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marking the 60th anniversary of a civil rights march where the i have a dream speech was delivered by martin luther king jr. and vladimir putin wants wagner mercenaries to swear allegiance to russia after the group's leaders were presumed killed. i'm helena humphrey, glad you could join me. we want to bring you some breaking news now. because in the last few minutes we have been learning that three people have been killed in a mass shooting in jacksonville, florida here in the us. the attack took place at a dollar general store. the shooter is also dead. jacksonville's sheirff says the suspected shooter
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was a white male in his 20s who targeted black people. a glock handgun and a ar—15 style rifle were used in the shooting. authorities also believe the gunman acted alone and that there is no evidence he was apart of a larger group. the shooter authored several manifestos, one to his parents, one to the media, and one to federal agents. portions of these manifestos detailed the shooter's disgusting ideology of hate. plainly put, this shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people. to need to keep you updated with at breaking story. —— we will continue to keep you updated with that breaking news story. spain's football federation has deleted a statement from its official website accusing the world cup winning player, jenni hermoso, of misrepresenting reality. she's accused the head of the federation, luis rubiales, of kissing her on the lips without consent after spain's victory in the final last sunday. the federation has threatened
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her with legal action. mr rubiales has faced a wave of condemnation for his actions but has refused to resign. on saturday, 11 members of the national team's coaching staff have quit in protest at his behaviour. mr rubiales has been suspended from participation in football by the sport's world governing body, fifa. for the latest, here's our madrid correspondent guy hedgecoe. the dispute unleashed by this celebratory kiss after spain's world cup victory shows little sign of fading. the insistence by football federation president luis rubiales that it was consensual has pitted him against the team which lifted the trophy. after refusing to resign yesterday, mr rubiales has labelled jenni hermoso, the player he kissed, a liar and has threatened legal action against her. she has said the kiss was not consensual and made herfeel a victim of an attack.
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a saturday friendly game between two amateur teams in madrid. nunes is watching her son play. but like most people here, it seems there is only one football story on her mind. translation: he's got to resign. he humiliated a woman and he needs to go. he doesn't represent us, he doesn't represent male football let alone female football. now football's world governing body, fifa, has stepped in, suspending mr rubiales from all football—related activity for three months, pending a disciplinary procedure against him. translation: this has now ended the saga temporarily _ because fifa has acted much faster than spain's institutions. but on monday, proceedings will begin against him here in spain. luis rubiales appears to be in a stand—off, notjust with the country's female football players, but also with much of spanish society.
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yet fifa's decision to suspend him it's this whole affair an international dimension. spain is hoping to host the 2013 men's world cup in a joint date with portugal and morocco. but the concern is that this crisis in spanish football could undermine that candidacy. guy hedgecoe, bbc news, madrid. monday marks 60 years since 250,000 people gathered on the national mall in washington on a hot summer's day in august 1963. activists, college students, lawmakers, families, and civil rights leaders travelled by car, bus, train, and on foot to participate in the march on washington forjobs and freedom. the march became a cornerstone event for the civil rights movement and a moment in american history. dr martin luther kinng delivered his celebrated i have a dream speech on the steps of the lincoln memorial. the day would end with a meeting between march leaders and presidentjohn f kennedy.
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the event marked the largest demonstration for human rights in us history and a display of unity among five of the nation's largest civil rights organizations. well, on saturday, dr king's family and civil rights leaders gathered to mark 60 years since that first march in 1963. this year's march comes under the shadow of the supreme court recent striking down of affirmative action in college admissions and abortion rights as well as the nationwide erosion of voting rights and growing threats of violence against people of colour, jews and the lgbtq+ community. but this year, organisers say dr king's dream is newly threatened and more needs to be done. dr king's granddaughter, yolanda renee king spoke at saturday's gathering, telling the crowd of thousands the fight is still not over. 60 years ago, dr king urged us to struggle against the triple evils of racism, poverty and bigotry. today racism is still with us, poverty is still with us
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and now gun violence has come to our places of worship, our schools and our shopping centres. and that's not the only problem that earlier generations didn't expect but my generation cannot escape. earlier i spoke to cbs news washington correspondent natalie brandt about the 60th anniversary about the march on washington. natalie, great to have you with us. you are, of course, there. describe to us what has been going on throughout the course of the day. well, helena, i can say what's striking about today isjust the number of generations represented at this march. we spoke to a 92—year—old woman who was here 60 years ago to be at the very first march on washington.
