the president moved to the us embassy to this very city of god, jerusalem, the rightful capital of themeland. just two weeks ago, the president brokered an historic peace deal between israel and the united arab emirates. this is a deal that our grandchildren will read about in the history books. as about in the history books. as a soldier, i saw first hand people desperate to flee to freedom, the way each of us can best ensure our freedoms, by electing leaders who don'tjust talk but to deliver. an american hostage imprisoned in turkey for two years, pastor andrew brundsen said he survived with these words of scripture, be faithful, endure and finish well. if we stay the course, we will. may god ritually bless you and may god bless our great nation, the united states of america. secretary of state might pompeo. i recorded address from jerusalem. we will speak in a moment to the bbc‘s jane o'brien. as you can see, the president and the first lady are now walking, entering from the west wing, the first lady just about to speak. a video introduction first. we will be hearing the long versi

r >>orter: while we're there, representative from the us embassy turns up. give it to us.them the money, we're doing the distributing. >> don't bail them out! >> so this is why it's important for us to come down to the ground here. i reporter: the next day, avcomes clear why. undersecretary d hale has come from washington to look at how to get lebanon back on its feet. and ours after landing, it's not the government he's meetinwith. >> we don't have any government, the government doesn't care, it's us. we're here for each other. ( applause ) >> that's why this is my first stop, for that very reason. >> reporter: the operation, dubbed "min taht il rudm," from beneath the rubble, is a tall order, and these young people may end up over-promising. while international aid organizations may be unwield and have to work aroundca policoncerns, they have experience managing big sums of money and mechanisms to gehard cash into the y quickly. these volunteers say foreign governments and n.g.o.s should be working with them. >> this is the first twe see these people comg a

is also defending donald trump is foreign—policy platform, defending his decision to bring the us embassyvery controversial and remain controversial. so as well as being a woman, she would go or the republicans would hope would go some way to addressing some of the claims by the democrats and other critics that the trump administration is sexist, is not kind to women and also some of the allegations that it is sometimes racist or adopts racist attitudes. i think nikki haley, there is a good reason why she has appeared on the first night of the convention, are trying to canter some of the attacks that have beset the administration in the last four yea rs. administration in the last four years. how strong a card, how believable is it to try and ta ke believable is it to try and takejoe believable is it to try and take joe biden and believable is it to try and takejoe biden and kamala harris as a caricature of socialist? does joe harris as a caricature of socialist? doesjoe biden look like that? kamala harris? she led the biggestjudicial system in the us in california, the second biggest, as

and as deputy chief of missions at the us embassy in popout new guinea. additionally in a career of over 20 years he has served in cameroon australia, bosnia and sarajevo and indonesia and filled many positions at the state department you're in washington. mister higgins, thank you for your service and please proceed . >> german young, ranking member menendez and members of the committee iq for the opportunity to testify before you, it's a great honor to appear as the president's nominee via the next us ambassador to the public of burundi and i like to acknowledge my family members especially my husband paul who is a diplomatic security service agent serving as regional security officer at sethe us embassy in somalia. he maybe half a world away in the african continent but i know he's here with me in spirit and i could not askfor more support . i would like to mention my parents out and jackie harris, my sister heather yates, dave yates and nephews justin and ryan. i come from a family that believes deeply in service to the people of the united states of

with regular rocket attacks targeting iraqi bases and the heavily fortified green zone home to the us embassy i call it the make or break with it now that he is about $100.00 days in office we need to see how many people doubt if he struggled up to actually do everything he promised he promised the country the former head of iraq's intelligence has often had to deal with the rivalry between the united states and iran. his 1st official visit was to tehran last month before flying to washington to me was whether or not he was carrying any messages from town hall and he replied we do not play the role of post man in iraq while the white house meeting is about a plan to reconfigure ties with the background of washington its outcome will have consequences beyond the iraq's borders. dorsets a party al jazeera back to. opposition supporters in belarus of our own to defy warnings by alexander president alexander lukashenko the tough new crackdown on dissent has ordered security forces to clear the streets after nearly 2 weeks of mass rallies over disputed election results is warning workers who have

