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00:00:13Live from Washington. This is
00:00:15BBC News. The US Senate passes a
00:00:18a sanctions package aimed at helping helping Ukraine by cutting off funds
00:00:22funds to Russia. It now faces a vote
00:00:24vote in the House of Representatives. Representatives. Thailand's Prime
00:00:28Prime Minister pledges new gun laws laws after a 14-year-old student
00:00:31student shoots dead. Six
00:00:36Shoots dead six people at a school after killing two of his grandparents grandparents at a US appeals court
00:00:40court orders the Trump administration administration to stop building a a $400 million ballroom at the White
00:00:43White House. The President says he'll
00:00:45he'll appeal at the Supreme Court.
00:00:56Court. I'm Helena Humphrey good to to have you with us. The US Senate
00:00:59Senate has overwhelmingly passed passed a sanctions bill against Russia.
00:01:03Russia. It aims to choke off Russia's Russia's economy and bring an end
00:01:06end to the war in Ukraine. Now the the legislation targets major buyers
00:01:10buyers of Russian oil and gas and and imposes additional sanctions
00:01:13sanctions on Russian leaders and and oligarchs. The measure was championed
00:01:17championed by the late Senator Lindsey Lindsey Graham. It still needs to
00:01:20to pass the House of Representatives Representatives where it may face
00:01:24face some resistance. That's largely largely because of a provision in in the bill that would give President
00:01:28President Trump the ability to impose
00:01:29impose tariffs of up to 100% on countries
00:01:33countries that are major consumers consumers of Russian energy. Lindsey
00:01:36Lindsey Graham's sister, South Carolina Carolina Republican Senator Darlene
00:01:39Darlene Graham and Richard Blumenthal, Blumenthal, the Democratic senator senator from Connecticut, are among
00:01:43among the lawmakers voicing support support for the bill. An emotional
00:01:47emotional day in a very exciting
00:01:48exciting day for me. Russia has waged
00:01:51waged war against Ukraine for far far too long, and this bill assists
00:01:55assists President Trump and his noble noble efforts to bring it to a close.
00:01:59close. This legislation was deeply
00:02:01deeply important to my brother Lindsey, Lindsey, and I am grateful that this
00:02:04this bill has achieved such a wide
00:02:07wide coalition of support. He believed believed that this was the most consequential
00:02:11consequential piece of legislation legislation that he had ever led.
00:02:14led. Vladimir Putin is watching in in Moscow. I'd like to thank Lindsey
00:02:18Lindsey Graham is watching as well well and proud of what we've done,
00:02:22done, because today we send a message
00:02:23message to Vladimir Putin, you will
00:02:27will not win this war. Time to come
00:02:30come to the table for peace. Your
00:02:32Your economy already on its heels
00:02:36heels is going to be throttled, even even decimated. Ukrainian President
00:02:40President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked thanked US senators for passing the
00:02:43the sanctions bill. Meanwhile, Russia Russia has seized tens of thousands
00:02:47thousands of homes across regions
00:02:49regions of Ukraine that it had illegally illegally annexed since its invasion
00:02:52invasion of Ukraine. The Russian Russian government told the BBC that
00:02:55that the scheme is part of the, quote,
00:02:57quote, legal framework for integrating
00:03:00integrating the reunited regions regions into the Russian system.
00:03:03system. The BBC has analysed hundreds
00:03:04hundreds of publicly available documents documents detailing how occupation
00:03:08occupation authorities are taking taking away Ukrainian homes. BBC
00:03:12BBC Verify's Olga Robinson has more.
00:03:17more. Ihor Ivashchuk hasn't seen seen his home in the Ukrainian city
00:03:20city of Mariupol for years. The evangelical
00:03:22evangelical pastor fled the city
00:03:24city in September 2022, shortly before before Russia illegally annexed the
00:03:28the region. He hasn't been able to
00:03:30to return since. In his absence, absence, Egor says a man in military
00:03:34military uniform turned up on his
00:03:37his doorstep. He asked what kind
00:03:39kind of housing it was, where the the owner was, what documents there
00:03:43there were and things like that.
00:03:46that. His house is among more than
00:03:49than 34,000 homes that are being being seized by Moscow installed installed authorities across four
00:03:53four occupied regions of Ukraine.
