this is the 1st place over generation from the, [000:00:00;00] the, if you're watching the news, our life from a headquarters in delphi and getting you navigate. here's what's coming up in the next 60 minutes, a repair job that could take days from since high speed rail network is sabotage, just hours before the olympics opening ceremony. a hamas leader from the occupied westbank dies while he's being held in is really custody. pamela harris gets the call she's been waiting for from the former us presidents for rock obama. we call to say,

michelle and i couldn't be prouder doors here and do everything we can get you through the selection of cabins and 2 of the world's most wanted fugitive imagined leaders of mexico. so in a low, a drug cartel are arrested in texas 7. actually with the sport we will be building up to that sparse, 2024 opening ceremony, which is on the last leg of his journey with american breakfast, sneak dog housing. it on his way out of the light seemed to see and then pick 100 the so we begin, this is our in france where the high speed train network has been plunged into chaos just hours before the olympic games opening ceremony. critical railway infrastructure was sabotaged at several important sites and you can see the maintenance teams are working to repair the affected areas. fronts has main rail

operator the since the abs says 800000 travelers could be effected. well, around 4 am on friday, the network systems detected attacks and the north and east of the country, as well as south west of paris. attackers also try to damage infrastructure south east of the capital, but they were stopped by railway stuff. copper cables used for signaling were caught on fire is started. bernard smith begins our coverage from paris to it's impossible to fully secure thousands of kilometers a french railway lines. a weakness exposed by these attacks on crucial signaling equipment. this is quasi in northern friends when the full locations targeted with fires was set and cables caught some time on thursday night. it's a friday morning, april the high speed rail network to a halt across most of the country. multiple nicholas of all there. today, all the information we have clearly shows that it was deliberate. the simultaneous nature vans were found from which people it fled,

particularly in the south eases incendiary agents were found on the side. everything now points to the fact that these were awesome attacks and particularly the timing, which is more than a suspicious incognito. the travel plans of more than 800000 royal passengers up and sabotage lines connecting powers to cities in the north east west. i'm the united kingdom. i've been effected. old travelers have been advised to postpone that journeys. what's the declared value? yeah, yeah, definitely. we have prepared ourselves. there are a lot of people in coal for the lengthy kinds, but honestly, we've thought that was more to intervene on the lines affected by the movie games and normal breakdowns. we didn't think we would have to mobilize, but obviously we're going to repair already on the way. but the royal network is expected to be severely disrupted, at least until the end of the weekend. hey, the crippling of the railways is being said as a clear attempt to overshadow the stock gains, there is unprecedented security. would you rather talk to the trains, pound of ability, unexplored students?

and then i'll just say, okay, let's get more now with bernard who is joining us once again from paris. so bernard, what are we expecting now with the opening ceremony? just hours away? yeah, just hours away. the rain $8700000.00 tickets sold around the whole of the olympics, $16000.00 towards expected in powers. the image of friends is a steak, emmanuel, macro, on the present, said a few months ago and it stops without opening cetera. many, a long, 6 kilometers of the river sent to nights has been a massive, unprecedented security operation is the 1st time and opening ceremonies have been held outside the stadium. and its been a security had a 45000 security post. now last police on dogs and military on duty buildings check drains, check sewage checks. everything has been checked to try and make this place as secure as possible. the only thing really out of control has been for whether it's

been raining a lot this morning, bit drawn out, but rain predicted lights are all on politics is really never far away from the olympic games burners with my cross who's calling for an olympic truce. but there doesn't seem to be any sign of fact us there now it comes against that i tug and global button drop at the moment. we have not only as well as full in gaza, but also the continuing approaches will give you credit back on have to give us a limpid truce. and the un general assembly passed through a resolution calling for the same less than a band. but it's not happened level, as well as well. ongoing continues. russia continues to take territory from ukraine . haven't been complaints, particularly from countries in the global south of double spammed, its double standards because of russia, russian and by the origin, athletes, and not taking part on the back countries, flags, russia, batteries bind from the games because of ukraine. but israel hasn't been bomb, these are all sending 88,

please say the palestinian olympic committee set these right. they should be found the cause of the war and gaza, but they've been invited to and they will have the most intense security around these boxes. all right, brenda, we'll check back with you a little later. thank you for the time being for that reporting from paris. a well, a 40 year old russian man is under investigation in connection with an illegible attempt to disrupt the parents of and picks, and he was taken into custody. on wednesday, we have your supple volleyball, who's joining us from moscow to tell us what more you're hearing from your end about this, and whether there's any sort of official russian reaction to this of the whole. yes, indeed, the many are now looking for a russian trace, in that case, in connection with the rest of that spelled russian agent so to speak, who allegedly was recruited by the f as b a he in russia, we learned about his arrest,

