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live from london, this is bbc news. the governor of california has accused president trump of inflaming protests in los angeles - by deploying the national guard. "if we save the sea, we save our world." prince william speaks ahead of the un ocean conference, calling for urgent action to protect oceans and their ecosystems. watching human activity reduce beautiful sea forests to barren deserts at the base of our oceans is simply heartbreaking. reports from gaza suggest more palestinians have been killed near food distribution sites run by an israel and us-backed aid group.
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hello, i'm lewis vaughan-jones. donald trump has deployed the national guard to los angeles following clashes over raids on undocumented migrants. these are the latest pictures from la of the californian national guard showing military vehicles and heavily armed personel parked up outside the metropolitan detention centre in downtown la. the governor of california has heavily criticised president trump's decision to deploy national guard troops to los angeles after a second night of protests against deportations. gavin newsom said the city has no shortage of law enforcement officers. let's speak to our correspondent in washington jake kwon. bring us up-to-date with the
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latest. the latest is that we started seeing the national guardsmen arriving in los angeles, and this all kicked off on friday as the ice agents showed up in la and started making mass arrests the purpose of mass deportation. we heard there were more than 100 arrests of people suspected of being an illegal immigrant, and then the protesters started showing up. then what happened after is an extraordinary picture of these masked protesters blocking the path of ice agents, blocking their vehicles, sometimes with their own bodies, as well as we saw these pictures of burning cars, people throwing rocks and bottles at the federal agents, and federal agents responding by firing rubber bullets and pepper bullets as well as tear gas and flash bangs into the crowd. the clash we saw was
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quite extraordinary, and that continued until overnight. we see president trump now saying that this place is now out of control, and he has sent these 2000 national guardsmen to the location. the first question is, can he do this? he is using a year though it might rarely use provision in the law to deploy the national guard. normally this is something that the state governor has the request, like what happened in the 1992 la riots. mr trump is saying that the law has broken down, that he is now bypassing the california governor, gavin newsom, and we have a governor who is disagreeing with the president. he is saying that there is no breaking down of the law, that everything is really under control, there are enough law officers to keep the situation under control. from the white house's point of view, local level officials
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like the mayor of la as well as the governor of california are either not doing much or maybe even supporting, or against the mass deportation policy. we are probably going to see more escalation here. california governor gavin newsom was pointing out that the white house was may be doing this just to escalate them just for the spectacle of it. this is not actually helping the situation. we know there are lower must delete make mass protest -- there are more mass protests planned for today. remind us of how all this started. the white house came into power with this promise of having this mass deportation policy. from president trump's point of view, there is a national emergency with illegal
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immigrants whom he is characterising us criminal gang members and dangerous people, who are flooding into the us, and this was his main critique of the biden administration. he has promised to deport at least 1 million migrants a year. the administration is nowhere close to that number. this is why his critics have accused the white house of making these arrests for some arbitrary quota. what we saw was an escalation of the mass arrests, these ice agents coming up in full military gear, showing up in the la county area, where there is a heavy immigrant population, and making sudden arrests, going into workplaces, into restaurants, home depot, looking for anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. we saw a lot of people who are opposed to this feeling. la is
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possibly one of the most kind of heavily... one third of the population are immigrants, and they are possibly one of the most immigrant friendly cities in the united states. this clash was somewhat expected. jake, thank you for the moment. some breaking news from to bring you from reuters. a strong earthquake has hit colombia, near the capital, bogota. this was in the early hours of sunday morning there. no immediate reports of casualties or damage. the magnitude of that earthquake, 6.4. that is from the country's geological survey. so a strong earthquake hitting the colombian capital, bogota, in the early hours of sunday morning, but no immediate reports of casualties or damage there. the prince of wales has said that "an urgent wake-up
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call" is needed for what's going on with the planet's oceans. speaking ahead of a un conference on ocean protection which is due to start in the southern french city of nice on monday, prince william said it could no longer be a matter of "out of sight, out of mind". take a listen. if we are to reach our goal, we urgently need to take bold action to protect and restore our planet. we must realise the potential of the blue economy for our ecosystems, our economies and our communities. with creativity, ingenuity, investment and support, we can unlock exciting innovations and solutions that protect our planet, create jobs, sustain livelihoods and encourage prosperity. this challenge is like none that we have faced before, but i remain an optimist. i believe that the urgency and optimism have the power to bring about the action needed to change the course of history. i am an optimist because,