00:03:55Ukraine. The BBC has analysed hundreds
00:03:57hundreds of official documents published
00:04:00published since 2024. This is how
00:04:02how the process works. Moscow installed installed officials first declare
00:04:05declare properties as having signs signs of being ownerless. They then
00:04:08then require the Ukrainian owners owners to obtain a Russian passport
00:04:11passport and prove ownership in person, person, all within just 30 days.
00:04:15days. If Ukrainians fail to do so,
00:04:17so, their homes are declared ownerless ownerless transferred to the local
00:04:21local authority and can be reassigned reassigned to someone else. Mariupol
00:04:24Mariupol has seen most of the seizures. seizures. The city was bitterly fought
00:04:28fought over in the early days of of the invasion, and thousands of
00:04:31of people fled more than 14,000 homes
00:04:35homes and properties here have been been labelled Ownerless and are being
00:04:39being seized. And it's not just a
00:04:41a local initiative. It has the personal
00:04:44personal endorsement from President President Putin, a law he signed
00:04:46signed in December last year formalised formalised the process allowing the
00:04:50the properties to be given or temporarily temporarily leased to Russian citizens
00:04:54citizens only. Experts say this appears appears to be part of the wider efforts
00:04:58efforts to russify the occupied regions. regions. The Russian government told
00:05:02told us this scheme established procedures procedures for managing residential
00:05:05residential property whose owners
00:05:07owners cannot be identified or contacted.
00:05:11contacted. Igor says he doesn't know know if someone lives in his home
00:05:14home now, but still hopes to see
00:05:16see it one day. For me or my family,
00:05:19family, the question is where we we will live to see that time. I
00:05:23I would like to. Ukrainians we spoke
00:05:25spoke to say it's not just homes
00:05:27homes they're losing but their memories
00:05:30memories and heritage. Olga Robinson,
00:05:32Robinson, BBC News. Saudi Arabia, Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have
00:05:36have signed an historic joint defence defence agreement saying that an
00:05:39an attack on one country would be be considered an attack on all three.
00:05:42three. Well, the countries have been
00:05:44been looking to strengthen security security co-operation amid the US-Iran
00:05:48US-Iran war. The deal was announced announced at a meeting between the
00:05:50the Saudi crown Prince Mohammed bin bin Salman. The Turkish president,
00:05:53president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Erdogan, and the Pakistani Prime Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, in
00:05:57in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi
00:05:59Saudi Arabia has faced direct attacks
00:06:02attacks by Iranian forces as well
00:06:04well as by Iran aligned Houthi fighters
00:06:06fighters in Yemen. Alex Vatanka is is a senior fellow and founding director
00:06:10director of the Iran programme at at the Middle East Institute. And
00:06:13And I asked him if he thought the the defence pact could be tested
00:06:17tested in this current war. This This is pretty significant development.
00:06:20development. I don't think you can can under estimate what this agreement
00:06:24agreement could potentially mean, mean, but I would just caution and
00:06:27and this is really early days to to say that the agreement as of right
00:06:30right now is anything much more than than a political statement. It's
00:06:34It's significant as a political statement, statement, but whether it sort of
00:06:38of turns into a genuine military
00:06:40military force of sorts and a commitment
00:06:42commitment to, you know, folks out out there are comparing this to article
00:06:46article five of Nato really early early days to say that, you know,
00:06:49know, we're talking about three significant significant regional players Turkey,
00:06:52Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Pakistan. But there are significant
00:06:56significant in their own ways and and they have their own priorities priorities of Turkey and Nato. State
00:07:00State has a huge defence sector.