in drive to the embassy birdland us. on cue we would get to the embassy we would go right to where we told. them the helicopters with and then start 1st next door. with a hole in the wall of the embassy get those hostages. go into the soccer stadium. and we would all take. wow is extraordinary that sounds like to me that liam neeson might actually do it in a serial but nice is real. i mean one thing that is work to remember as like sort of historically is that not only this was sort of a very daring plan but it was this is actually the 1st time that this force was created and there was much less experience in this kind of operations since then there has been much more so spent since then and look so what i think about it from pressing of 20 twentieth's to i still have workability was and a part of general crime for this i mean no one who runs for president or anywhere expects to be put in such a such a position really but then again maybe that's what a judge i think overall most historians will agree that carter's handlin

raise tensions with china brant christensen who heads the american institute in taiwan the us is defacto embassy on the island intended a service commemorating what is called the 2nd taiwan straits crisis it refers to the chinese bomb big of kinsmen island in 1958 that led to the deaths of taiwanese troops who control the island its proximity to the chinese mainland has always been a source of tension with taiwan. christensen's appearance with the taiwanese veda comes at a time of growing tensions between the u.s. and china over the united states has continued military support for taiwan which beijing regards as a part of its threat of tree from what we can go across to taipei where did i'm a correspondent we have yang is standing by remember good to have you on the program how significant is brant christensen's attendance at this memorial service . so like a lot of the media reports every point christianson it's the 1st director which means that he is the defacto ambassador it's not one that has ever attended such a coming ration and it also comes at a time when the u.s. has been stepping up a

course we have some leaks with the french government, so we have some calls from the french embassy to ask usybe better to the beneficiaries. we are on the ground, we have teams everywhere, so we provided them with information, with some data that we collected during the day, and, yes, i hope it will... i don't know if we will meet them, i don't think so, but i really hope that they will use our information to try to find how different governmental support lebanon. ok, caroline, we will have to leave it there. we wish you all the best with all your team is doing. at least four large hospitals in beirut were so severely damaged in yesterday's explosion, they were unable to admit patients. one of the hardest hit was the st george university hospital, where at least four nurses died and five doctors were wounded. at that precise moment of the blast, there was one woman who had just gone into labour. here is the footage, filmed by her husband — and a warning, it does contain distressing images. explosion shouting we have been speaking to the family who — despite the trauma — are safe and are reco

use them. their embassy here sure uses them. you know, it's a one-way street. think there's a magical and a fair thing in terms of reciprocity and i really salute this administration for putting a foot down because it's been that one-way street. liz: mr. undersecretary, thank you very much for joining us. good to see you. in fine weather there at the white house. keith crock, thank you so much. >>> live nation president joe berchtold is next. hike! simon pagenaud takes the lead at the indy 500! coming to the green flag, racing at daytona. they're off... in the kentucky derby. rory mcllroy is a two time champion at east lake. he scores! stanley cup champions! touchdown! only mahomes. the big events are back and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. liz: double 6s. big jumps in both uber and lyft stock. they may not be going off the road in california just yet. the ride hailing companies just received an emergency stay from a california appeals court that allows uber and lyft to classify drivers as independent contractors while the court considers t

is government says there is no crisis here then 1st those people attacking them are being used by western embassies who are trying to undermine the state and stop the bobbies economy from recovering. we see your audience already standing by on you chipper interested to hear your comments your questions are also on twitter joining this conversation say you continue you too can be part of the story. welcome guess i'm going to get you to introduce yourself to international audience hello fads i tell everybody who you are. hello everyone my name is for the sign my hand i am not whole spokes person of the main opposition and b m d c a liar good to have a test that welcome to the stream introduce yourself. the giver much miami is already over them but the director of information and bubbly said was unclear is good to have you day well welcome to the stream and tell everybody who. my name is there are some in africa it's human rights watch's thank you good to have you guess so the reason we're having this conversation is because we're hearing news out of zimbabwe but not just in the news from lines from a

