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[00:00:25] Hello, welcome to the world today, I'm Amaratchi Upani, here's what's coming up within
[00:00:29] the half hour.
[00:00:34] US senate committee votes to hold faulchi in contempt
[00:00:38] of over
[00:00:38] COVID-19.
[00:00:45] US President Donald Trump urges Republicans to be tougher ahead
[00:00:48] of the November mid-term
[00:00:49] elections.
[00:00:53] Passing Indian Journalist has handed a 10-year sentence for rape and
[00:00:56] harassment of a democratic back in 2013.
[00:01:00] Let's begin the world today. We begin in the
[00:01:04] United States where Senate Committee has voted to hold former
[00:01:07] director
[00:01:08] of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
[00:01:12] Anthony Fauti
[00:01:13] of in
[00:01:13] of Contempt of Congress after he refused to answer questions during the hearing
[00:01:17] examining his handling
[00:01:19] of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fchi invoked his
[00:01:22] constitutional right against self-incrimination more than
[00:01:26] hundred times during his testimony last week, drawing the are on.
[00:01:30] of republican lawmakers, former
[00:01:32] of president Joe Biden gave Fautiy a preemptive pardon on his
[00:01:36] last day of office in 2025, protecting
[00:01:40] him from federal prosecution for his actions between 2014
[00:01:44] and 2025. the vote which fell along party
[00:01:47] lines clears the way for the committee to refer the case to the justice
[00:01:51] department for potential prosecution for failing to
[00:01:54] comply with the congressional subpina. faulchi could however
[00:01:58] still face charges for any thing out of that date, including
[00:02:02] contempt of congress, additionally, he could still be subject to
[00:02:05] state or local charges that are not covered by the
[00:02:12] of pardon. let's begin now, channel television's washington
[00:02:16] correspondent
[00:02:17] in Mariard, she joins us via zoom audio. maria, thanks
[00:02:21] for joining us on the program, so what are the law makers or what were the
[00:02:25] law makers hoping to get out of fichi when he appeared before congress
[00:02:29] considering that this? not the first time he was having to answer
[00:02:32] questions about his handling
[00:02:34] of the COVID-19
[00:02:35] pandemic,
[00:02:40] of
[00:02:44] we know now uh that uh the Republican party has been very
[00:02:48] clear um that they
[00:02:50] of were looking to further
[00:02:52] of investigate uh this and they would be questioning bounty on again and this is what we're
[00:02:55] saying as of now we know that he uh played the fifth amendment 100%
[00:03:00] times during the uh hearing
[00:03:02] we know that uh there was so many things that he could not necessarily
[00:03:05] discuss or was not comfortable discussing hence forth
[00:03:08] in his uh fifth amendment declaration throughout uh but
[00:03:12] of this was something that we definitely expected could happen um as many
[00:03:15] were not happy with the way in which the COVID-19 uh
[00:03:23] of pandemic
[00:03:24] Maria we
[00:03:27] of do see they were specifically not happy with the way which uh he was
[00:03:31] uh
[00:03:32] of handling that specifically dealing with some
[00:03:35] of the way in which the vaccine was carried out and some
[00:03:37] of the other pandemic rules and
[00:03:39] of regulations. there was a lot of reference to his
[00:03:43] diary Maria uh and would didlin some very impersonal
[00:03:47] things about fichi, the conversations that he had with
[00:03:51] celebrities, his thoughts, his musings,
[00:03:54] of he's received some backlash for those, even his handling
[00:03:56] of the pandemic the shut down the world, but these were all of his
[00:04:00] and private
[00:04:01] in thoughts, was this an, wasn't this not invasion of his
[00:04:04] privacy and can he pursue legal action over
[00:04:07] this?
