Capital. Its definite now leaders somewhat difficult nations using the c. F. A. Front the 8 countries in the region under the west African Monitoring Union have decided to go ahead with the rollout of the proposed west africa single courtesy the aecl they said they are there for decided to go ahead with the process and any other country but wants to join or who are not decided to join can join later so in the next few months we will see the roll out of this currency in west africa that is going to be. Legal tender in this region a question was for to president ouattara the president of ivory coast and was president of this conference and he went on whether or not the new currency would be a problem with existing currency to which he understood the issues. The Exchange Rate between the existing front see if they and the euro will remain the same with the echo comes on board today the Exchange Rate is 655. 00 to the euro before the heads of state decide to join next year the rates will n
The us state of louisiana has declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm barry approaches hurricane strength and nears landfall. New orleans is bracing itself as the storm approaches shore the city has already seen severe rain and flooding. The city council says its as prepared as it can be and has told residents to stay indoors. Sophie long reports. High winds lashing the louisiana coast as Tropical Storm barry approaches land. As it travelled slowly across the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, families, friends, and neighbours filled sandbags in the hope of protecting their homes. We are hopeful, you know, we have been watching the news the whole time. And they have confidence in it, that all we can do is have confidence in the system, make sure everything holds up. I feel great. Because this is bringing us together, you know. Very few things bring the community in new orleans together, black and white. A state of emergency was declared days ago, and people were told to stock u
Confirmed is the fact that as many as 18 children under the age of 2 infants and toddlers were separated from their parents for periods ranging from 20 days to 6 months the house efforts to investigate claims of abuse do not end here the Judiciary Committee this week approved a number of other subpoenas to be served on those dealing with migrants the intention to establish whether the implementation of the administrations 0 tolerance policy contravened federal law mike hanna aljazeera washington. The tunisian red crescent says the number of people who died in last weekends migrant ship disaster has risen to 80 only 3 of the 86 passengers on board are known to have survived after the boat capsized off the coast of tunisia they were taken to a Migrant Center in desires is for treatment the agency says the death toll could rise further making it one of the worst migrant boat disasters to date. But he sim barrys have removed hundreds of undocumented migrants protesting inside the citys pan
Streets of puerto rico after governor we cardozo you know announced his resignation it comes after the week of chat messages between him and members of his administration that revealed a shocking contempt for the public and harris has a record breaking temperatures of 41 degrees celsius as the heat wave spreads across europe and people do their best to stay cool. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program the u. K. s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just given his 1st address to Parliament Offering a sweeping optimistic vision of a britain outside of the e. U. He outlined his approach to braggs it rejecting the current divorce deal as unacceptable and appealing to brussels to reopen negotiations at the same time he made it clear that he is. Not afraid of a no deal scenario the minister was forthright Boris Johnson making his 1st address to parliament as Prime Minister he repeated his promise to execute brigs that by october 31st under any circumstances. I would prefer to leave the e. U.
Wimbledon in the final later today but theres more at stake than just another grand slam title well take a look at the latest record and sometimes. Im calm assman thanks for joining us to United Nations agencies are urging europe to take more responsibility for migrants in the mediterranean the uns Refugee Agency and the International Organization for migration have called on the European Union nations to relaunch rescue missions that saved people from drowning earlier this year the e. U. Suspended its main Naval Operation that carried out these rescues critics say that is having deadly consequences. Bodies of drowned migrants have brought to the chinese in shore 82 people went missing when the boat sank on july 1st most have since been or tray from the water dead the migrants started their journey in war torn libya and drifted into ginnys in waters before sinking one of the few survivors remembers have that calls for help went unanswered. Have not and i dont doubt that he and i get ol