for more let's bring in our financial correspondent conor bosun and frankfurt conrad how likely is it that the e.u. competition watchdogs will allow this merger to go through. well a few conditions are likely to be imposed on such a merger or a takeover but it's very unlikely that the competition watchdog will completely block it's with siemens you know the producer of the german high speed train the ice train or i.c.e. train alstom trains and trains would have a huge competitor in the market and you know itself is not producing hyper speed trains it's only a supplier in this business which means the situation of a merger of us on trains and bombard the trains is very. different compared to what would have happened if siemens trains and i'll some trains would have been allowed to merge putting 2 similar businesses together usually includes job cuts what can we expect here. well job cuts especially in burlington where. transportation has it's international had headquarters and germany has its german headquarters so of course there are synergies there on the level of you know the headqu

not surprising that we didn't get a different kind of response to do give us a good reporter my only conor thank you very much. the european union has agreed on a new naval mission to monitor the un embargo on arms deliveries to libya all the country is split between fighters loyal to the u.n. recognize government in tripoli and rebels who control most of the rest of the country you foreign ministers meeting in brussels were initially it odds whether to resume the missions or prevent the smuggling of arms so israel italy and austria most notably were concerned that european ships patrolling the coast could encourage more migrants to attempt to cross the mediterranean on libya is awash with arms and fighting there is still raging despite the arms embargo. when i bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. a court in cape town has given hundreds of migrants 4 more weeks to stay in a church where they sought refuge last october the migrants say they're threatened by anti foreigner hostility in south africa judges called on the city to review the case. a

and that it's voluntary and that people are learning valuable skills right investigative reporter conor thank you. and you can find much more on these lee documents and the work of did abuse investigative team and by heading to w dot com or follow the hash tag kara cacs list and stay with the china because beijing is reporting an increase in the number of new cases of the coronavirus reversing the trend of the past 2 days while the government also says the death toll now stands at 1800 and that more than 70000 people are infected with the virus across the country. in china's hoop a province the epicenter of the outbreak new reported cases are again on the rise after 2 days of declining figures in mainland china alone officials say the total number of confirmed cases is over 70000 with nearly 1800 deaths. chinese president xi jinping is now facing criticism over why the public was not alerted sooner to the outbreaks potential severity official media recently released an internal speech he gave an apparent attempt to show the communist party leadership acted decisively from the start but

conor mcnamara was watching at bramall lane.hey gave as good as they got and lead this match early. callum wilson with the much—needed goal but billy sharp's equaliser, the timing of it, right on the cusp of half—time opened the doorfor right on the cusp of half—time opened the door for sheffield united and they were the better team in the second half. sheffield united back up second half. sheffield united back up infifth, second half. sheffield united back up in fifth, this was a good performance today and victory earned with well forged sheffield steel. we have just rolled on and rolled onto the next game. took the defeats on the chin and tried to go and when the next game of all, and we have done that. the points, 39 points at this stage of the season is fabulous from a promoted side, but we go again. we have got a bit of a break now, but we will go again and it has to be that way. we want to achieve something this season. we don't want to just take a foot off the gas and i won't allow that and the players understand that. as

but what if that were conor when he was 30, would you want somebody to just leave him the. >>?ver is still in critical condition this morning. >>> a tennessee death row inestimate credited with savings the lives of three officers executed by the state last night. he also helped prison guards out of life threatening situations three separate times. his lawyer says that was part of his appeal for clemency which was denied by the governor. the 58-year-old had been on death row since 1985. >>> the mother of two children missing for months in idaho has been arrested in hawaii. 46-year-old lori vallow was being held on $5 million bail. 7-year-old joshua and his sister 17-year-old tiley ryan were last heard from in september. about two months later vallow and her husband fled their home in idaho when authorities began looking for the children. >>> a mississippi law that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected remains blocked this morning after a ruling by a federal appeals court. a fetal heartbeat can be heard as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy. but the judges all agreed

