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1980. stopping the drug trade on land and at sea, how smugglers are using submarines to sneak cocaine into europe. the price of not paying up, twitter users see blue checks this appear. ♪ welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we started sudan where street battles are being fought in the capital of khartoum. despite calls for a cease-fire to market the muslim holiday. they said they had agreed to a three day truce, the army did the same, but bombing, shelling and gunfire continued. 400 people have been killed. i work correspondent lives in

khartoum and is one of the few journalists reporting from the city of 5 million inhabitants. >> security is increasing. some still want to pray. they could hear frightening -- fighting from across the city. >> we were afraid whether it is nothing we can do. we are used to praying here. the streets were empty, which frightened us. we hope that things will be better. >> it is a sad day. we hope that god raises this hardship and protect everyone. sudan doesn't deserve this. sudan doesn't deserve this. these people fighting should see how the situation in the country turned out to be, and how people are handling it. >> from this conflict, hundreds

dead, thousands in jails, hospitals -- the armed leader hopes for victory. >> the destruction and sounds of bullets have left no room for happiness, which our people deserve. we are saddened by how events have unfolded, but hope remains we believe overcome this ordeal. >> the streets are empty, it is hard for people to get food and water. >> the babies -- spoke to one british man. >> we are not leaving where we are. you are living in one room and running to the basement when it gets bad. sleep in the basement. it is too dangerous. >> some are making the dangerous journey out of the capital, despite the risk. >> we were born here, but the

fight is near us. we can't sleep because of fear. we left our homes, my children, i went towards the city. >> people left here do not have time. they are hoping the prayers will be answered soon. bbc news, khartoum. >> let's take a look at why it matters to so many other countries. sudan is not only the third largest country in africa, it stretches across an unstable vital region, it borders seven countries. whatever happens in their, ripples across a fragile parts of the continent. the country straddles the nile river, making its fate of importance downstream to egypt and upstream to ethiopia. star for spills if it -- into

chad and a fighter some chad often flow freely across the regions borders. much the same is true with libya to the northwest. sudan borders of northern ethiopia's tigray region, which evolved -- came out of a grueling fight. south sudan broke away from its neighbor after one of africa's longest and bloodiest civil wars. i am joined now by the former abbasid or to ethiopia. thank you for being with us. earlier we heard from the general, giving a speech. in it he said we are confident that we can overcome this ordeal, but fighting continues in sudan. what do you think this country will be facing in the coming weeks? >> i'm pessimistic.

i am normally optimistic, but i am pessimistic, this is a fight to the finish between the two generals. there is no room for compromise. only one of them commit number one. what s this off remains a huge friction point, integrating the support forces into the sudanese armed forces. it's going to end with either one side defeating the other side, in which case the losing partner will be exiled or -- the other way is it will be a civil war. along the lines as what is happening in libya. >> you say you believe it could be a fight to the finish. the speed with which the crisis

has engulfed this capital has been staggering to watch. the biden administration knows these military men, do you think he took his eye off the ball with this situation? >> not really, the administration has been following events in sudan, like it has to follow events in every country in the world. there was no clue that somebody was going to pull the trigger. the international community had been putting pressure on the two military leaders to start the civilian transition. it was at the two generals that started the fighting, despite whatever the community was doing. they were the ones that made the choice. >> we have seen the fighting centering around the airport in khartoum. as a former ambassador, what are your instincts and experience tell you about the potential for that to happen?

>> i think that the fighting is going to go on for a long time. because i don't believe either side will have problems being resupplied. if one or the other ran out of munitions, that would be one thing, but they both have partners they can be getting resupplied from. i remain pessimistic that -- will prevail in the nile valley and khartoum. but that general -- can retreat to a western sudan. i hope i am wrong. i fear i may be right. >> the former u.s. assistant secretary of state african affairs and former u.s. abbasid are to ethiopia. thank you. >> we are turning to france where a court in paris has convicted a lebanese canadian

professor of carrying out an attack on a synagogue more than four tickets ago. four people were killed and dozens injured, and the dges decided that hassan diab always though young men who planted the bomb. >> this took place so long from the events in question. it took place in 1980, it was a famous attack on the synagogue which killefour people, injured many more. for a long time, the investigation was hitting a brick wall. it was clear there was a middle eastern connection, no one knew. in 1999, this name of this man, hassan diab, was linked to the attack. the french authorities have been trying to mount the case against him and get him to come back to face trial. he had become a canadian citizen, he was a lebanese and palestinian extraction.

