the, the, this is the w news live in from berlin. the opening ceremony of the paras olympic starts in just over an hour as police investigate suspected sabotage on frances national rail system. authority say they believe the arson attacks on multiple high speed rail winds were coordinated, causing huge delays and exposing security. get for bring you. the latest developments from here is also coming up us vice president, couple of harris secures a another major endorsed recall to for michelle and i couldn't be prouder doors here and do everything we can get you through the selection of and then for the overall form, you as president brock obama and his wife, michelle join,

the long list of democrats endorsing harris is bid for the president. the break off, it's good to have you with us on this friday, a series of arson attacks on francis high speed real network are causing travel chaos. with just over an hour to go before the opening ceremony of the paris olympics, authorities say several real wines, including those passing through mon, for an us in paris, had been effective. they say that the coordinated attacks are also causing cancellations and the leaves for people traveling between france and germany. almost 800000 passengers are affected. repairs are underway, but officials say the restrictions could last throughout the weekend. the acts and sabotage. expose frances vulnerability despite the tight security protocol surrounding the mega sporting events to the attacks are also affecting travelers in

neighboring belgium. my niece is crying in the simmons tomorrow, so we've got to watch her portion of woodman place of the simmons. when is that? it's um, yeah, and we've got family there already. so we're trying to get there. but you know, we're okay with that. just comes with the medium i bore on that. well, we don't have any choice. we'll just have to wait at our original train from amsterdam, the brussels got cancelled at 2 o'clock. they allowed us, however, euro star to get the 11 o'clock. so we should be able to get out of the brussels and get back to london, but we're still waiting to see if we can catch another print. all right, let's go now to my colleague jonathan crane. he is in paris, i guess he's trying to stay dry right now. john. good to see you. let's start with the serious stuff. the latest that you can tell us about what authorities are calling coordinated acts of sabotage. a man you asked him anybody's. this is

confirmed that what i say is if games organizes the these and then picks crude, the target, there were some concerns in the run up of its cyber attack. obviously, this is now an act of sabotage because of course these games are taking place at the time of high g, a political tension, rushes ongoing, boring ukraine, the israel, how mass will in gaza. now what we do know is that these attacks are taken out some key lines in the northwest at east of the country, right? right. if we sort of say they are working quickly and making progress on repairing the lines, but it's still unclear who is behind these attacks. and what motives they had really investigated will be working as a matter of urgency to establish that. but it really has highlighted consensus. visa then picks a target sir francis sports, minnesota. i said the attacks were pulling, she said it's against the olympics. it's against the athletes of trees. he is of

course, taking a prep driving for these competitions. uh, but the olympic committees president thomas box that he still has high confidence in the french from darcy's french. yeah, the, the opening ceremony is set to go ahead despite these attacks and despite the horrible weather forecast. so what can we expect from the opening ceremony and schedule, and i think the start, what about a little over now? what is the rain keeps up? it's going to be a very sucky one. recall courts, in example, a bit earlier, more rate is full cost because this is a highly um basis unprecedented. all right, means ceremony is never been done before. it's taking place outside of a stadium on the river said, you're going to have thousands of athletes on a 100 boats. going down a 6 kilometers a stretch of the rivers said they couldn't get past them. of the key landmarks in paris, the not for don cathedral, for example, it finishes the eiffel tower and there will be $300000.00 fans,

a cheering them on. but of course that the rain continues. they've done that very, very right now. we mentioned obviously the security 45000 police officers have been brought in to kind of secure this ceremony. snipers, apparently on reeves police patrols down the river front. so obviously hoping that everything goes off without a hitch added the 50 direct to assess he wants to started front in all its diversity. you know, we have to remember despite all this, this security jonathan 1st and foremost the olympics from talking about a sporting events there is pointing to look forward to on that front. let's take a look. similar files comes to paris looking to add to the full really big goals practices no, always going to plan, but the american gymnast feels better than the tokyo games. 3 years ago the she missed out on gold, citing mental health issues. she gained widespread praise was speaking out about problems, but this time what supposed to be the focus?

yeah, i think everything that i've been through, i want to push the limits. i want to see how far i can go. i wanna see what i'm still capable of so that once i step away from the sport, i can truly be happy with my career and say i gave it my all. and that's how i feel like currently in this position. swimming is center stage with opening go through event set to take place in the same the river, despite pollution, concerns to the pool is where it sat in the 1st week of the games. brittany's adam peachey is a free time gold medalist and he's targeting more glory and the 100 made his breast stroke. the build up has been dominated by 11 chinese women's being given the all clear to competes at the positive doping tests from 2021 will put down to contamination for me i want to satisfy. and if there's no fat and takes enjoyment out from a side, it's, uh, i just do what i do as a walk, a control, get my best preparation. and at this point in time, it just be a distraction to thing. anything else?