they've got tonight off because it falls during the winter break, so conor mcnamara is going to be watchingond string can get the job done at the second time of asking. well, liverpool are the champions of europe, they are champions of the world club comp, there at the runaway leaders of the premier league. they seem an unstoppable force at the moment but shrewsbury town did keep them to a 2—2 draw in the first leg. a tie thatjurgen klopp really didn't want. we know that because he is not going to be here tonight. we assume he is off sunning himself on a beach somewhere taking advantage of the premier league's mid—season break. it is unusual tonight that the programme tonight contains no manager's notes. it will be one of the coaches who manages one of the younger sides who will be in charge. will it be something like the weakened team that was able to beat everton earlier in the competition or will it bea earlier in the competition or will it be a youth team effectively, such as the one that let in five goals and were beaten by aston villa in the league cup. for shrewsbury town they should

ireland's conor murray has once again been given the nod for saturday's clash with wales.reviously one of the first names on the teamsheet for his country, but his place has come under threat due to a dip in form and the standout performances ofjohn cooney. let's have a look at some of the other stories grabbing the headlines... premier league clubs have voted to move the closing date of the summer transfer window — to bring it back in line with the rest of europe. for the past two seasons, it's closed the day before the season began. this year, the date will be on 1 september at 5pm. we reflected on what was in the best interest of the leak, and we felt it was the democrat in the best interest of the league to extend the window until august. great britain's women have lost to china in their opening 0lympic basketball qualifier. they next face south korea on saturday and then a very strong spain team. the top three teams from the group of four will reach tokyo 2020. lewis hamilton has opened up on social media about his relationship with his father. he and his dad fell out

but i thought what if that's my son, what if that were conor when he was 30, would you want somebodyiver is still in critical condition this morning. >>> one third of all food available inhuman consumption is wasted. people in wealth ier countries are largely responsible. climate experts have notified food waste as one of the biggest problems worldwide. >>> contigo recalling nearly 6 million of its kids water bottles. this is exactly the same bottle the company recalled last august, and it includes the replacement lids provide in the first recall. there's concern the spout can detach and cause children to choke. the bottles were sold at costco, wal-mart, target and various stores online. >>> dash cam video shows the life and death moment a new york police officer saved a choking baby the day after his parents got married. the officer reached the couple as they were rushing the boy to the hospital. >> it's an angel on earth for us because we thought at some point we had lost him. >> there's times when you can't, kids are that time. >> since the scare the boy has started walking and th

they're going the common and those winds they don't take a chance to get to know me or to give me some conor l. like we all do you have someone to call you know because he's always for you how do you change the one changed the assumption the element of the salvatore makes you automatically i'm like travis you know you come. to do nothing but bad things that is not the true militia take the time to get to know was there and where we where we stand at that point in time nor not i'm thankful for the 1st steps i hope that these follow me because if it wasn't for them the truth i don't know where i would be either jail already dead because of the nooses states and is very terrifying. yes it's rationed by me seeing dylan yeah it is jail came back memories yes that is just a little bag that's your life that's it how do you end up being deported and you have a back how is that possible what happened because you were in prison a little before you get the body again yeah you used to always does own things you have right there you know you don't want whatever you have there and the little beggars which

that game at molineux kicks off at 8pm, live on radio 5live in the company of conor mcnamara. reviews all season, we reach the business end of the season. can they finish strongly in the premier league? they played 41 games so fast, will it be getting to the right time for them? we see the quality and the style, what impresses me is that they're happy too that possession as the game goes oi'i. too that possession as the game goes on. on to leicester city, they've done remarkably well to be in the position therein. barnes is the key at the moment. a lot of talk about him. there manager is possibly washing tonight. as soon as barty's there of the names mentioned throughout, he can strengthen his side but when he has to play like that and barnes —— get better and better, shirley he will get better playing under rated rogers. i think he'sa playing under rated rogers. i think he's a great manager. we got commentary coming up on bbc radio. lester if they win, go back into the top two. —— leicester. stay with us on sportsday, still to come... manchester cities have been banned for th

