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hi, welcome to all of our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. thanks is so much for joining me this hour. i'm robyn curnow. just ahead on cnn, the israel, hamas cease fire is still holding and now the attention turns to rebuilding as many palestinians return to devastated homes. also ahead, a volcanic eruption in the democratic republic of congo sends thousands of people rush from the danger. we'll bring you the very latest on this. and getting creative to get shots in arms, what one
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hollywood theater is offering to get people vaccinated at its pop-up clinic. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with robyn curnow. a key member of the israeli cabinet says the israeli military will personally target the hamas leader in gaza if any more rockets are fired towards israel. the finance minister sits on the security can binet said, if the fire israel takes out hamas leaders. this is day three of a delicate cease fire now in place in gaza city. hamas militants paraded through the streets to show they are still in control. israel's foreign ministry is calling on the international community to, quote, condemn and disarm them. much of gaza's basic infrastructure was crippled by the conflict. the u.n. citing figures from the hamas government says more than
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250 buildings were destroyed, more than 760 shops and homes are unusable. nearly half of gaza's 2 million people are without ready access to water. joins me from jerusalem with the latest on this cease fire, which is still holding after three days. >> reporter: it is still holding and i guess we've gone from having a war of rockets and air strikes to just having a war of words, which is clearly a better state of affairs for the people of gaza and the people of israel. it is holding, there is an expectation that it will hold. you've got egyptian delegations in town right now overseeing it. you've also got u.s. secretary of state antony blinken due in israel in the coming days as well, and also to meet with partners in egypt and georgia, we understand. so i don't think that there are of course concerns it is a fragile cease fire, but you know, after those 11 days of fighting and given the stance of the international community, i think it's certainly unlikely in
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the coming days it's going to unravel. of course there are always things that can spark a return to fighting, and at some point there is an expectation i think on both sides, a resignation if you like there, there will be a resumption of fighting at some point. for now it is holding, and the hope is it will continue to hold as long as possible. >> and what's the political fallout from this in israel? >> well, the israeli -- the israeli leadership was -- and the government was at a very delicate stage during, as we went into this round of fighting, the mandate to try to form a government had already been given up by prime minister netanyahu because he was unable to cobble together a coalition. it has gone to the leader of the opposition, and he was seemingly getting closer to getting one of the right wing parties that would ordinarily be alongside netanyahu to come over to the
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a anti-netanyahu block. they stopped those negotiations with the block opposing prime minister netanyahu. he will perhaps feel more emboldened enjoy thousand that elections are brand and given his stance during these last 11 days or so of fighting that he could well have actually b bolstered his popularity going into these elections. the other thing going on in the background is netanyahu's trial for corruption continues. he's very keen to remain as prime minister and will be hoping that the last of this round of fighting even though there is a cease fire and some people even to the right of him are saying that israel should have gone further, should have carried on fighting to do more damage to hamas, netanyahu will be feeling this a much better position now than he was going into the latest round of fighting. >> thanks so much, elliott. the people of gaza are now burdened with trying to recover from 11 days of shelling and air strikes. ben wedeman is in gaza city.
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ben. >> reporter: depending on where you are in gaza, life seems to be getting back to normal. here in gaza city's main square, children play in the evening cool, but just one block away, the extent of the damage from the hostilities becomes clear. hundreds of housing units have been destroyed and israeli air strikes have pushed the already creeking infrastructure to the brink. the u.n. says that around 800,000 people now lack access to running water, and that's out of a population of around 2 million people. the u.n. also says that more than 50 schools were damaged impacting the education of around 600,000 children. on top of that, 17 hospitals have been damaged including gaza's only covid testing center. and then there's unemployment running at almost 50%.
