have moved into the saddam the region at least 25 people have been killed there in the past week and tasha's between state forces and 6 persists the separatists there are demanding the establishment of their own autonomous region. you know. saddam has already part of its own flag and declare that it's a regional state he's been. the boyce of the people should be respected no it's in the constitution that's the people who decide their own fate not an external political power a government which people decide their own affairs. william davidson is senior analyst for ethiopia for the international crisis group he's just visited sit down and other parts of ethiopia highway and welcome to today's every africa where it looks at one stage as if there was agreement on holding a referendum for statehood in sit down. why has the situation deteriorates that. well there's a number of reasons that one of the key reasons is that the decision to proceed with a referendum on the end came very late it actually came only a couple of days more pieces are movements appointed deadline and they didn't seem to july

the army his forces left scores of protest as date now the pressure is just off back off to deadly tasha's at the weekend on sunday hundreds of thousands of people again took to the streets demanding the military hand of a control to civilians or am now joined by my colleague a ybor him welcome back to africa a of the demand on the part of the protests on the part of the opposition leaders is a civilian lives government for the next 3 years before there's a general election looking at where we are today how realistic is that outcome that's very hard to tell because at this point especially if we look at the exchanges between the military transitional council and the civilians in the past couple of days doesn't seem like either side is really ready to come back to the table since the violence of june 13th the crackdown on the sit in in front of the army headquarters negotiations have sort of fallen completely the 2 sides are not communicating directly they're communicating if you pin and african union. so you know but my sense is that the question is perhaps it's unclear if they're even wil

so tasha countersued tara for copying her hairstyle. honest. >> she promised me in front of witnesses she would not do this and she did it. it was anybody that i didn't know, that this girl was my friend with friends like her, you need no enemies. >> i had never ever said one bad word against judy. ever. >> i'll take care of it. >> shortly thereafter, persian national whose visa expired took her topless act to the golden gate bridge to which she threatened to chain herself in protest of her pending deportation. >> will you be clothed when you do this. >> really juicy. >> i'm asking you. >> which one would you prefer. >> i prefer you be cloth cloth h >> okay. >> ow. in the end, the woman was allowed to stay in the united states. we have a lot more memorable moments every 70 years of abc7 posted online. they're both silly and serious and you can check them out on any abc platform including amazon fire. i don't know if we should talk anymore about that. >> we seem to spend a lot of air time on this topic back then however many years ago it

. >>> coming up next, tasha >> we just came from florida. it was a whole dollar less there. where is the money? >> where is the money? that is what drivers want to know about the new gas tax set to go into effect. a tax that will push prices >>> californians already pay more for gas than anywhere else. prices are about to go even higher. hello, i'm julie haener. >> i'm frank somerville. the prices at the gas pump is expected to jump up more than $0.05 a gallon tomorrow. we have live coverage tonight. >> reporter: well frank and julie, i spoke to one driver who is now considering a more gas efficient vehicle after hearing of this news, the price for unregular leaded gas $3.59. tomorrow all those price wills go up. beginning july 1, more pain at the pump. california gas tax is set to up $0.056 a gallon. >> i already thought it was increased. there they go. and so that's pretty good. i guess i'm happy i'm filling up now. >> reporter: the latest increase part of a 2017 law. voters last year shot down an effort to repeal it. but trump comes on top of the $0.12 gallon tax that's r

then tasha barclay is standing by in paris with the latest reaction out of europe but 1st let's go more from jonah hall who is live for us from westminster so jonah not a big surprise but how are the numbers being crunched at this point when it comes to interpreting his margin of victory. well it's a pretty thumping victory for boris johnson winning exactly double the number of votes jeremy and to his rival the foreign secretary no question he is the popular choice of the party quite possibly of the grassroots of the party but not necessarily a shoo in to unite either the party or the country let's talk now to buy guest tim duran joins me he's a senior researcher with the institute of government thanks for joining me your particular focus is on negotiations and preparations for a no deal bragg's it him i'm told are you expected to be busy in the next couple among the things that require a lot of things to be talking about over the next few weeks or months and obviously aren't sure chief among them of course will be boris johnson's campaign promise is tested deal or no deal october 31st

themselves hold a drink brush their teeth and write the lead author of the study is plastic surgeon a tasha van zyl from austin health and melbourne she explains how the surgery works we cut the new to paralyzed muscle and we join in. the 1st minute which is working and connected to the brain to the paralyzed we join them together under the microscope and using very fine sutures and then what happens is the no fly blows from the working will actually just grow down that paralyzed nerve and sort of use it as a scaffold to travel down it the muscle and once it hits the muscle it will react to break the muscle and the muscles will be able to be used to get rights time now for the sport with rome. in frankie farms where if you for the highly anticipated 1st round mixed doubles match at wimbledon featuring a pair of army marine serena williams have been forced to wait another day the match with despair and after a 15 year old corrie golf incredible comeback. the american qualifier lost the 1st set against polonia head and her fairy tale run looked to be over and she faced match point at 52 down