[00:04:10] of yes, we we know that falchi has had, dr. fouchi has
[00:04:13] had uh legal advisement throughout
[00:04:16] in this process and so, as
[00:04:18] a result of what he experienced during the hearing, we can guarantee that this
[00:04:22] legal advisement will provide uh some of that advice to him as
[00:04:26] to how he can carry forth, which is why he obviously was. really
[00:04:30] advised to not expose things that were w within the confines of
[00:04:34] personal
[00:04:35] in information, but again, often times uh the legal system is able
[00:04:39] to uh
[00:04:39] of require that uh
[00:04:41] in personal information is exposed if it is deemed uh to have some relevance to
[00:04:45] the case, and I think that is where uh the um congressional
[00:04:49] members were leaning toward, they felt as if some
[00:04:51] of the things that he had expressed and exposed um
[00:04:54] of in of his diary could have um some impact on the hearing and
[00:04:58] could have had impact. the way in which the pandemic was
[00:05:02] handled by Dr. Maria also
[00:05:05] observed he was asked repeatedly about the origin
[00:05:09] of the
[00:05:10] of coronavirus, what have we learned so far? about
[00:05:12] this? well,
[00:05:15] you know, it's very interesting that we are now um still continuing to
[00:05:19] discuss the origin the coronavirus, um, because that
[00:05:23] obviously was something that was spent uh quite a bit of time focusing
[00:05:26] on uh during the uh the pandemic time period when
[00:05:30] Dr. Falchi uh was serving uh in the Biden Administration and
[00:05:34] so I think there's nothing further uh that has been
[00:05:38] um exposed. I think that what we'll probably see is that there will
[00:05:42] be uh further written documents that will provide further insight
[00:05:45] potentially, but
[00:05:46] I don't know if there was anything new learned that specifically would change
[00:05:49] any the initial thoughts um in the way in which uh
[00:05:53] the the virus was expressed to have uh began here in the United
[00:05:57] States. He also received a pardon
[00:06:01] from former president Joe Biden, will this protect him from
[00:06:05] the lawmakers? This will protect
[00:06:09] him up until now, um, it it does protect. some
[00:06:12] portions, the question is really around what additional
[00:06:16] information and what additional um areas they begin to
[00:06:20] focus in on and so what we've seen is that we believe that it
[00:06:24] could uh be protecting most areas that he could see indictment
[00:06:28] and and potential um charges brought against him,
[00:06:31] but there could be some potential others, which is why you're seeing further
[00:06:35] investigation around this uh how the virus uh began here in the United
[00:06:39] States see if there's some additional information that was withheld. because that
[00:06:42] could be considered uh to have been a a break in in law
[00:06:46] um if there was information withheld, which is why you're also seeing investigation
[00:06:50] around his personal diary and requirements that he exposes and
[00:06:54] shares some of what was written in the diary um and is questioned on those items
[00:06:58] and so that is where potentially we could see fine
[00:07:01] line of where his pardon does not protect him from some of those
[00:07:05] areas uh that were not uh brought forth and that uh the
[00:07:09] former president had pardon him from and This is not the
[00:07:13] end, wel hear of this, Maria. Thanks again for joining
[00:07:16] us. Yes, we're still in the
[00:07:20] United States, US President Donald Trump telling Republicans recently to
[00:07:24] get tougher ahead the November mid-term elections. He was addressing the
[00:07:28] gathering on economic policy at the Red Rock casino, noting
[00:07:31] the people do not know how bad these people are, the
[00:07:35] Republicans got to be tougher, especially in the
[00:07:38] Senate, Trump's words. "you
[00:07:42] know who doesn't want it? the politicians, because they'll never get elected
[00:07:46] again. if you had fair and
[00:07:50] strong elections, you would, they would lose 25% their
[00:07:53] base. they would never be elected
[00:07:55] again. and
[00:07:59] I'm trying to explain that to Republicans, but some them don't
[00:08:03] quite understand
[00:08:04] it. they don't
[00:08:07] understand it, because they're good people, they're good people. they don't know how
[00:08:11] crooked these." people are, i've dealt with lot of crooked people in my
[00:08:15] life, they don't how bad these people are, we got to get the
[00:08:18] republicans to be
[00:08:21] tougher,
[00:08:24] especially in the senate, especially in our
