in the museum of paris, 26 artifacts were returned to benin at the end of last year.t the ceremony in benin, those are saying that this is something is happening more and more and france is a leading the way in that regard. in a bid to see all of these historical artifacts returned to the country of origin. >> you have been looking into claims suggesting that though don't return fake traditional masks to the congo, and frank that they cap the originals -- ckept the originals. it is false. this is an image that has been doing the rounds. it was on different platforms. one such example is this one here saying please tell me it is a joke. the museum need to to really verify the autnticity of this mask. it is urgent. a mask that was returned this year brought by member of the village of royal family drink an official visit and given on loan to the congo. the mask was not looted, it was acquired legally and ended up in the museum in belgium. on the left you have the claims this was the original mask and that there was some sort of copy made and that the original mask was n

british museum houses the largest collection of benin bronzes in the world. though it is involved in discussions about the possible repatriation, it is still yet to return a single one. tejani believes there is room for compromise. >> we're not saying we want them displayed all in nigeria. we want the objects to still continue to be our ambassadors in those countries. but under our terms. >> reporter: despite progress, thousands remain on display outside of nigeria, unclear when or if these priceless works will return to their rightful home. zain asher, cnn, lagos. >>> and before we go, some ukrainians are using 3-d technology to preserve their cultural heritage during the war. a group called backup ukraine is using volunteers to scan cultural landmarks and artifacts using an arapp -- using an app, rather. the software creates 3-d images which organize sarrs say can bed to reconstruct the objects if they end up being damaged. hundreds of cultural sites have been hit since russia's war began. >>> that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. for v

benin went against the brain in october 2021, legalizing abortion up to 12-- against the grain in octoberalizing abortion up to 12 weeks. julia: turning to other world news, ukrainian forces are retreating f from the key eastern city of severodonetsk after weeks of fierce fighting. the withdrawal leaves all of the luhansk region under russian control except for one city. russian forces are also advancing there. it has been coming under increasingly heavy bombardment. the setback could pave the way for russia to seize the largest wave of the dundas. -- donbas. reporter: after weeks of intense bombardment, russian forces are poised to capture severodonetsk. the governor of the province of luhansk says ukrainian troops have received in order to withdraw from the city. he said remaining impositions smashed to pieces over many months just for the sake of staying there does not make sense. severodonetsk has been reduced to rubble. the luhansk governor says all critical infrastructure has been destroyed, 90% of the city's damage, 82% of the houses will have to be demolished. capturing it effecti

at this point we're being told no evacuations have been ordered for that brush fire in benin sha but of course, venetia. if you're familiar, right, it's just directly across the bay or the delta. i guess you could say from where that fire is burning in the ports cost area and we have been hearing from people in venetia that they were seeing the smoke smelling the smoke from that court. cost of fire. so certainly this is a situation where you have multiple fires going on in these different areas. we do want to remind people that there are evacuation orders for the vacaville area fire near one of those delaine so if you are in that area, you know these are live pictures here from pleasanton. but there are these other fires that are happening where cal fire is really urging people up in that vacaville area to leave their homes. evacuate the area so they can get their equipment and we also just want to let you know that we do have crews that are heading there to the scene right now and trying to make their way through the traffic to get there so that we can bring you some live reports as

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i really thought he benefited from benin even though the personalities were very much in conflict. he had leaked problems there but you need people like that around. you need people who can tell you know and you need people who can stand up.i would love to work for trump and i came this close to meeting him two times. one time was right after the io election but before the inauguration. and i asked bennett about this book and trump had just left 30 minutes before. the next time was in 2017 before abandoned retired and he said he had enough for new jersey. i missed shaking hands with ronald reagan by this distance. i was doing an event for ronald reagan n at the western white house but it was over the hill. any of you been to theranch ? small, right, really small. the whole house is about the size of this room. you can't hold public ntevents there is they just don't have the facility for so they were holding an event another guys ranch over the hill called in concert at the white house. it would have beverly stills of the metropolitan opera was the host and she would host once a mon

a run will score, the royals will go up one to nothing early, little more to come here to andrew, beninlast 16 games. they could use your support. so if you want to head out to the coliseum this afternoon. they are taken on the royals. who by the way hung out here all week. they got to play the giants that had a day off, and now they just moved over the pay and they're taking on the oakland a's. yeah it's gonna be a nice day out there to do that sixties and the skies in oakland for today. temperatures running cool inland , where our afternoon highs will range in the seventies. so we are looking at fabulous weather for inland communities. a warm up begins on sunday eighties in the forecast for father's day for inland communities seventies around the bay, and then we get into summertime he just in time for the first day of summer, with temperatures ranging from the upper nineties to about 100 degrees for inland communities. slight cool down on wednesday. are you guys hungry? warm goodness, yes. you made a little extra or the best tater tot nachos. no, we know where to go in the studio. di