00:07:01sector. The Saudis are oil super
00:07:04super power, plenty of financial financial capacity, many different
00:07:07different security threats that they're they're under. And the Pakistanis
00:07:11Pakistanis also a serious military military power, if you will, but
00:07:14but would focus on India and a history history of being very reluctant to
00:07:17to be dragged into actual combat. combat. What the Pakistanis have
00:07:20have been very good at is to help help the likes of Saudi Arabia. But
00:07:24But when it came to, for example, example, showing up and fight along
00:07:26along the side alongside the Saudis, Saudis, saying the case of the Yemen
00:07:30Yemen war, the Pakistanis said, thank thank you, but no thanks, but we're
00:07:33we're in a different place, Helena, Helena, because this war that just just happened in the last few months,
00:07:36months, six months we're into it it has put the region in a different
00:07:39different place. And that might just just mean that this agreement is
00:07:42is actually going to be qualitatively qualitatively different than the the failed ones we've seen in the
00:07:46the last decade plus. Police in Thailand
00:07:48Thailand say that a 14-year-old student student has killed at least eight
00:07:51eight people in gun attacks at his
00:07:54his home and school on the outskirts outskirts of Bangkok, the Thai Prime
00:07:57Prime Minister said the teenager teenager killed his grandparents
00:08:00grandparents and five teachers before before taking his own life. Thai
00:08:03Thai media later reported that a
00:08:05a school student had died from their their injuries. At least 30 other
00:08:08other people were injured in the the attacks and despite strict gun
00:08:12gun laws that punish illegal firearm firearm possession with up to ten
00:08:15ten years in prison, Thailand has has one of the highest rates of civilian
00:08:19civilian gun ownership in South East
00:08:21East Asia. It's estimated that 40%
00:08:2340% of guns there are possessed illegally.
00:08:26illegally. Our South East Asia correspondent correspondent Jonathan Head has this
00:08:29this report a warning that it does does contain distressing details
00:08:32details from the very start. Fear
00:08:38Fear and panic in a Thai secondary
00:08:40secondary school classroom as shots
00:08:42shots ring out in the corridor. Staff
00:08:47Staff frantically evacuated the children.
00:08:50children. This is a big school with
00:08:52with around 3000 pupils police officers
00:08:56officers and ambulances were on the the scene within minutes, but it
00:08:59it took time to find the gunman.
00:09:01gunman. By the time they did, he'd
00:09:03he'd taken his own life. He was identified
00:09:06identified as a 14-year-old boy,
00:09:08boy, a student at the school. At
00:09:14At first I thought they were sounds sounds of firecrackers or someone
00:09:17someone banging on to something loudly,
00:09:18loudly, but then we started realising
00:09:22realising they were not. And then then it started getting more frequent.
00:09:26frequent. Like. Throughout the morning,
00:09:29morning, ambulances carried the injured
00:09:31injured to hospital. Once the shooting shooting had stopped, distressed
00:09:35distressed families rushed to the
00:09:36the school seeking information about
00:09:39about missing relatives. So what what we know so far is that the young
00:09:42young gunman reached the fourth floor floor of this building and was able
00:09:46able to move along, firing multiple
00:09:48multiple shots into each of the classrooms,
00:09:51classrooms, hitting teachers and and his fellow pupils. What we don't
00:09:54don't know is how someone so young young managed to get hold of a gun
00:09:58gun and that much ammunition. Later
00:10:02Later in the day, the Thai Prime Prime Minister visited the scene.
00:10:06scene. He says gun laws have already
00:10:08already been tightened but Thailand
00:10:10Thailand still has some of the highest highest levels of gun crime in the
00:10:14the region. The horrific incident
00:10:16incident here today, just one more
00:10:18more grim statistic Jonathan Head,
00:10:21Head, BBC News Nonthaburi Thailand.
00:10:24Thailand. A US appeals court has
00:10:26has ordered President Trump to halt halt construction of his $400 million
00:10:30million White House ballroom. The The judges ruled that the ballroom, ballroom, which is being built on
00:10:33on the site of the demolished East East Wing, needs congressional approval.
