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Arthur ashe stadium in new york, home to the u.s. open and largest tennis stadium in the world. but this weekend, it will be filled with fans of a different kind, fortnite. the wildly popular video game. and just like tennis, the winner will take home millions of dollars. tony ilo has this story. >> reporter: it is the worlds hottest online video game with more than 250 million registered players. fortnite is an absolute sensation. >> it is always changing, always new. fresh. every day. >> it is...

A year ago. but their survival still tends to by tragedy this tiny the seal diver died during the rescue operation. honored by the team for giving his life to save their lives. i want to say thank you thank you very much to sergeant some grown up without him we might not be alive today. and he wont be soon forgotten a statue has been erected in his memory. i still have him in my heart all the time i feel like this to walk together. over the weekend thousands came to a marathon near the rescue si...

Libya and in eastern libya or the l n a or half to himself has been selling a war that no one in libya is buying apart from the international community that wants the kind of see progress in that and this is the danger is that when you believe the propaganda and you thought the fight groups like the terrorists you drawing them from the sky you treat them as if theyre captives then effectively you radicalize those groups of and more so its its a very very dangerous narrative to buy into because i...

A lot over all many or most but the end game is there is no winner in this war. thats not healthy for reporting on a very very complex and fluid situation in tripoli i think you. id like to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. u.s. president donald trump has announced that washington will officially designate irans revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization is the first time that the u.s. has labeled a foreign government entity in those terms irans fore...

A sore jobless and recent local elections you have a strong a surprise you never really be the candidate for president and once a k. party party is now appealing against you as a victory as well as an opposition win in istanbul. and sudans state media reporting that seven people died in anti-government protests over the weekend thousands of protesters have been demonstrating for a third day outside army headquarters in the capital hard to they want the military to oust president o.-l. bashir who...

>> [crowd noise]. >> thats an assault. in that caravan you have very bad people. we cant let that happen to our country. we need a wall built fast. >> [cheers and applause]. if we dont have borders we dont have a country. >> sean: the president is right. a versus serious and dangerous situation is about to boil over. you have a highly organized and undocumented trove of migrants headed straight to the united states. over the weekend thousands of illegal immigrants from central america, they brok...

[ cheers ] . >> president trump: thats an assault. and in that caravan, you have some very bad people. you have some very bad people. and we cant let that happen to our country. and its not. we need a wall built fast. [ cheers ] . >> president trump: fast. [ cheers ] . >> president trump: we have to protect our borders. we dont have borders we dont have a country. >> sean: the president is exactly right. let me make this perfectly clear. a very serious, dangerous situation is about to boil over ...

Sets to pay starbucks more than seven billion dollars to form a global coffee alliance that will allow it to market starbucks products outside to the american companies coffee shop starbucks hopes this will boost its food and coffee products which already generated around two billion dollars in annual sales and nestle expects the deal to strengthen its position in the north american market . now one year after a month where mark calls a landslide victory in the french presidential election the c...

Choice of new cabinet ministers on sunday. rival political groups have held rallies across italy ahead of parliamentary elections next weekend thousands of supporters of the far right northern league gathered in milan were anti-fascist demonstrators also marched in the capital rome authorities stepped up security around the country amid fears protests could turn violent. fears are growing for a group of some one hundred missing young women in northeastern nigeria its believed boko haram militant...

Lets see if we can make good news. this as china blasts trumps comments over the weekend that the one china policy which maintains taiwan as part of china is under negotiation. chinas state run tabloid slamming trump in an editorial, quote, we were simply angry initially but now we cant help but laugh. >> there are no plans to change the one china policy but certainly that policy is on the table if china doesnt also come to the table and work with us on trade, work with us on the south china sea...