about 2 or 3 days ago and also it's not clear what exactly he had been arrested, but oh betsy, well before the day's opening ceremony in paris and those who analyze this profile on this case actually say that it seems to be, well, he seems to be a very enough agent and we've also heard from kremlin the spokes persons which are best copa saying the criminal does not have that information about the detention all dots. russian national empowers all they actually know they, they, they've seen those media reports about his arrest. so basically you understand that, did you change mine? his name is jerry reeves know, is a full table, russian national. he was born in the city of paris. he enjoyed some sort of glamorous lifestyle and works as a chef in paris and the number of french results. it was a calling to re blog as well and uh, back in may who was supposed to go to paris with a transfer into

a key that he got. so drunk that is symbol, it was not allowed to move the play and it was blacklisted that done grass, no dread to bulgaria, a bike car where he got drunk again and started telling random people that he was going to the parents on a secret mission. so and ladies have reporting on that for a rest of the carrier, whereas know the power as plus the cases office said that they had found evidence indicating that say he had been a member of the russian special services and uh, uh, grabs no, it was charged with espionage and now faces a prison sentence. so basically we're looking forward to hearing mills from the french prosecutors as well as from the russian side. okay. yeah, thank you for that reporting from us go while the french government has promised an unprecedented security operation for the parents olympics, the bullying as many as 45000 personnel and they include 15000 french military

members, 250 british officers 50, specially trained dogs on the 1750 police from countries like spain, germany, south korea, as well as cuts are on the opening ceremony along the 6 kilometers stretch of the sun river will showcase 10 and a half 1000 athletes representing 206 national olympic committees, more than 320000 fans are expected to watch from the river banks. but access to the central paras will be restricted. neil fergus is a risk management and security specialist who worked on the parents 2024 olympic bid. and he says that the attacks are sophisticated. this is a very carefully cold, nighted awesome attack. this is not some lone wolf behavior. and i think as the investigation on phones, we will find that there is a strike active behind this. expect my presumption at the moment,

we're 45000 place on duty to die for this germany, several 1000 military. and somewhere between 9 and 11000 protracted security, that's an extraordinary number. but if it works, as is planned, and we'll hope it does, it will be the most spectacular happenings ceremony you mind. you're referring to the street, you'll be nothing. lock it, 206 times down the river in boxes, 11000 athletes and officials. i think will be simply amazing, but what's happened, the cost is the in the city is have to be transformed in recent dice with bright perimeters like primrose, red perimeters in terms of access control, incredibly complex, but the french authorities, the federal government committee, have done it remarkably well, there is disruption, but the minimize that to the extent that it's possible there are obviously sort of puts full of people really presentation. there are 3 points for pick with the q i

card lives that work there. and there are 3 books for the international, protected persons who built things. and we're down to say something like, $100.00 heads of strength and heads of government attending. so thanks jeremy. again, an excellent record in terms of other because the thing ceremonies both sides of political representation. so we have everything, well, i have done everything that i can to protect your student. and hopefully it will be more than sufficient. the, the united kingdom will no longer try to stop the international criminal court issuing arrest warrants for is really leaders. the former conservative governments had been considering legal options and that was after the icy seized decision to apply for arrest warrants for benjamin netanyahu. and the is really defense

minister, you'll have gallano, the i c. c. prosecutor kareem khan sought the warrants for a legend war crimes committed in israel's war on guys of well, these really prime minister is such a visit. the former us president donald trump. and the 2 are set to be meeting at trump's florida, home or lago in an effort to ease recent pensions. that's an yeah, who's trip to mar, logo follows meetings with president joe biden and vice president. tom le harris was now running against trump in the upcoming elections. let's speak to alda 0, senior political analyst about a one beside them. and one is joining us from parents. let's 1st talk about the meeting with trump and nothing. yeah. who am i? the one? what or nothing, yeah. whose political calculations as he meets with the democratic leadership as we've seen. and he's not expected to meet with the republican presidential candidate. i think you would like to play under differences and try to get as much

as possible from either party. so i think clearly it is for the time being has to edge this best. you've got to know who's going to win in 3 months. and so he's gonna have to a piece for cartridge, as you did in his speech, to congress by speaking so kindly to biden's support for, for his war crimes. and speaking so kindly to trumps. a violation of international law by recognizing jerusalem as is a capital the types assign x is where it is that she's trying his best of these 4 parties. so he won't be accused once again as he was 2016 when he's going to call. ready or be of any devices to your taking the public? i'm sorry, it is trying to sign to be a bit more clever. his problem is that it was pretty that net also talk to some of the others,

