thanks for joining us french president emmanuel mccall delivered a message to the people of beirut on thursday you're not alone help is on the way on a visit to the lebanese capital my calling pledged to spearhead a donor's conference to raise funds to rebuild the city but he also said there will be no blank checks and demanded political leaders make reforms. in a city wrecked by the force of tuesday's catastrophic explosion people in beirut are coming together to clean up the debris in the city's streets. but with solidarity and a strong sense of community comes also anger. at the corruption and mismanagement that are seen as causes of the blast and that have plagued the country for decades. which is even believe we are no longer able to continue this way in this situation people do not have enough money to continue what they started with the country cannot take it anymore. but she's come since and we have been fighting for 50 years in order to raise our family in these circumstances that we live in now we're finished we have been working for our retirement but they finished us. help

the country on its knees french president emmanuel mccall flew to beirut on thursday he was welcomed by lebanese president michel aoun. micron plans to coordinate international assistance but he stressed that reforms are vital to lebanon's future and the security but it's a political moral economic and financial crisis on the plane the 1st victim of which is the lebanese people in the book liars' reactions extremely quickly so for me this visit is also an opportunity for dialogue with political leaders and lebanese institutions to feel supported it is nice to do. even is. micron's visit comes as a petition to place lebanon under french mandate for 10 years is gathering pace online. all right to shock and anger and they were due to use a better idea is in the lebanese a capital for you so i want to pick up where that report left off that online petition the mention there to replace 11 on the under french men mandate rather how syria should we take that or should we rather consider this a sign of how deep the mistrust is of the people of lebanon on their government exactly. exactly thi

the massive blasts that killed nearly 150 people and left 300000 homeless the french president emmanuel mccall pledges to lead to a global donor's conference to rebuild beirut but he says there must be reform in lebanon from within also coming up. taking on the u.s. gun lobby new york prosecutors are suing the national rifle association for financial wrongdoing saying they want to break up the n.r.a. . and fast free and not optional germany is making coronavirus tests mandatory for all people entering the country from designated high risk areas new infections are increasing their highest level in 3 months. thanks for joining us french president. delivered a message to the people of beirut on thursday you're not alone help is on the way on a visit to the lebanese capital my calling pledged to spearhead a donor's conference to raise funds to rebuild the city but he also said there will be no blank checks and demanded political leaders make reforms. as the people of beirut come together to clean up the debris from tuesday's catastrophic explosion world leaders are lining up to provide aid. french

this is day w news and days are our top stories french president emmanuel mccall is calling for an independent probe into the cause of the explosion that leveled much of beirut on a visit to the lebanese capital michael and said victims and families were owed an investigation and pleaded for international aid the blast on choose day killed more .

from major european or western countries we've seen bars johnson tweeting in support we've seen emmanuel mccall tweeting for support also. shot from the european council he also tweeted in support many arab countries offered humanitarian support but the question the main urgent question is who is to be held responsible for the tap and what have you heard anything from you were back in. concerning the origin the cause of this your welcome is that they had heard that maybe there were chemical in addition to the explosions or fireworks that were being stored makes it sound like maybe negligence you said the port authority could possibly be held responsible it's a little early to kind of assume any official narrative official story the seeing if you follow the major official narratives the thing coming up from lebanon there is obviously different narratives official narrative coming out from the country itself so it seems there's no agreement on what exactly happened we should just wait for the investigations however if the investigations lead to some sort of negligence do you just storage of explo

this is day w news and these are our top stories french president emmanuel mccall is calling for an independent probe into the cause of the explosion that leveled much of beirut on a visit to the lebanese capital michael and said victims and families were owed an investigation and pleaded for international aid the blast on choose day killed more than 150 people and injured thousands more. germany is.

the massive blasts that killed nearly 150 people and left 300000 homeless the french president emmanuel mccall pledges to lead to a global donor's conference to rebuild beirut but he says there must be reform in lebanon from within also coming up. taking on the u.s. abi new york prosecutors are suing the national rifle association for.

the country on its knees french president emmanuel mccall flew to beirut on thursday he was welcomed by lebanese president michel aoun micron plans to coordinate international assistance but he stressed that reforms are vital to lebanon's future of the city and. its a political moral economic and financial crisis and of course the 1st victim of which is the lebanese people in opposing book liars reactions extremely quickly so for me this visit is also an opportunity for dialogue with political leaders and lebanese institutions they feel supported it is nice to. be ben is. micron's visit comes as a petition to place lebanon under french mandate for 10 years is gathering pace online. for some perspective on the story we can speak to see had he served as i've been on interior minister from 2008 to 2011 mr better thank you so much for joining us here on d w we heard that the government is vowing to find justice here and lebanese people are very skeptical are you confident that the government will actually find out what happened. well people have every right to be skeptical. because all p

for a complete overhaul of the political elite a move which has been backed by french president emmanuel mccall the leaders of 2 west african nations are expected to run for controversial 3rd terms because president alassane ouattara formally accepted the wooden party's nomination meanwhile guinea's governing party has asked president of condé to seek a 3rd term in office. saudi crown prince is accused of dispatching a group of hit men in a failed attempt to kill a top former saudi intelligence official sidle job in canada a lawsuit making allegations has been filed in washington d.c. hit men were allegedly sent by muhammad someone just days after journalist from office or she was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul and 28 in. york state's attorney general is suing the influential gun lobby group the national rifle association several executives are accused of siphoning off millions of dollars to fund luxury lifestyles it only general says the organization should be dissolved all together should have a chance to reports from new york. new york's attorney general had promised to shin

