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questioning and release of the former first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, in connection with the investigation into the finances of the scottish national party. mrs sturgeon says her arrest was a shock and she is innocent of any wrongdoing. shes been released without charge pending further investigation. our scotland editor james cook reports. nicola sturgeon, for so long, front and centre in scottish politics, was arrested well away from the cameras, just after 10am. detectiv...

The siblings — aged 13, nine, five and one — are "ve ry wea k" are "very weak" but "happy to see their family", said their grandfather. the four children were found on friday after more than a month of searching by the military and local people. noxious smoke finally has eased over the last few days over parts of north america over the weekend. the wildfires in canada still pose a major threat. researchers at stanford university called an historic event, with the city of new york being shrou...

>> you have been listening to richard rennard from arkema, the president of the plant, chemical facility in crosby, texas that weve been looking at images of this morning, talking about the noxious smoke after they have been unable to cool down some of these rigs or vats of chemicals, type of peroxide essentially. we are going to listen in now to something we heard a little earlier from this press conference from one of the harris county officials talking specifically about the toxicity of the s...

Worry back here, continuing to monitor that flooded chemical plant. look at this. live picture out of crosby, texas. you can see some of that smoke coming up from the smoldering chemicals. you heard the sheriff of harris county say 20 minutes ago he believes that these are nontoxic irritants but the president of that company did not go that far in a news conference with reporters that you also saw here. all the deputies who had been taken to the hospital, who had gone to the hospital after inhal...

Has receded. well wait and watch as they continue to burn, send up fumes and whether or not that affects anybody in a significant way. >> right. and real questions there, jacob. thank you for that. the head of the plant there was saying people should go seek medical advice, talk to a doctor if they breathe in what they described as noxious smoke. questions about the layers of protection. they had generators and backup generators and backups to the backup but unable to definitively say its not to...

>> organic peroxides are -- yeah, as the sheriff said, they are chemical materials used to initiate other chemical production for the purpose of making plastics. toxicity is a -- >> so you cant say it? youre not going to say that theyre nontoxic, correct? are you going to say theyre nontoxic or not? yes or no? its a pretty important -- >> i mean, the smoke is noxious. its toxicity is a relative thin thing. >> so if you breathe it in, what will it do to you? >> if you breathe in the smoke its goi...

Secretary of osha under president obama. jordan, thank you for joining us on the phone. appreciate t sheriff ed gonzalez is on the phone, who you saw speaking at that news conference a couple of minutes ago. he is joining us here. thank you for being with us. i need to talk to you a little bit about the toxicity of the smoke or whatever is happening in this area of texas. you or one of your colleagues said that it is like breathing in a campfire. we did not hear that from the president of arkema...

>> can you clarify that? i might have misheard you. its not nontoxic or explain what is happening. >> its nontoxic irritants. basically smoke from the fire itself, its nothing toxic. thats the information weve been receiving. our fire marshal has been in conversation with the company the last few days. >> the plant, arkema folk, did not go as far as you are at this point. does that concern you with the health concerns from this smoke? >> at this point, it does not. were here. we talked to them a...

Today for the first time they moved to engage them directly. the smoldering ruins of a pro-russian checkpoint. angry masked men who dont like cameras. the men at the checkpoint are feeling particularly tense. this was the scene of a confrontation between the ukrainian military and pro-russian forces which control the town. were on the northern outskirts now. this represents perhaps the most assertive action taken yet by the ukrainian military against the forces which control this town. this amat...

Is that correct? >> i heard the sheriff say that and the chief say that. i dont want to necessarily compare the intensity of the smoke of this -- >> in spanish, the sheriff said theres no more dangerous than a barbecue. >> i heard the comment but i dont want to make any comparisons on the smoke coming from our fire gl so we cant be sure its just a campfire smoke? >> what i can tell you is that from the toxicity of the smoke will certainly cause an irritation to your eyes, irritation to your lung...