joe biden. and donald trump are telling him to finish shop in florida though he's going to be here to look, i'm from finish shop, set up. my guess is that to probably try to sell it as it seems like the he would say it quite loud in public. and once there is a ceasefire, he went to the is on a sheet. yeah, milan and speaking of mean finishing up, we also heard comments from harris who said that she will not be silence on the suffering and gaza and it was time to end the war, but then also reiterated her commitment to israel and out of israel, there's been some furious reaction to her comments, so i'm accusing her of showing gaps between the positions of the us and israel. is there any reason to believe in your opinion that policy towards israel under a harris presidency, will change? and i think there would be a bit of a new watch look at what, what biden has done the past 10 months is really almost unprecedented. i mean,

the foolishness the fully and the fos focus support unconditionally for identified the way he did. that's really unprecedented. i'm not sure even even a song we're doing, i'm not sure how this would be, which i'm not sure anyone with or should we do it because we really went out of his way in every possible way. not to support these. right. and here is that the ones didn't. one is not just about the score thing is are supporting precious but not the government that's involved in what crimes is on trial for genocide. i think the national court of justice. so the issue here for kind of the harnesses and cheese show support for is right, as traditionally is the case number of paper where you know, from obama back to reagan. but at the same time sure enough. 1 independence, rationality to be able to print this thoughts. these are the governors and that's why i have phrase, but i want the site i wish to for these,

right. but i won't be cited about the policies the waterfront, projected output is government, and i think this new one is important. and she probably would be careful though, because people do not because she's not again, she's not logical. she's not as a scientist as my then and she's not as it's a venture. this brings me to the same house where it was by the front months ago. right. and when it comes to the u. k. my line is that now going up against the us, when we've heard this announcement just earlier this hour, but you casing, but it will not pursue it's objection anymore to the international criminal court who's issuing arrest warrants for the is really leaders. and how significant is this? you know, i'm going to tell you, uh, mike, did you get this guess based on my instinct more than any specific information or just drinking from a care so much looking devices and went by that is today essential. visually, she was nothing you know,

and what i just told you in terms of distinguishing supporting is right and so forth, the, nothing, yeah, i would say the liberal government in britain is just simply doing something that is just basic, right? mean, i'm stupid, this stupid policy. not by getting involved. there's something that is absolutely not your case. a business. that means the icpc went decide what i ccs business is. it doesn't need longer for the government to turn to what it's business use and that's what the name of them say. and i think this is deliberating, the k, like the democrats in washington, whether it's kind of the highest one, understand the support is, is right. it's not the same as supporting this reckless war criminal court now and slowly but surely they are learning the lessons that you can support is really if you want one tire, political future is definitely going to sign up for the affinity and spending in

them. at least and invest in the world by coupling your policies to that whole war criminal court. all right, thank you so much. one out of a shot. joining us from harris. thank you to at least 18 palestinians have been killed in israel's unrelenting assault in southern gauze, on the as early army has been carrying out attacks and fine units. and how much has been targeting is really military vehicles using explosives like rocket propelled grenades, thousands of displaced people have been forced to feet on my wasi. but the palestinian red crescent says that there's just no space there engine for that. he is joining us from the center of the gaza strip and what are you hearing about the situation right now in hon. unice has its dance well, the are tele reselling continues. there strikes continues in different parts of a new and if the situation is escalating every single minutes,

but it's not only bob the airstrikes we're talking about people that have been trapped for 6 days now. drop without any food, without any walk through without any medicine, without anything, no one could reach them. they could not appease any one and they could not communicate with anyone. even if someone of these policy didn't use the, are trapped in the school or in the house. um, our insured, no one could reach them. some of the people who are trapped in their houses and some are trapped in new and schools. and this is because the is there any forces did not give them time to evacuate when they threw the leaflets on the, on the 1st day of this ground. and they didn't know the people who mom, it's to evacuate, are literally concert on the streets. they did not have time to take any of their belongings. they did not have time to even find another shelter because the is there any forces started selling as soon as they threw these leaflets? but the situation is escalating in

a hun units from all sides in all aspects is not only airstrikes that people are suffering from. it's the heat. it's the diseases, it's the sewage, it's the garbage stuff is everywhere. and people now are supplicating from the fact that there is no hygiene. kids or no shampoos are soaps. and we have been seeing children and, and people with the ras on their skin. and there has been no medicine so polished indians are desperate from all aspects of life. it's not only the air strikes, it's not only being trapped, it's not only being displaced more than one time. every palestinian has his own struggle right now in the gaza strip and it's not only air strikes income units, but there's also ongoing airstrikes in dropbox. we're a product and you tried was killed. there has been also ongoing asterix in the another in parts of the city and the gods of cities. so we're talking about talks

in this sprint and several types of attacks on oh for a crass because a strict. yeah. and attacks taking place in areas where palestinians were told to go to because they are safe zone. so, but hands in for that. he thank you so much for laying that out for us from dated by the warehouse leader and it occupied westbank has died and is really custody. the palestinian prisoners club says most of i bought it got died in an is really hospital. he's been transferred there from raymond prison because of deteriorating health. the 63 year old was being held under administrative detention as many as having most of the home and out the way out of the full responsibility lies on those have arrested him and us medical history and health history. he's a sick, personal who suffers for many health problems with blood platelets and enzymes. it's considered an execution of millions of the sick prisoners with the risk without providing him with the necessary medical services and without providing him with food that suits his health condition.

