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Publisher investigation is underway in the United Kingdom after the bodies of 39. 00 people were found in a container truck with more on this and the rest of the news from europe lets cross to mary in the mozzie in our london news center. Yes thank you stan britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pointed the finger at people traffic has off the bodies were found in a truck which had just arrived in the Country Police are now trying to track where it came from the discovery was made when the lorry was parked in the town of grays east of london from where paul brennan now reports. The circumstances of the grim discovery are still uncertain ambulance paramedics were the 1st to be called to the scene the police wont reveal who it was who raised the alarm but it was immediately obvious that the people inside this container lorry were beyond medical help shortly before 1 40 am today we received reports that a number of people had been found inside the lorries container at the wall to great Industrial Park on easton avenue in grace Emergency Services attended but sadly all 39 people inside the container had died police now believe that the container travelled from zebra to purfleet and docked in the thora carrier shortly after 12 30 am on wednesday morning but they also say that the tractor part of the truck is believed to have originated in Northern Ireland and the British Parliament the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition were united in shock and sorrow how this is an unimaginable tragedy and truly heartbreaking i know that the thoughts and prayers of all members are with those who lost their lives and their loved ones i do pay an enormous tribute to the Emergency Services whove gone to the scene to deal with it all of us who just think for a moment what its like to be a Police Officer or a firefighter to open that container and have to remove 39 bodies from it and deal with them in a program in an appropriate and humane way what unimaginable horror did the 39 victims and your refrigerator at lawrys are designed to be at tight that those 39 people suffocate in a claustrophobic and terrifyingly inevitable death or did they freeze to death in temperatures below minus 20 degrees celsius. There are echoes of the 2015 tragedy in austria when 71 people suffocated to death in the back of an airtight lorry which the people smugglers had simply abandoned in the august heat. The 25 year old driver of this lorry has been arrested and is being questioned as a potential murder suspect truck itself has now been moved to a secure location the top redox so the bodies can be removed forensically but this investigation is only just beginning and somehow somewhere the families of 39. 00 people are going to have to be traced and told of their loved ones fate paul brennan. Essex all you know his stories are following European Union ambassadors have been meeting in brussels to discuss whether to grant the United Kingdom another brecks it extension so theyre considering a 3 month delay with the u. K. Permitted to leave sooner if it can pass the necessary legislation but Prime Minister Boris Johnson is saying hell call a general election before christmas if the u. K. Is granted a long extension france is pushing for a shorter timeframe of just days a week officials that you to meet again on friday. Now the division has told African Leaders he wants to do he wants to more than double the amount that russia trades with them as he welcomed them to a meeting at the black sea resort of sochi but economic ties are not the only thing on the agenda as he tries to exert more influence on the continent many western nations have turned their back on russia is playing catch up china japan and the e. U. Will been meeting africa for years last year russian exports to africa hit 20000000000. 00 whereas chinese exports to the continent with 205000000000. 00 so how exactly then does moscow plan to boost its influence well the 1st thing is debt putin announced that hell write off more than 160000000. 00 for ethiopia is part of russias debt for Development Program mozambique madagascar and tanzania have already benefited russia is also increasing its defense relationships on the continent since 2014 minutes cooperation agreements have been signed with 19 african countries and then moscow is offering Nuclear Power Technology Construction of the continents 1st Nuclear Plant will begin in egypt next year funded by a russian led bomb and is a fellow at the Russia International Affairs Council he says moscows looking to project power where western states have pulled back what russia wants is to position itself on the african map because were seeing how a lot of actors or withdrawn from the continent the the french the americans are playing a lesser role in the continent now but at the same time we see that other emerging powers such as china are really kind of becoming huge in africa so i think russia is kind of doing as its own extent is jumping on that bandwagon joining china on the one hand but on the other hand i think russia feels that its its its it has outgrown its its role in the post i read union state is space in the history of europe in the middle east and i think russia is looking to fill that void that a lot of traditional powers are living in africa that requires obviously a lot of political pushing that also requires a lot of business at times as well. Wolf london later on now back to stand in doha. Thank you are going to take you to chile now where antigovernment protests a being described as the worst to hit the country in nearly 30 years at least 18 people have been killed in the past 2 weeks a curfew and a state of emergency have been imposed originally there was anger over a hike in royal prices and now protesters saying theyre fighting government oppression president Sebastian Pinera has apologized in an address to the nation and promised to tackle growing inequality joins us live from santiago what impact has that apology had and how much determination is there still my will to continue this protest. Stan its hard to know exactly how much impact the speech that the president gave on tuesday evening has had in calming the hearts of people here in the chilean capital theres a lot of momentum behind these demonstrations and as you mentioned already in your introduction this unrest began over a hike in the fare for the metro but its since evolved into a whole series of demands and complaints from all sectors of society across the city which by the way right now where you are in a part of town where you can see a lot of traffic its only the middle of the afternoon rush hour is come a couple of hours early these are long lines of people thousands of people that are trying to get back to their homes ahead of a potential curfew theres been 4 nights of curfew there hasnt been one announced for this evening yet but people are scrambling to get home to avoid potentially being arrested for a curfew violation and theres really 2 worlds here this sort of semblance of normalcy in this part of town but if you go to class theres clashes taking place right now as we speak between demonstrators and police and even for us weve had to actually take a step back to get out of the situation we dont want to be and getting hit by tear gas Water Cannons rubber bullets there have been several members of the press that have been injured from projectiles launched by police theres also a lot of hostility from certain radical elements of these protests that are very distrustful of the media and have and have also injured and attacked members of the press so theres a little of everything here but whether or not that speech that the president gave yesterday has done enough to calm the minds i think theres still a lot of anger on the streets theres a lot