this is bbc news. the headlines: in his first major speech of the uk election campaign, the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says his party will deliver security and stability. we will also provide the certainty that working people, businesses and communities need. a clear direction, not the endless spinning around that successive tory governments have subjected us all to. french president emmanuel macron is in germany as the first official state visit to the country in 2a years. he is expected to deliver a major speech on the continent s future. rescue crews in texas say they ve witnessed an unprecedented rate of drownings as more people are trying to make a deadly river crossing over the borderfrom mexico. south africa has seen much less electricity blackouts in the last few months, but some people say it could be an attempt to buy more votes for the upcoming general election. let s get more on the uk election campaign, now in its first full week. in his first major speech
His familys home. Paul mueller joins us live from the scene. This is a heated issue to say the least. Reporter racial tensions are mounting as they have been the last couple of days. I. I want to give you a good idea of what we are talking about. That is 22yearold riggins. That store on the corner it says breakfast get and go. That is where he worked. Now, it was back on tuesday that deputies executed a search warrant at his house. It was a month long investigation in which investigators bought pot after of him. They said the deputies had no choice to shoot when he didnt comply with their commands. They didnt see what he history of his arrests and connection to guns in the past. They murdered that boy. He was murdered by the police. The same people we call to some save us are kaling us. Reporter there are some deputy ins the parking lot there. If we could swing around here l are three there are several more if you like right there. These deputies want to keep the peace tonight. There i
And thunderstorms. Some of those are other the western part of pasco county. And the atmosphere has a lot of moisture in it so when it rains it produces a whole lot of precipitation. You can see thunderstorms there around New Port Richey. Most of pasco county all the way up to dade city. Areas that have been saturated with previous rain the last 24 hours are continuing to get more. And that tends to lead to more flooding. Further south, things are relativeui have rain set to move on shore. So we can still see a few showers. The worst of it is over. The winds are still from the southwest. Gusty. So watch for coastal flooding but the high tide is coming down now. Parts of Pinellas County are still coping with parts of flooding. You can see the streets turned to streams. Mark douglas has been wading through the flood waters from clearwater to Saint Petersburg and he joins us live from shore acres, a flood prone area. Reporter absolutely. All you have to do is sneeze in this neighborhood a
Parties. If you dont want to see donald trump as the nominee, if you dont want to see Hillary Clinton as the president , then i ask you come stand with us. Reporter but polls suggest cruz is trailing badly in ohio. With governor kasick is making what could be his last stand. This country is about us coming together, not tearing each other down or having fistfights at a campaign rally. Thats not what america is. Reporter but it is what has happened at many of trumps rallies after the candidate cancelled a chicago rally friday, a few clashes broke out between protesters and his supporters. Truch blamed them in part on democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders. Somebody will stand up and have a bernie sign bernie is going nowhere, you know that, but they will have a bernie sign. Reporter and despite scenes like this, trump insists his rallies are lovefests. You know how many people have been hurt at our rallies, i think like basically none, other than maybe somebody got hit once or theres no v
Translator hollanhollandei spoke with obama, obama asked me to thank all the Security Forces in our country. The arrest of Salah Abdeslam came after firptsd wer fingerpre found in a raid of a apartment. The United States obviously has significant resources and we have used them to help the french and belgians as they have taken steps to safeguard their country. So were going to continue to stay in close touch with them on this. Salah abdeslam was thought to play a logical role and part of the group that blew themselves unoutside a french stadium. His car was stopped at the frenchbelgian border but police let him go. Brett mcgurk tweeted, we will never forget his and all i. S. I. L. Victims. Paris. In europe too theres a sense that this is not over yet. Translator we recognize that this is an important step but not a definitive conclusion. There have been arrests and there will be others because this network is large in belgium france and elsewhere, until we have stopped all those that