides to the last 3. and my house is a heritage building,

but we didn't get any help from unesco or anyone that was the only people who've been helping a one kind strange that god sent to us. and recently one n g o no one else. the government didn't help it. so they've given us nothing but faith promises the model. i've witness many was i was born in 1944, but i've never seen the situation so bad. everyone keeps saying we've never seen such a crime in so much damage. if there was a war, it would've been easier. at least we could have had the option to escape. at times of war, we were always notified to leave our homes. but this time we were left to die. sweden has marked the last few days with 0 new coven cases, and no more than one death per day over the last 3 weeks. now despite the country dropping the mandatory wearing of mask since july, the 1st and while fears grow about the new, highly contagious delta variant, sweden's chief epidemiologist argues more data is needed before they move against new strengths. it is difficult to say how contagious delta is asked when it comes

to chicken pox. we have been able to follow that disease for several years. the effectiveness of delta seems to be very uneven. in some cases, one person in fact 100 people. then we have other occasions where an effective person does not affect anyone at all other european countries and the u. s. r. however, skeptical about that approach and are maintaining restrictions due to the surge of the delta strain. last week, american center for disease control and prevention warned that there is an urgent need for both those unvaccinated and vaccinated to wear masks. our guests debated the conflicting gold global guidelines tweeted didn't do any mask ban dates, and there's a lot of literature out there that shows that mass don't work. so if the w h wants to let us believe in mass that i would like to see the data that shows that makes a big difference. wearing a mask, reduce the risk of transmitting by 20 percent. essentially the units $15.00 reported to industry. in fact, yes,

we should overall reduce the transmission of the virus. on my prevent, part of the other risk addiction measures that they told us get the vaccine and get off the mast when we ever got vaccinated and we're still wearing a mass. so i'm not really sure with respect to that because they told us to wear the mask and then we won't have locked down. so now we're doing lock downs, meaning no school or things like that. a lot of countries now are, you know, protesting germany had tremendous protests, australia had protest, francis, tremendous protests. so, you know, we got to bring the people on because it's all about public health. it's selfish or not where mosque when you should be wearing a mask, and when there's a chance to actually in effect, somebody else, we need to present powerful images and 2 voices of doors. we need to protect the loved ones, the bone, their balls, and the message should be focusing on protect others. what has happened with the buyers? it's already gone to the community. and those people who survived,

which is the majority, now have antibodies and have heard immunity. it's one of the risk reduction measures. we need to several help protect the behaviors, wash our hands, where mosque gives social distancing, and they all would use the percentage risk question is, how could be persuade people who now see mosque wearing us a belief from choice. the single biggest influence across all reasons for wearing a face mask abuse to be the long american pharmaceutical giants, pfizer and madonna, whose vaccines are approved by the european commission, are reportedly taking a controversial step by hiking their prices for co. we'd vaccines in the e. u. the case, financial times, newspaper reports that a shot of madonna's vaccine is to rise about to about $21.00 euros a 12 percent increase. while pfizer is planned to go up to 19 euros height of 25

percent over the current price. and now pfizer is raising its vaccine earnings forecast for the year of $8000000000.00 to $33500000000.00. the company also plans to supply 500000000 doses to the u. s. government, so it can dispense them to some of the world's poor countries. pfizer and the u commission are yet to comment on the jumping price beyond the redacted contracts published by the european commission. the content remains confidential. and so we won't be commenting political analyst, nickel america, which says the price hike has left him, baffled because in his opinion it goes against all usual business practices. how bizarre is this word and situation today with countries like france, germany, italy, are thinking about making vaccination mandatory. so we should be ordering even more vaccines than just at that moment. major companies like madonna and pfizer are increasing their prices were normally, if you respect supply and demand, the prices should go lower. so this is something there's something fishy behind to