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march on washington and hear dr king's i have a dream speech in person. and today she returned with four generations going down to a great granddaughter, just one—year—old. so that really speaks to the number of generations involved in this continuing movement. and that's another theme that we heard today across all the speakers that is that the work continues. it's not done. dr martin luther king jr's dream has not fully been realized and that the march towards progress continues. and we also heard from his granddaughter. you played a clip of 15—year—old yolanda king. she also said she would tell her grandfather, i'm sorry that we still have to be here to rededicate ourselves to finishing your work and realising your dream. so the attendees today, thousands of them here at
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the lincoln memorial, they listen to a series of speakers, not only family members of dr martin luther king, but a variety of civil rights leaders across the movement. following that, they marched from here to the mlk memorial, really a sign that they are recommitting themselves to working towards some of these goals. and, natalie, i know that as part of your reporting on the 60th anniversary of the march on washington, you haven'tjust been speaking to people there, you've also been sitting down with people who were there in 1963. they were listening to dr king's i have a dream speech. what have they been telling you about their memories of that day? well, they're all still impacted deeply by that day and that speech that they describe. one woman, margaret wright, described it was etched and sketched
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in her mind. she is someone who returns to this anniversary march each and every year and tries to bring new family members to again include them in the future movement. but one sense in sitting down with a number of people who were here that day is that it's important to try to incorporate and include younger generations and youth because they they remark that the work here is just simply not over. they thought that it might be decades ago, but the fight continues and they really want to impart on people that they have to continue to rally around some of these goals and new challenges to bring you back to to some of yolanda king's remarks. she spoke about challenges you heard gun violence, environmentaljustice and climate change. so really, when there's a reflection over the past six
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decades, there's a sense that there's progress from that day. that day impacted so many, changed lives and careers, rallied more to become part of the movement. but this is a movement that needs to continue to grow and include new communities and new generations of americans. in honour of the 60th anniversary of the march on washington, our caitriona perry spoke to dr king's daughter, dr bernice king, about her father's lasting impact on the us civil rights movement. we're marking 60 years on from the march on washington. yourfather�*s i have a dream speech, how near orfar do you think we are from that dream that he described? well, i mean, in all honesty, the dream that he spoke about is going to take several generations to achieve. i think there's some certain progress that we've made
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since the time he spoke about the conditions that the black community was facing at the time, when he talked about the bag check, when he talked about police brutality, when he talked about some of the economic circumstances, you know, around the black community. a large part of what he was speaking when he got to i have a dream was not to leave people in hopelessness. that in spite of all of these difficult things that we still have to fight in terms of racial and economic injustice and equities, i still have a dream that one day we will live in this kind of world. and we've made progress since then. i mean, if we look at the fact that they made ten demands at their march on washington, the substance of a good percentage of those demands was about civil rights protections and provisions.
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we have those today because of that march on washington. you know, there are things in place that protect people in case of employment discrimination, housing discrimination, federal funds can be withheld. there are things that protect people if their constitutional rights have been violated, the attorney general can institute injunctive relief suits. so these are things we are benefiting from today because of the march on washington and the subsequent passage of the civil rights act, voting rights act and the fair housing act. there are, today, if you're a black citizen in america, you have the right to register to vote at the age of 18 for the most part, there are certain exceptions to that, if you, you know, commit a felony, but for the most part, you can register to vote. in �*63, there were very few black registered voters. in fact, in �*63, there were very few black elected officials. now there are numerous black elected officials in congress, in state houses, you know, in city halls.