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life here after the cease fire is getting back to normal, but there's nothing norm about life here. i'm ben wedeman, cnn reporting from gaza city. >> thanks, ben for that. now the conflict and its aftermath have sparked an outpouring of sympathy for the palestinians. large rallies took place on saturday in cities around the world including london, paris and new york. more than 90 pro-palestinian events have been planned in the u.s. this weekend as well. now, we're watching the latest on a volcano eruption in the democratic republic of congo. it happened on saturday near the city of goma, and sent panicked residents fleeing, many towards rwanda. >> translator: it's something we've never seen before. we study it, people say volcano, volcano, but really, we've never seen it. never. we're all shaking. >> translator: it seems that the volcano is erupting and the people of goma are very worried because it's an unusual situation. everyone is agitated and
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mobilized. they're all outside to see what is going on. >> the hot lava destroyed a number of homes and other structures in its path. thankfully, those eruptions subsided later on in the evening and the lava flow stopped. la larry madowo joins me from kenya. real concerns about what happens next. >> reporter: aid agencies and the government, robyn saying they're assessing the damage, but the hourly indications are that there will be people who need some humanitarian assistance, possibly thousands, many whom escaped to rwanda last night local time when this volcano erupted and the lava started flowing to the city. they feared that it might come into goma city, which is highly populated. this region, there's about 2 million people that live there. the government telling us the lava stopped just outside of the city limits and did not hit the goma airport either. one neighborhood seems to be the
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worst hit. more homes there have been destroyed, and there's quite a few people who did not have a place to be sleeping tonight. many of those who fled to rwanda across the border are making their way back. rwanda's emergency ministry say they received about 3,500 people. the congolese government said about 3 and 5,000 people crossed the border into rwanda. they're heading back into this neighborhood even though officially the congolese government has not told them it is safe to go back. it is still assessing the damage, held another emergency meeting this morning shared by the president of the democratic republic of congo. this mountain has erupted before. in 2002 it killed about 250 people. in 1977, the worst eruption killed more than 600 people. and volcano experts who watch what's happening here have been saying they've been seeing activity that resembled what
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happened those previous two times. the likelihood is there might be a much bigger disaster a few years away. the other complication, robyn, is that the goma volcanic observatory is out of funds, after the world bank pulled out most of its finances after a corruption scandal. they're not able to do much regular monitoring and warn people. so today a lot of people trying to figure out what happens with their lives, what can they salvage and what happens next. >> thanks for that report there on the ground, larry madowo, thank you. the lava flow might have stopped but the danger isn't over yet. i want to go straight to derek van dam. if you could just explain to us what still might be facing these people around goma, particularly because there is a lava lake, and there's a real concern more could flow out essentially. >> the potential for a future disaster is still a problem, still a danger, but in the short-term, the more immediate
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term is the potential for acid rain. you see, when we get volcanic eruptions like this, sulfur dioxide is erupted into the upper levels of the atmosphere. when we mix that in with rainfall and moisture and oxygen, we have the by-product of acid rain. not saying that has happened. that has been known to happen with previous similar eruptions as well. you mentioned, robyn that the largest lava lake in the world resides within the caldera of this volcano. it's 1.2 kilometers wide in diameter. this is just incredible. you can see the recent eruptions, that 2002 eruption is one that was very fearful for the residents there. that is why they're taking this so seriously. people did perish in that particular eruption, and they left over 200,000 people without homes as they fled the area. mount nyiragongo, a bit of a tongue twister, that erupted at
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7:00 p.m. local time on saturday evening. the lava appearing to be flowing away from -- well, it's completely stopped, but it was at that time when it erupted, witit flowed away from the city of goma. this is a great perspective to show you rwanda to my left, there's goma on the shoreline of the lake within the eastern sections of the drc, and the lava flowing away from the populated areas is good news. that really did spare the largest population density area, but you can see people taking it very seriously as they see these plumes of lava erupting into the upper levels of the atmosphere. talked about the chance of rain and the potential for acid rain. you can see the futurecast with precipitation popping up over the next three days. goma's three-day forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms. a multifaceted threat here and the potential for a long-term danger certainly in the cards. robyn. >> okay, thanks so much for keeping us updated. we'll come back to you if you
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have any more news. thank you very much, derek van dam there. many americans are having second thoughts about getting a covid vaccine. now they're being offered all sorts of incentives just to roll up their sleeves. that's next. and also ahead, the covid crisis in india is so dire that officials in one region are extending a lockdown there for the fifth time. we'll have a live report from the region. that is just ahead. ♪ every scru♪ ♪ every spray ♪ ♪ e every day ♪ ♪ dodove and degree fund local youth programs. ♪ e every day u does good ♪ unilever
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young americans who recently became eligible for vaccinations are turning out in high, high numbers to get their jabs. the cdc says adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 accounted for nearly a quarter of all the first doses given last week. and they only make up 5% of the population. but health authorities like the nation's top infectious disease expert saying that booster shots may be required in the future. >> we are planning for the eventuality that we might need to boost people. we don't know whether we will have to do it and when we will have to do it. there's estimates while it may be a year, it may be a little bit longer, there's no set rule now that says in six months or
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in a year we're going to get -- we're going to require a boost. >> despite the high number of young people getting their shot, the u.s. vaccination rate is still done by almost half since its peak in april. well, now businesses and state governments are offering americans incentives to roll up their sleeves. a theater in los angeles is actually jumping on the train and hoping people don't throw away their shot at a chance to win hamilton tickets as paul vercammen now reports. >> reporter: los angeles county strategy now has moved from the large vaccine sites to smaller pop-up sites such as this one. the pantagious theater, it's broadway west. what they offered up here was a chance to win "hamilton" tickets, three speparate pairs. they came in here, they could get the johnson & johnson or the pfizer vaccine and then enter that lottery. one father who already had the vaccine, watched his son get vaccinated and he was ecstatic.