the, the former us president brock obama and michelle obama have endorsed carmella harris and forbid to be the next president. the obama is called the presumptive democratic party nominate while she was out campaigning to offer their support. i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. we call to say, michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse here and to do everything we can to get you through the selection of and into the oval office. oh, my goodness, michelle practice mean so much to me. i am looking forward to doing this with the 2 of you. kristin kaplan wolf is a chair of democrats abroad u. k is joining us from the united kingdom. thanks for your time. so i suppose a lot of people would say, well, they were waiting for this and board endorsements by the obama's. why do you think

that brock obama and his wife michelle, have done it now? i think is what has become clear is that the democratic party has rally behind vice president harris as the presumptive now many. and that the timing was right. obviously we still have a convention that is going to be coming up. candidates still have the opportunity to come forward, but i think they want him to give him a little bit of space for those candidates to put their hand up. and at this stage, we don't know of anyone else that has come forward. so i, i think that was, you know, just for a month out from the actual election, they wanted to get out there and they wanted to show their support for her. which of course is really important because it's not just political support. they bring star power to the whole campaign. so i think uh, they just decided the timing was right to, to get out to get out on the campaign trail. the 3rd now correct me if i'm wrong here, but this means that the vice president has won the backing of all the democratic

parties leading figures. so since that is the case, if that is the case, do you think it'll be a straightforward convention? or i think it is going to be relatively straightforward. i've heard he has a really strong track record of being a unified tardy. and you know what, what i actually think becomes even more interesting is not only does she have the backing of all the major leaders within the party, but she's got a back came, frankly, a lot of the leading farmer republicans who were either the speakers of the house, forrest, but the vice president has said they're not going. he's not going to vote for donald trump. so we have got, you know, not just the backing of people within our own partners, but we've got some heavy ways of backing pamela harris as well. going into this election season because they don't want us to be a 2nd. trump term. lucky you said a moment ago that the obama spring with them star power. but what difference do you

think this is, doris mintz will make when it comes to the, the people who are voting the electorate. so i mean, is this going to help cala harris reach and look towards perhaps what she hasn't so far yet because she still is trailing in the polls behind trump up until this point, even though she's made up some grounds as well. it depends on which pull you look at by the way. so she actually is neck and neck is other both. she's the head of donald trump. so i think we always just look at polls as you know, snapshot in time. the only pull that we know that counts is the one that happens on november 5th. but if you look to the other indicators of success, you know, where are people putting their donations? people are putting their donations behind cala harris. and i think that is something that rock obama can really help. the reading into the table are all the big donors to read out the grass roots a part of our party that may be at this point. you know,

believe or not. there are people who don't follow politics religiously, he will bring those people out. and in fact, you know, we are starting to see this phenomenon not only in the united states of people getting registered to so, so we're also seeing it happening all over the world in my home. or this ation that democrats are brought here in the u. k. we had a record spike of people not only joining our organization in less than 24 hours. we had a 1000 people, sign them through our platform called books, and the brought dr. world to get registered to vote. so this, there is a momentum behind this campaign, and president obama will help really bring all the young adult bring on that so that maybe it's been a little bit like 2 days ago with people about the upcoming election up until this point. all right, just a quick full and a final thoughts from you on her vice president pick because all lies are now on who will come with harris because her vice president as yeah, so well, she's got

a lot of talented people to pick from. that's for sure. i mean, our hurdy spencer is big, very, very strong. and what we certainly, what i've seen today is that she's narrowed it down to the field of 3 people by the governor of pennsylvania. josh, to appear on the governor of north carolina, who is where a cooper and the senator mark kelly, all 3 of them bring something different to the ticket. and you know, building big states in terms of the electoral college. right. they bring a lot of experience and, and can obviously balance out or take it. okay, we'll leave it there. thank you so much for joining us from the okay, thank you. thank you so much for having me. all right, you're with the news hour and i was, is there a, here's a check on the weather with carl, it had a low that pots of south america, of switching on the something of a winter, a heat wave. we got high pressure and charged across from the central and northern areas keeping these very hot and dry. but this front is the dividing line between

