let's get more now with you on him paul he heads to beirut branch of the heinrich boll foundation that is a german think tank thanks so much for joining us a very difficult time are you your colleagues their families ok yes thank you very difficult time indeed we're. hartman's analysis is destroyed but we are who is not though all those people out there who suffered injuries those thousands and the lebanese 'd who 'd had through and through from mom and month as such hardship and crisis from the coded pan and demick you're referring to there imagine. these these explosions come as beirut lebanon is in the midst of a social and political crisis a number of crises what needs to happen right now to get the country and its people through the shock. yes there levanon is in not one crisis it's in the midst of multiple crises so you mentioned the corona crisis corona came after. millions of lebanese protested against the government not only the government against the complete political system which is totally corrupt and which is not ready. to start any reform and to open up the system which

brazilian president jalal boll so narrow has denied the existence of fires in the amazon rain forest calling them a lie but satellite images from brazil's national space agency show that forest fires in the amazon are increasing experts say most are deliberately set to illegally clear land for farming farming. this is all they got a few buckets and basic hoses. but the farmers he had determined to battle the raging fires in the amazon rain forest. forgot about part of the point it's now out of control we're trying to see animals and save houses that's the most important thing right now look at what we're doing to nature look out that just turning everything into a coal and smoke. more than 10000 fires have been recorded in the 1st weeks of august alone the worst on record the fires are usually manmade to clear land for farming and ranching it's illegal but for many it's the only way to survive. but. we don't want to destroy anyone's lives i'm just clearing a field to bring up some cows there but you know what they're good. the brazilian government is now under mounting pressure to st

is very different of course most of us who live in cities have little access to wast green spaces bolling's allotment gardens of a breath of fresh air in a world that continues to concretize at a breakneck speed. i know. these children know fruit and vegetables don't grow in plastic that comes from their garden and they know why weeding is smart yes it helps the plants grow so. they're learning all about nature right in the middle of berlin. almost a 1000000 people in germany have an unlocked mint. every good sized german city has them the green space is good for the urban climate and helps preserve biodiversity this garden belongs to margaret ross harder dr yang and her partner they had to wait a long time to get their plot. sometimes even years 7 years all together it took 6 years to get onto the shortlist but then within a year we got it our wonderful garden. margaret's neighbor robert either is on the management committee he says allotment plants are hard to come by. watering the short coronavirus lockdown we had over 100 applications but we already have a waiting list i mean only pass

we heard from post writers dan bolles, eugene robinson, and marked eason. good morning. i'm jonathan. our opinion writer for the washington post. welcome to first look, washington post live stop shop for news and analysis, all about this week, the republican national convention. let's get started with white house reporter ann geron. in chief political correspondent dan. it is a tuesday morning. welcome, both of you. >> thank you. >> glad to be here. jonathan: dan, to get your take on what we saw on night 1, was there any one particular thing that stood out to you? dan: i would say there were a couple of things that stood out. this was not quite the optimistic convention many organizers had been advertising. there were speakers who tried to do that, but for the most part this was a night if attacks on -- of attacks on vice president biden and kamala harris. what struck me was that last week the democrats went after president trump on basically character and temperament. last night i thought the republican attacks were basically focused on ideology and policy of the democr

jair bolles narrow blasting the media. >>> telling students to stay home.igh school reported nine cases of covid-19 among students and staff after a student tweeted that image showing her classmates in a crowded school hallway between classes, few wearing masks. sunday the superintendent told parents classes would be online for second week while cleaning takes place. >> reporter: the superintendent's letter announcing that students should stay home monday and tuesday come about a day after the principal told families six students and three staff members have tested positive for covid-19. district already planned three days in class, two days at home for first week. now extending virtual learning for monday and tuesday as the district disinfects the campus and consults with the local health department how to proceed in coming days. superintendent told families they would receive notification by tuesday on what happens after that. here's hannah waters, student who got into some amount of trouble when she posted a photo of a crowded hallway last week, that cir

time or overnight, but what if people are not able to physically vote because they don't have the bollots to do so? what happens in that scenario? >> right. then that's an open question as, for example, the covid example, if you can't have the election at all. for some folks that's not having it at all if, for example, in puerto rico, you were turned away at the door, you never got in, let alone being turned away. that is an open question that a court may have to decide or a particular state's legislature may try to resolve. but, of course, that would be challenged in the courts anyway. and i think puerto rico would be a preview of the chaos to come, even if it's only a primary and even if puerto rico citizens have less constitutional voting rights than mainland american citizens. >> which is a whole other conversation. danny, by the way, i'm obsessed with your daughter's picture. she seems aghast what's happening in the country in that picture. >> she's stunned. >>> after months of publicly disagreeing with dr. anthony fauci, the president has added a new coronavirus health expert, on