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>> waiting so long just to have the theater open again, you know. that's a big -- that was definitely the driver in this, you know, other than getting him vaccinated and everybody in the house vaccinated, to win "hamilton" tickets amazing, amazing. >> i love theater, and i've seen a few shows here like "cats" so and i would love to win the tickets to "hamilton" because if you get the vaccine today you are entered in a drawing to win the tickets and i hadn't got my vaccine yet, so i decided to come today and get the johnson & johnson because it is one and done. and it was not the only vaccine site l.a. offering free tickets. across the city there was a chance to win lakers season seats by getting vaccinated, and we're seeing this trend throughout the country. many places offering up incentives for people to get a shot in the arm and achieve that herd immunity.
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reporting from the pantageous theater in hollywood, i'm paul verc verc vercammen. as life in had the u.s. returns to semisembome semblanc normality, earlier cnn spoke can psychiatrist kelly syrus about how to confront a few of those anxieties. take a listen to a bit of her advice. >> i think that right now people are still trying to understand what it's like to get back to real life, and i think first of all just naming it and knowing that it's acceptable and that a lot of people might feel this way is the first thing to do. secondly, what are you most afraid of, or what are you most nervous about? be able to ask those questions and follow up and get the answers and try to acknowledge what you can control versus what you can't. are there things like flying on a weekday where the airport is less congested or being prepared to minimize the stress of the rest of the family by having your headphones, your ipad, all the snacks you need ready so you
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don't have to worry about eating at the airport. having that open conversation with each member of your family, especially the children and finding out what their anxieties are. >> well, uk officials have been taking a look at how well some vaccines work against the variant first identified in india. a new study examined results from pfizer biontech and oxford astrazeneca found that two doses of either vaccine are, quote, highly effective against the india strain. british authorities are investigating another covid variant, the av-1 strain dubbed the yorkshire variant has infected 49 people in northwest england. we're also getting new details on just how desperate the coronavirus situation is in india. the country has topped more than 26 million cases and officials in delhi are now extending the region's lockdown for the fifth time until the end of may. for more on all of this, let's go straight to will ripley.
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you're in the region, you're in taipei. what more can you tell us. >> reporter: robyn, the situation across the indo-pacific is a cautionary tale for countries with low vaccination rates. here in taiwan, in india, in thailand, in singapore, all countries that for months thought that they had this thing under control, they're now dealing with some of their worst outbreaks ever. that's certainly the case here where the virus snuck in through airports. in thailand, it's the overcrowded prisons where scores of inmates are getting sick and they're struggling to get enough vaccines in. in india, as we shift focus to these rural hospitals some of them are struggling a huge influx of patients who are facing really difficult conditions right now. >> reporter: pigs root in filth and water outside this hospital in behar state in india. it looks like no place for healing, with its broken walls, abandoned ambulances, but
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patients are still being treated here. many for coronavirus. the sick as well as the staff must trudge through dismal conditions to get inside. >> translator: the hospital will be 100 years old in four years. it was the only big hospital here several years ago. due to the low lying area, there is an issue of water logging at the hospital. there is filth all over. >> reporter: cases across india have decreased, down from more than 400,000 new cases reported in a day in early may to nearly 260,000. still, the country's health care system is overwhelmed in places, and there's a shortage of vaccines. delhi became the latest state to halt its vaccinations of adults under the age of 45. some help is slowly coming in from russia, with shipments of its sputnik v vaccine. >> by the end of may, about 3
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million doses will be supplied in bulk. >> reporter: the plan then is for india to begin producing the russian vaccine with a goal of making more than 815 million doses, the sputnik v is a two-dose regimen. the coronavirus is also taking its toll in other parts of asia. some streets in taiwan look like a ghost town. it too is suffering from a surge of coronavirus cases and a lack of vaccines. taiwan's health minister asking the u.s. for help in getting the critical supplies. cases are soaring in thailand, too, where clusters of covid-19 infections have emerged in the country's overcrowded prisons. bangkok began a vaccination drive dolling out shots of the chinese sinovac vaccine and astrazeneca to inmates. the shortage and at times dismal conditions across parts of asia making this wave of the