that heat up in the north and very cold conditions down in the south. so temperature is well above the average for much power y as well as bolivia, we've got a state of emergency that's to continue to clad in santa cruz state. that's expected to last till the end of the year. thanks to wild fires as well. the extreme weather, clinging on with high temperatures, pushing us into sack today it's much colder for the south of this. we've got some very wet and windy weather pulling into patagonia with gale to severe gale force winds, with the weather as well continues to left across more move in areas with bouts of rain moving from columbia into venezuela. and that rain drenched as pots of central america as well with heavy falls to come from panama, stretching through costa rica on woods to belize and the yucatan peninsula in mexico and northern as central areas of mexico will continue to see some very heavy rain on friday. into fact today, thanks to a trailing weather front,

putting across the gulf of mexico. still ahead on the news, our protest, softer a police officer, chicks, a man in the heads in the you case. his lawyer says he has a brain injury. the philippine coast guards deploy is floating barriers in an effort to contain an oil spill from a cap sized tanker on canada. when their opening match, i feel them fix but then suspend their coats for the rest of the games. you have more about and sports the fiduciary selves. leader who fought in a brutal 21 years civil war and which onto become suzanne's 1st vice president in news in these global knowledge to which we or identified what happens next is still a mystery. which is the real world,

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[000:00:00;00] the color down, the top stories on the i'll just say we're news our, the high speed train network in france has been plunged into chaos just hours before the olympic games opening ceremony. critical infrastructure was sabotaged at several sites, and maintenance teams are working to repair the affected areas. the united kingdom, one no longer will no longer try to stop the international criminal court issuing arrest warrants for is really leaders. the former conservative governments had been considering legal options, and that was after the i c. c. 's decision to apply for arrest warrants for benjamin netanyahu. and the is really defense minister at your, golan harris has received an endorsement from the former us president obama obama as cold harris while she was out campaigning to offer their support. us

federal agents have arrested one of the world's most wanted drug lords in texas. smiles on bottom, also known as m i o co founded the notorious mexicans in a little of cartels with l. triple goodman, who's currently imprisoned in the us. l. chapo son joaquin guzman. lopez was also arrested julia 0. yano has more from mexico city. we know this arrest was a joint effort between the d a and the f. b. i both organizations, i've already released statements saying that the rest of that these 2 most wanted men will deal blows, devastating blows to the organization to the scene. i look at then, now the rest itself played out as follows. these 2 men flew into an airport, a small, uh airport, in a private aircraft in the city of the paso texas. and they were met by authorities on the aircraft. so it's clear from the information that we have at this point that they were being expected. now, how it played out. but these 2 men, obviously,

you know, fugitives for decades in the case of one of them that they would fly directly into the us obviously speaks to a bigger story of which we don't yet have all the details. next have been media has reported that as my jo was actually set up by another high ranking member of the scene, i look at the into flying. unbeknownst to him to the us. whether or not that is actually the case. i think we'll find out in the coming hours now. what if that will these um arrests have on the scene a little. i've got that as a whole. i think history in mexico proves that these big drug lords, being arrested doesn't usually reduce violence. you know, and we'd saw it with a chapel, who's mine, a few years ago. he was a rest that he was the head of the organization at the time. and then the truth is that these organizations are built in structure in a way that accounts for the possibility. and frankly, the likelihood that their leaders will at some point be killed or arrested. so they

basically know how to restructure themselves. so really the likelihood that much will change despite the claims by the f b i and the da saying that it will, you know, the devastating blow that this restful deal i think of in, in reality, mexican is, aren't really expecting for violence here. cost by this organization will, as in the coming days or in the coming weeks, and certainly i would say that i don't think you authorities in the us expect the trafficking of fentanyl to dramatically drop either do we ago. yeah, no, i'll just 0 mexico city. the lawyer of a man kicked in the heads by an armed officer and a u. k. airport says he has a fist on the brain on his condition has gotten worse. the incidents at manchester airport is being investigated by the independent police watch dog and police say they were responding to reports of an assault. but acknowledge that the level of force using the arrest was unusual for testers. and manchester had been demanding justice melana,

russell and events joining us from the mosque and rochdale in greater manchester. that's where the family prays to tell us what reaction there's been from the community to there. will friday prize have just finished in the small skin watch, tao. this is the most of the family usually attends. however they have not been here today. we are told because they've been overwhelmed by the events of the past few days, but we've spoken to the members of the community here. they've all been incredibly just stopped by the video that we've all seen. but they say lots of either the reassured by the fact that there is now an independent investigation into what took place and they have appealed to come. we have seen protests here in rochdale on wednesday evening at the police station there protesting mine just yesterday night . and thursday evening, but now people here are saying, let's wait and see what the investigation finds and that is very much what the family wants to. we are told by the local member of parliament who is actually