[00:08:27] senate, got to get the senators in there, they got to be
[00:08:31] tough,
[00:08:36] us president donald trump, well to the war going
[00:08:39] on in Iran, which is not making any deals with United States, but is making a
[00:08:43] deal instead with the Kingdom of Oman, which is now said
[00:08:47] to be in its final stages. This was announced by foreign
[00:08:51] ministry spokesperson Ismail Bagai, who did not give any details on
[00:08:55] this, save that the deal is in its final stages, but
[00:08:58] warned, however that deal with Oman would not guarantee safe
[00:09:02] navigation through the straight of Hormus, arguing
[00:09:06] security remains impacted by the US blockade of
[00:09:09] Iran's ports. The US and Oman have not commented on the
[00:09:13] proposal, since the US and Israel attacked Iran
[00:09:17] in February, Tehran has largely blocked the straight of all moves,
[00:09:21] through which about fith the world's oil and lucrified natural
[00:09:24] gas usually passes. On Tuesday, President Trump warned that
[00:09:28] Iran would be hit very hard if the straights did not open
[00:09:32] very
[00:09:33] soon.
[00:09:37] The autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast
[00:09:41] theater has a appealed for urgent government assistance to help deal
[00:09:45] with the hundreds of unaccompanied children still in the
[00:09:48] enclave following the influx of migrants saying the most
[00:09:52] the 72 thousand people who rushed into the north african enclave
[00:09:56] last week have returned to Morocco, but about
[00:09:59] 2,500 remain. authorities say that around
[00:10:02] 1,100 minors who arrived before and during the
[00:10:06] influx cannot be sum summarily
[00:10:09] deported, therefore gathering in parks and beaches as work to
[00:10:13] identify and accommodate them, local officials have
[00:10:16] described the situation as unsustainable, and
[00:10:19] in that the young, the youngsters are enduring die conditions with limited
[00:10:23] access to food, water, shelter and sanitation, the call
[00:10:27] on the government to transfer the children to mainland Spain, the Utah's
[00:10:31] leader Wanhisus Vivas the main opposition popular
[00:10:35] party, said
[00:10:36] there was a high risk for order and public security as
[00:10:39] reception centers are overwhelmed
[00:10:42] currently,
[00:10:46] so those migrants are currently camped a beach near
[00:10:50] after the crossing into the Spanish
[00:10:54] enclave. a migrant from Nigeria Bashhir Said Muhammad spents
[00:10:58] two years traveling on foot through several
[00:11:01] countries after fleeing insecurity in northern
[00:11:04] Nigeria. Other migrants who showed up on theuta are those fleeing the
[00:11:08] fighting in Sudan, even some from Senegal, one of whom said she
[00:11:12] left home because of economic hardship and search for
[00:11:16] work. During the latest border search, Spanish authorities say more than
[00:11:20] 72,00 people crossed into the enclave overwhelming
[00:11:23] local services. while 77 people died during the
[00:11:27] crisis, according to media reports
[00:11:30] and
[00:11:39] need to walk in spain and
[00:11:41] need to become good for because my own country, more northern
[00:11:44] Nigeria, we have a problem of torism, we have problem of
[00:11:48] bandits, we have problem of kidnappers and we have problem of insecurity in
[00:11:52] the northern Nigeria, anytime the... they kill people in the northern
[00:11:56] Nigeria, they kill people in the school, they keep people in the mus, they keep people in the
[00:12:00] church, that is why I'm living Nigeria, I'm living the northern Nigeria,
[00:12:03] I'm
[00:12:04] coming here to be to be survived, I spent two years for this
[00:12:08] journary, then I don't want
[00:12:10] to go back to my country, I want to stay in here, I want to go
[00:12:14] back, I want to go to
[00:12:14] Spain,
[00:12:19] an Afghan boxer was charged with killing a Scottish aid
[00:12:23] worker in Greece after his wife gave key details to the
[00:12:26] police. Sheriff Amdaz who's just
[00:12:30] 26 year old has been charged with homicide with intent equivalent to
[00:12:34] a murder charge in Scott's law alongside robbery and weapons
[00:12:38] offenses. The body of 38-year-old Elizabeth Ross was
[00:12:42] discovered a suitcase by homeless man in the dereliced
[00:12:45] building in the Kipselli area of Athens on July
[00:12:48] 18. Ami's wife Alena Hall
[00:12:52] is said to have given information to police. including location data which
[00:12:56] placed her husband and Ross at the same apartment on July
[00:13:00] 15. that's the day the Ross is thought to been killed.