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obviously, we've had a black president, we've had a black ambassador to the united nations, black school board members and black county commissioners. so we're in the room now in a way that we weren't. however, with every bit of progress, there's always going to be a backlash. and i think sometimes as we are focused on, you know, continuing to fight forjustice, freedom and equality, we forget that there's going to be this backlash so we don't prepare for it. and so i think it caught us off, i think it caught people off guard this time many of the things that have happened around crt or banning of books, you know, affirmative action. we'll have our full interview with dr bernice king this upcoming monday to mark the anniversary of the march on washington. to other news now, president vladimir putin has called on all employees of wagner, and other russian private military contractors, to swear an oath of allegiance
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to the russian state. the decree applies to anyone participating in military activities in ukraine, assisting the army, and serving in territorial defence units. he signed the order on friday, with it taking immediate effect. it comes two days after wagner leaders were presumed killed in a plane crash. in a separate development on saturday, a far—right sub—unit of wagner, known as rusich, said it was stopping military operations in ukraine. i spoke to retired rear admiral mark montgomery about the wagner mercernary groups future without prigohzhin. great to have you with us, thank you for taking the time. so, now, in the wake of the presumed death of yevgeny prigozhin, we have a situation where president putin is ordering wagner troops to swear allegiance to russia. they have proved reluctant before, they enjoyed better conditions when it comes to pay at least under
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wagner, what do you see happening here?- wagner, what do you see happening here? thank you for havin: happening here? thank you for having me- _ happening here? thank you for having me. that _ happening here? thank you for having me. that is _ happening here? thank you for having me. that is a _ happening here? thank you for having me. that is a great - having me. that is a great question. i assume at this point that you have to look at wagner's two different entities. one is the overseas africa syria libya wagner group which is i am confident will continue to exist. it will probably transition to the russian military intelligence running it, they already did a lot of work with ed. that is critical to maintaining work in africa, syria, and libya and their work to do economic resource extraction. it is more challenging in belarus, the ones you were just referring to, and i think there is a big question, there is a leadership issue as well as a money issue. they were led better, they were paid better, and they performed better than their russian metric counterparts. as a result, many of them are not excited about, most of them came from the russian military, chose to leave it, and i
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imagine they are not excited about returning. 50. imagine they are not excited about returning.— about returning. so, you are sa in: about returning. so, you are saying that _ about returning. so, you are saying that potentially, - about returning. so, you are| saying that potentially, when it comes to troops in africa, for example, they may be led by someone from the gr youbut what specifically could you see potentially happening with those troops that would be deployed to ukraine? do we have any clear ideas about who could take over, in terms of leading that particular unit? hat take over, in terms of leading that particular unit?— that particular unit? not yet. the gr you _ that particular unit? not yet. the gr you wouldn't - that particular unit? not yet. the gr you wouldn't be - that particular unit? not yet. the gr you wouldn't be a - that particular unit? not yet. i the gr you wouldn't be a good leadership model so it would have to beat the russian military. they performed poorly, the few leaders that have performed well have recently been arrested because they took a compliant approach to during prigozhin's mutiny, or were two months ago. my suspicion is the troops in belarus will not go back into ukraine in a meaningful way anytime soon. so this is a
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battlefield lost for the russians over time, but it was probably inevitable after prigozhin �*s mutiny. we probably inevitable after prigozhin 's mutiny. we only have to think— prigozhin 's mutiny. we only have to think back _ prigozhin 's mutiny. we only have to think back to - prigozhin 's mutiny. we only have to think back to the - have to think back to the mutiny, as you were just mentioning committee see that quite clearly, there was that disquiet within the ranks of wagner. is there any potential comedy you think, for a situation in which someone within the group, from within wagner itself, perhaps a high—ranking mercenary, tries to take control in opposition to take control in opposition to the kremlin here? i to take control in opposition to the kremlin here?- to the kremlin here? i will take a short-term - to the kremlin here? i will take a short-term life - take a short—term life insurance policy on anyone who does that. i think we just saw how putting treats people who lead mutinies. isuspect how putting treats people who lead mutinies. i suspect if someone takes over those troops it will be in fealty to vladimir putin and to eventuallyjoin the vladimir putin and to eventually join the fight vladimir putin and to eventuallyjoin the fight in ukraine. flood my putting has been very careful. almost two