us this report earlier in the morning. well it's still early in the day here in moscow and the protests in front of the bella russian embassy behind me have typically been taking place in the evening but by the looks of things the abnormal brutality with which the ballarat police is using to handle the protesters seems only actually to be strengthening the valor russian opposition yesterday we saw protests called lines of solidarity of women dressed in white holding flowers and portraits of loved ones that were arrested since the beginning of the on rest we also saw workers from some of the country's several major factories going on strike so the sheer scale of this protests in belarus has definitely grown massively since the beginning. of the. don't so. i don't know. what. it was. that. it was that it was. very. serious. we've also seen protests in front of belorussian embassies in a number of different countries in kiev for example we saw protesters throwing orange smoke bombs at the building and here the protests in front of the by the russian embassy we've seen belorussians as well as native muscovites to a form to prot

even an atomi bomb couldndn't stop u us today. for embassy is warning people in and around bamako to stay inside their homes earlier we spoke to journalist m mohamed salah in bamako he told us more about the situation on the ground. john is confused with the bomb a call or you can we can look at your end. yeah and that celebrates. little soulf ugh you mention the president and the prime minister. are we are with the terrorists i call them so our information soul- also getting bit day call one call in the middle of three forty two into the bar and call on up front. in a mug and a credit to engage in a lock- or so they get together instead of the house. or private sector and put it on fire even though it beat so did did did did did thing. again. got you okay. you can monitor by michael. your rent thank the military government three. and take out we and start sh. in the area so and the morning to a good fifty shaw is called you'll in. an fall. and ever thank you not the state law to be on the by my. and now for some. on the political side in mal

the protests but has now been released from across sort of was in moscow outside the button embassy brings us the latest on the demonstrations protest in men's skaar continue and they began on sunday following the election of the president at the moment the protests are happening across belarus not only in its capital several russian journalists had been detained by the below russian authorities and that includes 3 all for iraq to the strangers who work for the video agency in reuss now we are in the center of moscow right next to the bella russian embassy where another protest is taking place or rather a picket in solidarity with the opposition in belarus mostly young people who came here to express to rally in solidarity with the opposition in belarus and here's what some of them had to say that we've come to support the belorussian people because at this difficult time they are not only fighting against the seizing of power but their own police aren't supporting them you know you're human you know yesterday i was watching a broadcast of what was going on in bella roost and i was shocked by

all cross live to our correspondent ramon courser of who is outside of the belorussian embassy in moscow bring us up to speed on the latest. well indeed 1st of all we all are a of the below russian embassy here in the russian capital where solidarity rallies are a continuing and let me just show you a picture all follow what's going on here right now earlier there were about $300.00 people here outside of the russian embassy which was probably the largest search now it's in the last few days they started gathering here right after the end of business hours and of course right now there are fewer people don't than there were here initially at the beginning similar rallies are taking place in other cities as well in russia that st petersburg and ukraine that sick and a few days ago we had around me in israel as well now back to the news some of the journalists who are covering the protests in in a ruse have been detained at the very beginning and those detentions included that are russian media representatives as well well right now most of them have been released according to the russian embassy i

now joined live by our correspondent who's standing outside of the belorussian embassy in moscow tell us what's happening where you are. course and well over the last 3 days we have been seeing the sun a dire team around me here in front of the bella russian embassy in the center off moscow and it's spina steadily increasing over the last 3 days and let me just show you what's going on here the bill russian embassy was just behind me and to the right you can see some of the protesters who are voicing their support for the opposition in belarus well in terms of the number all people present here at the moment it's less than they were a couple of hours ago there were about least 350300 right now looks to be a little bit less of course it's not only the protests earth it's the members all thier media as well so these kind of solidarity rallies are taking place here in moscow in st petersburg as well as in the key is in the ukrainian capital in the 1st few days we also saw a similarity in the rallies in israel as well now at the beginning of the protests 3 days ago some wolf a few russian jo

