of a rice. why is the uk economy not snowing like other economies? hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we ll go to paris with the explosion and fire that we heard about earlier, it s a gas explosion but more details coming on all the time. initially city officials were talking about the fires, and we were seeing the pictures and apologies that the pictures are just flying around but these are life pictures coming from central pollys and that whole area is cordoned off. i am watching these pictures and they are still dealing with buildings that are on fire right there in the centre of the city. and let me tell you the latest that we are hearing from the mayor of that fifth district in central paris because he adjustments she has just been speaking and said that for people are in critical condition after this explosion occurred in their fifth district here in paris and you can see from the
and now the sport. we will start with some transfer news. arsenal have agreed a deal with chelsea for around £65 million for the forward kai havertz. chelsea bought him from bayer leverkeusen in 2020 for a deal worth around 71 million pounds. mikel arteta is looking to stregthen his squad arsenal had a second bid for west ham captain declan rice turned down this week. manchester city have agreed a deal with chelsea to buy mateo kovacic. the croatian midfielder willjoin the treble winners for an initialfee of £25 million with a further £5 million of potential add ons. kovacicjoined chelsea from real madrid in 2019. they re also getting rid of french midfielder n golo kante who has agreed to move to the saudi arabian champions al ittihad. his contract at stamford bridge expires at the end of the month. he helped leicester city win the premier league in 2016 before helping chelsea win the premier league, champions league, and the fa cup. jose mourinho has been banned forfou
in the vessels on site now and we have additional lift capability coming in. the navy is mobilised a submerged object recovery system that they have, and the canadian armed forces have mobilised a recompression chamber with medical support. we are preparing for contingencies while remaining laser focused on the search for the submersible and those people. rear admiral, a few final questions, and a difficult question first of all, you have got so many variables, is there a chance that the sounds you have been talking about sends you in the wrong direction? this is an incredibly complex search to conduct. we are in over 3500 metres of water
now about all of the possible scenarios as to why that sub, if it is on the sea floor, why it is on the condition that it is and come up with a solution as to how to deal with a solution as to how to deal with that. maybe, oursub, let s with a solution as to how to deal with that. maybe, our sub, let s go back there, may be our sub has not been able to release the weights that would normally allow it to look to the surface. could and remotely operated vehicle going and cut something that allow the way to down and i the sub to go back up. maybe it stuck in some titanic wreckage. the rop cut it free? maybe it s lost some sort of buoyancy. could it be attached to the titanic submersible to get it up. they have to think through all of those scenarios and game plan scenarios as to how they would react. game plan scenarios as to how they would react- would react. john amos in the newsroom- would react. john amos in the newsroom. let would react. john amos in the newsroom. let me would
at this point, we have to continue to search for the submersible and we had a chance to talk to the families last night about the work that we have been doing and we understand how difficult this is. we understand from the emergency life support system that there is the possibility and so we are prosecuting this to the fullness of our ability, bringing as many assets as we can to bear on this, and different assets we have been able to collect different information and be prepared for different contingencies as well. that was rear admiraljohn maugher talking to us early on the programme. we have a live news conference from the us coast guard coming up in about 30 minutes time and we will carry that live on the programme on bbc news. this is bbc news, the headlines. underwater noises become a focus in the search a submersible missing