not surprising that we didn't get a different kind of response to diversity of reporter and i only conor thank you very much. like this i know about some of the other stories making news around the world. a suicide attack has killed at least 10 people in the western pakistani city of quetta around 35 people were injured in the explosion local police say the blast went off near a press club as dozens of supporters of a sunni militant group had gathered outside. authorities and work enough also say gunmen have killed at least $24.00 civilians in the east of the country the attack targeted a church in the village of pan see as almost extremists have been blamed for a growing insurgency that started in neighboring mali and has also extended into new share. syrian state media say government troops have made advances against rebel held enclaves in the province of aleppo while the region has been held by opposition forces since 2012 the latest successes are threatening the fragile cooperation between turkey and russia which back on opposing sides in the conflict. the european union has agreed o

i'm reminded of conor mcgregor, the mma fighter when he took the mic one time and said i'd like to apologizer absolutely nothing! they might as well done that. >> it was little clumsy. >> thanks, larry. >>> well, join us tonight for abc news at 11:00. >> i'm amanda del castillo in the south bay. we've had a dry start to the year which has some people concerned about drought. what the water valley district says about our levels. that story at 11:00. th> and it was touted byom however, a popular diet drug is now being yanked off the market. we're going tell you all about that. >>> now coming up tonight on abc7 at 8:00, it's station 19 followed by "grey's anatomy," then at 10:00, catch little things." and we'll back at 11:00. >> stick around. after that, jimmy kimmel live comes on at 11:35. >> that is this edition of abc7 news. look for news any time you wish on the abc7 news app. we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. for spencer christian, larry beil, the entire abc7 news team, we hope you have a great evening. >> see you at 11:00. putting term limits on congress, about wa

elry school it was cellos in the round a students learning to play the instrument was there to hear conorlater that night he performed with a o different groupf musicians. the baltimore symphony orchestra. >> do y love performing? >> i love performing. just being able to share yr thoughts about it i guess with an audience. the feeli of happening live in the moment is very exciting. ♪ ♪ >> you may well have seen him perform yourself.il nearly 2on did in the planet i2018 at the royal weing of pnce harry and meghan markle. >> it was very different than what i'm used to, of course. ♪ but it was really an enjoyable exrience. like, most top musicians, shaiku began playing very young. bit s experience was a different. he's the third of seven children who all took up classical music ♪ elder sister started it on piano. the others followed choosing their instrument. piano, violin, cello. they grew up inng notm, engelland with two music-loving parents. his mother from sierra leone is a former lecturer at university of birmingham and his father from antigua, a luxl y honager. >> my parents definitely

the biebs calls himself the conor mcgregor of entertainment, arm wrestles james cordon and beatboxessmelly cat smelly cat what are they feeding you ♪ ♪ smelly cat smelly cat what are ♪ >> not bad. for the record, the biebs says he's a combination of all the male characters on "friends" calls himself sensitive, sarcastic, and witty. i looked it up. he mentions "friends," likes "friends," was a fan of "friends." justin bieber was born the same year "friends" debuted, 1994. >> it's a classic. >> it's in reruns. i have a friend who watches season after season, over and over again. >> oh my gosh. i love it. >> that's a lot. >> yes. >> i love "carpool karaoke." >> you've got to give props to james cordon. this is the best show. i can go down the youtube rabbit hole and just watch every single one over and over. >> it's good, good stuff. >>> next, mr. big becomes a dad again. >> "sex and the city" star chris noth who was carrie bradshaw's on again, off again times 100. >> the 65-year-old shared an image of the baby on instagram writing, down from the heavens comes our second son, keats. he

>>another 41 people on a cruise ship off the coast of japan have tested positive for conor fibers and that means the number of cases tripled overnight. 20 yesterday 61 tonight, according to statements from the diamond princess cruise ship 3 people from the us are on the ship who are infected with the virus. in total the cruz has 428 american passengers. people with confirmed cases are quickly taken off the ship and transported to local hospitals all of the people remaining on board are being quarantined for at least 14 days searching years here for a moment time for a 4 zone forecast here in the bay area as we get a live look. >>from our sutro camera san francisco, was a sunny beautiful thursday in the bay, but looks to be like maybe a little fog rolling in chief meteorologist lawrence karnow is here with what we can expect for. >>friday the weekend yeah, it's kind of like a spring-like feel around the bay area today with that spring we get some of that fog we're seeing that outside right now to the huge dome of high pressure overhead. >>you the very stable atmosphere and really that'

