i m martha maccallum. this is the story today. it s a big one. a border showdown is brewing in eagle pass, texas right now. a huge hub for illegal border crossings. there s a standoff that is underway between the federal government, which wants the razor wire that texas put in place there to protect its own state, they say it has to go. republican texas governor greg abbott says he will not. the biden administration has given him a deadline of tomorrow to allow border patrol access to the area. it s called shelby park. essentially setting up a confrontation potentially between federal agents and the texas national guard. when asked to the governor, will you comply with this order, here s what the governor said. watch. texas has a right as a state to stop criminals from coming in to our state. to make arrests of those criminals. we have national guard as well as texas department of public safety officers that are there to make those arrests and to deny illegal entry. mar
they won t be getting any money. so you get to see what the reaction will be from the egyptian authorities. they have been a number of incidents in the red sea in recent days. earlier this week a polish boat capsized and on thursday there was a shark attack, tiger shark attack killed a russian man. so there are some pressures on the egyptian authorities to respond to events like this. all unrelated defence, but sometimes with things like this happen it does mean that extra precautions are taken for example much of the beach was, a6 miles of the coastline were shut for diving in the aftermath of that tiger shark attack. so we willjust have to see in the coming days with the egyptian responses. ukraine says its forces are making gains, as they try to recapture territory occupied by russian forces. this is footage from a ukrainian assault brigade said to show offensive operations near bakhmut. the unit claims to have killed
and typically are the smaller guys and we believe it is a bull or tiger shark attack and it can be common in that area and initially we might have thought it was a spinner shark or black-tipped sharks. bill: why does it matter, the species? the type of shark? it really doesn t. the reality is, that shark attack risk is extremely rare. unfortunately, statistics don t matter in this case. it was a sad story. but, the risk of shark attack is very little, less than 100 attacks worldwide per year and of those, maybe 4-5 are fatal every year. there were only 137 fatal unprovoked shark attacks since we start recording the numbers. bill: you said something in your first answer i want to go back to her. sure. bill: what was the confusion? was that the word you used? as to why sharks go after humans in is it the scent? hunger? something that triggers in their brains? they think it is something it turns out to be a human being? sharks are not out there hunting the oceans for human prey. the