Dampen the crowd s enthusiasm. There were surprise performances throughout a pink feathered lady gaga and the french malian singer, aya nakamura performed alongside teams of dancers high kicking the can can or perching perilously on poles. The olympic flame, which had been carried by a host of global sports superstars including rafael nadal, serena williams and zinedine zidan, was used to light a huge cauldron on a hot air balloon that rose high into the paris sky. The culmination of the show included an emotional return of canadian icon celine dion her first live performance for four years. She sang on a spectacularly illuminated eiffel tower for the first time since revealing a serious health condition. For rights reasons we can t show any of celine s performance or the opening ceremony, but my colleague maryam moshiri watched in paris. What a culmination, what an end to what has been at times a difficult day for the organisers of the paris olympics and, indeed, the ceremony. The
For the remainder of the tournament. Earlier this week, two canadian staff were sent home after a drone was flown over new zealand s training, but canada soccer says it s discovered evidence of previous drone use predating the paris games. One of the key pieces of information was the conclusion from canada soccer that she needed to be suspended based on their accumulation of facts. I ve seen some of them, some of the information they have. And we ve gathered some additional information ourselves that made me conclude that she was highly likely to have been aware of the incidents. Away from the olympics, it s been a topsy turvy day at edgbaston so far, with ebbs and flows throughout the first two session of the third test between england and west indies. The windies won the toss and elected to bat, then put on 76 for the first wicket, with kraigg brathwaite making 61. A flurry of wickets either side of lunch left them 115 5. Jason holder and josh da silva have stopped the rot. At stumps
Welcome to hannity. And tonight, extremism and bigotrty, tony is festerine the democratic party. Far left individuals who hate our country, our way of life. They are desecratingag flag, ens vandalizing our monuments and openly supportinupg a terrorist organization. In response, the bidenharrisran administration can barely muster a o cly musten joe, as p, is barely able to get through the day. Meanwhile, democratic party s newly anointed presidential nominee, kamala presominee k, summoned just enoh courage to release a written statt politely condemning the prohamas riots. You know, the people burning our flags and so on and so forth. But don t expect anyvirtuous big virtuous speeches condemning this extrempeechese. You see, kamala does not have the moral courage to call out her own radical side. Remember , supported that bail fund after the police precinct was burned dow n, minneapolis, for days. She tweeted out a support forthi the bailll fund after after the precinct burned down, said
Us president biden has been meeting benjamin netanyahu at the oval office amid ongoing protests during the israeli prime minister s trip to washington. It s the first meeting between the two since mr biden visited israel shortly after the hamas attacks on october the 7th. President biden is expected to put renewed pressure on the israeli prime minister to secure a cease fire deal in gaza and to free the remaining hostages held by hamas. Let s hear what the pair had to say as their meeting began. Well, welcome back, mr prime minister. We ve got a lot to talk about. I think we should get to it. The floor is yours. Mr president, we ve known each other for 40 years, and you ve known every israeli prime minister for 50 years. From golda meir. So from a proud jewish zionist to a proud irish american zionist, i want to thank you for 50 years of public service and 50 years of support for the state of israel. And i look forward to discussing with you today and working with you in the months ahe
In the uk and around the world. Good evening. A lawyer for the family involved in an incident with police at manchester airport says one man has been found to have a cyst on the brain, and that a brother of those involved is a serving police officer. In a widely circulated video filmed on tuesday, a greater manchester officer is seen kicking a man in the head while he s on the floor. The force has suspended one officer from all duties, and referred itself to the independent police watchdog. There have been protests this evening outside the offices of the mayor of greater manchester, andy burnham. Our uk editor ed thomas is in manchester tonight. Yes, the impact of those moments of confusion and violence have been felt and seen here today. Protest outside the offices of the mayor, a police officer suspended, the prime minister responding but still, people here want to know exactly what happened. Today the solicitor who was representing two of the brothers at the centre of all this says