00:10:37approval. President Trump vowed an an immediate appeal to the US Supreme
00:10:40Supreme Court and our North America
00:10:42America editor Sarah Smith has more
00:10:45more now. Donald Trump still essentially essentially thinks and behaves like
00:10:48like the property developer he used used to be. One does one thing. Three
00:10:51Three months ago, he was proud to to show off the construction site
00:10:54site where the East Wing previously
00:10:57previously stood. Its sudden demolition
00:11:00demolition last year shocked many many and sparked a lawsuit aimed
00:11:02aimed at stopping him building his his massive new ballroom. Today he's
00:11:06he's been told he does not have the the authority to dramatically alter
00:11:10alter this historic landmark. The The ballroom has become something
00:11:13something of an obsession for President President Trump. He carries pictures
00:11:16pictures of how he wants it to look look on Air Force One. A lot of people
00:11:19people are giving it really good good reviews. Some are giving it it reviews without even seeing the
00:11:23the building because this just came came out. After a gunman caused them
00:11:26them to be evacuated from the White White House Correspondents Dinner
00:11:29Dinner in April. He argued that showed
00:11:30showed the need for a secure ballroom. It's drone proof. It's
00:11:34It's bullet-proof glass. We need need the ballroom. That's why Secret Secret Service. That's why the military
00:11:38military are demanding. It today, today, he complained on social media,
00:11:41media, the military and Secret Service Service are viewing this horrendous,
00:11:44horrendous, politically motivated motivated and unlawful ruling as
00:11:47as a national security threat. There There is a state of the art military
00:11:51military bunker being built underneath underneath the ballroom. Work on
00:11:53on that is allowed to continue. You You can see building work is still
00:11:57still going on in the ballroom today today with these cranes that are
00:12:00are operating above the White House. House. And President Trump's got got two weeks in which he can carry
00:12:04carry on while he appeals to the the Supreme Court, hoping they will
00:12:07will rule that he can finish the the construction. If that fails,
00:12:11fails, though, he can go to Congress Congress and ask them to vote to
00:12:13to give him the authority to finish finish the ballroom. But it's far
00:12:17far from certain that he would actually actually win that vote. There is
00:12:20is some mystery about what's going going on behind the scenes with the
00:12:24the funding for this project. President President Trump has raised hundreds
00:12:27hundreds of millions of dollars from from private donors, but won't tell
00:12:30tell us how much they've given or or what he may have promised them
00:12:33them in return. Oh, that's so great.
00:12:37great. The disastrous refurbishment refurbishment of Washington's reflecting
00:12:39reflecting pool has become a deeply deeply embarrassing flop for Donald
00:12:43Donald Trump. Now he has to ask the the courts or Congress to let him
00:12:47him complete his renovation of the the most famous house in America.
00:12:50America. Sarah Smith, BBC News, Washington. Washington. Well, just to let you
00:12:54you know, in the last hour, President President Trump has posted on his
00:12:57his social platform truth, social, social, social, saying that it's
00:13:01it's within the rights of a United United States president to, quote,
00:13:04quote, fix, renovate, secure, protect
00:13:07protect and beatify the and beautify beautify the White House grounds
00:13:11grounds which has been built and
00:13:13and rebuilt, renovated and renovated,
00:13:15renovated, repaired and simply made
00:13:17made better many times since 1792
00:13:201792 and never needing the permission
00:13:22permission of Congress or anyone
00:13:25anyone else to do so. Well, Columbia
00:13:27Columbia has inaugurated a new president, president, the conservative Abelardo
00:13:31Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed
00:13:33vowed to launch a war on drug running running guerillas and improve relations
00:13:36relations with the United States. States. An ally of President Trump.
00:13:39Trump. Mr de la Espriella has offered
00:13:41offered to engage in joint military military operations with the United
00:13:45United States and to host American American troops in Colombia. Well,
00:13:48Well, the Argentinian president, president, Javier Millet, US acting
00:13:51acting Attorney General Todd Blanch Blanch and president of Fifa, Gianni
00:13:55Gianni Infantino, attended the inauguration
00:13:57inauguration in the city of Cali
00:14:00Cali on Friday and BBC Mundo's, Colombia
00:14:03Colombia correspondent Jose Carlos Carlos Cueto Lopez told me what voters
00:14:06voters can expect from the new president.
00:14:10president. Well, Colombia can expect expect an iron fist on security.
