The hunt for whales japan has resumed commercial whaling in its waters despite global outbreak but is the practice commercially sustainable and force of the Cultural Roots of boiling in japan and is culture a justification this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dolby whales were hunted to the brink of extinction until 1986 when a group of countries agreed to temporarily stop whaling for profits which turned into a Semi International ban however conservationists are now worried the species might be facing a similar threat many countries continue to hunt whales for what they say are scientific purposes and japan which is one of the leading commercial whaling countries is now resumed that practice in its waters it says whaling is part of its culture and can be done in a Sustainable Way but as Mariana Honda explains japanese pallets and tastes of moved on. That block there have been some names picked forward and accepted press from the top jobs for the m. E. U. The
European leaders here in the Council Building because we have to feel was them in a way they had the 1st prize almost in that grasp and then because of the resistance of europe Eastern European countries and italy allying itself with those Eastern Europeans is the whole thing failed so now they have to watch that it goes back to the conservatives whom they had hoped to sort of replace 4 fifths after 15 years of conservative president s of the European Commission they said its time for a policy change its also something that for instance the spanish Prime Minister people such as it said and from the french president they said we need to have a change we need to have Something Else you bought now theyre going to get in the conservative bought theyre going to get a woman so that is a 1st in the job and not a little sensation maybe the 1st german for over 40 years in this top job in brussels so that of course means something for germany and of thomas says yes it is a sort of victory probab
Option if he doesnt get a coalition the next few minutes is to get a law enacted to dissolve the knesset and have another round of elections in 3 months time that would be unprecedented in israeli history and he also needs to convince members of his own party the ones who only just scraped into this knesset by the skin of their teeth and might feel that given a another round of elections they may well not get in he has to convince them to vote for dissolving the knesset anyway and with their 1st piece of legislation potentially rule themselves out of a job so its an extremely difficult situation that he finds himself in thank you very much for lesters them harry for set. Well now iranian president Hassan Rouhani has suggested talks with the u. S. Might be possible if washington lift sanctions imposed of attack Irans Nuclear program it comes after the u. S. National security adviser blamed Iranian Naval mines for damaging oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates earlier thi
Thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. We are grateful. The beat with katie phang in for ari starts right now. Hi, katie. Hi, nicolle. Thank you so much. Welcome to the beat for the rest offuous. I am katie phang in for ari melber. We start with flashing Warning Signs for american democracy at a Pivotal Moment in the American Campaign season. As of tonight President Biden and former President Trump have clenched the threshold for meeting they primaries. Its the earliest matchup in nearly a quarter of a century. In 2000 al gore and george w. Bush clenched their nominations just four days earlier than joe biden and donald trump. Of course, that election ended at the United States Supreme Court. And this election starts there. Trump set to make the unprecedented argument for total president ial immunity in his coup case next month, as accountability for january 6th rioters dpriends forward. Just today a federal judge ordering that a trump
Making some progress in fighting the flames at this hour. This as the video shows what people had to do to make it out alive. Plus a live look in San Francisco. The gates just now opening, literally moments ago, for this years outside lands music festival. We are live with what you can expect if youre tending the festival, including the allimportant forecast. All important. That it is. Good morning. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. Im kris sanchez. Laura garcia is off. Well get to that in a moment. As of now, we are stilt talking about whats happening in hawaii. The death toll in maui stands at 55. But we expect that that is going to increase. There is ground gained in containing the flames. Six fires are still burning in maui and the big island, but Officials Say that lahaina fire is now 80 contained. Nearly 11,000 people remain wiwithout power, a and some of e outages are expected to last for weeks. But firefigighters theree on th grouound continue