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months after the mutiny, he immediately collapsed the trial farms. anything he saw as a direct threat, he got rid of it. he waited a few months on prigozhin but he eventually got his revenge on prigozhin. i don't see anyone needing a direct effort against vladimir putin but i do think someone could emerge to try to lead the wagner troops within a russian military context. the problem is the money, they will not get the kind of compensation from the kind of compensation from the russian general staff that they were from prigozhin. we've also not they were from prigozhin. we've also got this _ they were from prigozhin. we've also got this development - they were from prigozhin. we've also got this development with l also got this development with the other group, a far—right group of fighters who were a subunit of wagner and they have also said they will no longer fighting ukraine, what you think that tells us and what do you think all of this means essentially for russia on the in ukraine?— in ukraine? this is a loss for them. prigozhin _ in ukraine? this is a loss for them. prigozhin was - in ukraine? this is a loss for them. prigozhin was this - them. prigozhin was this
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intense makes, he was aggressive, risk—takers, he aggressive, risk—ta kers, he looked aggressive, risk—takers, he looked for short—term gains, he was wealthy, he was all the russian trash all the things the russian military wasn't. he really provided a spark to theirfighting. there is good for the ukrainians that he is off the battlefield, i think it is good, long—term, as they press forward with a counteroffensive. and i think all of this introduces a level of disquiet and scepticism or fear, paranoia inside the russian military as they don't know exactly who is how and in which way small units are going to play their hand. so i do think overall this is a positive for the ukrainians and distraction, if not a negative, for vladimir putin. 50. distraction, if not a negative, for vladimir putin.— distraction, if not a negative, for vladimir putin. so, let me ask ou for vladimir putin. so, let me ask you this. _ for vladimir putin. so, let me ask you this, with _ for vladimir putin. so, let me ask you this, with all - for vladimir putin. so, let me ask you this, with all of - for vladimir putin. so, let me ask you this, with all of that l ask you this, with all of that in mind, what you think western allies should be doing now to help support ukraine capitalise on this moment? that help support ukraine capitalise on this moment?— on this moment? that is a treat, on this moment? that is a great. that _ on this moment? that is a great, that is _ on this moment? that is a great, that is the -
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on this moment? that is a great, that is the best - great, that is the best question because there is an opportunity here. the united states and its western allies have to provide the longer range artillery that russia has been asking for, excuse me, that ukraine has been asking for. we also need to continue to provide the cluster munitions in significant numbers and we need to provide as much 155 artillery as we can and finally the mind clearing systems that allow us to breach through the russian defences. if the ukrainians had all of those numbers right now, i think we would be in a different position —— position. they can still be gotten the ukrainians in time for early to for some more progress but the reality without those systems, the ukrainians are trapped in a very conventional difficult war. ., ~ ., very conventional difficult war. ., �* ., �* ., " war. retired rare admiral mark montgomery. _ war. retired rare admiral mark montgomery, really _ war. retired rare admiral mark montgomery, really great - war. retired rare admiral mark montgomery, really great to i montgomery, really great to talk to you, thank you for
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coming on. talk to you, thank you for coming on-_ the fbi has confirmed that within hours of releasing the names of 388 people unaccounted for following the devastating maui wildfires that more than 100 were reported safe. authorities made public the names on thursday, asking survivors to come forward so they could focus their efforts on locating the still missing. the official death toll from the fires currently stands at 115. search and rescue teams have been searching through the ruins of the town of lahaina, since wildires swept through more than two weeks ago. my collegue, sumi somaskanda, spoke to representative sean quinlan. he's a member of hawaii's house of representatives, and the chair of its tourism committee. they discussed the recovery, and the impact the fires have had on maui's tourism industry. very good to have you with us. i just want to start with where things are at the moment. hawaii officials releasing a list of almost 400 people who are still missing. how are recovery efforts going? we are still very much in
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assessment and recovery mode. we have sent home about half of the cadaver—sniffing dogs, but we still have portions of the town that we have to search. and how have locals been adjusting as they have been unable to go home? i don't know that we'll ever adjust to this, sumi. it's been incredibly difficult. because there are so many toxic chemicals contained in the ash that has just blanketed the town, we've been really reluctant to let people go back to their homes because we're worried about the health effects and that's been incredibly difficult. to not even be able to sift through your belongings and try to pull something out of the wreckage is very, very hard to bear. yeah, it's hard to imagine, isn't it? i just want to come to that tweet we read from senator brian schatz urging people to come to south maui resorts and he's telling tourists not to cancel their visits. do you agree with this message? i couldn't agree more.