00:14:13security. De la Espriella has already
00:14:15already promised to increase military
00:14:17military spending and has given an an ultimatum to drug traffickers
00:14:21traffickers and armed groups, which which is surrender to the justice
00:14:25justice system or face a strong military
00:14:28military action. He also has pledged
00:14:31pledged to bomb narco camps and narco narco vessels, which is a strategy
00:14:35strategy that echoes a bit. The one one of the Trump administration,
00:14:39administration, the Trump administration, administration, military campaign
00:14:41campaign in South American waters,
00:14:43waters, which has killed around 200
00:14:47200 people since last August. De
00:14:49De la Espriella also said that Colombia Colombia will be joining the Shield
00:14:52Shield of Americas, which is this
00:14:55this initiative. Coalition of Security
00:14:58Security and political allies that that other countries in Latin America
00:15:02America are member of, like Ecuador, Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador. It is
00:15:05is expected that as early as today
00:15:08today or early tomorrow, Abelardo Abelardo de la Espriella could be
00:15:12be signing his first executive orders
00:15:14orders or those are likely to be
00:15:16be concerning security issues. And
00:15:20And there you can see a military military parade which is currently
00:15:24currently under way there in Colombia
00:15:27Colombia for his inauguration, which which is taking place not in Bogota,
00:15:31Bogota, the capital, but in Cali
00:15:35Cali instead. Now, President Trump's Trump's pick to lead the US Justice
00:15:38Justice Department is on the verge verge of being confirmed after somewhat
00:15:42somewhat of a rocky nomination process. process. Todd Blanch is Donald Trump's
00:15:45Trump's former personal defence lawyer. lawyer. He has been serving as acting
00:15:49acting US Attorney General since since the President fired Pam Bondi
00:15:52Bondi back in April of this year. year. His confirmation it was in
00:15:56in doubt after Republican Senator Senator Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski
00:16:00Murkowski said that they would vote
00:16:01vote against him. That left his confirmation
00:16:04confirmation dependent on a yes vote vote from another Republican senator,
00:16:07senator, Bill Cassidy, on Thursday, Thursday, Senator Cassidy, a Trump
00:16:11Trump critic, said that he would
00:16:12would vote to confirm Mr Blanch as
00:16:15as Attorney General. Well, we can can go live now to Josh Gerstein,
00:16:19Gerstein, a senior legal affairs affairs reporter at Politico. Good
00:16:21Good to have you on the programme. programme. So confirmation looks
00:16:25looks likely, but it certainly wasn't
00:16:27wasn't an easy path to get to this
00:16:29this point. No, it certainly wasn't.
00:16:32wasn't. And the biggest obstacle
00:16:34obstacle was this sort of enormous
00:16:36enormous fund that the Trump administration administration decided it was going
00:16:39going to attempt to set up almost
00:16:43almost $1.8 billion, that they were were going to give away to victims
00:16:46victims of what they called lawfare lawfare and weaponization. It's something
00:16:49something that actually caused a a screaming match between Blanch
00:16:53Blanch and senators behind closed closed doors before he was nominated
00:16:57nominated to this position. And it it became a huge albatross around
00:17:01around his neck during the confirmation
00:17:03confirmation process, although not not sufficient to actually prevent prevent him from getting the nod.
00:17:07nod. It looks like as of this moment moment now. And just remind us of
00:17:11of other concerns that had been expressed
00:17:14expressed about his appointment. appointment. Well, there are concerns
00:17:17concerns about also about retaliatory
00:17:20retaliatory prosecutions. We've seen seen the former FBI director Jim
00:17:23Jim Comey being charged with in two
00:17:26two different criminal cases. You've You've had Trump openly calling for
00:17:30for other people he considers to to be enemies to be charged. And
00:17:33And you've seen the Justice Department
00:17:36Department follow through with that. that. In some cases that troubled
00:17:39troubled a bunch of senators. You You had comments just the other day
00:17:42day that Mr Blanch made to religious religious activists about abortion,
00:17:46abortion, that he was going to crack
00:17:48crack down on the availability of of abortion across the country. That
00:17:51That was also something. But I think think it was just generally a concern
00:17:55concern that as a former defence defence attorney for the President,
00:17:58President, as you mentioned, that that he was just a little too close
00:18:02close to President Trump to really really be the nation's chief law
00:18:05law enforcement officer. But of course,
00:18:08course, Josh, this was President President Trump's pick. If he is
00:18:12is confirmed, which looks likely, likely, what will this mean for President President Trump? Surely something
00:18:15something of a victory for him. Yeah, Yeah, it's definitely something he's
00:18:19he's going to tally as a win. I don't don't know that it affects that much.
