America over a mosquito born virus that causes defects. Plus. Im in the african nation, ready to host its biggestever sporting event the security operation at a hotel in Burkina Fasos capital is now over. That is according to the countrys media. Theres reports of a standoff involving gunmen at the motel next door. The fighters stormed the hotel on friday, this is in the citys central district, and its popular with foreigners. Imran khan has the latest. Reporter the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Fasos capital under siege. Gun fire rang out as explosions were heard from inside. Masked gunmen stormed a hotel, popular with foreigners and diplomats. Cars were set on fire and a cafe across the street was attacked. It was horrible. Everyone was panicking. People were laying on the ground. There was blood everywhere. They were shooting people at point blank range. The noise of the explosions was loud. Honestly, it was traumatising. I think these people are really wicked. French troops called in to
History is in the making in taiwan as the island is set for its first woman president tsai ingwen has just claimed victim. The nationalist party conceded defeat. The Prime Minister will set down after his partys loss. The leader of the opposition, tsai ingwen, you can see her there now, that is live, has claimed victim. She looks to win the elections which bring about interesting relations with china. Back in power after eight years. The relations with china has been the main issue with these elections. The president ial polls are proof of taiwans democratic nature. Translation this is the first step of reform. You are my backing of this reform. On 20 may the new government will treat this as the most important task. Reform will take a long time. It will not happen overnight. I will redo the wrong of the previous government so that we form the firm foupgs for fight wants development foundation. We have told the community that the spirit of domestic object res is part of the life of the
Weapon. And. Im fez jamil. The government is creating numerous jobs in the next deca decade. Burkina fasos government says 33 hostages including a government minisr have been freed from a hotel taken by gunmen in the capital. Other reports say at least 60 people have been rescued. The splendid hole in ouagadougos Central Business district, at least 20 are dead. A group associated with al qaeda claims responsibility for the attack. With us from the burkina faso capital, whats the situation there now . Whats the latest youre hearing sir . The latest is that the Security Forces are very, very close to storming the building and hopefully free the remaining hostages. Any idea how many hostages were taken . We know a number were killed, thought only in the hotel, but in a coffee shop opposite the hotel. Any idea how many hostages are remaining . Hard to say. The hotel himself was ready to host 200 people influences for a cocktail dinner. And if you add the people who were staying there, its
Way, we have some Common Ground here. And then here we are today. And what is really troublesome is that not only have we not become sosion hasnything and and so meanspirited, even at this moment even if the Republican Leadership cannot say it our way it would be nice everyone every once in a while to hear the Republican Leaders condemn these angry mobs children coming are scaredborder who out of their minds, many of them fleeing for their lives. It would be nice to hear some condemnation and to get this debate back onto a better footing. Carolinague from north says that we should minimize the rhetoric and deal with reality. That is what we are trying to do. We are talking mostly about kids. Kids who are fleeing some of the most violent countries in the are scared out of their minds, many of the. Honduras has the highest murder in the any country world, more than afghanistan. In salvador, more people die each day and violence in the word during the war. And there is a correlation betwe
There were perhaps over 45,000 workers working at different times on the canal. In total there were about, oh workers from perhaps 40 different countries. It is said you can go into the top of the hill and you can see all the nations of the world represented. The u. S. Was always interested in trying to find a short route to the west. And that became more apparent during the spanishamerican war. One ship was asked to go to fight in cuba. So it left san francisco. On the west coast. And it took two months to reach cuba. By the time it reached cuba, the war was basically over. So that gave new impetus for the idea of finding a way a short way to unite both coasts. Because it became, you know, apparent and particularly now for the u. S. Who had a two ocean navy. So it needed to have a route to cross from one ocean to the other. And so in 1903, when panama was fighting for its independence the u. S. Supported the rebels. And it bought the construction rights from the French Canal Company f