[00:13:04] appearing in court earlier, I hadsai asked for an English
[00:13:07] translator but did not respond to the charges. his lawyer
[00:13:10] Kristos Erdas said his client had exercised his right to remain
[00:13:14] silent and has asked for medical records the victim to be included
[00:13:18] in the case file. an
[00:13:22] Indian court to sentence former to hel magazine editor
[00:13:26] Taron Techpal to 10 years in prison for raping a
[00:13:30] former colleague overturning his 2021 acquital a
[00:13:33] decade old case. The Goa bench the Bombay
[00:13:37] High Court convicted Techpal under sections of
[00:13:41] Indian law partining to rape and sexual harassment along
[00:13:45] with jail terms which run concurrently. Aquarters also ordered
[00:13:49] him to pay fines adding up to more than 1 million
[00:13:53] rupees. Thatchbow had. denied the accusations, it
[00:13:57] said before the sentencing, it would file an appeal in the Supreme
[00:14:00] Court. The allegations against Touchpol, one of India's best known
[00:14:04] editors, had made national headlines back in
[00:14:07] 2013. A year before that, thousands of Indians had participated
[00:14:11] in protests after brutal gang rape and murder of woman in
[00:14:15] Delhi leading to a larger conversation on sexual
[00:14:18] violence. Tech's accuser who cannot be
[00:14:22] identified under Indian law said he s assaulted her
[00:14:26] a lift during the Helker's high profile international conference
[00:14:30] in Goa in November of 2013 and events attended
[00:14:33] by among others Hollywood star Robert de
[00:14:37] Niro.
[00:14:41] We're off a short break on the world today still
[00:14:43] ahead.
[00:14:47] It's a hot summer everywhere even in Iraq where residents are turning
[00:14:51] ice and Pauls to cool off. Stay with us.
[00:15:10] No what's happening across Nigeria's various regions and channel's
[00:15:14] televisions newsroom series. Every Monday we bring
[00:15:18] you stories from the southwest and on Tuesday the
[00:15:22] Northwest is our focus. We're in the south south. midweek reports
[00:15:26] on Wednesday and late in the week,
[00:15:28] the North Central takes sensus state. The southeast gets the
[00:15:32] spotlight on Fridays and we close out the week for the northeast on
[00:15:35] Saturday. Watch! newsroom series 3 p.m.
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[00:15:54] too many exciting things happening all at once. from time i've always
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[00:16:45] Welcome back to the program, Myama's leader Ming Ong Leng has
[00:16:49] arrived an official visit to Thailand, breaking diplomatic
[00:16:52] isolation with Bangkok on his first since he launched the cu that
[00:16:56] Ostton on Sansuchi's elected government in
[00:16:59] 2021, the coignized a civil war which killed
[00:17:03] thousands of people and wrecked the economy, being on length.