version of cycling's biggest race but the tour de france organizers say it is impossible for now the tasha butler reports. the spectacular peaks of the french alps still dotted with patches of snow despite the summer heat there is 0 hour mountain passes more than 2300 meters high for these riders it's a tantalizing test of strength and part of a campaign for women's tour de france the world's most famous bike race is exclusively for men we want a women's race equal to the men's because the tour de france is monuments it's the race for the best way to encourage young women to cycle is with media coverage of a big women's race 5 years ago this group of women set out to raise awareness about the inequalities in professional cycling each july they ride all $21.00 stages of the tour it's a challenging route of nearly 3500 kilometers but they do so in conditions far less comfortable than the men's with traffic a modest support team no prize money or funfair. ringback this year these international riders have joined them where everyday guys have got full time jobs and if we can do it anybody can

from 2 dollars to 20 dollars money raised will be invested in public transport within fronts that tasha butler has more now from paris. flying out of france will become more expensive for air passengers from next year the new eco tax is part of the french government's environment policy ended fighting climate change that whole city. branch is committed to what europe is putting forward on taxing air travel there is increasing awareness and things are beginning to move but this is urgent like other countries we have decided to put in place an acre tax on air transport on all flights departing from france the tax will only apply to outgoing flights not to those flying into france or transiting fares will increase by $2.00 for an economy class ticket within the european union business class flights outside the you could cost an extra $20.00 at paris's all the airport the response to the tax was mixed posable depreciation is good in principle i suppose but how can we be sure where the money will go a lot it's really thick and on to new tricks for going in the suits you both specific goodnes

americans that tasha sleep has the story. researchers at mit are using artificial power to predict fresh air. so as early as 5 years before develops and according to research in this model it's far more accurate than what health care providers have been using in the past according to the centers for disease control and prevention more than $41000.00 women died from breast cancer in 2016 and that same year there were more than $245000.00 new cases and all scientists at mit's computer science and artificial intelligence want to help put a stop to the climbing numbers the team has developed a deep learning prediction model instead of using information like family history and breast density model is able to detect patterns too subtle for the human eye to detect the city consisted of using information from more than 90000 mammograms and 60000 people the model was able to place 31 percent of all cancer patients in its highest risk category more than a traditional models 18 percent and the study looked to help bridge the gap between

joins us now from paris and tasha we understand french leaders are saying they're going to come up with something to keep the deal a lot of what exactly is going on. well what we have is a statement from the elise a saying that the french president is very concerned about the fact that iran has decided to exceed its uranium limits of the president emanuel markhor is calling upon tehran not to take any further steps that could in any with any way break their commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal and also the president back on the coming days might make more effort or do more to try and support and save this deal now the statement very much echoes what we heard from the british foreign minister jeremy hunt on monday who also talked about how european powers are really focusing on trying to maintain this deal they still believe that for them it is the best deal out there in terms of ensuring peace and security in the region and the focus for european powers is very clearly on trying to prevent iran from taking any more steps that could be seen as violating completely the jay c.p.o. way this

. >> names >> tasha. >> how is new york treating you?ime? >> good weather. >> let's do a selfie here. >> got it? >> yeah. i'm a pro at this. don't drop it. thanks for the phone well, you have a beautiful sign. we think at the "today" show that we have a sign for you that might be more important, so what i want you to do is look over here gang >> will. >> you. >> thank goodness she said yes and you thought i was just going to read signs all morning. was that a yes >> yes >> okay. i thought people at home watching, they always think it is set up. are you surprised? >> yes. >> we can tell congratulations. this is going to be awesome, guys what are you going to do now >> going to breakfast. >> engaged on the plaza. guys, you're going to be celebrating right up there we got top of the rock that's the rainbow room's bar, 52 dinner and drinks tonight. also, we understand you might want to go to the "lion king." we have tickets to the "lion king" for you, which you didn't know about, i don't think. >> i didn't. >> broadway hit. enjoy that tasha

tasha, not too far from where i am, st. mary's parish area, there's a major concern for the flooding that could come in the area. natasha? >> reporter: yeah. absolutely. and we are definitely getting blown around now. people here are probably thankful for short break in the rain at this moment. the flooding was going to be a real concern if the to 20 expected inches. rain here came all at once. the city's pumps cannot handle all of that happening at once. they were hoping for the rain to come in waves with at least 45-minute breaks in between so the pumps could handle this. i want to show you what the problem looks like on top of the already swollen mississippi river. we're on top of the sea wall. you see the bottom steps of the stairwell completely covered. and now that we've got light i can show the trash can completely submerged in water. you see that trash can as well as out there, people are typically able to walk out to that distance. right now the river has come all the way to the seawall. when you add a tropical sto