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coronavirus that much more difficult to contain. countries are struggling to get the vaccines that they need. here in taiwan they've ordered tens of millions of doses. only 700,000 have arrived and they're refusing china's offer to use china-made vaccines citing a law that those vaccines can't be used on humans. of course there's also the situation of just not enough people getting those shots in arms, and a lack of herd immunity and the problems that that causes. with the exception of singapore, nearly every country in the indo-pacific region has vaccination rates in the low single-digits. robyn, when you have variants like the uk variant, the india variant spreading so quickly here, it also means that many of the cases could be far more severe. >> okay, thanks so much for that report there, will ripley in ta taipei. a prominent member of the hong kong trail racing community
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is among the 21 people killed in a marathon tragedy in northwest china. he's being remembered as one of the best ultra endurance athletes in the world. chinese state media report extremely cold weather killed the 21 runners, at least eight others were sent to hospital, and you can see some of the search and rescue efforts going through the night into early sunday here. the 100 kilometer race began saturday under seemingly normal conditions. but as the weather turned bad, icy rain and gale forced winds lashed the many. some in higher altitudes reported hypothermia. the race was called off. by sunday morning, more than 150 people were confirmed safe. and a volcano erupts sending people running from their homes. when we return, we talk to somebody who witnessed this terrifying moment and shows us the destruction it left behind.
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welcome back to all of our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it's 29 minutes past the hour. i'm robyn curnow. you're watching cnn. so this is day three of a cease fire that has restored calm for the people of israel and gaza. and an israeli official is now warning if there are any more rockets, israel will, quote, eliminate the hamas leader in gaza. 11 days of israeli shell strikes
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left gaza in shambles. more than 250 buildings were destroyed and more than 760 shops and homes are unusable. nearly half of gaza's 2 million people are without ready access to water. more than 50 schools were damaged and are now closed. meanwhile, in the u.s., a 23-year-old is facing charges this a suspected hate crime attack on a jewish man in new york. just a warning a,, the video yo are about to see is disturbing. investigators say the suspect is among the people you see here assaulting joseph morgan thursday. he's charged with assault in the second degree as a hate crime along with other charges. if convicted, he can face up to three and a half years in prison. another suspect has been arrested in another alleged anti-jewish hate crime in los angeles. officials say xavier pabon was arrested on friday and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. the victim was attacked outside a restaurant last week. and tens of thousands of
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haitians living in the u.s. can again apply for humanitarian protection thanks to the biden administration. arlette saenz has the details from the white house. arlette. >> reporter: the biden administration is granting humanitarian protections to haitians currently in the united states, opening the door for more than 100,000 haitians to apply to lawfully remain in the country. this will be done through the temporary protected status program, which is essentially a type of relief offered to people from country where is it's deemed to be unsafe to return. this had been under consideration for quite some time, and the homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas said a number of factors played into the decisions including security concerns, social unrest and a rise in human rights abuses back in haiti. this will be an 18-month program, and it only applies to haitians in the united states as of may 21st. this follows a path that was
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taken by the obama administration back in 2010 when they extended temporary protected status to haitians after that devastating earthquake in the country. but the trump administration tried to undo that, saying that they would not continue offering that status to haitians, and the biden administration had been under pressure from immigrant advocacy groups and abctivists o make this another extension going forward. ultimately, these immigrant rights groups are happy with this decision as the biden administration is now extending it for another 18 months. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. >> thanks, arlette for that. now the u.s. military keeps announcing progress towards its goal of withdrawing all troops from afghanistan by september 11th. it says the progress is up to 20% complete, but not everyone who puts their lives at risk gets to leave the danger. many afghan translators will be left behind stuck in a visa process that could take years.