[00:17:07] has been barred from attending meetings the association of southeast asian
[00:17:11] nations over his refusal implement five-point
[00:17:15] consensus which he and other Asian member states signed in
[00:17:19] 2021. some ASEAN states in
[00:17:22] particular Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and
[00:17:25] Singapore say they want to see more concessions made by the
[00:17:29] military in Myanmar ease the humanitarian crisis
[00:17:32] there and end the civil war before full diplomatic contact
[00:17:36] can be restored. However, Thailand is pursuing
[00:17:40] what it calls calibrated rengagement with the regime in
[00:17:43] Myanmar arguing that because they share a
[00:17:46] 2,400 km border, they need to be talking each other
[00:17:50] at the highest levels of government to address issues like
[00:17:53] transnational
[00:17:54] crime.
[00:18:00] Serbian interior ministry has deployed helicopters to battle,
[00:18:04] major wildfire sweeping through the debly blast. the
[00:18:08] peskara nature reserve in voj vodina,
[00:18:11] northern northeastern Serbia, his flames spread across more than
[00:18:15] 300 hectares and continue to advance at the time of
[00:18:18] publication. authorities said the fire erupted about a
[00:18:22] kilometer from the sight of major blaze that are distinguished
[00:18:26] earlier. more than 80 fire fighters, volunteer
[00:18:29] crews and multiple helicopter units have been deployed to contain
[00:18:33] the flames. the fire comes as Serbia faces severe wild fire.
[00:18:37] season driven by prolonged heat and drought, prompting
[00:18:41] authorities to step up emergency response measures across the
[00:18:45] country. the crisis also reflects wider conditions across
[00:18:48] central and southern Europe where extreme temperatures and
[00:18:52] prolonged dry weather have fueled wildfires in several
[00:18:55] countries. drought is also pushed the danub to unusually
[00:18:59] low levels, disrupting river traffic and reducing hydropower
[00:19:03] generation across parts the region.
[00:19:13] The UN high commissioner for human rightses expressed alarm over
[00:19:17] the rising executions and death sentences issued in Iran
[00:19:21] since March. The spokesperson for the UN human rights office Jeremy
[00:19:25] Lawrence urged authorities to immediately halt all
[00:19:28] executions and move towards the abolition the death
[00:19:32] penalty. He said in his words since the
[00:19:35] 19th of March
[00:19:36] that see at least. 36 people have been executed national
[00:19:40] security related charges. a spokesperson says
[00:19:43] several executions have reportedly being carried out in
[00:19:47] public. some have reported being carried out only
[00:19:51] weeks after rest and 12 defendants were reportedly sentenced to
[00:19:54] death following a single the hour closed door
[00:19:57] hearing. she retrated the death penalties incompatible with the
[00:20:01] right to life and irreconciliable with human
[00:20:04] dignity. such punishment has no place in the... she
[00:20:08] says, the UN's high
[00:20:11] commissioner for human rights expresses alarm at the rising executions
[00:20:15] and death sentences issued in Iran since March.
[00:20:19] Capital punishment continues to be used to instill fear among the
[00:20:23] population and suppressed descent. We urge the
[00:20:26] authorities to immediately halt all executions and move
[00:20:30] towards the abolition the death penalty. Since the
[00:20:34] 19th of March of this year, at least.
[00:20:38] people have been executed national security related
[00:20:41] charges, including 27 individuals in
[00:20:45] cases linked protests at the start the
[00:20:48] year. 100 others are at risk
[00:20:52] of execution on similar charges.
