Vaccine the u. S. Drugmaker, mud dharna, says its vaccine has a success rate of nearly 95 . And a country without a leader, peru plunged into political crisis after the interim president steps down, but peruvians are celebrating in the streets. And flying drones near airports can cause danger as well as travel chaos. German researchers say they successfully used rain threat radar technologies to identify drone troublemakers. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs, in the United States and all of you around the world, welcome. We start here in germany and the wrangling over more or less lockdown. German chancellor Angela Merkel had been expected to announce tougher restrictions to the partial lockdown, known as lockdown light, but that did not happen today. Speaking after a meeting with the country 16 states, she says the state leaders objected to introducing stricter measures at this stage and that they would meet to discuss further measures next week. The restrictions imposed had not ha
Message to columbia, unite around the historic peace deal with farc rebels and heal your country. Brent im brent goff. It is good to have you with us. Tonight, the atlantics most powerful hurricane ever recorded is moving with deadly force through the caribbean, decimating entire islands in its wake. Now it is moving northwest toward the United States. At least 10 people have been killed. And in the u. S. State of florida, tens of thousands of people are evacuating. Irma is expected to make landfall this weekend, but there was no escape for isolated communities on islands like st. Maarten and barbuda. Correspondent the fiercest storm on record has brought near total devastation on barbuda. Almost every home on this tiny island has been damaged or destroyed. We just did a flyover and i have to tell you my heart sunk. This has been one of the worst days of my life. So i know how you must feel. The entire country has been decimated. Ive never seen anything like this before. Correspondent
The u. N. And United States are appealing for calm on both sides. Fresh protests erupted at the catalan capital of barcelona. The government is refusing to drop its bid for independence. Plus, calls for justice growing louder in malta following the murder of an anticorruption journalist. Demonstrators take to the streets to pressure the maltese government. And from great hope to great misery, south sudan is one of the worlds newest states, but today, millions of the people there are reliant on food aid. We have a special report on one womans struggle to survive and feed her family. Brent im brent goff. Good to have you with us. Tonight, residence in the syrian city of raqqa are bringing to a close their first day free of the rule of the socalled Islamic State. The syrian city was the capital of the Islamist Groups socalled caliphate. Troops fighting i. S. Say they have captured one of the militants last holdouts, the hospital you see right there. But there are still pockets of resistan
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