Council wanted but. After the deaths of more than five hundred people. In south sudan the u. N. Says more than half the population is not dependent on food handouts the outlook is even more bleak and so much of this damage is manmade after years of civil war and its one of the biggest tech events of the year the. Slightest phone but the big buzz is about five g. The next level of quantitative easy for. Us and they were hanging out refugee crisis has had a devastating impact on children and as many now battling posttraumatic stress disorder and depression ill tell you about the creative ways to help them hail. The show using the hash tag. Look at the news bridge streaming online through you tube. Just the past hour or so as president Vladimir Putin has announced he is ordering a daily humanitarian pause to the fighting and it will start tomorrow. It will be a pause of course in the strikes and shelling by forces loyal to president Bashar Al Assad including russia which is killed. And fi
Those blasts sent massive fire balls into the nights sky. The initial blast erupted at a warehouse for Hazardous Materials and triggered other explosions at nearby businesses. Those explosions could be felt miles away. The cause at this point not immediately clear. Lets take a look at some live pictures this morning from tianjin china. You can still see the smoke cloud billowing. We heard from hyundai. Well take more of a look at whats happening with china in a bit. About 4,000 imported vehicles were destroyed by that blast. Heres the big stories today, China Central bank holding a News Conference in beijing overnight arguing theres no basis for continued currency depreciation. Earlier in the day they set the rate below yesterdays close. Well have a live report in a moment. Athens wants to see a vote before a euro zone identifinanc meeting tomorrow. It argued it lacked clarity on the direction of policies. Here in the u. S. A busy day on the data front. We get jobless claims, july reta
And i came very close to taking my own life at that point. I didnt really see a way out. If youre a student and you gamble do get in touch with us this morning. Some say its to supplement their income. And more mixed messages on whether or not its safe to drink when youre pregnant. Researchers say the government advice to totally abstain is based on weak evidence, but they then stress it doesnt mean its safe to drink. Well try and find out what it means. Get in touch with us this morning with your thoughts. Hello. Welcome to the programme were live until 11. Throughout the programme the latest breaking news and developing stories and, as always were really keen to hear from you. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today one of the governments key pieces of legislation on brexit has passed its first test in the commons. The ayes have it. The Europ
In jail. Dave Courvoisier three separate trials could come out of the group of defendants charged in that 2014 armed confrontation on the bundy ranch. Cliven bundy and other defendants lost a bid for individual trials. The 17 defendants will likely be split up into three separate ones. With the first one starting february sixth. Thats when bundy and his sons ammon and ryan bundy. Along with two other codefendants are set to be in court. The second trial would start in may. With a third starting in august. Denise Valdez confirm three people died from drug overdoses. At a Music Festival over the summer. All three accidentally overdosed on ecstacy at julys hard summer Music Festival in fontana. The Los Angeles Times reports there have now been 28 drug related deaths nationwide since 2006. At concerts organized by Los Angeles Area companies. Six of those were at edc right here in las vegas. Denise Valdez and next year. Nevadas Recreational Marijuana jump on board. For now. Many employers s
He brought 60,000 guest, the union army. Sherman had previously been to savannah and lost savannah. There was no burning, looting or destruction. Savannah was spared. Sherman just left savannah about four months later with those 60,000 troops. A significant amount of marriages occurred between savannah women and northern officers. So we come up past the American Civil War through the reconstruction period ending in 1876. By the 1920s cotton had failed because of overgrowth and lack of fertlization and in gave the weevil and savannah was back to being poor. Lady aster said savannah was a beautiful lady with a dirty face. By the 40s and 50s the old houses in downtown savannah were worth more dead than alive just to get the bricks to build new houses. One city planner said savannah was so poor she was not able to destroy herself unquote. Progress did make some hideous inroads in putting highways through one part of the old town and a street through three of the pressures squares. At one p