let's get more on the election now from danny hawkins he's outside the embassy here in moscow take us through what's at stake. here certainly a lot at stake for incumbent president alexander lukashenko many people have been queuing here but a russian embassy in central moscow since morning the crowd stretches back across the marsico streets here and around the corner as far as the eye can see maybe around 2 to one off 1000 people here just as we're doing this report all very calm and quiet not so of course in belarus were reports of it coming out over the past 24 hours of opposition activists candidates and campaigners being detained arrested and even going into hiding also some reports of internet problems internet blackouts across the country as well we understand 7 people from the headquarters of the main opposition candidates which i want to kind of scare have been detained unconfirmed reports as well that she herself has actually gone into hiding with another opposition campaign another opposition figure. also being detained this is also very symbolic of what's being going on. ov

where a line of solidarity has been formed to outside the better russian embassy our correspondent is out on course that every joins us good afternoon oh man i know there have been demonstrations there throughout the week what's the mood like there today. full of peaceful rallies have been held here at the near the embassy of belarus in moscow since monday every single day we saw hundreds of people boys in their support for protestors in belarus now this saturday has seen probably the largest number off but it's things easy as. a lot of people extended throughout an entire block here outside of the bella russian embassy now it is mostly women with flowers holding a white white ribbon student to voice their solidarity to express their solidarity rather with the protesters in their roost meanwhile earlier on saturday at kremlin confirmed a telephone conversation between president slattery putin and his bill russian counterpart alexander lukashenko both leaders expressed confidence that all problems and delivers will be settled soon other leaders also said that the main goal is a not so that said the external forces take

so the embassy were giving us a date to be ready for. but a deal never materialised.ence have objected to the payment of britain's debt. another british iranian anousheh ashouri has already spent three years injail. his wife made this plea. what would you say to boris johnson, what would your central message be? it is money they owe. they are not doing iran a favour. they are paying a debt. if that would restore families, i would go on my knees, i would beg him to do it. at least eight british citizens have been detained in iran in recent years, though some have got home. iran says its justice system is lawful and human. the uk government says it is committed to securing the freedom of all british citizens, regarded as arbitrarily detained and that it continues to explore options to resolve the debt. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has been placed temporarily under house arrest at her parents' home in tehran. the fate of other british iranians held in iran remains unclear. darragh macintyre, bbc news. and you can watch panorama: hostage in iran on bbc one at 7.30 this eveni

us up to speed place. our crews outside of the embassy of belarus in moscow the moments were another solidarity rally is taking place for a 4th consecutive day as well you can probably see them right. behind me similar rallies are taking place in other countries as well like ukraine for example where . groups of people went out not only to the bella russian embassy but to the independence square as well now getting back here to moscow right now a little bit earlier there were so many people here that the police were forced to to disperse the crowd and asked the people to go about their business because that privilege preventing the pedestrians from walking freely the a rally continues here in front of the bill russian embassy the people are chanting long live below the roofs of freedom for. chants along those lines meanwhile indeed protests in the roots itself continue for a 4th consecutive day and the police continue using the various crowd control equipment such as stun grenades or rubber bullets to name just a few things and. and others have right now they're sending heavy equipment to the center of the bel

president trump moved our embassy to jerusalem and when the u.n. tried to condemn usi was proud to cast the american veto. this president has a record of strength and success. the former vice president has a record of weakness and failure. joe biden is good for iran and isis, great for communist china and a godsend for everyone who wants america to apologize, abstain and abandon our values. donald trump takes a different approach. he is tough on china. he took on isis and won. he tells the world what it needs to hear. at home, the president is the clear choice on jobs and the economy. he has moved america forward, while joe biden has held america back. when joe was vp, i was governor of the great state of south carolina. we had a pretty good run. manufacturers of all kind flocked to our state from overseas, creating tens of thousands of american jobs. people were referring to south carolina as the beast of the southeast, which i loved. everything we did happened in spite of joe biden and his old boss. we cut taxes. they raised them. we slashed red tape, they piled on