of resentment against what people are saying is a rejection of the political system not just not not just a series of policies but the entire traditional political system of chile stan. Thank you so much for that one hour one of the pentagons top policy officials for ukraine is appearing before the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump laura cooper is lucky to be questioned about the decision to freeze to ukraine its a diopter acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine William Taylor testified that troubled as a condition that ukraine investigate his rival joe biden before releasing the republican politicians have tried to stop the impeachment inquiry into President Trump more than 2 dozen members assembled outside the secure room where cooper is testifying to hold a short News Conference attacking the hearing before pushing it to the Committee Room bringing the session to a halt. Castro is live for us in washington d. C. And testimony of course comes after ambassador tieless testimony which is being described as potentially the most damaging yet to president. Thats exactly how democrats are describing yesterdays explosive testimony from William Cooper stan and in fact he did lay out a detailed and compelling case that appears to connect the dots on what is an explicit quid pro quo that the us president demanded of ukraine to investigate his political adversaries in exchange for a visit to the white house and for the 400000000. 00 worth of security aid that have already been promised to ukraine and William Taylor lay this out in specific conversations with individuals that he names in his testimony who it converse directly with the president and so for the 1st time were seeing trump personally implicated in these discussions at taylor said that learning of this he was both astonished any found it dangerous to be endangering the lives of ukrainians as he put it in his Opening Statement by not giving them the Security Assistance which they needed to defend themselves against russia he said this also endangered u. S. Foreign policy by emboldening and empowering russia during a time when the relationship between ukraine with its newly elected president and the United States was at a critical moment and thats why he said he texted to fellow u. S. Ambassadors that he thought it was crazy this was in real time as it was happening he said it was crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help for the president s own Reelection Campaign now taylor is a well respected career professional who served under president s of both parties hes not being attacked for being partisan and democrats are calling his testimony the most damning yet in their impeachment inquiry and theyre hoping that todays testimony from laura cooper who is the 1st pentagon official to be speaking to investigators and who oversaw the disbursement of this aid to ukraine they hope that she can fill in. Even more of these gaps stan. Castro live for us in washington d. C. Were 2 associates of President Trumps personal lawyer who are linked to that ukraine scandal of pleaded not guilty to charges of violating u. S. Campaign finance laws live potus and igor freeman a Close Friends of former new york mayor Rudy Giuliani the russian born business men were arrested earlier this month theyre accused of helping funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of a Ukrainian Government official into the u. S. Political system. Lets go to lebanon now where protesters are blocking roads across the country thats as part of a 7th day of demonstrations the army is trying to reopen mine routes demonstrations continue despite the government approving im president and Economic Reforms purchased as a calling for complete political change saying hold on reports from by rivers. They try to reclaim the streets but the people stood their ground lebanons army has been ordered by politicians to open roads across the country the same politicians these lebanese want gone there were skirmishes a few injuries but at the end the military took a step back theyre trying to intimidate the seriousness. Thing that by a show of force were going to back up people are going to be afraid to come and actually publish the opposite all of us rushed early on instead of coming at like 5 or 6 pm for a party this is the main highway connecting the capital beirut to North Lebanon protesters have been blocking roads in the hope of pressuring the government to resign Prime Minister saad and heidi who said protests will be tolerated in squares ordered the Security Forces to clear the streets he has ordered stop process as all this. Is hes seeing that the people there are not using any violence they are so peaceful its not clear if the presence of cameras stop the soldiers from using Excessive Force but not long after the army command issued a statement making it clear daily life must not be disrupted people chant revolution revolution we want the fall of the regime protesters are still very much defiant they are refusing to leave the streets it seems levanon will witness a for a long period of unrest if the lebanese government refuses to resign. The governing coalition has not been able to write off the protest movement which has spread. It is now entering its 2nd week. My son graduates next year and all he thinks about is leaving lebanon he cant find a job here i dont want my children to leave i want those in power to return the money they stole. For decades protests like these were ineffective because the majority of the lebanese people allied themselves with one Political Group or another that may change hard its different now the people on the street and when were talking specifically about people who are affiliated politically and maybe still affiliated but its clear but they want to hold their parties accountable maybe they didnt do it during the elections they are doing it now on the street no one can pretend to represent the street today the protesters are trying to seize their country from politicians who have been in power for decades now they have overcome sectarian and political divides and are controlling the streets this is the 1st time lebanons political leaders face such a serious challenge but that may change if the army chooses to protect those in power set up for their beirut. Was on al jazeera. Says congress this time to defend the launch of a Digital Currency. President ial. 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Parts of the middle east recently and as is often the case here in this part of the world where the ground is dry we have seen some flooding this is the same in cairo actually on shes day off may we have had some disruption as a result solve the a west the weather pushing for many flights cancelled once but destruction on the road wet weather just lingering around cyprus that eastern side of the med as we go on through stay classy stretches across northern parts of syria will then essential parts of iraq Northern Areas of iraq could see some showers longest spells of fright over the next couple of days that went to weather a cloudy weather pushing a little further south as we go through friday and that is by friday you could see some wet weather just pushing back towards the Sinai Peninsula for the Arabian Peninsula it is looking like the fine and dry temperatures here in a pleasant so 334. 00 celsius say with the next couple days not a bit of cloud there pushing into northern parts of the gulf could catch a little bit of right on that but otherwise its lotty blue skies all the way but skies for good parts of Southern Africa as well but we have got some gray skies some cloud pushing across the southern type at the moment possible to see sweater weather coming in on that and thats all making its way from west towards the east. 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