United nations is condemning the destruction of iraqs ancient history by isil fighters. Priceless statues some more than 2,000 years old have been smashed to pieces. The director of the mosul museum has confirmed this newly released video of men in sledge ham percent genuine. The u. N. s Cultural Agency called for an emergency meeting over an attack on iraqi heritage. I think the destruction of artifacts as we are seeing in iraq today is reprehensibly. It is also in violation of the latest Security Council resolution we have just seen 2199. The director general of you necessary co has just asked the president of the Security Council to convene an urgent meet on the ground this matter so the Security Council can address the destruction of artifacts. As you know, when history is destroyed, you also destroy the future ive country. You fuel sectarianism. You fuel even more violence, ranking the millennial culture of iraq. Puts its future at risk. And isil fighters have seized control of a
Statues dating back 200 years. The results of the cricket world cup. We begin in mexico, where police captured one of the countrys most wanted drug lords. Gomezmartinez is the leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel the prime target in the president s drive to regain control of the state. Crossing over to mexico city, we will learn more about the circumstances leading to his capture. The capture happened this morning in the very Early Morning in the southwest mexican state. Federal police apparently captured him without firing a shot and hes now reportedly being transferred to mexico city at the moment, so oh this is a as you say a huge capture in mexico probably the biggest the worlds number one drug dealer. Police and all of Mexico Federal courts have been after him for quite some time, so this is a big deal for them. How do we expect the cartel to respond and what more can you tell us about him . He is an exschoolteacher then turned into organized crime. He formed the cartel using
This one apparently showing them vandalizing ancient artifacts. Britains future king is busy taking in the sights around tokyo. Prince william is on his first visit to japan, and hes using this trip as an opportunity to promote relations between the two nations. More from nhk worlds keiko yamamoto. Reporter Prince William is spending some of his time looking back at the past. He saw row after row of war graves in yokohama near tokyo. This is the final resting place for 1700 Commonwealth Service members. They died after being taken prisoner by the thank you defunct japanese interior army in asia during world war ii. The prince paused here to reflect, and pray silently. He took time to pay a visit to Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the imperial palace. Hes following in the footsteps of his parents, Prince Charles and princess diana, who came to japan 29 years ago. Nearly 100,000 people are said to have come to see the couples motorcade in tokyo. The princess sparked a social pheno
With paint and hate. I looked out and thought, what is that on her car. I walked over there and oh man. Reporter the cars owner is a single mom with a young daughter. We talked to the neighbor and she came out and started crying. I cried because it was awful. I have no idea what the purpose was. Other than just hate. Reporter no cameras or security guards or anything like that. No, no. Reporter around the corner an suv marked the same way. Still showing red paint smears. And here the vandals also smashed windows with a baseball bat. This owner also a single mom. Also african american. What was written on there was very disturbing. Threatening and derogatory. Reporter the police chief says this is intolerable in his city of 30,000. The police have canvassed the neighborhood. Were going to look at this as that was a message that was spent to somebody. Spray painted die, the word die. Reporter another residents suv was spray painted but just one word. It was in red paint. Die. I tried to
2,000 years. We begin in mexico with a drug lord, leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel was arrested. He was the target of the president s drive to regain control of the state. Crossing over to mexico city, bringing in john hohman who will tell us more about the circumstances and just how significant a capture this is for the mexican government. This capture comes at the end of a quite significant manhunt by mexican authorities. This is probably mexicos at least most public and notorious criminal that was still at large. Its very important for mexican authorities to be hunting him down. They did so very early in the morning in the capitol of the southwest state. The state itself has been a real area of conflict in mexico. Several defense have sprung up there to try to protect themselves from cartel, mainly from the Knights Templar. This man la tuta headed it up. He styled himself as a sort of robin hood, putting out videos of himself giving out money in villages and frequently givi