Top diplomat is part of washingtons latest effort to help caribbean leaders navigate mmp help caribbean leaders navigate ramp and gang violence threatens to overtake haiti. A meeting with the new haitian prime minister, secretary blinken announce m5 million in new monetary and aid. Patient authorities have expanded a state of emergency order across the entire country, the military situation that is rapidly deteriorating since the former prime minister resigned backin former prime minister resigned back in march. Agencies reported that 580,000 people have an internally displaced by conflict with close to five million facing severe hunger, about 400 kenyan troops arrived to the country injune as prime as you went back security mission boost. Before he left, he reaffirmed the united states his commitment to supporting the haitian people and fostering the secure and peaceful country. We fostering the secure and peaceful country. Fostering the secure and eaceful count. ~. , peaceful country. We have seen the council _ peaceful country. We have seen the council be _ peaceful country. We have seen the council be stood _ peaceful country. We have seen the council be stood up, the council be stood up, government, prime minister, the arrival of kenyan colours to support the police and the security mission, starting to see results from that, all with the objective of putting haiti on a path to elections next year but also to secure environment not only to the elections but to make sure that services can be delivered to the haitian people and that's what's needed in the government can afford and life and return to greater moments. I can afford and life and return to greater moments. Can afford and life and return to greater moments. I spoke to jacqueline to greater moments. I spoke to jacqueline charles, _ to greater moments. I spoke to jacqueline charles, haiti jacqueline charles, haiti correspond for the miami herald. Realistically, what is hoped that this visit can actually achieve there in haiti? ~ 4' actually achieve there in haiti? ~ ~ , haiti? well, i think the first thin he haiti? well, i think the first thing he wanted _ haiti? well, i think the first thing he wanted to haiti? well, i think the first thing he wanted to do haiti? well, i think the first thing he wanted to do is haiti? well, i think the first i thing he wanted to do is select fire underneath the interim haitian the as far as the election so, think you will accomplish that but there's a more practical question which is can you pull off elections? in a country word just in the capitol alone, gangs control more than 85% of the capitol and if you take the take the capitol, the whole region will put in the last elections which was 2016, the represented about 60% of the electorate so how do 60% of the electorate so how do 60% of the electorate so how do 60% of the electorate go and vote in a place where gangs control practically everywhere and that's the real question, today we have 400 opinions, evenif today we have 400 opinions, even if you have up to 1600 wallets 2500, that still doesn't be enough to cover voting centres and that's something that we have not heard from us authorities in terms of practically speaking, how do you expect the haitian population to go if they desire to be because right now, this is a lasting that a lot of people mind, a level of despair is incredible. Tell people mind, a level of despair is incredible. is incredible. Tell us more about that _ is incredible. Tell us more about that because is incredible. Tell us more about that because the i is incredible. Tell us more i about that because the state is incredible. Tell us more about that because the state of emergency has been expanded across the entire country, you are very familiar as you mention with the situation on the ground, has it improved at all since march, was the sense that you've been getting about how people are feeling? today, secretary blinken said that there is a renewed sense of hope and i have to tell you, i did not get this, i went outside of portauprince the southeast where they not have the cams but people told me psychologically, they are feeling the consequences of this gang violence in portauprince and then i went to a community that's received 44,000 displaced asians from the town next door since may, people are literally living in the mud because they left our homes with nothing but the clothes on the back, the homes of the bill with her money, the hard earned money is now overtaken by gangs, they don't know whether going to go, whether going to be next, there is such a loss of humanity for them whether they are in the cams or whether they are living with somebody, i did not face this 2010 earthquake despite all the lost people had a reason to hope, they saw ncos, the heard of inspirations, today, they are not hearing any of this, they feel abandoned and they don't know whether going to run to next, one woman said to me well, let the people of israel, like the gangs come, the only choice is going to be to plunge into the ocean of face to firies quad, that's how they feel at this point. Clearly devastating situation, the sense of hopelessness that you're describing among the population there, tell us more about why they do feel so hopeless and also how that kenyan security force backed by the united nations has been received there, whether they have been able to make any kind of impact? of impact? well, that was it a lot of hepe of impact? well, that was it a lot of hope for of impact? well, that was it a lot of hope for the _ of impact? well, that was it a lot of hope for the kenyan lot of hope for the kenyan forces but we are talking about 400, people have seen is since the arrival of contention arrival on the 25th ofjune, their actual committees are full into the gangs, just a few miles east of the us embassy, in turn, they resisted to gangs for two years and then injuly blacktown was completely taken over now, you have a standoff between the gang, 400 and residents in the town next door which is close to the border so nothing is getting through, the drum drivers are telling me they have to take this roundabout way through the mountain and now it's a five day journey while mountain and now it's a five dayjourney while it's passed on to the consumers. So prices are going up, people do not feel secure and even if they don't have densities of the level of gang violence you're seeing in portauprince, they basically feel that if any particular moment, though committees can be taken over, they are trying the best they can with the citizens, their scrutinising strangers who are coming in but if you take again, like the southeast example, 61,000 people have fled their, estimated 25,000 of them are school children, from what i talk to