00:18:22much. What Blanch was going to be be able to do, which is why this
00:18:25this has always been something of of a symbolic fight. He is the confirmed
00:18:29confirmed deputy Attorney General, General, and the law is pretty clear
00:18:31clear that if we don't have a confirmed
00:18:34confirmed Attorney General, the deputy deputy Attorney General fills that
00:18:36that position. So it's more of a a symbolic battle over whether he
00:18:40he got to have the title and whether
00:18:42whether President Trump still has
00:18:44has the political might on Capitol Capitol Hill to push his nominees
00:18:48nominees forward. It looks like he he does, although only by the very
00:18:52very narrowest of margins. That's That's a good point, Josh. I mean,
00:18:55mean, do you think that this vote vote or at least the run up to it
00:18:59it and some of the rows that we saw
00:19:01saw kind of exposed lingering divisions divisions within the Republican Party
00:19:05Party over Trump's influence? Oh,
00:19:07Oh, that's definitely the case, especially especially when we look at the fact
00:19:11fact that a couple of the senators senators who were very wobbly here,
00:19:14here, maybe three of them I can think think of had trouble because they
00:19:18they had been opposed by President President Trump in their own primaries
00:19:22primaries for re-election and basically basically are going to be leaving
00:19:25leaving the Senate at the end of of this year, in large part due to
00:19:28to President Trump's personal political political opposition to them. So
00:19:32So that became a huge hurdle for
00:19:34for him to try to overcome in this this process, trying to get his nomination
00:19:37nomination through with people that that he had basically crossed swords
00:19:41swords with politically just in the the last few months. Josh Gerstein,
00:19:44Gerstein, their senior legal affairs affairs reporter at Politico. Good
00:19:47Good to talk to you. Thank you. Josh.
00:19:49Josh. Thank you. Well, Hunter Biden,
00:19:52Biden, the son of former US President
00:19:54President Joe Biden, has defended defended the controversial presidential
00:19:58presidential pardon, which was granted granted by his father in an interview
00:20:01interview with the BBC's Newsnight. Newsnight. Now, he said that he feels
00:20:03feels like the most privileged person person that there is, while acknowledging
00:20:08acknowledging that people would find find it unfair. The former president's
00:20:11president's son also spoke candidly candidly about his father's cancer
00:20:15cancer battle and his own battle battle with addiction. Hunter Biden
00:20:17Biden also said that he did not advise advise his father to run for a second
00:20:21second term against Donald Trump, Trump, and he spoke to BBC Newsnight
00:20:24Newsnight presenter Paddy O'Connell. O'Connell. Did you advise him to
00:20:28to run again? No, I did not because
00:20:34because what was it like for you
00:20:35you explaining this love and respect,
00:20:39respect, watching the 2024 presidential presidential debate? Where were you?
00:20:43you? Hunter, when your father failed
00:20:45failed to complete a sentence on
00:20:48on prime time television during a
00:20:51a presidential election campaign?
00:20:52campaign? Where were you watching
00:20:56watching that? I was alone in. I
00:20:59I wasn't alone, I was at my house
00:21:01house in here in California and I I was watching and I always like
00:21:04like to if I'm not with him, be to
00:21:06to able to watch alone. And so I
00:21:09I was alone in a room with the TV TV and I was watching it. And like
00:21:12like everybody else, I was shocked.
00:21:15shocked. I could tell as soon as as my father came out that something
00:21:18something was wrong. I've never seen
00:21:21seen him with a kind of the 100 yard
00:21:24yard stare that he had and you know,
00:21:28know, everybody has their questions, questions, you know, of. But the
00:21:31the reason that we know about that
00:21:33that is not because Joe Biden wasn't
00:21:35wasn't on TV or in public a million
00:21:38million and a half times before and and after. The reason that was so
00:21:42so shocking is because it had never never happened before, and it hasn't
00:21:46hasn't happened since. And so I can't
00:21:49can't necessarily explain it. I have have theories about it. I have theories
00:21:52theories about the fact that he had had travelled as much as he did,
00:21:55did, and he was taking Ambien, I I believe, which they I'm positive
00:21:59positive they gave him when he was was going back and forth from Asia.
00:22:03Asia. I think he had flown, I think,
00:22:05think, eight different legs in a a three week period of time. But
00:22:09But regardless, these are just theories theories of mine. I also know that
00:22:12that he obviously had cancer. Whether Whether it impacted him or not, he
00:22:16he had by the. Nine months later later he was diagnosed with stage
00:22:19stage four prostate cancer and stage stage four metastatic bone cancer,
00:22:23cancer, none of which we knew. But
00:22:25But my reaction to it was that I I was as shocked, I think, as anyone
00:22:29anyone who knew Joe Biden was. More
00:22:33More than 180,000 households and and businesses in Puerto Rico are are rationing water with the island
00:22:37island in the grip of a severe drought. drought. Now, July was San Juan's
00:22:41Juan's driest month since record
00:22:42record keeping began back in 1899.