world today all garion anti corruption protesters have marched on the german embassy in the capital sofia calling on germany to use its presidency of the e.u. council to take action against the bug darian government protests have been held for over a months now demanding the resignation of the prime minister and chief prosecutor they accuse. of corruption. almost a 3rd of bangladesh still has now been inundated by floodwaters from extreme monsoon rains affected residents have received emergency supplied supplies by boat more than a 1000000 people have been displaced and many have died in the floods which the country's agriculture minister ministry has called the worst in more than 2 decades . a fast moving brush fire north of los angeles has prompted action of some 500 homes or the 300 firefighters have been deployed to battle the flames the blaze has forced more than 4000 hectares near lake hughes in the angeles national forests. media mogul jimmy has urged democracy movement supporters to be persistent and patient in their fight for freedom in an online address after being released on bail on wednesday the newsp

i'm just showing the tweet here what happened to african leaders ignoring us outside of the kenyan in nigeria if you can embassies in the concept of a 270 domestic workers what is happening on the streets are people literally living on the streets here. yeah. harrison you so much for ministers of course he are very are as they are our group. are now over 300 and really were. concerned i got. on they were being served. on the street and also who are are. so. sure they were like. this in the us or an arm in arm and a struggle and. until yesterday. recently there are. more and also. the nigerian again. so the colonel and some of them you are going to. only. assume they are awaiting. an. election. and the problem that's not just because a financial crisis is not because of. the explosion this crying list overseer it was already. this is some of the problems not yet but a bug exists and it's not just our country let me just but let me just put this city because i know you have a lot of notes but i actually want you to to speak to our audience because you have experienced this this is been your experience as well you w

known for the establishment of a full and formal peace between israel and the us it includes the mutual opening of embassies direct flights and many many other by not only agreements this is the greatest advancement toward peace between israel and the arab world in the last 26 years now that if this agreement doesn't serve the palestinian cause it sets a scientist narrative it encourages israel to continue its denial of palestinian rights and its crimes against our people. we need support for the legitimate struggle against the occupation and not to establish agreements with the occupier the palestinians will meet any an exception with confrontation and we will be supported internationally by arabs refusing to sign normalization agreements with israel. oh my 1st guest tonight has been called the rabbi to the muslim world for cause of his research and work on muslim jewish relations newsweek has named him one of america's top 50 rabbis i'm happy to welcome tonight rabbi marc schneier rabbi schneier joins me tonight from new york city rabbi it's good to have you on the day with this agreement there will be 3

in bulgaria have marched on the german embassy in the capital sofia calling on germany to use its presidency of the e.u. council to take action against the bulgarian government has seen more than a month of protests people there accuse the prime minister and chief prosecutor of corruption and demanding their resignations. too but there was now and a rare public apology from the government for a violent crackdown on demonstrators in the wake of sunday's disputed presidential election thousands of people again to to the streets of the capital minsk on thursday. test few days but now the government says the protesters will be released . may 5th the night of protests there appears to me no letup in the people's push for change. thursday crowds of people took to the streets of the bella racine capital to denounce a police crackdown on demonstrations over sunday's disputed election many women wore white and carried flowers condemnation of the extension of president alexander lukashenko 26 year old rule is gathering momentum across. the e.u. and the us have both said the elections were neither free

protesters in bulgaria have march on the german embassy in the capital sofia calling on germany to use its presidency of the e.u. council to take action against the bulgarian government well there is seen more than a month of protests people accuse the prime minister and chief prosecutor of corruption and they're demanding their resignations. is a look now at some of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic. germany has recorded more than 1440 new corona virus cases for the 2nd day in a row is the highest level of new infections in 3 months new zealand's research and corona virus outbreak has spread beyond all cloned us despite police imposing roadblocks to stop people leaving the country's biggest city and south korea has reported one of its biggest jumps in infections in months the korean center for disease control reported 103 new cases on friday one of the biggest headaches facing e.u. foreign ministers of the virtual meeting this friday will be the growing conflict between greece and turkey tensions have been rising ever since turkey launched oil and gas exploration wor

