well, the stage is now set for a potential presidential rematch. president biden has officially launched his re-election bid. he says the battle for the nation s soul as he s described it is not over, and he s ready to take on so-called maga extremists. and a new threat in war torn sudan. one of the warring factions seizing a laboratory in khartoum. samples of polio, measles, and cho cholera potentially exposed. and officials are warning a germ bomb could be released on the already devastated capital city. and parts of the midwest could see the worst flooding in 20 years here in the coming days. earlier than expected snow melt is pushing the mississippi river closer to cresting in parts of iowa, minnesota, and wisconsin. what this means for some of the major crops that americans depend on from those areas. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. four years to the day after he launched his 2020 president
from claiming asylum or seeking citizenship. and the dutch government says it will restrict the export of some equipment used to make microchips, citing national and international security concerns. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we begin in the former soviet republic of georgia, where large crowds have been protesting against new laws which critics say will limit freedoms. the biggest demonstrations are in the capital, tbilisi where police have been using water cannon and tear gas to try to disperse the crowds. our correspondent rayhan demytrie is in tbilisi and she sent us this update. every big moment in history has its iconic image. this may be georgia s. on tuesday, thousands of protesters stood for europe, and stood their ground against water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray. and they even fought back. 55 police officers were injured. protesters have been outraged by what s been happening in parliament pro government mps spoiling for
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A powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the Capital Manila is located. Super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km h. Our weather forecaster Helen Willetts has more. Hello. This large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. Once it moves out into the south china seas open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. So some destructive wi