visited them and spoken to them. we have caught up with him earlier today, and this is what he had to say about what the family told him. and they also want to make sure that they have the time and space to be left alone to sort of pick themselves up and to, for the members of the family to get the medical treatment they, they need. there's a wide message from them though, which is that they wanted to put that through me, which is that they don't have a political agenda and then not joining in any process and they want things to be kept calm. and i think that's really important. and that's part of my job as them and pay for this time just to make sure that this town is as united as possible and not divided we've, i've thought too much division. and the key for me is making sure that people, i'm outside don't hijack this, this individual incident to for their own ends. so where to think stands right now with the investigation well, the officer that we've seen in the video taking them out on the ground has been

suspended and the independent police watch dog is investigating 2 things. the level of force used in that video, but also the fact that that officer also deployed a spray that's akin to a purpose for against another person and not mine or the actual. now, people from the independent police work, so have actually met with the family to reassure them that our investigation will be truly separate and independent of the great to not just the police and also to explain to them well this case of the investigation will be and having a community meeting, kira barksdale and rates are matched as well between the local and b team. you've just had from that as well as the mayor of great to match the on the bottom amount in the community here at just about calming any tensions that may flat rock the general sense of the needs there at the moment at least is let's wait and see what this investigation finds and then assess the response. all right, thank you so much for that. reporting from manchester. the salon cars election

commission says the presidential election will be held on september 21 opposition parties accused members of the current administration of trying to postpone the pool. sure lanka is recovering from major financial challenges which let to mass protest and they political crisis. 2 years ago, the turnaround began with a $2900000000.00 bailout packets from the international monetary funds. may not. fernandez has more from the capital, colombo, the announcement by the election commission behind me stops. so an 8 week process that would cause me need in the presidential elections on the 21st of september. and obviously this comes after loans, heated political and economic upheaval, shall, lanka had seen the president elected by a massive a sort of majority in the last presidential elections, leaving office under a cloud literally being handed out. we have the current president who in fact is

contesting the election. he is representative, was the 1st person to come and pay up the boned at the election commission and after the announcement and also the country going through a huge economic sort of a crisis that so it's unable to afford basic essentials like food medicine and flip fuel so here with this election is a chance for the people to speak to, to indicate you know, where the sam regarding, you know, web that thoughts lie regarding the country and the direction forward. the cutting president has said he's a safe bet him hands. he guided the country to sort of stability during this economic crisis, but all the policies say that he and those he represents of the very reason the countries fell into that situation. in the 1st place, mendez, i'll just 0 colombo, for nearly 300 thousands people had been forced from their homes in eastern china

as ty phone gave me makes landfall. several provinces upgraded their tie from an emergency alerts on friday. public transport has been suspended in some parts and offices and schools are closed. storm warnings are in place in coastal areas affecting several 1000 people. well, gave me made landfall on taiwan east coast on wednesday, killing at least 3 people there. the storm has triggered flooding. landslide and damage to buildings. it's also cause the power outage to more than $88000.00 homes . eunice can, has more from tying on a b, i a typo in tammy, which means and in korean may have left taiwan. but it's also left behind a trail of damage on lead and on. see what you see behind me is a tuggle slide car that was shipped from which 9 crew were brought to safety this morning. it is one of, at least 8 vessels of the taiwanese coast guard is monitoring. they were forced to

ground with nearly 80 people still trapped inside along the west coast after they got caught in type who and can be super gale force winds and treacherous ways. another freighter that has damien floods, who soon got stuck in the taiwan strait and sunk on thursday morning, the 9 person balmy's crew jumped after him, making a distress. call the tie on east coast guards still searching for 4 people after the captain was found this morning, the seized on the beach for others were rescued. and what the coast guard is calling an unprecedented situation. overall, at least 7 deaths, not including that captain had been blamed on this type boon, which flooded large swaths of the island record. rain pounded caution. tie one's top port city, and that is where taiwan is. president lighting tub was this friday morning to survey the damage, and he's promised to raise relief subsidies and work with local governments to rebuild. but the truth is dangerous. still works including land slide risk on many

of these mountain communities that has been, that have been punished by days of torrential rain. eunice can all, does there a tide on taiwan on the philippine coast guards as it will deploy a chemical disperse since on floating barriers after tank current carrying one and a half 1000000 leaders of industrial fuel cap size near manila bay. but as barnaby lo reports, despite governments assurances people in coastal communities are worried that the oil will spreads. fishermen in this coastal commit. the day of manila are still reeling from type when gaming their boats swept away by strong waves and rising water levels. allan parts have found his in pieces. it's been hard, but i'm not making any money because i'm not able to fish. and that's means i'm not able to feed my family. proper metal. that's on top of twiddling catches. they say, since the building of man made islands in manila bay begin