say here to make a profit. i don't believe that at all. i think that they have to be cautious now because everybody's looking, we're going to be making 3rd over 30000000000 dollars this year alone. why are they increasing the price? i'm not even speaking about the fact that the whole contract between the european union and the company is secret. the fact that they're rising the prices by more than 20 percent, it's something which is definitely not normal. i don't know why. countries today are imposing the vaccine with such as fisher price increase the profit for is it for the people getting the vaccine? was it for these companies? that's the right question. and active social life is to become a major challenge for unvaccinated new yorkers. as the city's mayor introduces new rules banning them from public activities indoors in an effort to boost inoculations amid a search in cases or to kill them up and went out onto the streets of new york to hear opinions on the move. new york city mayor bill de blasio as announcing a new strategy for getting people vaccinated for coven. 19 starting in mid august

indoor dining and restaurants and working out in gems will be exclusively for those who been inoculated. this is going to be a requirement. the only way to patronize these establishment indoors will be if you're vaccinate at least one dose. i want you to imagine the notion that because someone's faxing, they can do all the amazing things that are available in the city starting in mid august in order to go work out at the gym or in doors in a restaurant. you'll have to show that you've been vaccinated now, and you'll do that either with an app on your phone or by showing your vaccination card. and beyond that, the new york city mayor didn't go into specifics about how this will be enforced at this point. infection rates in new york city are rising and 59 percent of the population has been vaccinated already. here's what people on the streets of new york had to say about the new restriction. what the mayor and the governor doing is actually the legal because it violates the federal rule. people who get the vaccine

they're showing that they can transmit anyway. a lot of people don't like it because the nubile but i think it would, it would, it would help us. i think it's a difficult decision that he has to make. but i do think that you're starting to create a divide and separation within, within the community. if he has to do it to protect a new york is of course it's a good idea. obviously it's a good idea. say it's horrible for the economy. i would say, i don't think it's more seats available. what exactly bad policy us congress members have finalized the text of a bill seeking an extraordinary one point. 2 trillion dollars for infrastructure development document staunchly, backed by joe biden, could be put a whole put to vote, excuse me, as soon as this week, some critics no have noted it contains points only tangentially related to actual infrastructure, such as incentives for more women to become truck drivers,

women are significantly under represented in the trucking industry holding only 24 percent of all transportation and warehousing jobs and representing only 6.6 percent of truck drivers. on top of that, the infrastructure bill also envisages a program for supporting pollinating insects such as bees by planting more flowers and grasses along the nations, highways, skeptical republicans. however, saved the bill is bloated with measures that don't address actual infrastructure issues. republicans are committed to working on infrastructure the way that most americans think of infrastructure, roads, and bridges and waterways, ports, airports and broadband. the administration doesn't seem to want to go that way. they're ordering, including lots of things that are not what the traditional infrastructure ideas would include. they're focused on climate change or social welfare, those sorts of things. and they want to have massive tax increases. former pennsylvania state senator bruce marx at the bill is just

a way for us lawmakers to pursue their own personal interest. there is no doubt that the bill is bloated, that we call this port barrel politics. it comes from the old days when people with pork and barrels to attract voters. and there must be some senator or congressman who has a special interest in miss america has a lot of problems. and i would suggest that the lack of female truckers in american highway is not a very big one. american public shouldn't really. i don't think be spending money on this. let's focus on bridges and roads and improving the infrastructure. perhaps improving the availability of why fi and rural areas. these are the type of things that america needs in order to get our economy moving. speed of wildfires has left behind a trail of devastation in turkey with the vast swans of forest land turned to ashes and thousands of people have been evacuated to safety and the

e. u. russia and other nations have sent additional firefighting forces to help the number of deaths rose to 8 on sunday as the bodies of a couple were found in their burned out home. the fires have been fed by strong winds and high temperatures. more than 100 blazes have erupt it in about 30 provinces across turkey, and estimated 100000 heck. tears of land have burnt. 3 people have been killed in a morning rush hour train crash in the czech republic, around 150 kilometers west of the capitol. more than 50 have been injured. 8 critically checked railway says, one of the trains was an international high speed service to germany, and the other was a local commuter train. it was thought one of the drivers missed a red signal. and, and kim and an identified man as threatened to detonate a hand grenade at the entrance of the building that houses ukrainian cabinet. facility was evacuated, as special forces moved in the suspect was eventually detained,

