Hurricane katrina 16 years ago. The national Weather Service Office in New Orleans says Storm Surge and high winds could leave some locations uninhabitable for weeks or even months. Both mandatory and voluntary evacuations ordered for several louisiana parishes and the national Hurricane Center warns of lifethreatening situations. Officials say if residents are planning to leave do it now. On saturday the governor expressed the dangerous and historic nature of idas threat. When you talk about Rain Total that could be up to 15, 16 inches, and in isolated areas above 20 inches, with that kind of rain that kind of Storm Surge, that kind of wind, this is just a very serious storm. It will be one of the very strongest storms to hit louisiana since the 1850s and ironically scheduled to make Land Fall on the 16th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. And we have the latest on The Storm. T moments ago upgraded to the category 4. What does that mean . Its a ba hellith. Hurr behemoth. 133 wind per h
And the horrifying images that weve seen as a result of yesterdays attack. We are learning a little bit more. Two Suicide Bombers essentially targeted two different gates. One, abby gate, which is a major Choke Hold with thousands of people lining up, pushing to get into the airport. And the other one outside the barron hotel. This is where we were just about a week ago. This is where the british had been using as a standing operation, a place from where they do their processing, their evacuations. They have said now that Evacuation Operation is completely finished, but they hasten to add that this is not because of the attack. This was already on schedule and they have simply finished the evacuations they needed to do. But to give our viewers a little bit of a better sense of how this happened, just based on our experience, what you had was the taliban guarding the outer perimeter, and then the next line essentially were u. S. Forces. While the taliban were doing sort of cursory searc
S 5 Coming Home, it was like Coming Home, 5 Coming Home, it was like Coming Home, its 5 Coming Home, it was like Coming Home, its Coming Home. Every England Fan will be hoping the footballs Coming Home and after years of hurt is tonight the night . I think we can officially say. 0h, can we . Shall we say it together . Its Coming Home 0h, weve said it now theres excitement too in italy, they are unbeaten in three years and are confident that they can beat england tonight, well head live to rome. They are confident that they can beat england tonight. Im Lukwesa Burak with our other main stories. The Uks Vaccine Minister says the government is confident that plans to lift a range of Covid Restrictions will go ahead Onjuly 19 in england. But he also said masks are still expected to be worn indoors. The fortification of the Vaccination Programme has allowed us to cautiously move to step four, and the Prime Minister will say more about this. And at wimbledon, its the Mens Singles final. Nova
civil servants to help her book a private driving awareness course. sinn fein s vice president has called on the british and irish governments to restore a power sharing government at stormont. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome to this addition to the media show. this week because s is need very little introduction. welcome to the media show. one of thoseis welcome to the media show. one of those is certainly ukraine, and we heard the news that the journalists had died by russian artillery at 32 years old. this is a conflict you know very closely. years old. this is a conflict you know very closely. yes, he was killed somewhere know very closely. yes, he was killed somewhere in know very closely. yes, he was killed somewhere in the - know very closely. yes, he was killed somewhere in the east i know very closely. yes, he was i killed somewhere in the east near bakhmut, where i spent over the time, too. these things are tragic and unfortunately, i ve kno
for radio 4 called frontlines ofjournalism, billed as your reflections on the most difficult stories you have covered. one of those is certainly ukraine. we heard the news that the afp journalist had died, killed, we re told, by russian artillery. he was 32 years old and this is a conflict you know very closely. yes, he was killed somewhere in the east, somewhere near bakhmut, where i have spent quite a bit of time, i was there at the end of last year. these things are tragic and in all the years i have been doing this, i have known quite a few people who have been killed. i was reading his twitter account today and if you go back to may 1st he has posted a video where he and some soldiers, who are accompanying him are lying down and he is describing them pure terror as artillery fire comes in. in those moments, and you must have been in those moments, there must be a decision to make about whether you stay? if you are in a situation where shells are landing, you don t ha