major regions of afghanistan, after the countries worst, earthquake in 20 years. at least 1500 people have been killed. the taliban government made an urgent appeal for international help. the un security council received a special briefing on the situation in the country, and gabriel alexander has more from the un headquarters in new york. the humanitarian situation in afghanistan, his grave, that was the key message from top un officials to security council members in what was a regularly scheduled meeting to discuss the overall situation in the country. but given the recent devastating earthquake, the immediate humanitarian conditions obviously were front and center, search and rescue operations remain ongoing. that it is expected that the number of casualties will probably be on the coming days along the number of communities. i m sure you ll agree that yesterday s earthquake was here and i m a tragic reminder. media dangers which are facing some people at this time. the
have that in the house. i did not feel that the evidence granted in its absence, merited a hearing and i didn t want to be used as a pon. how did your castro has more on the testimonies from capitol hill? where seeing these republican state election officials describe the many times that they were called, they said at our all hours of the night by president trump s aids pressuring them sometimes by president trump, himself, up pressuring them to either decertify their state election results. i had gone to joe biden or to open investigations into a quote unquote voter fraud when there was no evidence of it. and you could see in the responses of these election officials, he s was these republicans what a difficult position that put them in when they were pressured. told things by trump s aids like, hey, we re all republicans here, right? that you would give us a better reception. but time and time again, these witnesses said their response was absolute refusal. they refuse to g
one of the worst cases of migrant death in the united states. in recent years, at least 46 people have been found dead inside a truck in texas. the discovery was made on the outskirts of san antonio. 16 people found alive and being treated in hospital patients that we saw were hot to the touch. they were suffering from heat stroke, heat exhaustion, ah, no signs of water in the vehicle. it was a refrigerated tractor trailer, but there was no visible working ac unit on that rig. rosalyn jordan is falling development from washington dc. the authorities showed up at this truck which was parked on a road outside this industrial yard and discovered the 46 dead people, as well as the other 16 people who were then taken to nearby hospitals for heat exhaustion. and in some cases, heat stroke and which means those people were very close to perhaps dying. it was a very hot day in san antonio, which is in southern texas, temperatures in the upper twenties of some, suggesting perhaps in t
Ukrainian official se shelves, rain down on a city near the atomic power complex, sparking a large fire and cutting power to around 3000 people. The Ukrainian Government is accused moscow of turning the facility into a military base. Frances washing leader Vladimir Putin has agreed to allow the Un Nuclear Watchdog to inspect the plant particle haine has more from washington when it came to the Nuclear Power plant, they said they quote, they discussed the situation around every to Nuclear Power plant. Need to avoid. Busy military ations near the plant and the importance of an i. E, a visit as soon as feasible. So knowing what we know about these calls because details always leak out after the fact. What were they likely talking about . Well, the leaders probably wanted to hear directly from french president and manual now crohn on what he personally thought of his conversation with russian president Vladimir Putin, where he came out and said he was now open to having those inspectors in
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