parents, they tell me even with the assistance of unicef talking about providing to them in terms of go back to school kids, they don't even have the basic money for school uniforms for school fees, a lot of students left a home without a identification papers or any sort of record so that's what you're looking out and people are actually homeless. Are actually homeless. Well, here in the are actually homeless. Well, here in the us, _ are actually homeless. Well, here in the us, police are actually homeless. Well, here in the us, police and i are actually homeless. Well, | here in the us, police and the state of georgia say they have arrested the father of colt gray, the team suspect in the apalachee high school shooting which happened on wednesday. Colin gray was 54 faced four counts of involuntary manslaughter, to have seconddegree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children. His son was arrested at the scene of the shooting and taken into custody, police say that colt gray was armed with a semiautomatic star weapon when he shot and killed four people and injured nine others, both father and son questioned last yearin father and son questioned last year in connection with an online thread to commit a school shooting by the fbi sat at the time there was no reason to arrest them, here's the county sheriff speaking a short time ago. x, county sheriff speaking a short time auo. * ,, county sheriff speaking a short timeauo. * , time ago. A young person brou:ht time ago. A young person brought a time ago. A young person brought a gun _ time ago. A young person brought a gun into time ago. A young person brought a gun into a time ago. A young person i brought a gun into a school, committed an evil act, and he took lives and injured many other people, not only physically but mentally. But am proud of the county, i'm proud of the county, i'm proud of these teachers, i'm part of the schools and am proud of where i left. And we'll get past this, you see behind me, appear on the hill, visual going on in our flagpole, i welcome you to go see those kids and those young people that are hurting. Michelle rebecca cheptegei has been named as france's new prime minister. 0utgoing prime minister scene here made a successor in a handover meeting earlier on thursday, president emmanuel macron following two months of political deadlock in the country. Months of political deadlock in the country the country. After snap elections _ the country. After snap elections and the country. After snap elections and that the country. After snap elections and that in i the country. After snap elections and that in a | the country. After snap elections and that in a hum parliament. The 73yearold one winner has been tasked with forming a new coalition government including rival parties. The french parliament could still veto president macron*s choice and a vote of noconfidence, our correspondence in this report. Michel barnier. A household name across the uk. Michel barnier, the eu's former chief brexit negotiator, has walked into our studio in london. Michel barnier, welcome to hardtalk. Mr barnier. . . I'm sorry but i don't want to answer questions now. I'm sorry, we are late to work. Let me work, please. Not something french politicians can normally boast unless they are the president. But mr barnier was the point man for the eu during the years and years of painful brexit negotiations. Charged with keeping eu member states united and the uk in check. It is quite ironic that the man who became nicknamed triple b, barnier, the brexit man in brussels, is pretty much better known in the uk and in eu circles then here in france. I've come to valenciennes, a town in northern france, to ask what people know of their new prime minister. Excusezmoi. Michel barnier is the new prime minister. No. You don't know him? merci. Do you know mr barnier, michel barnier? no. He's your new prime minister. Ah, 0k. No, sorry. Thank you, byebye. But mr barnier is no newbie to politics. Ahead of the last french presidential election, he tried and failed to get nominated as a centreright candidate. So he is known here by people who follow politics closely. But his manner is more officious than personable, as we in the uk may remember. And he is viewed as president macron*s prime minister of last resort. A predictable pair of hands hoping to calm even momentarily the political chaos and street protests since the snap parliamentary vote in july. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. Let's take a look at some other stories making use. The ministry of defence says that a member of the british royal navy has died in a training exercise in the english channel. But after a helicopter ditched during the nighttime operation with the hms queen elizabeth aircraft carrier. Three crewmembers were on one of the time with two survivors taken to the hospital but facing no serious injuries. A proposed antipollution warning could ban what accompanies bosses from receiving bonuses and subject them to present time in a new effort to combat pollution. The governments's new water bill would have the proof in several cases so that the environment agency can more easily bring criminal charges against what accompanies bosses. And the indie band english teacher has won a 2024 coree price for the debut album this could be texas. Recorded to lead in 2020, the first action outside of london to win the price of 2014. It's awarded every year to albums in uk and ireland. Your live with bbc news. Here in the us, kamala harris campaign is continuing a nationwide bus tour called fighting for reproductive freedom. Kamala harasses as surrogates are ready to porters to abortion, the tour which keep asthma kicked off, near the maralago resort and the campaign was stopped in 50 cities leading although out to election day, reproductive rights are a key concern in the country and more voters living in swing state to say that the issue of abortion access will be central to how they vote come november. Democratic senator had lied reproductive rights rally in palm beach fraud, let's take a listen. This is a national movement, americans have shown us time and time again that they will not tolerate a country where our daughters have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers, that they believe that women have the right to make their own healthcare decision and not politicians. Meanwhile in louisiana, new state law will limit the use of a drug often used in the case of miscarriage or to stop postpartum haemorrhaging, a drug widely use from women letting out after labor will be classed as a controlled dangerous substance sensed a drug can also be used for abortions, conservatives and state have targeted use this by the fact the surgical and medical abortion i