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as the founder of the earthshot prize, i see the incredible examples of the ideas, innovations and technologies that are harnessing the power of the ocean whilst protecting its vitality. the prince's speech comes a day after he released, on his social media accounts, his own interview with the veteran broadcaster sir david attenborough, in which they spoke about the future of the planet's seas. in today's speech, prince william paid tribute to sir david's new film 'ocean', saying it made the most "compelling argument for immediate action" he has ever seen. watching human activity reduce beautiful sea forests to barren deserts at the base of our oceans is simply heartbreaking. for many, it is an urgent wake-up call to just what is going on in our oceans, but it can no longer be a matter of out of sight, out of mind. the need to act to protect our ocean is now in full view. as ever, sir david leaves us with
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a sense of optimism that all is not lost. he believes change is possible. put simply, the ocean is under enormous threat, but it can revive itself. but only if, together, we act now. let's speak to our reporter pierre-antoine denis, who is in monaco for us. what has been happening there? you've been hearing prince william reading the landmark speech that we expected from the prince of wales there in monaco. now i have moved to nice, 20 kilometres away from that forum that concluded with speeches from prince william, from emmanuel macron, from prince albert of monaco, also talking about the importance of financing and funding this transition and sustainable future regarding our ocean. here we are very much waiting for the beginning of that confidence, to see the tone
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that the leaders, over 50 heads of state gathered here in nice to try and convince the different lawmakers that change needs to happen, and now. of course, there are many questions. how can you make change when one of the biggest carbon emitters, the united states, has at its helm a president who said that climate change is a hoax? the united states delegation isn't here, and there will be many questions asked as to what can be implemented without any sort of us backing. what would success look like at the end, when all this wraps up for the delegates there? i've been speaking to keough frank -- key french officials, and they say that a treaty around the high seas and governance of them. as it stands now, there is very much a sense that such a treaty
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could come to light at the end of next week and that would create a sort of governance to then be able to govern the high seas and try and implement policies within these territories where fishing boats are using really dangerous and harmful techniques, such as sea bed trolling. there are discussions around deep sea mining. we've been talking about that when it comes to the united states. such a treaty would allow us to create a barrier between us and these practices that are currently ongoing. thank you for that. prince william's full speech is available on our website, but here are a few more of the points he made. he said that while the world's nations have committed to protecting thirty percent of the land and sea by the year 2030, so far only
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17 percent of the land, and just three percent of the ocean have been fully protected. he also noted three of the big issues affecting the oceans - rising temperatures, plastic pollution, and overfishing. health workers in gaza say israeli gunfire killed four people near a us and israeli-backed aid distribution centre on sunday. israel's military said it fired warning shots at suspects who approached them in a threatening manner. our correspondent sebastian usher has more detail about what happened. what we've been hearing are reports from rescue workers and from some of those who have been treated in hospitals after this incident. it appears to have happened early in the morning, again near an aid distribution site in rafah, in the south of gaza, before it had opened. in fact, people have been told not to go to that site until later in the day. as you say, four people are reported to have been killed, others wounded. one eyewitness, a woman, said that her husband had been shot in the head
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as he was there to try and get food for their children. the israeli army has responded by saying that they called out to suspects to distance themselves from the area, but as they continued advancing in a way that endangered the troops, the soldiers responded with warning shots. the idf also says it's aware of reports of individuals injured, but an initial inquiry suggests that the number of reported individuals injured doesn't align with the information currently held by the idf. that's the kind of statement we've heard from the idf in these incidents that have been going on now for pretty much a week. each time that the gaza aid humanitarian... ..that the gaza humanitarian foundation opens its sites on the edge of the area where the aid is being is being handed out, these incidents have been happening now on a regular basis. now it's time for a look at today's sport.
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we're starting with tennis because the men's french open final at roland garros is under way. it's between world number one jannik sinner and defending champion carlos alcaraz - in a grand slam final for the first time - these two players have won the last five major titles between them. alcaraz got the first break of serve but sinner broke straight back. it's currently 4-3. these two have lost the last -- up won the last five majors between them. cristiano ronaldo says the nations league final is not a straight battle between him and lamine yamal, the teenager tipped to follow in his footsteps. yamal is more than 22 years ronaldo's junior. and could add the trophy to the three he's already won this season when spain side take on portugal in munich later. ronaldo's boss roberto martinez says 17-year-old yamal has impressed him.