a few years ago. and now a tanker carrying 1500000 leaders up industrial fuel is underwater and leaking oil . not far from where the fish caught the oil will stick to the fish. no one will want to binding, but i know it took 3 months to clean up the oil spill off the central philippines. last year, they feared a crisis worse than that. while the tanker capsized off the province of with the on, which is less than 150 kilometers from manila, the waters are part of many of the bank. and so this vision community in the philippine capital could be in the trajectory of the oil spill shouldn't spread. but the coast guard says it appears to be, for now is from the tankers engine. it is contained within the vicinity of the accident, siphoning off the industrial fuel assess to made it to take a week, but it needs to start. so we're preparing for the worst case scenario, which is that the industrial fuel leak. so we have low spill bones. this person and

barry time environmental protection personnel on site. but fishermen here hope it doesn't come to that. because the worst case scenario isn't something they can prepare for. foreign to below l g 0. many thousands of people have attended the state funeral for one of vietnam's most dominant political figures. 80 year old, new when food trauma was the communist party leader for 13 years died last week, warner's lined the streets of the capital, a noise. as his coffin was driven to a private cemetery in a military procession. and here's what's coming up on the news hour. we're going to be live in paris as the world's best athletes prepared to go from goals of the

lympics that's coming up in sports with jemma,

the the in the okay, let's get all the latest from the olympics, which i'm thank you. 3 fronts is installment. antoine depaul sealed a dominant victory of origin seen as the highest reach the semi finals that the rugby seven's competition. assault reception for auction senior at this dr. fronts that raptors tested the warranties for frances final try and a $2640.00 with front to replace south africa for a place in the final. they pulled off by surprise. 147 victory. as in these, even the silver med list of the last of and picks and take a look. i just kind of get women's, but what seem has been suspended for the remainder of the games in the wake of the

drains buying control to see that's present of all entirety staff out kind of just as much as the tournament is t one. when it gets even to members of his staff was sent home for allegedly, using a drain to spy on these events. training sessions present denies involvement, but it's now being suspended. often new innovation came to light, which may also call into question kind of just goals. metal and take a 3 is a good makes me feel makes me sick to my stomach to think that there could be something that calls into question what i'm sure of. so many of you have heard me say over the course of the last 3 years, one of my favorite olympic moments in history, that women's team winning that gold medal. and now they can attend the goal of the tournament from just time they scored a great 3 kicks to take the lead again as well champion space. that goal definitely

was another look st. equalized shortly. offset. and then schools that were not in the 2nd hall as it finished to one the action already on the way then to the official opening ceremony takes place at later on friday in paris. or we can now they live it to speak to pool reese for the say we can see behind you that will very much be on display during these these games. why is it yes, tim, aware of a hotel is available with thousands of people have been filing along, trying to get to that places for the opening ceremony alongside the river side. piracy is really trying to show itself off. so these olympics, the most comic lunmark, the eiffel tower, will host beach volleyball lots following in the footsteps of, of the major locations such as palm by beach and carpet devona at beach. uh, louis the full teams old palace up the side will now be the home of course 3 and sports. um, more than 10 top loan,

i'm the plus to account code has been revolutionized into a urban part class full such as 3 on 3 basketball at the amex scapegoating. i'm the new sport of grapes on 2nd, i will take place of breaking as it's cold. one of the spoils designed to appeal to the utility and slight you annoy jemma. i looking forward to seeing the breaking account. see i can do it myself by now is the so being that takes center stage in week one, isn't it? what can we expect in the pool? the yeah. things fleming's really coming into. right. so i'm going to get into a post michael phelps era. up front house. all really hoping to get that 1st gold. um since london 2012. that big hope is layoff. marshall who already has one of michael focuses uh world records and some of his world records of tools. and then the team g

b. adam page is one of the big names in the school. 3 time gold medalist. he's coming back from a bouts of depression and problems with, with i will call several struggles. he's had since the last one gold in tokyo hoping to opposite his collection. and then in the women swimming k to exactly all the us size, 7 time gold medalist really got his 1st major competition for while in the shape of canada's summer, macintosh. for this one megabytes also take place some of the backdrop of a doping scandal. 23 chinese swim is tested positive for funds substances a few years ago. have since been cleared by the own at doping or pharmacies who blames contaminated substances as a hotel on the world on such altering authority. lotta since then. well, that's what so many complaints from other athletes competing abigail? yes, we all, you're also involved in it and in an investigation is causing problems between the