calling for a complete overhaul of the political elite they've been backed by french president emmanuel mccall he's been touring neighborhoods devastated by the chemical explosion the death toll from tuesday's blast is now a $149.00 and it's expected to go up bernard smith has more. on the streets of beirut on thursday france's president emmanuel mccomas eventually moped by people many of them calling for a turn of french mandate front's was the clonal power here before independence and his because micron has essentially stepped into a void left by lebanon's own political leaders macron and has been able to offer practical support in the terms of the medical teams on financial assistance to beirut and he's off with a routine moral support as well but hasn't come from lebanon's obey little classes they haven't been able to do that and they've been conspicuous by their absence from the streets since the catastrophic explosion just did not i know is that the people of lebanon have electricity shut down every day and it's not working the provision of imports and exports has collapsed because of th

for a complete overhaul of the political elite a move which has been backed by french president emmanuel mccall. the saudi crown prince is accused of dispatching a group of hit men in a failed attempt to kill a top former saudi intelligence officials. in canada a lawsuit making allegations has been filed in washington d.c. the hit man was selling julie sent by mohamed bin salman just days after genesis. was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018. and the leaders of 2 west african nations are expected to run for controversial thirds terms of elections and told that i have because president allison ouattara formally accepted the ruling party's nomination meanwhile guinea's governing party has asked president african day to seek a 3rd term in office. the number of covered 1000 cases in africa has now passed a 1000000 as the world health organization wants that a surge in cases could overwhelm hospitals so far more than 21000 people have died from the virus across the continent south africa accounts for more than half of the cases it also has the 5th highest number of infections gl

on motorcycles shot at the group 6 of those killed were french aid workers france's president emmanuel mccall has denounced the attack as cowardly it's not yet known who was behind it a human rights inquiry in chad is accusing authorities of negligence over the suspicious deaths of 44 prisoners in april the government previously said they were suspected of boko haram fighters who poisoned themselves but the national human rights commission says there were civilians in an overcrowded cell who died from thirst and hunger in 46 degree heat i'm a dangerous has more from neighboring nigeria. the commission's report disputed government claims that the victims were members of the full quote on the report insisted that these are farmers mostly who have been arrested after an operation by the child and forces in the lake chad region had ended during that operation chad and government claim that it killed more than $1000.00 book out on fighters and imprisoned many of them in charge in prisons the report said that the prisoners were allowed to suffocate deliberately in their cells and that despite calls

leaders of france and germany say that they're determined to keep supporting protesters in belarus emmanuel mccall hosted anglo merkel at his official summer residence in the south of france on thursday across said that it's up to the belorussian people to find a solution to the standoff with the e.u. stands ready to help out a serious step boston was following that early a press conference from better with his capital minsk. she was asked if she is going to 6 run for the presidency again if there would be fair elections but she was very invasive about this question she said it's a bit early days and it is indeed early days because the situation here in minsk. significantly significantly changed in the last couple of days it's very clear that . tightening his grip on power he's still very much in control of the security forces protests have still been going on but they are smaller than they were before there is this opposition council which also has been installed by sky and that's why i'm here at this theater because one of the leaders of this. council is now in hiding because he's fearing for hi

news and these are our top stories french president emmanuel mccall is calling for an independent probe into the cause of the explosion that leveled much of beirut on a visit to the lebanese capital my concept victims and families were owed an investigation and pleaded for international aid the blast on choose day killed more than 150 people and injured thousands more. germany is rick.

strong words from emmanuel mccall about the situation in also from angola machall reiterating what they have been saying in recent days in the past week or so about the situation in minsk and about the situation in the white country itself certainly from mr mccall's perspective it was very important he said not to allow the situation in yellow rose to degenerate into the sorts of situation that have taken place in ukraine he was very clear that he did not want to see that happen both leaders said that they had discussed the situation in ghettos with the russian president vladimir putin making clear their belief that it was important that the situation get a risk being resolved there that the there be a peaceful transition from the government of president look at to a different regime to a different government that there should be new elections very strong words from both leaders an interesting me and off the 2 leaders were also asked about the story we were hearing about just a few minutes ago about alexei. and both leaders said they felt that was very troubling what they'd heard about

and religious sect notice kota cope slashed people with machetes and the president of france emmanuel mccalljust announced an attack in which 8 people were killed in southern asia 7 french aid workers out a local guide were touring a wildlife reserve near the town of crepes when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire. those are the headlines style let's get you back to world war one through our eyes . and ears because 50 bats show. up on. each child's. top. 6. the gin is ian writer and broadcaster malik terry key is on a personal journey exploring the role played by our troops in the 1st world. algerians moroccans gymnasiums and egyptians fought on one side for the british and french. and troops from the love and fought for the ultimates on the side of johnny and the central powers. there's. no muslim wanted to fight against fellow muslim. under the french colonies opposition to conscription and imperial occupation group. there were 2 uprisings in 191516 you know the southeastern chin is in town of companies on the libyan border. dissidents fighting the french joined other rebels and our colleagu

this is detailed your news and these are our top stories french president emmanuel mccall is calling for an independent probe into the cause of the explosion that leveled much of beirut on a visit to the lebanese capital my concept victims and families were owed an investigation and pleaded for international aid the blast on choose day killed more than 150 people and injured thousands more. germany is requiring mandatory coronavirus tests for people arriving in the country from high risk areas the move which begins on saturday is in response to rising numbers of infections health minister yes spawn says the tests are essential for public safety it follows a recent spike in corona virus cases in germany. the us state of new york has filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the national rifle association state attorney general leticia james accused the gun lobby's top executives of corruption and financial mismanagement a separate lawsuit against the group has been filed in washington d.c. the n.r.a. has called the allegations basis. this is the new news from berlin you can follow us on twi