in 2014, he was extradited, in 2018, a judge throughout the case, he went back to canada or he is now. he is a teacher of sociology in ottawa. another judge ruled there was a case, the trial has happened, which had both sides of the argument that the defense arguing it has not the man, it is mistaken identity and the evidence is so old that it cannot be regarded as reliable. the court chose to prefer the motion of the prosecution, which on the basis of a passport, lincoln came to the scene, established that hassan diab was the man who planted the bomb in 1980. he is being convicted and sentenced to life in prison. he is still in canada, the next stage is another long

extradition battle to get him to come to france, they will probably have to be another trial. >> it has been an eventful day in british politics. the u.k. deputy prime ministers stepped down following a report into alleged bullying. he defended his conduct, writing that the findings or flawed. richie sunak accepted the pregnant station but said there had been shortcuts in the process. chris mason caught up with him and has more. >> the man who was deputy until this morning, the man who was just the secretary but to no planes -- now claims and injure and how his conduct the scene. he has now resigned, but thinks the inquiry that finished him off was flawed. >> is this a stitch up? >> i wouldn't describe it that

way, i resigned because i said i would, if there was any adverse finding, i am true to my word, i do think it sets a dangerous precedent. if you look at the reporting, it has missed all of the claims against me. if found i had been -- it also highlighted three instances where i had been unintentionally abrasive. >> what is in the report? the lawyer says he acted in a way that was intimidating. in the sense of unreasonably and persistently aggressive conduct. it is also involved in abuse or misuse of power in a way that is undermining or humiliating, he went further than was necessary over appropriate, and delivering feedback and was insulting. he says esther rob was abrasive

and described work done for him was utterly useless and woeful. a description understood as insulting personal criticism. >> you can watch it the entire interview with dominic raab on our website. for those of following the story, the new deputy prime minister, he is a long-term ally of rishi sunak, and lawyer alex? will step in as justice secretary. >>'s divisors of this year's devastating earthquake in syria have told the bbc they feel forgotten and still haven't received the aid they need. more than 7000 people died when the tremor hit to the countries rebel held north west which is already suffering from the effects of 12 years of war. ever correspondent reports from the syrian province. >> there were the scars of a long and painful conflict, then

the fresh wounds of a devastating earthquake. this home carries them both. more than 4 million people fled to inland looking for safety, but on that february night, in this war-ravaged land, they did not find it. the 20 earthquakes killed thousands, 300 died in this building alone. she is 13, she and her brother have steerable policy, cerebral palsy. the care they need is not possible. >> we started screaming but no one could hear us. everyone had left, but we were stuck because the door handle broke. >> this is where you see the impact of the devastating conflict like this one. this home was already destroyed by an airstrike, imagine how terrifying and must've been to wake in the dark, feeling those tremors of an earthquake, and

knowing this was all you had for protection. this family was lucky to escape alive. the living sleep next to the dead. the surviving patriarch remembers them all. document -- men, women and children, all. together in this mass grave. just three years old. children who only ever knew conflict in their short lives. >> 16 buildings collapsed on the residence, and people and children went missing. we were already suffering from

the war and everything. then this earthquake came and increased our suffering. >> 7000 fresh graves, a new level of destruction and a country that has already lost so much. anna foster, bbc news. >> police in canada are investigating the largest gold heist in the country's history. or than $15 million of gold has been stolen from toronto's international airport. the public was le unattended and the thieves gained access. police described it as a career incident. united nations has warned that saving the world's -- is a lost cause. they have found that glaciers have melted at an alarming speed , describing their loss in

europe as off the charts. the report said the effects were obvious from the accents of extreme heat waves across europe, china and somalia. british border officials have seized more than a ton of cocaine found floating in the english channel. the latest hall in a year of a record costs. europe is facing a huge cocaine crisis with the smugglers using submarines to get shipments to south america. europe correspondent nick has that story. >> international criminal gangs sinking to new depths to get cocaine into care. marcos subs helping to flood the continent with the drug. this is the first summer rain known to have brought cocaine from south america. the three men on board were arrested after reaching the spanish coast. this is where they lived for nearly a month.