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this is such a tough time. the people are grieving right now, we are all grieving. there isn't anybody in the state that hasn't been affected by this. it doesn't know somebody who's lost a loved one or who lost their home. and we're going to give them their space to grieve and they should take all the time they need. but while they grieve, we have a responsibility to maintain the economic engine that powers maui. 70% of alljobs on the island of maui are directly or indirectly related to tourism. so there was, as you know, a lot of frustration among locals, especially in the immediate aftermath of these wildfires, while some wildfires were still burning, about tourists coming to maui. i want to play you a clip of what one local told the bbc. let's listen. the same waters that our people just died in three days ago are the same waters the very next day these visitors, tourists were swimming in. and that says a lot about where their heart and mind is through all of this and where our heart
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and minds are. you don't see our people swimming, snorkeling, surfing. nobody is having fun in tragedy and continuing their lives like nothing has happened. there is two hawaiis right now. there is the hawaii we're living in and the hawaii they're living in, they're visiting in. so you see a local there, sean, saying there are two hawaiis. do you worry that encouraging tourists to come to south maui could alienate locals? yes, i do. and the resentment towards tourism has been building for over a decade. and it's not unique to maui. i think you can see it on on all islands. i think that in some cases we may have brought in too many tourists. i think that we haven't done a very good job at addressing hot spots that lack infrastructure that have drawn many tourists. but at some point... ..we have to get people back to work and they need jobs to support their families, to pay their rent, to put food on the table. the situation in maui, our economic situation is, i think, more precarious
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than even many people on maui realize. hotels can't run at 30% or 50% occupancy, they're just going to start laying people off. and a lot of other businesses are going to start laying people off because the cancellations are approaching 90%, 95% for august and september. and if we can't get the tourists back quickly, then we lose our flights, we lose our airlift. if we don't have flights, we can't get people back. so we're sort of trying to skirt the edge of this canyon, this chasm, where on one side we're trying to deal with this incredible grief, and on the other side, we understand that we have to keep visitors coming to maui because it's our entire economy and we have to have jobs for people when they're ready to go back to work. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. saturday was certainly a lively day of weather with lots of showers around, some thunderstorms, and.....a water spout!
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well, this was spotted just off the coast of sandown in the isle of wight. looks kind of terrifying, doesn't it? now, the day's showers were particularly widespread across all of the uk. the wettest spot was crosby, merseyside — picking up 20 millimetres of rain — but many of us did see downpours through the day, and right now those showers are continuing to fade away — just one or two continuing across parts of wales and western areas of england, as well. but otherwise, most of us have got clear skies at the moment, with temperatures hovering around about ten to 12 degrees celsius as we head into the first part of sunday. now, there will be a change to the weather for northern ireland on sunday — we've got a little bit of rain coming through here — but for scotland, england, wales, it is another day of sunshine and showers. so a bright start for northern ireland before that band of rain arrives. showers from the word go across wales and western england. but for most of scotland and eastern areas of england, should be a dry start, and heading into the afternoon, the showers will tend to focus along this convergence line
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across eastern england and maybe eastern scotland, too. now, if you're underneath that, yes, you could see some heavy downpours and some thunderstorms, but away from that, should be dry through the afternoon for a good part of west scotland, wales and western areas of england. and where the sunshine comes out, although temperatures for many will be just below average, it will feel warm in the sunshine. reading/leeds festival continues. now, there is a risk of seeing a shower, i think, as we go through sunday. and for notting hill carnival — yes, here, too, we could see an odd passing shower — although for large parts of the day it should be dry. now, heading into what will be bank holiday monday for a number of you, we've got a weak ridge of high pressure moving in, and what that will do is it will tend to kill the showers off. could still be one or two, but not as widespread as we've seen over the course of the weekend. so a bit more in the way of dry weather, a bit more in the way of sunshine, and temperatures an odd degree higher — about 19 to 21 or 22 in the warmest spots. beyond that — tuesday, wednesday, thursday — low pressure dominates, really, the weather picture. well, we've been used
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hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let's go and take a look at what's on the show. across europe, more than half a trillion dollars was spent in the last year protecting people from the high cost of energy. as the colder months come down the pipeline, and the war in ukraine shows no signs of stopping, is there still an energy crisis for europe and america? how much has changed in the market? and will governments have to spend billions again to protect us from massive bills? i'm going to be discussing all of that with these two — there they are — the man behind the official research which europe uses to figure out the direction of energy bills. and a global market specialist who sits on the council that advises the united states government on energy strategy. plus, it's a year since president biden announced hundreds of billions of dollars for the push to clean energy. just months later, europe followed suit. so i'll talk to the boss of one of europe's biggest
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