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it's something iraqi translators know all too well. some still have not received permission to treturn to the u.. the message they'd like to send the u.s. president. >> when we last reported on the plight of iraqi and afghan translators left behind by the u.s. government, you're seeing for his own safety, reached out to me in hiding and afraid for his life. >> i am hiding always, okay? yes, me and my family and worry and afraid. afraid for everything, okay. >> yuseen was a translator for the u.s. army in iraq from 2009 to 2011, spent years trying to get the u.s. special immigrant visa he was promised for his service for putting his life on the line. >> six years and no one call me, no one call me to make a first interview. >> reporter: his most recent of several death threats from
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insurgents was four months ago. in 2006 i spoke to a teenage girl we called sarah to highlight the job those translators did for u.s. troops. the diminutive sarah might be short on height but is strong on courage, said her u.s. friends who asked us to hide her face. >> i'm serving my country. i'm serving the u.s. army. it's fun, but dangerous at the same time. >> reporter: it is a crucial job because these people are not just dealing in words, they are dealing in people's lives. american and iraqi. >> reporter: sarah was lucky, one of those who got that precious visa. she now lives in the u.s. ali, not his real name either is married with four kids is one of thousands of unlucky ones after working for six years for u.s. troops, he still waiting and hears nothing. >> we're cursed. we're like living in hell, dying every day, but not dying. >> reporter: ali, like yasin has
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been threatened, even shot at more than once on the way home, viewed as a traitor by the terrorists u.s. troops fought. >> threatening messages say we already know that you have worked for the united states army. so you are a traitor, and traitors always get what they deserve. >> reporter: as for the value of the job those people did, listen to those from sarah's unit. >> i admire her courage. it's kind of hard to say you're scared of something when you have a 19-year-old girl sitting there beside you who's half your size who's unafraid of anything that's going on. >> reporter: back in baghdad, ali has a message for the u.s. president. >> president biden, i want you to save our lives for we saved your sons' lives, the people in the military. we can't wait. our killers, our assassins, they'll go just like boom, and we're out. there will be no more tomorrow
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for us. >> reporter: michael holmes, cnn. >> thanks, michael for that story. you're watching cnn. just ahead, the journalist who obtained that bbc interview with diana princess of wales back in 1995 is speaking out. what he has to say about her and her sons. new dove men plant-based body w wash is different. with plant-based cleansers... ...and moisturizers. for healthy and hydrated men's in. relax your body d mind. shower with new dove men.
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i want to get you the latest on that volcanic eruption in the democratic republic of con ga. it happened on saturday near the city of goma. it sent hundreds of panicked residents fleeing. thankfully the lava flow has stopped. many of those who fled are now returning to their homes. one witness took this photo of some of the damage the lava left behind. you can see the charred remains of the structure here. that witness actually joins us now, the communications officer for unicef in goma. hi, jtell us what you saw.
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>> it's been amazing scenes over the last 24 hours here in goma. last night everything seemed fairly normal. then suddenly we were warned that it was time to vacate the premise. >> and then what happened? >> we were warned to vacate the premises and everyone headed for the border with rwanda. i hope you can hear me. >> yes, i can. keep on going. >> and went -- and as you can imagine, it was fairly chaotic scenes at the border with rwanda. thousands of people trying to get through, 5,000 people did manage to get through, an awful lot didn't, and you can imagine that through the streets of goma, through much of last night, people were wandering around carrying mattresses desperately trying to find an escape route. and all through the night, you could see the volcano flaring above the town. there were minor earthquakes.
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it was fairly frightening for the people of this town. now we have a sense of calm and the hope is that the volcano has finished erupting and we won't have a repeat of what happened in 2002 when several hundred people were killed. >> and these images that we're seeing of this lava flow, just give us some sense of where this was filmed because obviously there is a relief that this flow didn't make it all the way to goma goma, but what have people been telling you about this lava flow that looks absolutely terrifying? >> i think the feeling is that goma's had a lucky escape so far, and to give you some idea, if you imagine a wide river, instead of having a wide river, you have lava flows coming out of this volcano. and what was especially frightening for the people of the town is they had no prior warning because this volcano is one of the most unpredictable in the world and people just
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weren't informed that an eruption was forthcoming. so it was rather like seeing a huge orange light, if you like, hovering above the town last night, and no one knowing for certain where the lava was going to go, and people in this country know all too well just how dangerous volcano eruptions can be. in 1997, for example, 600 people were killed in a volcano eruption here. so people know the dangers, but it was the uncertainty i think surrounding the eruption that was so frightening. >> and you just didn't know if this lava was going to bear down on goma. give us some sense of what it smells like. obviously we know there's a lot of sulfur that comes from volcanic eruptions. i know that derek van dam, our meteorologist has warned that there's a chance potentially of acid rain. is there any preparations for that? >> no, but as far as the relief operation is concerned, unicef
