been detained in the run up to sunday's presidential election a journalist who reports for the w alexandra burke of has been job for 10 days preventing him from covering the vote the crackdown comes as president alexander lukashenko faces growing anger of his dismissal of the coded 19 handed. urges has declared a state of environmental emergency after a ship grounded off the chores began spilling oil the vessel was carrying 4000 tons of fuel when it ran aground 2 weeks ago the prime minister is appealing to france and the united nations for help with the cleanup operations. to lebanon now and the united nations is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe of the massive explosions that ripped through the capital beirut on tuesday you and i can see side by us struggling as they try to support hundreds of thousands of people in need of help the blast destroyed the port in beirut which was lebanon's main gate way for important goods they've been on for laws on imported weight and that's on the grain silo was obliterated. massive quantities of grain spilled across beirut's harbor another crisis looming