[00:20:55] executions for dragulated offenses are also
[00:20:59] continuing at alarming rate, persistent
[00:21:03] lack of fair trial and due process guarantees
[00:21:07] are deeply troubling. confessions have allegedly been
[00:21:10] attained under torture and other ill
[00:21:14] treatment. several executions have reportedly been
[00:21:18] carried out in public, have reportedly been carried
[00:21:22] out only weeks after arrest, 12
[00:21:25] defendants were reportedly sentenced to death following a
[00:21:29] single 3-hour closed door hearing. the death
[00:21:33] penalty is incompatible with the right to life
[00:21:37] and irreconcilable with human
[00:21:40] dignity. such punishment has no
[00:21:43] place in our
[00:21:44] world. meanwile
[00:21:48] the united nations security. Council has told the Islamic
[00:21:52] State, it remains a resilience and
[00:21:55] adaptive threat despite sustained counter terrorism
[00:21:58] measures that have degraded its central
[00:22:02] leadership, the chief the office the under secretary general at the
[00:22:05] UN office of counter-terrorism, ogelan India
[00:22:09] Zabadieva said Daesh has continue to evolve even
[00:22:13] as its command structure has been disrupted, she
[00:22:17] said counter terrorism operations in Iraq. had
[00:22:20] significantly weakened the group's capabilities there, but caution that
[00:22:24] gains must be consolidated. she called for deeper international
[00:22:28] corporation, warning that no member state can address this
[00:22:31] threat
[00:22:32] alone.
[00:22:36] while sustained counter terrorism operations have disrupted Daesh's
[00:22:40] senior leadership and reduced its ability to direct operations
[00:22:44] centrally, the group has continued to
[00:22:46] adapt. although its structure is...
[00:22:50] dispersed, Daesh remains resilient with its affiliates
[00:22:54] united by a shared ideology. Today, the threat
[00:22:57] remains particularly acute in parts of Africa, notably
[00:23:01] in the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin, where several defiliates
[00:23:05] continue to strengthen their capabilities, expand their
[00:23:09] operational reach and adapt their tactics.
[00:23:13] Islamic State West Africa Province, Swap, continues to be
[00:23:17] the most active Diash affiliate globally. and has demonstrated
[00:23:21] increasing capacity to acquire and employ
[00:23:24] commercial drone
[00:23:25] technology.
[00:23:53] 'Well, it is hot everywhere this summer, as you may have
[00:23:57] already figure out if you are outside of Africa.
[00:24:01] Yep, it's also rising temperatures in Basra, in
[00:24:05] Iraq, so we see the 50 degrees celsius, residents saying
[00:24:08] they now buy ice to carry with them while traveling
[00:24:12] because the intense heat across the province. New while
[00:24:16] swimming coach, Sajad Alice says the pool is a'.
[00:24:20] attracting more crowds now because the soring temperatures was driven
[00:24:24] people to seek relief. the bazra government has also
[00:24:27] declared an official holiday because the extreme weather
[00:24:31] conditions. Iraqi media reports of authorities in several provinces
[00:24:34] have suspended official working hours due to the extreme
[00:24:38] heat. the country's misological authority forecasts
[00:24:42] highs of 50 degrees celsius as we seen barra and several
[00:24:46] other southern and central provinces. baghdad itself
[00:24:50] is expected to reach 49°grees celsius while temperatures in northern
[00:24:53] Iraq are forecast a range between 43° celsius
[00:24:57] and 46°g
[00:24:59] celsius.
[00:25:08] We are so grateful for all the rains here in Nigeria. Thanks for watching the world
[00:25:12] today. I'm
[00:25:13] Amaratchu.
[00:30:19] Hello and welcome to world sports news on channel television broadcasting live from
[00:30:23] Lagos, I'm Barong Tony Uranta. Well, European teams
[00:30:27] could still boycot competitions, including the World Cup, as UEFA says
[00:30:30] FIFA's defense of his president, infantino changes nothing. the
[00:30:34] English FA has sent a letter withdrawing its support for Infantino a
[00:30:38] reaction to the plan to sell off stakes in the world cup to private investors.
[00:30:41] European governing body wefa said a statement it its conditions
[00:30:45] have not yet been met despite a Mantino's plan being aborted. Well UFR
[00:30:49] said it has lost complete confidence in Infantino and they call his deal a
[00:30:53] shabby, opaque and shabby document, backroom documents. We'll have more on that
[00:30:57] later on the program. Let's take some other news and then we'll have.