officials say at least eight people are dead after a smuggling boat capsized off the coast of san diego. authorities responded to the scene after someone on a separate boat called 911 to report victims in the water. they say rough conditions made the recovery effort difficult. we were in recovery mode for about five hours after that. the access to the area was very difficult due to the tide and the coastal cliff there. that area is a very hazardous area even in the daytime. it has a series of sandbars and inshore rip currents. you would think you could land in sand and get to waist-high or knee-high water and think you re able to get to land. this is one of the worst maritime smuggling tragedies that i can think of in california, certainly here in the city of san diego. authorities are continuing to search for any additional victims. we ll bring you more details as we get them. also happening this hour in california, a desperate race to rescue people trapped in floodwat
hello and welcome to bbc news. reports from ukraine say armed soldiers have been going door to door in occupied parts of the country to collect votes for self styled referendums onjoining russia. russian state media says door to door voting is necessary for security reasons. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around 15% of ukraine s territory. the so called referendums have been widely condemned. president biden described them as a sham and a false pretext to try to illegally annex parts of ukraine. our correspondent, james waterhouse, reports from kyiv. russia s version of their so called referendums a free and fair democratic process where ukrainians in kherson decide whether they want tojoin russia. but, on the same spot today in the city centre, it s deserted. ukrainian officials have posted footage like this. apparently, ballots being
Heres one of the shop workers explaining what happened. Translation i was at work in the Furniture Section when there was a first hit. Me and my colleague fell off our feet, went down and hit the floor. There was a second hit after which we were covered in rubble. We were covered in it, our faces, too. We started to dig our way up to the top. There, the Extinguishing System had started working. We grabbed a few people and an Emergency Service guy who was shopping saved us. He was with a girl that was also shopping and he helped us to get out through the window. Me, my colleague and another boy as well as the shopper and his girlfriend made it out. I spoke to cyrille amoursky, a journalist for la chaine info channel. Hesjoined me from kharkiv, just in front of the Shopping Centre which was attacked today. We know that there are at least 16 people missing before it used to be 11. Now it is 16. We know also that five people are dead, but there may be other people inside of the shopping ce
kayleigh: we are awaiting president biden s high-stakes meeting with chinese president xi jinping in san francisco. t that and the white houses president biden will push xi jinping on suman rights record. it is about time. we begin with israel s targeted offensive against hamas inside gaza largest medical facility, idf forces are conducting raids with limited area of the al-shifa hospital. raids are limited, targeted, to get hamas terrorists hiding in the hospital. searching room by room for any sign of weapons, hostages and terrorists. ground battle continue to break out across the gaza strip. the white house is confirming israel s suspicion about an underground hamas outpost under the hospital. here is spokesman john kirby. this is what it looks like when you hear an incoming attack. when sirens go off in the north, hezbollah launched a dozen rockets and missiles this way. right now, we re able to watch the skyline and explosions. this is the smoke just outside.