00:22:461899. About 61% of the island is is currently experiencing drought,
00:22:49drought, according to the US Drought Drought Monitor and the governor governor of Puerto Rico said that
00:22:53that the situation is out of our our hands and blamed the water shortages
00:22:57shortages on climate conditions. conditions. CBS correspondent Lilia
00:23:00Lilia Luciano reports from Puerto
00:23:03Puerto Rico. Residents in Puerto Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan,
00:23:06Juan, have been filling up jugs and and buckets of water in preparation
00:23:10preparation for a massive rationing rationing measure that went into
00:23:12into effect this morning, impacting
00:23:14impacting hundreds of thousands of
00:23:17of people. It's brutal. This resident
00:23:20resident says it's unbelievable to to live through this today. The island
00:23:23island is facing a major drought drought in San Juan. July was the
00:23:27the driest month in more than 120
00:23:29120 years. In an effort to conserve conserve water, more than 180,000
00:23:33180,000 customers in Puerto Rico Rico will be without water for 48
00:23:3748 hours at a time. Starting today. today. And there's no clear end in
00:23:41in sight. Adam Johnson is the chief chief meteorologist at local station
00:23:44station Wapa TV. So it's not going
00:23:47going to take one tropical system.
00:23:50system. It's going to take many tropical
00:23:54tropical systems and the winter precipitation
00:23:57precipitation for us to get out of of this drought crisis. Low income
00:24:00income Puerto Ricans are spending spending money on bottled water,
00:24:04water, and the elderly are relying relying on neighbours and family
00:24:06family to carry water to them. The
00:24:12The governor, she says, did nothing. nothing. She didn't do anything.
00:24:15anything. In a statement about the the rationing, the governor said
00:24:18said that the government is taking taking the measure responsibly and
00:24:22and that it is out of their hands hands at this point. But after a
00:24:25a lawsuit having to do with the water
00:24:28water shortages before the drought, drought, she acknowledged that the
00:24:31the infrastructure needs more funding funding and maintenance. Lilia Luciano,
00:24:35Luciano, CBS News, San Juan, Puerto Puerto Rico. Well, dozens of hot
00:24:38hot air balloons have been up in in the skies above Bristol at the
00:24:41the start of this year's Balloon Balloon Fiesta. Graham Satchell has
00:24:45has that story. Sunrise over Bristol
00:24:49Bristol and a clear blue sky begins begins to fill with extraordinary
00:24:53extraordinary balloons. A bear, an
00:24:56an alien, a suitcase, a scarecrow. scarecrow. It's wonderful to do this.
00:24:59this. I've been flying for over 30
00:25:0130 years and every flight is special. special. And in this company, what
00:25:05what better company? And what a way way to spend the, you know, the morning
00:25:08morning flying. From the ground. ground. It is a spectacular sight
00:25:11sight from the air. If anything even
00:25:13even more so. Artist Emily Powell
00:25:15Powell captured this year's event
00:25:18event on canvas. I could see for
00:25:20for miles it was so clear and the the colours were phenomenal. And
00:25:24And then now I've got my oil pastels
00:25:26pastels and I'm just adding the final
00:25:28final touches to the piece. The day
00:25:30day began with an explosion of green
00:25:34green smoke and the balloonists setting setting off their burners at the
00:25:37the launch site. A world record attempt.
00:25:40attempt. How many times up and down down in a tethered balloon in an
00:25:44an hour. Jo Bailey was seriously seriously ill last year and needed
00:25:47needed life saving surgery. She smashed
00:25:50smashed the record. You can get your your life back. I never thought this
00:25:53this time last year I'd ever get get in a balloon again. And I can't can't believe I've actually done
00:25:57done it. Coming back down can be
00:26:01be precarious. The scarecrow ended ended up in a school car park. Some
00:26:04Some of the biggest crowds of the the day at Clifton Suspension Bridge.
00:26:08Bridge. A wondrous sight made even
00:26:10even better by more than 200 hot
00:26:13hot air balloons. Graham Satchell, Satchell, BBC News. And before we
00:26:17we go, I just want to take you to to Colombia, where an inauguration
00:26:21inauguration is going on for the the country's new president. This
00:26:24This is in Cali, the city of Cali
00:26:28Cali as opposed to the capital Bogota, Bogota, where a military parade has
00:26:31has been under way. The new president president has been praised by
00:28:05some parts of Iraq.
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