protests in lebannon over a huge explosion that killed at least 149 people as french president emmanuel michel calls for a new political system saudi arabia's crown prince is being sued by a former intelligence officer he says mohammed bin soundman sent a hit squad to canada to kill him and donald trump signs an executive order banning americans from carrying out transactions with the chinese only it's up to. you. thank you very much for joining as the governing party of sri lanka's president go to buy a rajapaksa has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections and along with its allies it has security 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to enact sweeping changes to the constitution the sri lankans people's front is led by rajapaksa brothers the rajapaksa grab brothers. who service president and prime minister respectively the results now look certain to strengthen their dynastic rule but it's raising fears of weakening government institutions such as independent commissions for police and public services that speak to our correspondent in colombo me now fernandez me now so

protests in lebanon over a huge explosion that killed at least 149 people as french president emmanuel michelcalls for a new political system saudi arabia's crown prince is being sued by a former intelligence officer he says mohammed bin soundman sent a hit squad to canada to kill him and donald trump signs an executive order banning americans from carrying out transactions with the chinese own exotic town. thank you very much for joining as a governing body of sri lanka's president go to buy our rajapaksa has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections and along with its allies it has security 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to enact sweeping changes to the constitution the sri lankans people's front is led by rajapaksa brothers the rajapaksa grab brothers. who service president and prime minister respectively the results now look certain to strengthen their dynastic rule but it's raising fears of weakening government institutions such as independent commissions for police.

planes are being sent with supplies as well as firefighters on medical staff the french president emmanuel michel plans to travel to beirut on thursday john from little is the emergency coordinator of doctors without borders in lebanon he says they and other aid and charity organizations are doing what they can to support an already strained health system . in the last 24 hours. it's a place we've been mobilizing where medical supply and there is a huge shortage of medical supplies. where it's. actually wonder when one explosion. system i'm going on was hit by a 3rd crisis. comes on top of me and i'm a crisis. member. of the i'm sure i'm so we've been stepping in to try and provide some on ship support who looks like we're also trying to see how we can convert one part of the . summer but. we live. and. talking across the city i can point where we can respond when we get nationals or whether it's you who don't. like. distributions to people that are homeless that. this was an. explosion so we were stepping up and mobilizing and quite but we kept that. scene where we were there because. well while

element of it another element is that the german chancellor angela merkel the french president emmanuel michel last week were calling on the west were phoning brother president putin in moscow to urge him to exercise restraint so you have that sense that that is an issue for the european union in so far as rusher is concerned we've heard this morning from the foreign minister of luxembourg saying he does not want to see belarus turn into another ukraine given the fact that the european union believes that some of the role of russia has played in ukraine is something that it has been critical of actually you can see how he is trying to make a parallel between those 2 countries and then one other factor regarding russia to throw into the equation is the current fate of the dissident politician aleksei now than he was lying stricken in a berlin hospital not far away from where i'm called casting from right now with a poison in his system which many european leaders have said that they wish to see the russian government independently investigate and prosecute those who were responsible for that po

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 this is a sign i'll much the nic

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 the security said it's a political moral economic and financial crisis and of course the 1st victim of which is the lebanese people in the choir's reactions extremely quickly so for me this visit is also an opportunity for dialogue with political leaders and lebanese institutions the full support 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 she served as lebanon's interior minister from 2008 to 2011 mr bout with thank you so much for joining us here on d w we heard that the government is vowing to find justice here in the 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 presidents are not really encoura

emmanuel, yvette simpson and sarah fagen. joe biden officially became the oubicratic nominee, and dr. jill de her husband's character. yvette, a difficult act to follow after michelledo? >> she did what she was supposed to do, talked about her husband, talked about their relationship, she also talked about education, which, as you know, withsidchoo issue. she talked about being able to fill those classrooms again. the question, how are we going to do did. t what is joe biden going to do beyond the fact that donald trump is a disaster. >> i thought dr. biden did a great job. it's going to be very difficult to compare people to michelle to do. michelle obama had a much different job when she was campaigning with her husband to become first lady. i thought the most powerful part of the entire speech tonight was the end, when vice president biden walked in and put his arm around his wife, and you could see the genuine affection between the two of them. partne. one of the things america wants in a challenging time like this in a krocrisis is they want peo who they believe they can trust to lead them. and they saw a couple there tonight that clearly trusts and loves each

stephanie:ebanese president michel aoun vowed to investigate all possible causes.an late today, president trump spoke with the lebanese president and french president emmanuel also said -- and also said the u.s. is sending supplies to beirut. an air india express passenger jet crashed and broke in two today, trying to land in heavy rain in southern india. at,east 16 people were kill and more than 120 hurt. doctors and rescuers worked through bad weather to reach survivors. among the 190 passengers on the flight were people who'd beenoa stranded aby the pandemic. britain says that it will crack shwn on a wave of migrants crossing the enghannel from france. authorities yesterday picked up at least 235 people in small boats. that is a one-day record. more migrants were found at a today. british officials say orgazedg smuggl and favorable summer weather are behind the increas chinhas fired back afteren prestrump banned u.s. companies from doing business with the chinese owners of wechat and tiktok. bnew executive orders cou distribution of the social media apps within the u.s. in 45 days. mr. trump charges that they share data with the chineseve ment, but beiji

the president of lebanon, michel aoun to resign and it is difficult to describe the scenario here in the level of destruction. we saw images yesterday, the president emmanuelthrough the streets of beirut meeting with a number of protesters who were yelling out "revolution." we spoke with civilians and saw what looked like firsthand. take a look. speak with the city of beirut is in pieces. the immediate vicinity of the blast, it looks like a war zone, steel beams bands like paper clips, windows ripped from their frames. and a few hundred feet away from where we are standing, people were home at this time. they were preparing to have dinner on tuesday night. you can see survivors had a difficult time getting out of the building. the elevator shaft was heavily damaged in this explosion, and there was a lot of debris blocking the stairwell. still there are bloodstained footprints, a reminder of the truth told that this blast caused. >> people are emotionally destroyed, even if particularly okay, they are emotionally destroyed. but coming to the areas where all of these people have been, it is torn at the heart. it makes us have a little bit of hope again. >> d

french president emmanuel macron who has literally just arrived in beirut you're watching live pictures now you can see mark around there entering your screen next to the lebanese president michel aoun has been paying playing a key role in the political crisis that came to a head with that devastating porch explosion earlier this month. the u.s. state of wisconsin is holding a special session to discuss a package of police reform measures that follows the shooting of an unarmed black man by police in the city of commission just for a week ago. and sudan's transitional government has signed a peace deal with rebel groups to engineer the 2 decades of conflict south sudan has been mediating those talks aimed at stopping violence in many parts of sudan including the awful. well several baltic states have imposed travel bans on senior fellow russian figures including president alexander lukashenko meanwhile thousands of people continue to demonstrate against and many have had to seek refuge in neighboring countries as smith reports from the capital of neighboring with you when you're filming us. a few seconds of defiance against the government of russian president alexander lukashen

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 michel 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 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 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 news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram or visit our website w dot com. 48 hours after the blast it was the french president who today surveyed the damag