good morning and thank you so much for spending some of your july 4th holiday with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting for two hours this morning. as we come on the air and some of you wake up on independence day, americans are confronting once again a uniquely american crisis, gun violence. a deadly night in america, with a pair of shootings. one claiming the life of five people in philadelphia, the very city where the u.s. constitution was drafted. another at a celebration in fort worth, texas, killing at least three people there. what we re learning about both shootings. also right now, severe weather impacting millions from intense storms in the midwest and the east coast to nearly triple digit temps out west putting july 4th celebrations literally up in the air. it would be great if it was the fourth. but it is the whole month, the whole year, we live in the best country in the world. and watch the water. two teens attacked ten mil apart in new york wh
the wagner leader goes on to say that the war has been a disaster, needlessly sacrificing by seeding ukraine s resources. he says this is not a coup. they ve been shooting at us. they ve been shooting at us. they ve been shooting at us. they ve been shooting at them. it s been going on for eight long years on february 2a there was nothing extraordinary. now the russian defence ministry is trying to deceive the president and the public claiming there was insane aggression and that they were going to attack us along with the attire nato block. so the so called special military operation on february 24 military operation on february 2a was launched for a completely different reason. live now to vitaliy shevchenko from bbc monitoring. we are hearing reports of tightened security we are hearing reports of tightened security measures we are hearing reports of tightened security measures in moscow what are you hearing? what this means in practice is that troops seem to be deploye
there has been air strikes, shelling and other heavy gun fire reported. and in the last few hours, the general of the rsf the rapid support forces in sudan has approved a 2k hour ceasefire. general mohamed hamdan daglo tweeted. he had spoken to the us secretary of state antony blinken and agreed the pause to ensure the safe passage of civilians and the evacuation of people who are injured. mr blinken had called for the ceasefire during the g7 foreign ministers meeting taking place injapan. but, the sudanese army has released a statement denying any knowledge of the ceasefire. despite that tweet, these are the latest pictures from rsf paramilitary forces at khartoum international airport showing black smoke rising from burning plane. let s take a look at the area more closely. sudan is part of this eastern area of africa, known as the horn of africa and has a history of instability. the area s intergovernmental authority on development, or i gad, will send the presidents o
one of nine maximums and 15 fours in his 124 ball innings that shot beating the previous best of 180 made byjason roy in 2018. well, that helped england to 368 all out, stokes ably supported by dawid malan who made 96 off 95 balls. who made 96 off 95 balls. england did lose their last four wickets forjust eight runs. new zealand are now into bat and are currently 32 for 3the series stands at 1 each going into this one. the sides meet in the final one dayer on friday at lords. at the davis cup, great britain are playing the first of their three round robin matches in manchester kicking things off against australia as they look to get through this group stage and reach november s knockouts. and what a davis cup debut for 21 year old jack draper up against thanasi kokkinakis in the opening singles rubber, who s 32 places above him in the world rankings. he won 6 7 6 3 7 6. dan evans is now taking on alex di minaur in the second singles match. evans eva ns ha d evans had co
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. the national zoo in washington bids farewell to its beloved trio of giant pandas who were loaned as goodwill ambassadors from china. welcome back, a russian battalion comprised of ukrainian prisoners welcome back, a russian battalion comprised of ukrainian prisoners of war will likely deploy to ukraine in the nearfuture. in an apparent violation of the geneva convention. they will be deployed to the east of the country where active combat is taking place under the control of the donetsk people s republic. the russians claim the soldiers will receive equal treatment, to the russian infantry, including salaries and benefits. george barros is a russian analyst at the institute for the study of war and geospatial intelligence team lead. what do you know about the men in this battalion and have been chorused and fighting their own side? ~ . ~ ., , ., ., chorused and fighting their own side? . ~ ., ., side? what