site and the international olympic committee. so very messy behind the scenes of the swimming. and what about the athletics and some of these mock event? so just briefly who are the big names to what's helpful yeah, thats multi names. like all of the plans i see is really for the pole in the spotlight, arguably for the 1st time since the guy pub guy. he's broken 8 world records going for another for another gold 5 through 2nd thoughts, not real success. and now we'll lisles of the usa hoping for full gold medals and hoping to break folks, $100.00 rates of $200.00 basis sprint records for the usa. so much to look forward to your poorest life for us there in paris. thanks for now. and our content of stock i take off of missed the last games and take it with k 5th 19. but this time is she's the joint flags that are up to the united states. the writing us sites and champion will chevy on it would be and be a full time and leading point score the problem. james. most excited. um

i think meeting james, that's the most exciting part of it. i don't want to ask him too much about advice or anything like that because i feel like he's trying to probably enjoy the experience as much as possible to i'm just hoping is not too hot. you know, i know we're going to be in the water and we're going to be in those blazers. so i'm just hoping i don't, you know, swear too much in it and i look a little bit distressed and the for a 91 year old. a former rifleman from senegal, kindly been picked torch on the eve of the opening ceremony in la gm is one of thousands of african soldiers who fought for france during his colonial will. as nicholas hawk reports from deco is marching into paris, a 91 year old, former senegalese soldier, victory for war veteran, more jim from a small village and sent a goal to fighting abroad for france. this was a privilege he did not expect. do they? is they told me we wants to send these rifleman to carry the and then pick flame and it's you that we've chosen. what do you think?

i post for a few minutes. and then i said, okay, this is an honor for me. jim spent decades fighting the french government to receive his pension because until recently, france largely ignored the contribution of the regiment known as the synagogue leads to yeah, yeah, a quarter of a 1000000 africans fault for france. this is one of the rare monuments that pays tribute to those that were involved in spring europe during world war 21 represents dupel, the french soldier, the other denver, all of those from former colonies, whether france or the u. k. that were involved according to the historians today in liberating paris, except at the time, those that had my skin complex, you know, even darker were not allowed to march into paris. the olympics has long been used as a plant for me to make his statement to call for change. this legacy is passed on from old to young,

the belief that anything is possible through sports. the last time sent a goal one. a metal was in 1964 in the 400 metre hurdles. marianne believes she will be next day of going in a way, but the good thing is that i'm h, but this is not going to stop. i will represent senegal. i will bring back the gold medal. you will see i can do it a burning desire to win, to be seen in a foreign land, representing more than a country embodying the olympic spirits. nicholas hawk, algebra, the car, the american rappa sleep dog has been involved in the build up as well. the 53 year old carries the adults on the last leg of the relay. hundreds of spect site has turned out the the stuff different stadium to get a glimpse of the grammy winning musician. the slave would like to have them pick cooter into the opening ceremony and powers like to, to signify the official stuff. so the game that is that we will support for now.

pizza will have more later. 3. ok, thank you so much. jemma. well, walls fires have destroyed half of the town of jasper in western canada residents and about 20000 tourists have been evacuated. the resort town which is in the rockies gets as many as 2 and a half 1000000 visitors a year. more than 5000 people died in the 1st 5 months of this year trying to reach spain by c on the out of 10 reef traumatized. young people are learning how to swim after surviving one of the most dangerous crossings in the world. if to send one food reports the close to the spanish shore, young men from senegal and molly are taking the plunge. for them, the ocean has held the danger of grim desk. they made the perilous journey here crossing the atlantic in overcrowded boots. in some of this all, we would 215 people on board. we left from sent

a go. the journey took 6 days. we got to the canaries at night. we had to spend the night at sea normally around 5 or 6 in the morning. we got to the page thousands diet sea every year trying to reach the 95 percent of the law. crossing the atlantic from west and north west africa to the canary islands. spanish volunteer instructors are teaching those for me to trust the water again. one breast stroke out of time. a see i can dig into going there are people come with terrible fear. you see them entering the water. they hold onto your hand as if clinging to life. like anybody who doesn't know how to swim. you have to add to that they have baggage of experience with the crossing of 1012 or 15 days where they might have lost relatives and studies show people from high income countries, a considerably more likely to know how to swim, leading to lifelong health benefits,

reduced risk because drowning and more professional opportunities i'm gonna do is for molly, a landlocked country were less than 40 percent of young people have learned how some have lost friends and family in the crossing. roughly in poverty. a violent spike, home incense walked in most if i wouldn't do it again, it's very difficult, very, very dangerous. it's a risk we took because we didn't have a choice. it's tough and all that fun way i know is it is challenging the waves. again, thanks to initiative like this, these men are finally returning to the water, embracing it as a life giving force it to some good food, which is 0. okay, we're back in just a moment with more on the sabotage or the french rail networks that's disruptive travel for hundreds of thousands of people that high speed tre network was plunged into chaos just hours before the starting, the olympic games opening ceremony. and you can see a live picture where maintenance teams are working round the clock to try to fix

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