Premises. Sadly, i can confirm that the number of people who have died is now 17, and we do believe that number will increase. For our colleagues within the health service, there is still a number of people receiving treatment in hospital. 30 people receiving treatment, several in Critical Care. Like with blind yesterday, like weeks blind yesterday, the priority is identification of those missing. It will be wrong to get into numbers that i do believe our inaccurate, please get in touch with us. If you have reported somebody who was missing and you know they are safe and well, call the missing and you know they are safe and well, callthe number, so missing and you know they are safe and well, call the number, so that we can identify those we are still trying to find. My heart goes out to the family still trying to find love oiies. The family still trying to find love ones. Specially trained officers will be in touch with you to support you through this. It is going to ta ke you through
there. four young people have died in a crash in county tipperary in ireland. the male driver, in his early 20s, and three female teenage passengers, were killed in the incident in clonmel on friday night. it s thought they had been on their way to celebrate after receiving the results of their exams. to seoul now, where south koreans have been protesting about japan s release of treated water from the fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. japan began releasing waste water from the crippled plant on thursday. officials insist what they are doing is safe but that hasn t stopped a fierce backlash from china and south korea. japan intends on discharging around 540 olympic swimming pools worth of water into the pacific over several decades. this is seen as a big step in decommissioning the still highly dangerous site, 12 years after one of the world s worst nuclear accidents. here in the uk, the expansion of london s ultra low emission zone, or ulez,
extraordinary scene, as you can imagine. actually, she said she and the rest of the tour group were shuffled away into shelter because apparently everybody thought there could be shooting involved, and that s what s happened in the not so distant past. we re talking about this young private. he has a rap sheet of at least three interactions with police officers just here in seoul, and he hasn t really been here that long. he only joined the military, even before he came to seoul, back in january 2021, so this is a young man who seems to have had quite a few interactions with the police. he was going to be going back to the united states where he was likely to be facing further discipline at the hands of the military and possibly a discharge. it seems he chose the harder way out. crossing into north korea. chris? yeah, to say the least. matt bradley, thank you for that. let s go to capitol hill now where pressure is building on alabama senator tommy tuberville for standing in the wa
this comes as the southwest region is experiencing extreme weather patterns that are destroying its crops. the us dollar index, the benchmark for the currency s international value, has hit a 20 year high. investors see it as a safe haven in these uncertain times as central banks around the world raise interest rates as it tries to bring down inflation. to seoul now, where the government has promised to get rid of its basement apartments, which were made famous by the oscar winning film parasite. it follows severe floods last month, which trapped people inside their homes, killing four people. the underground homes have come to represent south korea s growing inequality and spiralling housing crisis. as our seoul correspondent, jean mackenzie, has been finding out, those who live in them fear they ll be left with nowhere to go. under the streets of seoul live hundreds
america feed its own babies. there will be many, many questions about this in the days and weeks and months to come. 1.5 million bottles is a lot but there are millions of babies in the united states. this will not turn things around when it arrives in indiana. it s one of many steps being taken but parents aren t going to see full shelves tomorrow or the next day or the next day. this shortage could go on for a while. hopefully it ll get better soon but won t be turned around for many weeks to come. we have to get those flights into warp speed here. thank you very much. today there was also a flight with an urgent delivery from washington to seoul. it was carrying the bill that congress just passed for more ukrainian aide so the president could sign it. it allocates another $40 billion in humanitarian and military support. it comes at a time that russia