uh cuz there's nothing really i can do. i know the brittany meanwhile will say good bye with twice olympic champion. i'm the memory retiring from tennis after the games. roughly on that though, is also close to the end of his career. athletics dominique's the 2nd week of the 4 nights can you spell it? keeps yoga is looking for a food medicine. gold in probably his last games and jamaican spent a silly, i'm afraid the price was to add to the $3.00 golds as a 5th and final olympics, the basketball finals are among the left events in paris. if superstar le bron james looking to lead the us meant the glory, the roster has been compared to the iconic 1992 dream team, which included michael jordan, the mid the glitz breakdown. so you can make space and then pick debut in paris as organize as try to attract young audiences. paris we'll see for the reading is again after the cobit 19 pandemic. big crowds in tokyo, but it's not all back to normal. russian and by the russian athletes can only

compete as neutrals due to the wall renew grain. 2 weeks of sporting drama await. as far as that drama could continue immediately because as tomorrow's, the system and conversations get on the right, 11th of those chinese firm is set to take part and also some competitive. some rivals have already lined up to criticize the anti doping system. that consent is not going to be a level planning sales mark to very good job talking about some of the athletes out . so it more generally about the sport braking as we heard makes it. so let me pick that if you, it's all parts of the international olympic committees plans to make the times more attractive to a younger audience, more inclusive to get the most is that is wide open. the other things, the international olympic committee of focusing on is the space pain ability making sure these are the green is dimes as a hoss the emissions of previous games that you could argue. the fact that millions

of people come to the for the games on airplanes is not really sustainable in itself at the sun use a spectacular. this is i'm open wide outside olympics and we've got the guy that the beach volleyball taking place of the eiffel tower. i, we've got a question of the sensitive sci so it should be a spectacularly visually spectacular games. yeah. and see where they were planning the opening ceremony planning to put on the river. they were not thinking of this being the widest olympic games in history. let's hope it will not be jonathan great in paris for us. thank you. john wears a quick look now. some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. the head coach of canada's women's soccer team has been suspended on the eve of the parents' olympics. the decision by canada is olympic committee to remove beth priest. men came after the team was called spying on its opponents training session using dro type. who came. he has weakened to a tropical storm after hitting mainland china. it has displaced nearly 300000

people in the east of the country. public transport has been suspended across the region to type them and killed more than 2 dozen people after a tour through tie one in the philippines earlier this week to fall in venezuela presidential candidates have held their final rallies ahead of sunday's elections. president nicholas, my bureau is seeking a 3rd term, but things is a serious challenge from edmondo gonzales or to the polls put the former ambassador a head of madeira of the president as well. a quote bloodbath if he loses. authorities in california have arrested the man suspected of starting a massive wildfire on wednesday. officials say it was sparked when he pushed a flaming car into a ravine. thousands have had to flee the wild fire, which is the state's largest of this year. a. kimberly harris says moved one big step closer to securing the democratic party

nomination to run against donald trump for the us presidency in the video that was released today. by her campaign, the vice president who was immune to become the 1st female president and the 1st woman of color to leave the country as gain, perhaps her most important endorsement to date from the man who became america's 1st black president and his wife. com. hello. hi, hey there. oh, your boss together. oh, it's good to hear you, but i, i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl, carla, 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 need so much to me. i'm looking forward to doing this with 2 of you, doug and i both and getting out there being on the road. but most of,

i just want to tell you that the words you have spoken to in the friendship that you have given over all these years, the more than the rest. so thank you both means so much. and we're going to have some fun with this to our and we will be continuing our, our coverage of this presidential race coming up on the day. i'll be speaking with a former national security advisor to come by. here's what was just hours ago until the opening ceremony in paris, the olympic flame has been making its way through the final stages of the torch relay. among the last people to carry the flame was snoop dog. us rapper took the torch to through the northern suburb of sun denise. he was joined by senior and fashion designer, farrah williams. other prominence towards bears on its final leg include former un secretary general bunkie moon. the cauldron will be lit in central paris. later

this he and here's a quick look now some of the other stories were following this hour. the israeli military has released footage of the operation that recovered the bodies of 5 hostages and gods. and now it says 3 of the victims were civilians who died while being held by him off the other 2 were soldiers killed in the october 7th terror attacked. their bodies were then taken into gossip. us authorities have arrested one of the world's most powerful drug lords, is my l. l. my jo lombardo on the left, was taken into custody alongside the son of infamous drug kingpin al chapo in el paso, texas. the justice department said the 2 men, lead mexico's senate lower cartel, one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world. so here's a reminder of the top story. we're following this. our police in france are

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