. >>> coming up next, tasha >> we just came from florida. it was a whole dollar less there.w about the new gas tax set to go into effect. a tax that will push prices >>> californians already pay more for gas than anywhere else. prices are about to go even higher. hello, i'm julie haener. >> i'm frank somerville. the prices at the gas pump is expected to jump up more than $0.05 a gallon tomorrow. we have live coverage tonight. >> reporter: well frank and julie, i spoke to one driver who is now considering a

first the severe weather threat in louisiana, and tasha chen is live in new orleans which has received so much rain already. >> you can't tell from the weather we're having right at this moment, but yesterday there was intense amount of rain and even over the next few days more expected. in fact there's a flash flood watch and storm surge watch going on in various parts of this area. there's mandatory evacuation today for certain parts of the parish and oil recognizes and platforms, several of them have been evacuated because of storm activity in the gulf. a lot of people here preparing for the worst about to come on saturday including closing dozens of flood gates. that includes one floodgate here at the port of new orleans where we're standing. they've already started closing pedestrian gates by the spanish plaza, river walk, the hilton hotel area. so a lot of tourists, of course, like to come to those places. a lot of them have shown up in town yesterday saying they wanted to hunker down in town anyway, but we did see people trying to leave to avoid the worst. there's a state of eme

joins us live now from air berlin tasha you've been talking to witnesses on the ground and what they've been telling you. daryn we're getting a more vivid picture of exactly what happened inside this coffee shop in erbil on wednesday afternoon it's actually in that building right behind me it's in an upscale neighborhood here in erbil with this is say that on wednesday afternoon 2 men pulled up to the valet in front of this turkish coffee shop handed the keys to the attendant and said keep the car running will be out in a minute then according to witnesses one of the men carrying guns in each hand began shooting he hit 3 people inside including including this turkish diplomat and 2 other iraqi kurds then according to the witness a total of 3 men left the coffee shop the implication being that one man had been sitting inside surveying this turkish diplomat diplomat who's been identified as osman coast's he died on the spot the turkish government is he's been flown home to turkey and is expected to be buried today in istanbul the turkish government says he is from the southern port city o

and the tasha butler is in paris but let's begin 1st with dorsetshire bari in tehran so door so how significant is this decision then by iran. well hasn't this was a decision that was already made this is just the fact that they've carried out on what they said they were going to do on july 17th the spokesperson for iran's atomic energy organization said that they were going to increase production and exceed this 300 kilogram of stockpile of low enriched uranium at the level of 3.67 percent this is something we knew that was coming and it is now here now the important point is the foreign minister zarif has said that this is in fact what the european signatories of the nuclear agreement have forced iran to do to scale back their commitments and it is within the agreement for the rain ians that they are allowed to do this under the nuclear deal to ensure that the other parties withhold their end of the deal now the 2nd phase of this scaling back their commitments will come on july 7th when the 60 day period for the european deadline for the european signatories to respond to the concerns of the

la tasha, great to talk to you.nderstand i'm told you watched the debate with a room full of black women there in detroit. love to know what they thought. >> it was really interesting. we had almost 200 back voters and we did an interactive poll while we had them. it was really interesting. there were four people that stuck out that people really responded nep responded greatly to elizabeth warren. they responded well to buttigieg. they responded to bernie sanders got a lot of attention. what was really interesting is marianne williamson towards the end of the night people were standing up and saying oh, we like her. so i think that was really interesting the kind of energy that was in there. when we did the poll, the three things that kept coming up is they wanted to hear about education, they were deeply concerned about health care access and health care and the third thing was really around -- the most energy in the room was around reparations and the discussion around reparations. >> let's go back for a moment b

french foreign ministry has revealed that iran has detained a franco in brainy and research up the tasha butler has more now from paris where the french foreign ministry has confirmed that 3 adult car franco irena in research are based here in paris has been arrested by iranian authorities now what the french foreign ministry say is that they are in touch with the radian authorities in order to try and gain more information about adult karr about the conditions of her arrest and also make sure that she has full consular access which it seems has not been the case so far nat'l karr is a researcher with paresis prestigious seal spall university she researches and writes about iran and iranian society and so there's still a question over when she was arrested that's still not clear there are some reports suggesting that she was arrested in june and i said he spoke to a professional colleague of hers also a research on iran here in paris who said that she had not had any news from rattle car for at least 2 weeks so that suggests that perhaps end of june beginning of july maybe the sort of pe