but there's a boll lot. oh, here's a boallot, what the hell am i going to do with this thing and then they're knocking on your door, harvesting. did you get the ballot? >> yeah. >> here it is, get out of here. >> that's the most honest way of doing it, and that's unfair. >> by the way, there's no evidence to suggest that any of this is happening. important to note that there. they adopted a resolution yesterday declaring it will not adopt a policy platform for the election citing the restraints and size of the rnc. they stated strong support for donald trump and his administration and its opposition to policy positions of the obama/biden administration. the document declares that the republican party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the president's american first agenda without saying what exactly that is. the resolution also accuses the media of, quote, outrageously misrepresenting the implications of the rnc not adopting a new platform in 2020 and goes on, calls on the media to engage in a

told you they intend to vote in person rather than by mail and do people there have confidence in the boll lots being counted accurately? >> reporter: we're getting kind of a preview of what the presidential election's going to look like at least in florida. at this polling location, you asked the perfect question, ayman, there's been a trickle of voters here today as opposed to what there would normally be, it's primary, let's take a look at the numbers how voters in the state have decided to vote. mail-in ballots already in -- 2 2,212,000. prior to the covid, on a similar primary, there were only 1.3 million people that voted by mail. so voters have chosen in many cases to vote by mail not only because the convenience but because they don't want to go into a location where others are going because of the spread of coronavirus then there are those voters who are making their way, dedicated to show up at the polling location and voting in person very specifically because they do not believe if they vote by mail that their vote would be counted. >> i know that we have to be in person becaus

but reagan -- but go back to what i said is that there were a lot of conservative democrats known as boll weevil so that reagan could bring them over to the republican fold. but i think also is that, you know, look at rang's speeches. look at reagan's commentaries. look at reagan's q & a is that he didn't come to washington to declare war on the media. is that he had attacked the bureaucracy, that's for sure. but he didn't -- he realized he needed democrats to get his program through. he realized he needed the media to at least be open to the idea that he had -- i tease you about "the washington post," but "the washington post" editorial was often very supportive is that they said after he got the nomination, he said reagan has brought a new intellectual revolution to american politics and that's something to be thankful for. >> yep. >> and reagan put that into practice. i think it was personal. i think it was philosophical. i think the parties have changed. is that we're at the end of jimmy carter, and jimmy carter i will defend and always say is a good man who came to washington with th

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we can save the cotton, but we've got to fight the boll weevils. we've got to make a judgment.ot to make a judgment. [applause] it is not enough to hope era will pass. how can we pass era? if blacks vote in great numbers, progressive whites win. it's the only way progressive whites win. if blacks vote in great numbers, hispanics win. when blacks, hispanics, and progressive whites vote, women win. when women win, children win. when women and children win, workers win. we must all come up together. we must come up together. [applause] thank you. for all of our joy and excitement, we must not save the world and lose our souls. we should never short-circuit enforcing the voting rights act at every level. when one of us rise, all of us will rise. justice is the way out. peace is the way out. we should not act as if nuclear weaponry is negotiable and debatable. in this world in which we live, we dropped the bomb on japan and felt guilty, but in 1984 other folks also got bombs. this time, if we drop the bomb, six minutes later we, too, will be destroyed. it's not about dropping the bo

starting and finishing in front of bolling king and palace, this year's route will take in multiple lapseand finishing in front of buckingham palace. for them and the good causes they support, the loss of this year's must event comes as a huge blow. well, we had ambitions and lots of plans to raise over £1 million for our charity partner. that will have a significant impact, that loss of income. it's disappointing but it will happen when it happens, and when it happens it will be safe to go ahead. that's the most important thing, making it through safe when it happens and not putting anyone's health at risk. the fears of charities not being helped by the decision to move the race from april to october, some 2.5 yea rs from april to october, some 2.5 years after the last full marathon, a long wait for one of the toughest and most beneficial of sporting events. laura scott, bbc news. now to elsewhere. wolves are through to their first european quarterfinal in nearly 50 years after a 1—0 win against olympiakos. yeah, a historic note for wolverhampton —— night. it was a nervy night at molineu

there's no die boll can call -- all right. we spent an hour and a half. we went down issue by issue by issue, slogging through them. they make some concession, which we appreciated. we made some concessions which they appreciated. we are still far away on a lot of important issues but we continue to go at it. my view, the fundamental disagreement is the scope and depth of the problem and its solution. this is the greatest crisis america has faced in 75 years. economically. in 100 years, health-wise. we believe it needs a big, bold solution. they are still wrapped in this idea that the government shouldn't do much and leave it to the private sector and it just doesn't work. they're also not unified. they admit that a large number of the republicans in the senate will not vote for anything and we don't know exactly where donald trump is. he says a different thing every day. but we're still slogging through step by step by step. and we're making progress. it's not easy but we're going to keep at it until we get the kind of bill the american people demand and