conor lamb is not happy. i would like to see us pander a little bit more and try to win the election. i'd actually like to -- i think we need some more pandering here, not less. we want to do things to be popular and to try to win. this is kind of a weird time in politics where it's more important to convince people that you've been right all of your life than you're going to win the election. i think you do what you can to win the election including declaring victory when you finish third. i kind of like that. >> is it fair to call this purity testing in your view? >> i don't want to say purity testing, but i think we've lost the instinct for politics. we've lost the instinct to try to build and hold a changing coalition, that somehow or another, we think it's more important that we have a bunch of true believers. i've said this before. i don't want to be in a cult. my daughter is in sororities and fraternities and stuff. that's cults. being a politician, it's a coalition. it's difficult. lawrence can tell y

in the aftermath of that, the finance minister conor murphy said that paul was linked to criminal.r veterans and of course justice for victims as well. we now come to points of order, butler. mr speaker, the home office press team told journalists that everybody on the deportation flight to jamaica. .. done and dusted in 32 minutes, as we are getting used to. let‘s go to norman smith, for his thoughts on what we had full subnormal, you said climate change and whatever happened with cop26. climate change and whatever happened with co p26. questions climate change and whatever happened with cop26. questions about journalism is as well. it isa journalism is as well. it is a rare day, i managed to predict what was going to happen.” don‘t think we got far with the spat over premature end. that may climate change. jeremy corbyn challenging him over the sacked head of the cop26 conference, him over the sacked head of the co p26 conference, claire him over the sacked head of the cop26 conference, claire o‘neill. the prime minister confirmed that the conference would go ahead in glasgow. cl

british citizen conor reid is trapped in a city where he tells us war time measures are in place. you can only go outside briefly every three days. food has to be ordered by a group messaging system. >> we purchase all our food on that platform and from there they get delivered to the central community area, so to speak. >> reporter: there's a lot at stake for japan should the olympics be disrupted. they already spent $28 billion on infrastructure including building this stadium and there's about $6 billion in sponsorships. >> debora patta in tokyo. thanks. >>> a man survived a fiery inferno in indiana thanks in part to the heroic action of a new mom who ran into extreme danger to save him. cell phone video captures the shocking moment a semitanker truck explodes sending a massive fireball and black smoke into the sky. the truck carrying an estimated 4,000 gallons of jet fuel overturned on a state overpass. that's when holly driving by spotted the driver on fire. along with another good samaritan she jumped in to help extinguish the flames. >> we got him out. we started to walk aw

representative conor lamb, democrat of pennsylvania, saying i just think everyone needs to river, its not seem to be the number one issue in a knot of people's minds. as the year goes, people rightly demand where we are going in the future? comment, i think democrats wanted it to affect the president's reelection legate of -- negatively and it's not having that effect. that was from representative fred keller. if you want to call and you consider yourself a supporter of the president, it is (202) opposing for the president, it is (202) 748-8001. up next, doing from georgia on fromppose line -- eddie georgia on our oppose line. hello? one more time for eddie. we will build to emmanuel, in washington, d.c., a supporter of the president. caller: good morning. my reason for calling is to say presiden presentation was uncalled for. the impeachment has been done, it is time for him to focus on the united states. what is done is done. somebody accept that could make a mistake, everybody has done it. he should move on and get country together. [inaudible] mistake.the worst a manual, you are

conor lamb didn't get elected.y. that's where they have to worry. they could not lose a lot of seats. ainsley: where are you going to be tonight? going to be at the game quarterback go back home? >> i'm going to go back home, i got about six buckets of chicken wings, i eat like a slop. if anybody's seen me eat in the fox greenroom it's a horror show show. i got to tell you my heart's with the chiefs, but i think the 49ers got this. remember the ravens-giants super bowl, trent dilfer? brian: you're hedging your bets. you got to pick one. >> if i was forced to do it i would say -- sadly i think the niners are going to take.it steve: well-rounded team. >> yeah, my heart is -- i'd love to see kansas city get a win. my own secret service buddy from the is a big chiefs fan. it would be amazing. brian: it was amazing. bobby bell from that team, kansas city, alan page from the viking, 23-7 the chiefs beat the vikings, who would think it would be 50 years since they've been back and the vikings still haven't won won. >> the