protesters in all garia have marched on the german embassy in the capital sofia calling on germany to use its presidency of the e.u. council to take action against the bulgarian government or gary has seen more than a month of protests people accusing the prime minister and the chief prosecutor of corruption and they're demanding the resignation is. in historic move israel and the united arab emirates have agreed to a full normalization of relations under the u.s. brokered deal israel will suspend plans to annex large parts of the occupied west bank u.s. president trump says the agreement will be signed at the white house in 3 weeks time for their part the palestinians have rejected the deal calling it a betrayal of their calls it's only the 3rd time israel has struck such an accord with another arab country and the 1st in a quarter of a century. i historic agreement the united arab emirates and israel 2 countries that never had any diplomatic relations until thursday's deal. and idea was clear that israel would come out of the 3 way calling with the united states to stop being and exceed

protesters in bulgaria have marched on the german embassy in the capital saffir calling on germany to use its presidency of the e.u. council to take action against bulgarian government bulgaria has seen more than a month of protests as campaigners demand the resignation of the prime minister and she prosecutor who make use of corruption. and germany's registered its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases for more than 3 months a development that helped minister get sean has described as warning this comes as the southern state of prefer it deals with the problems with its testing system tens of thousands of people are going after waiting for several days for test results. thousands of people have returned to the streets of the bella roost in a capital midst for a 5th day of protests against a violent crackdown on demonstrations and follows sunday's disputed presidential election in many parts of the city protesters forms human chains filling squares and lining avenues almost 7000 people have been detained since president lukashenko claim to electoral victory and sparked public outr

us. they could have because when we landed, the embassy was surrounded by t72 tanks. it was surrounded by aaa anti-aircraft guns. they tracked us in and out. i told the gunner, don't think about shooting at them. we don't want to make them mad. i knew there was something strange going on about the rules of engagement. we flew back to the ship. we got to the uss okinowa. we left the rooftop at 7:53 in the morning and got back to the okinawa at 8:20, refueled, and this time i made sure i went to bed. i did not hang around, i just said everybody, get out of here , and hide someplace. we did. that night, 1054 hours were flown by the aircrews. 682 in and out. the evacuation of the compound, they took out 395 americans, 4475 vietnamese. went out. 978 americans came out of the embassy and third country nationals, another 1120 vietnamese and third country nationals. there was a total of 1300 plus americans evacuated on that mission, 5595 vietnamese and third country nationals. ending up in the united states was over 138,000 vietnamese from the evacuation by sea, air, and acros

but i thank you roman roman costa method the better russian embassy in moscow. will be did us to analysts whether they think that the e.u. sanctions plan will high actually have the desired effect. there are discussions with the european union because they are in a difficult situation because on one sacked. they would like of course some believe to get china to changes in their lives get him to say they don't want binaries to. serve their interests most and western countries and especially i think germany wants to have that negotiation it was told the moment the sanctions they're talking about are mostly symbolic and not really found we will see how the situation will change but it was before the lion rechristened with the european commission says. pretty little to show you should be more careful in the way the chicks vote thank you workers for she is very concerned about the election results she says of what's happening is unacceptable from the european union point of view get very very very delicate situation they don't want it to go to ruth who feels they don't want to call

us and outlining the situation that generous to honolulu in minsk. we'll take a quick look now at some of the other stories making news around the world gary and protesters have marched on the german embassy in the capital sofia calling on germany to use its presidency of the e.u. council to take action against the bulgarian government will carry seed more than a month of protests as campaigns demand the resignation of the prime minister and chief prosecutor whom they accused of corruption. lebanon's parliament approved a 2 week state of emergency for beirut in its 1st meeting after the 4th catastrophic explosion in grants the military broad powers such as prohibiting gatherings and declaring curfews protesters and rights groups fear the measures could lead to a crackdown against a crackdown on civil liberties. and staying in lebanon and lebanon where for one couple last weeks explosion in beirut will forever be bound up with another life changing event the birth of their baby boy george and the father to be caught it all on film. watching his wife being wheeled away had been thought he was about to film the 1st moments of the sun god. instead he recalls the moment that a massive blast ro