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and other aid agencies are conducting a sort of quick assessment and various things have rapid response units on hand to help people who have lost their homes. it's estimated that around 500 households are being destroyed, and to give you some idea, we went there this morning. we saw the destroyed houses, it looked almost like -- i hope oi'm not being too graphic. you have this very black environment with smoke coming out of the ground and distraught people trying to find what's left of their possessions amid this very, very sulfurous smell as you described. my colleague suffers from asthma and couldn't stay there for too long because it is a very, very powerful smell. >> and obviously you work for unicef. this is terrifying and traumatic for adults, but for children who would have had to deal with this in the middle of the night and
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potentially have to evacuate, as you said, try and rush across the border to rwanda, how are some of these kids doing with what they experienced overnight? >> the one thing you can say is they are amazingly resilient. the children are very resilient too. but even by congoese standards this was very frightening. families were carrying mattresses on their heads desperately trying to get into rwanda, not able to do so. children in tow. this morning we have the distressing spectacle of children helping their parents gather what household remains are left after the lava destroyed their homes. so you're absolutely right. this has been very traumatic. >> alastair lawson, thank you very much for bringing us the perspective there on the ground. i'm so glad, like you said, that
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goma has had a lucky break. the former bbc journalist who sat down with diana princess of wales for a major interview back in 1995 has a message for her sons william and harry. he says he's deeply sorry. martin bashir tells the "sunday times" he never wanted to harm diana and doesn't think he does. an inquiry came out saying bashir had used deceitful methods to secure that interview. prince william claimed this worsened his mother's paranoia. isa suarez joins me more with the fallout on this. what can you tell us? hi. >> reporter: a very good morning to you, robin, the fallout continues since the lord dyson report came out last week. this is the first time we are hearing from reporter martin bashir since that interview 25 years ago. and the first time we're actually hearing from him since that lord dyson report came out last week that showed that martin bashir used really d
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deceitful behavior to try to secure that interview with princess diana. it also revealed that the bbc not only knew that he used that deceitful behavior but the bbc covered it up. this is what he says, a broken man who can't quite admit he wronged diana and what it says, i'll read you a little excerpt of what it says for our viewers to get a sense. he says he's deeply sorry to prince william and to prince harry, but he says i never wanted to harm diana in any way and i don't believe we did. everything we did in terms of the interview was when she wanted from when she wanted to alert the palace to when it was broadcast to its contents, my family, and i loved her. and really, as further evidence he puts as proof really how closely he was with princess diana. he actually shows a photo here of his wife, in hospital, having had their third child with
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princess diana as proof of how close they were and really how much he cared deeply for her. now, he did say he was sorry. he did apologize for using those fake documents, but he can't really quite bring himself to admit that he duped her throughout this interview. he duped princess diana. now, there was regret also in this interview, but he believes that what he did had no bearing on princess diana's interruviewr no bearing on her decision to do that interview for him. he also rejects the charge by prince william earlier this week, really scathing by prince william and prince harry. he rejects a charge by prince william that the way the interview was obtained, robyn, fueled really her isolation and princess diana's paranoia. there is without a doubt in this interview a sense of defiance from martin bashir.
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some may go as far as to say a sense of arrogance from the former bbc reporter. it's clear that 25 years on, you're still seeing the impact of this interview. in the last 24 hours, tony hall, lord hall who was the head of the bbc at the time who actually led one of the investigations into this interview, he has stepped down from his role as chairman of national gallery, perhaps because really prince of wales is patron of that charity. he has apologized again for what happened 25 years ago. before i leave you, i wanted to let you know in the last few minutes, home secretary has come out talking about the bbc. she said the public trust and confidence in the bbc has been compromised and the bbc needs to reflect, it says on what happened on that report and rebuild and regain trust of its people. robin. >> isa soares, thank you for
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energy of the crowd to make sure that he was still a stroke clear by the end of the day. >> i think that because i feel or believe that i'm playing really well and i have an opportunity to contend for a major championship on sunday, i just know i'm having a lot of fun, and i'm very appreciative of the way the people have been supportive. but it is nice to have people out here enjoying the game and supporting us the way they have. it's been a lot of fun. >> mickelson goes to bed knowing that sunday could bring his sixth major title, 17 years after his first. at the age of 50, he could also become the oldest man to win a major. 11 other american golfer, brooks koepka is looking for his fifth major and his third pga championship in just four years. >> it just feels good. it feels normal. that's what you're supposed to do. it's what you practice for, so right where i want to be, and we'll see how tomorrow goes. i'm the final group. that's what you want. at least i can see what phil's
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