but his motives are not yet known. here's an interesting one. they are modern eco friendly and they're everywhere. we're talking about those electric scooters that are getting ever more popular and ever faster as well. they are a great way to get around, but in the wrong hands are faced with a big enough pothole. they might not be that safe for the rider or anyone in their way. more and more accidents are being reported. we took a test drive through 2 very busy cities. fos, convenient and environmentally friendly. e scooters of massively growing in popularity here in the u. k. over the last few years, the relatively cheap to run and use electricity. so the perfectly invoke with a current focus on renewable energy. although russia is a relatively lead boomer in the market of shareable electric scooter, this service has spread rapidly across the country where the number of users

doubling. since the beginning of the pandemic, as more people are being encouraged to use, and the virtual means is transferred, it's also become an all time favorite among all kinds of delivery companies. these goodrich, i available for rand, for a number of different smartphone apps and can be found pretty much on average 3 corner. yes, not everyone is so keen on the british government, his band excuses from public roads, saying they can only be used on private land. it is not currently possible to get appropriate insurance for privately owned e scooters, meaning it is legal to use them on the road or in public spaces. it is legal to use and excuse her. on private land with the permission of the landowner, prince specific companies on the road. the spart protective measures up 220-0000 accidents involving a scrutiny and protected by the end. the here are also concerns around the impact

that you're having on vulnerable people in society, especially the visually impaired leaving me to wonder exactly where london stand. the question of a, you know, people that have actually had to go to school because it's so far. i think, dr. for myself, i think any dangerous, it depends on what it is you know, clued up nothing. they're quite true fall to false and there's no oversight. there's no guidance for these people. they just buy them and, and they're just allowed to get onto the road in the foot play without any guidance, a few weeks back. and we just going so fast. and then i think the handle at the top just came off in the middle of the road. the guy just fell off. but luckily there wasn't another call. could've been a fatal accident as the number of people whizzing around moscow parks and pavements growth. so does the number of accidents involving e scooters count. people have died within the past 2 years. many believe that the

reason is that e scooters operate in a legal gray area. and it's true. according to the current legislation, a person on an e scooter is a pedestrian, but in reality, this is a person on a fast moving object. the city council has so far responded by introducing the so called slow zones, limiting the speed for rent. it actually scooters to 15 kilometers per hour down from 30 to 40 kilometers per hour. but clearly that's not enough. yeah, i think it's good or are fun. but most go is not will future to rather a few places. you can write safely what fish and cycling and pretty narrow side walk the most i can see to the east. we do to be a mood of drawn for that and is quite dangerous. if so, the near the people who don't have driving license just don't lie with tropicals, which can result so not local infrastructure is not thought through. scooted,

there are no special, but there are lots of in consist is okay to write on the side or should you cycling? they should be regulated. legislative level infrastructure should definitely be modified to suit the traffic lights and special things created. the metropolitan police, a concerned about the use of e scoots is in crimes with the forces figures saying that e scooters were involved in 574 recorded crimes in london such as robberies or assault between the 1st of july 2020 and the 30th of april 2021. perhaps the reason why rental services such as this one require you to provide your biometric data including facial recognition in order to hire one. i think what's more important is the safety rather than face recognition. i'm let people use that bank cards like they use a bar 5 to 6, take them out. i think the 1st thing they need to think about is safety. i personally don't think it's necessary. i mean, it's obviously like you said,

that's a crime. surely there has cctv and also probation that i think you need to guide your face to use, but otherwise the school applies. you do that with that, but maybe it's unnecessary to get a snapshot, i think will be better for public safety if the had some means of id like credit card, debit card, something like this with a place because if you've got someone's pitch on information about that person, it would be quite easy to, to, to get the people to make a menace with regards to the schools. many believe it's the task of police to regulate and control how people use e scooters. but in fact, it's more complicated and all sides should be involved, the rental companies, the transport authorities, and the users themselves. and while it can take months to work out a proper legislative base for the service, the scooters will continue to zoom along the streets of our big cities. well,

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