have been held around the world including outside the by the russian embassy in moscow which is where aussies double quarter is joining us now told hey the morning. calm and quiet looks like beyond you the moment pretty much like it's pretty like either of the last 24 hours of minsk has the wind to change or blown out slowly lost its force in the days after the vote was going on. well kevin no it's still early here in moscow right now so the protesters have yet if they're going to be protesting today to form behind me but it's it's clear in moscow that many believe that this the abnormal use normal brutality that the police has been using and valorous against the protesters has only really been strengthening the opposition within ballerinas yesterday in belarus we saw so-called lines of solidarity made up of women dressed in white carrying flowers and portraits of their family members. who were actually arrested since the beginning of this unrest many workers at some of the country's largest factories have gone on strike and we've seen how the sheer scale of this on raw. has really grown to a massive proportion. of blood

when it going going back to chris hayes if you if you just still use the interview and what happened as embassy and the scene he said the russians made him do it now. it's here's some context one of my favorite films is dr strange well and remember brigadier general jack ripper remember that crazy general that you know that launches leiby the b. 52 and he was saying that you know the russians have him over in traded in poison or bodily fluids and i couldn't believe that someone of prison hayes's stature it at amisom be seen could save them and get away with it i mean there is no agency nobody has any agency in that's exactly with the peddlers of this hoax did they you know it's not our fault that we're reacting to what someone is doing it was just exactly what is being done to them again that is such a total disservice to journalism go ahead well i didn't know chris hayes was the intellectual want to read everything they so carefully. i thought that was jose rachel maddow our somebody. you know and i didn't catch his interview but this whole this whole narrative that has just continued on for w

top us aidesjoin israeli officials for their talks with the uae on opening up embassies, travel and trade set to be used at abu dhabi airport. this start—up has done a deal with a firm in the uae. that is where we translate the smell of the molecules into a digital signal. high-tech is one reason why the gulf state now wa nts one reason why the gulf state now wants israel as a friend, not an enemy. covid free. i have been hoping for israel to become a part of the middle east and become closer and create a wave to unify ourselves around health, around innovation. and create a wave to unify ourselves around health, around innovationm recent yea rs, around health, around innovationm recent years, ministers from israel have visited the emirates. the two countries are both strong military powers that fear iran's regional ambitions. behind this is in recognition on the part of the uae that israel has certain capacities that israel has certain capacities that could become very useful if both countries became threatened. if the region suddenly went to a much more dangerous level of escalation. ch

embassy said biegun condemned the belarus government for use of violence against its people, and expressed support for the country's sovereignty and the people's right to self determination. lavrov laterer told russian sta run tv that the u.s. was interesteded in promototing diae between president alexander lukashenko and the oppositition >> traranslator: wee replied th we support such an approach.h. >> lavrov adadded he gave a serious warnining to biegun abo the e danger of outside countri imposing sanctions on belarus or interfering in its internal affairs. while russia and the u.s. appear aligned on supporting opposition calls for dialogue, , lukashenk continues to reject the idea. tens of thousands of belarusians continue to hold rallies demanding his resignation. authorities are stepping up controls by jailing some opposition activists. protesters say the election on august 9th was rigged allowed lukashenko to stay in office for a sixth term. >>> shifting now to north korea where top officials have met to discuss the coronavirus and an approaching typhoon. heavy rain and strong winds

so the embassy were giving us a date to be ready for. but a deal never materialised.ritish citizens have been detained in iran in recent years, though some have got home. iran says its justice system is lawful and human. the uk government says it is committed to securing the freedom of all british citizens, regarded as arbitrarily detained and that it continues to explore options to resolve the debt. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has been placed temporarily under house arrest at her parents' home in tehran. the fate of other british iranians held in iran remains unclear. darragh macintyre, bbc news. and you can watch panorama: hostage in iran on bbc one at 7:30pm this evening. two members of the opposition council set up to arrange a peaceful transfer of power in belarus have been arrested in minsk. the pair are said to have been detained by riot police and taken to an undisclosed location in a police van. the arrests follow another weekend of huge demonstrations against the disputed re—election of president alexander lukashenko. protesters say the poll was rigged and are