Camps. Thanks for joining us. Those are the headlines. You are watching france 24. We start in thailand where antigovernment protesters have seized this friday and another symbol of the state. A crowd 1000 strong taking control of the National Army headquarters while others surrounded the Party Headquarters of Prime Minister jim gluck shinawatra, anger directed at the Prime Minister accused of being a puppet of former premier exiled brother Oxon Shinawatra sachsen shinawatra. Than 1000 antigovernment protesters forced their way into the headquarters of the thai army, forces goodbye. Reminisce shinawatra rolled out using violence. Atmosphere,ely calm climbed fences and forced open a gate. Chanting, we know which side the demandedn, protesters once again the Prime Ministers departure. In another part of bangkok, others marched toward the headquarters of the ruling party. I came here today to show i did not agree with the governments behavior. They are the cause of all the countrys proble
The syrian war is spreading out into lebanon. The french pleasant has spoken to diplomats here in paris earlier today. Theaid the situation in African Republic was heading toward the east even though the security issue the security situation was still too fragile. He made his address within the context of the ongoing reveals of his private life. Those are the headlines this afternoon. We are also going to be hearing for the National Security agency in the United States. Theyre set to modify the bulk data programs. The judicial fighting is required before the database is queried. That is according to senior official sources this morning. Close toas collected 200 million Text Messages per day. We are going to be talking about that with an International Specialist in just a moment. Our med headline our main headline this afternoon, the french president has spoken about the situation in the central African Republic. He said it was heading toward peace even though the security situation was
Also coming up, the hunt for potential life in outer space takes a step forward. Astronomers say they have discovered the most earthlike planet yet. It is only a mere 500 lightyears away. We had to algeria as the country awaits the results of its president ial election. Hes poised to hold on for a fourth term. Lets begin with the search and rescue efforts in the tragic ferry accident in south korea. Hundreds of passengers are missing, most high school students, after the ship sank on wednesday. The search for survivors is officially still going on, but hopes of finding any are quickly fading. Friends and family standby in shock. Andrew is covering events for us. It is 8 00 in south korea. Night has fallen. Walk us through the search and rescue efforts. The days event started on a grim note. South koreans woke up to find the death count has risen dramatically. We now have possibly 28 confirmed bodies which appear to have floated up from inside the ship wearing life jackets. That means t
Delivers a big surprise. No, not a royal baby but to members of the animal kingdom, twin pandas make their debut at atlanta zoo today, tuesday july 16th, 2013. Good morning. Welcome to a special edition of today on a Tuesday Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie in los angeles. Matt and al back in new york. It was so hot there i had to get out of town. You did the right thing savannah. You really did. Im here with al roker and were having a heat wave. Its official. Three days in a row. Although its not so bad out here right now, 83 degrees, its going to get nasty this afternoon. Thats right. The heat right now were in the shade but once the sun gets up everybody is going to start baking. Humidity levels, and this extends not just to here in the northeast, all the way to michigan and as far west as the Pacific Northwest. I was driving into new york yesterday and the car, you know the thermometer that tells you how bad it was outside said it was 103 on the streets of map hat tan. Stay where its c
In egypt, there has been a call for millions to demonstrate their anger at this weeks blood shed. At least 600 people died and thousands were wounded on wednesday when two cairo encampments of supporters of the deposed president were supported were reportedly razed. Thats cross strait to our cairo correspondent, lets cross straight to our cairo correspondent. Can you tell us the latest . Marchesast 28 promorsi are set out to mark from various mosques to march from various mosques in what they are calling a day of rage. The protests are against the killing of so many morsi supporters at the sitins on wednesday and also to demand that Mohamed Morsi is released. They,timorsi camp too, are calling for demonstrations in response. They want people to take to the streets to defend the country from terrorism. They have asked for Popular Defense committees to protect them. There have been many attacks on coptic churches, homes, and businesses over the past 48 hours. Many people believe it was i