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dozen homes are without water in berkeley. a main broke sending water gushing into the streets. we re live at the intersection with an update. reporter: you can see there are crews here, actually about to leave in a couple of minutes, and then they re going to switch shifts, but the goal is to have the new pipe fully restored and water return to those customers at 6:30 this evening. here s a look at the scene this afternoon. two water mains that broke about a block or so away along cornell. crews in the process of fixing those two further down the street. the problem started just of midnight when the first water main broke, and the force of the water pressure knocked a 200 mound manhole in the air, on the sidewalk, on gillman street. customers began calling east bay mud to report no water in their homes at 1:30 this morning. then eight hours later the other mains broke further down cornell avenue. east mud officials say age of the pipes is a factor and the one here on ....
britain should stay in the european union freed at last. after 43 years in solitary confinement top story for you. police in uganda put the main opposition candidate for president underhouse arrest. it s the fourth time in a week that he has been detained. police say it s to prevent unrest after the opposition vote rigging in the poll on thursday. professional results showed that the president is on course to extend his 30 year rule. the e.u. s chief observer for the elections says the extent of force used by the police is unacceptable. it was not transparent. it was very badly organising things. and it took the trust of everyone here in uganda that we were speaking to. i would say it s a failure of the european commission. vote stuffing or rigging. we got that information from the media. we ask our observers all over the country, and i have to say that they did not confirm - they didn t witness any kind of these things which you mentioned. i speak on the findings ....
refugees trying to make it to europe. top story, voting in niger s presidential election well under way. around 7 million people registered to vote in the country. the current president has been criticized for his handling of security threats which is one of the main issues. a state of members of the jury has announced state of emergency was announced after attacks from the boko haram. despite political instability, the world bank says niger s economy grew by 6.5% in 2014. the u.n. says it is still one of the least developed countries with high rates of illiteracy and disease. our correspondent is outside a poll at the moment. what is it like so far? reporter: there is not much, but we are seeing now the beginning of the vote. in a few minutes i think as you can see behind me in this high school there are at least four or five classrooms where they have established the boxes brought here just a few minutes ago. there was a scene here of activity when they brought tho ....
fiji islands. two bombs have hit the syrian city of homs. the explosions hit and at least 25 people have been killed. the area is predominantly home to a sect that the president bashar al-assad. bashar al-assad says a ceasefire is possible but rebels have to have a genuine offer. he singled out turkey saying that it should not exploit any potential break in hostilities. from the opposition sides, the high commission committee says it is ready for a ceasefire but any troops must come with guarantees from the syrian regimes allies, russia and iran, to hold fire. on the ground syrian forces are pushing forward towards aleppo. troops have taken control of a major power plant supplying electricity to aleppo. what is going on, the latest information, vis-a-vis homs, what do we know? reporter: you did mention that state media is reporting 25 killed and many injured. we understand that these were twin explosions near simultaneous explosions in a government mf controlled distr ....
after five years of fighting and more than 250,000 deaths, the u.s. and russia have agreed on terms for what both sides are calling a cessation of hostilities. reporter: tony after more than a week of negotiations, the deal was sealed in a phone call between president obama, and russian president vladimir putin, but the final word on whether the fighting really stops, lies with the syrian government forces and the fighters on the ground who oppose them. the agreement gives syrian forces another week to press their advantage over opposition fighters, and another week for russia to back the government with punishing air strikes that have laid waste to the city of aleppo. in a broadcast address, russian president putin hailed the agreement as a break through that could radically transform the situation in syria, and launch a genuine political process. president obama by contrast did not mention the accord in remarks to the nation s governors, instead later issuing a ....