it is so cramped and claustrophobic in here. the food they had, energy bars, sardines, the toilet was a back in the corner. they have nothing else. apart from three tons of cocaine in the front, worth more than 100 million pounds. spanish police said they detected a second cocaine summer rain, but any cargo had disappeared. >> they are very hard to detect. in more than 20 years of traffickers using summering to reach africa and to europe, these two are the first we have seized. >> law enforcement across europe are fighting a surgeon cocaine production. they say they just dismantled the biggest known coke factory, the continent has ever seen. the spanish police have re-created the drugs a factory and the assembly line, starting with this, raw coca pace.

it would then be cooked up using chemicals, it would be pressed, they would weigh the products they have. this is 150 kilos worth of cocaine, purity of 95%. what you see here on this table has a street value of around 9 million euros. that is about 8 million pounds. it is in belgium where the biggest amounts of cocaine are being seized at the port of antwerp, and hundred 10 tons were intercepted in 2020 two. huge quantities are getting through. this judge fears it is out of control. >> it makes an absolute fortune for those we call narco traffickers. with money laundering and

corruption which is now limitless in terms of sums that can be offered, how do you want us to have control over criminal organizations? >> italian police found 400 million euros worth of cocaine bobbing off the sicilian coast. the united nations is warning that international gangs are looking to expand into africa and asia. arabs cocaine crisis is getting wider and deeper. >> nick give us a behind-the-scenes look on how he put that report together. >> i want to give you an insight into how we put this together. what we did, we met about half a dozen key characters. they have formed the basis of the film. people like this man, who was convicted drug smuggler, he brought a lot of his cocaine through the work of antwerp in

elgin. my colleague, who deserves a lot of credit, tracked him down. this guy is repentant, he says what he did was wrong, but he give us insight into how easy he thought it was to get cocaine into the country. we thought to talk to customs in belgium. i was impressed by what the guy said here. the head of customs said they are facing a tsunami of the drug coming in. he said we are never going to this battle. we talked to a man who is disguise, he has used cocaine for eight years now. he asked us if we could protect his identity. he says he has been using cocaine at work, during parties, when he goes to see his family, the problem is he is getting

lots of advertisements on his phone. one dealer has his number, he gets imparted with things, he doesn't want to buy it, but he is in. this is how it took shape, the documentary. >> some twitter users are seeing a red over the loss of their tics, twitter has canceled the social status symbol for those who haven't paid, that includes the pope, beyonce and jk rowling. they must pay to subscribe to twitter blue. or elon musk will pay for you. >> there is confusion on twitter today, because the blue tics, the language to say whether account is what they say there are, are gone. under elon musk, the policy, you have to buy a blue tick, you have to subscribe. lots of people have lost their

tics. trusted doing -- trusted news sources have lost their blue tics. there are other accounts like this bbc account which is not to fort bbc news, which does not have a blue check anymore. it means that an account, a person who wants to change their name to look like mine, can pretend to be me, and person ain't me. it will be difficult for people to figure out who people are. that is a worry because when people are pushing disinformation and hate, it makes it easier. you can purchase a loop check. it might make people think you are to be trusted when you are not. pope francis, or celebrities who have lost their checks, have a great tick, where they used to

have a verified loop check. there are some people who have said, i am not going to buy one. it elon musk decided to buy one him. it means that when we want to work out whether an account is who they say they are, we need to look at other clues. clues alike how many followers they have. there are other clues, look at their old tweets, whether what they are sharing is what you expect. this is happening amid a culture of chaos and change act twitter. today is the day to be wary on twitter. >> i also lost my blue check. it is queen elizabeth's birthday, she would have been 97. to mark the occasion, kensington palace released a photo of her

surrounded by her grandchildren and great grandchildren. the princess of wales took the photograph. it shows prince george, princess charlotte, and prince louis standing next to their gamgam. thank you for watching world narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪

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good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna nawaz is away. on the "newshour" tonight, the fate of abortion pill access in the hands of the supreme court. as allies ramp up military support, we speak with the head of ukraine's national security council about the recent u.s. intelligence leak. >> i will let you in on a little secret everyone is gathering intel on everyone, it's a different question when this data is made public. it must be uncomfortable for those who should have prevented that. >> and, david brooks and jonathan capehart join us to discuss this week's headlines.