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translation: it's surprising that such a young player has the ability to be so consistent, i think there are positions on the pitch where it's easier to be consistent. i believe that being a winner is the most difficult position to maintain good consistency. often it comes with experience, with knowing what to expect. we are talking about a situation that is unique in football. he's a star player, a player that makes a difference. having consistency as a winger, the level of demand from his club and national team, that means we are talking about a unique player. days after the club dismissed men's head coach ange postecoglou, spurs have now sacked women's boss robert vilahamn. he'd been in charge for two years, leading the club to their first women's fa cup final last year, but after finishing second-bottom in the women's super league he's been relieved of his duties, with managing director andy rogers saying "now is the
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right time to make a change." england are playing in their second t20 international against west indies in bristol. they are 1-0 up in the three-match series - they won the toss and elected to field and it looked a good decision early on. luke wood trapping evin lewis lbw with the first ball of the innings. but west indies have recovered since - they're 79 for 1. ally wollaston has become the first new zealander to win the women's tour of britain which ended in glasgow. britain's cat ferguson started the final stage with a three-second lead. but the teenager suffered a puncture with more than 17 miles to go. she finished seventh on the day. dutch rider lorena weebers won the stage, and finishing third was enough for wollaston to pip ferguson to the overall victory and the first world tour win of her career. it's game two of the nba finals later on sunday. indiana pacers are 1-0 up against oklahoma city thunder in the best of seven series.
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tyrese haliburton dramatically scored late on to give the pacers victory on friday as they chase their first champoinship in franchise history. haliburton says his team aren't getting carried away with themselves, whilst thunder coach mark daigneault insists the belief is still there. winning on the road is hard, winning a nba game in general is hard. it's not easy. i think, you try and be as present as you can, that's the biggest thing we've talked about as a group. this journey is going to be 18 or 19 days until the next game, that's how we've approached every play-off series that we've been in as a group. take it a day at a time. we have confidence and wisdom because of the situations we've been in over time. there is no team more confident in being ready to play on really any situation than ours. i'm biased, obviously, but you also have to go and make it happen.
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those experiences don't guarantee you anything. they certainly don't carry over into the next experience, so we've got the wisdom from them, we get the confidence from them, but when the ball goes up in the air tomorrow, the better team is going to win, and we want to do everything we can to be that team. to come later. i will have more for you later on. that's all this but for now. schools in england are to receive an extra four and a half billion pounds a year by the end of this parliament - as part of the government's spending review to be announced this week. the chancellor rachel reeves says children have been at the forefront of her mind as she prepares to outline her spending plans on wednesday. with competing calls for funding, the conservatives said the home office budget - and police officers in particular - should be protected. here's our political correspondent, damian
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grammaticas. when you're prime minister, deciding who gets what is one of the trickiest tasks. education, we now know, is being handed a boost in this week's spending review. to fund more free school meals, more provision for children with special educational needs, and to pay for pay rises already announced for teachers. the technology secretary is also one of the winners. £22 billion a year invested in research and development. he says the government recognises every part of society is struggling. so the response, spending overall going up, the red line the track labour is laying out, the blue by comparison what the conservatives had planned. we understand. we get it. right across our society, our economy, our public services, we get the stresses that people are under. we are going to increase per-pupil funding in schools to the highest it's ever been, and we're going to have the largest ever increase in r&d as a government in our history. but not every priority may be treated the same. cutting some types of crime, protecting women and girls
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and boosting neighbourhood policing are also government pledges. police chiefs have warned they need cash. today the technology secretary said policing had already had more money and must now embrace change. the conservatives say policing budgets should be protected and they'd find the money by cutting elsewhere. they're increasing spending by a huge amount of money, partly funded by enormous tax increase, partly by more borrowing. so where would you cut? where we would do things differently, where we would make different choices, i think we'd go further on welfare reform, so mel stride himself as welfare secretary last year set out plans to save £12 billion from the welfare budget. reform uk have said they want to see huge tax cuts and claimed they'd make their sums add up by following donald trump's example to search out waste. there is so much waste. surely we can all agree, stop wasting money in the back office and spend in the front office where actually you deliver proper, efficient front-line services. in almost a year in office,
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the chancellor has made a feature of taking tough, sometimes unpopular, decisions. the choices she makes this week will do much to define how this labour government is seen come the next election. damian grammaticas, bbc news. and reform uk's deputy leader richard tice says his party knows "exactly" what it's doing after zia yusuf resigned as chairman, only to return 48 hours later to take on a different role. mr yusuf said his decision to step down had been due to exhaustion and he was now redoubling his commitment to the party. a powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook colombia's capital, bogota, and other regions of the country on sunday morning. the shallow quake struck at 9:08 local time near the city of paratebueno in central colombia, some 170 kilometers east of bogota, according to the us geological survey. no casualties or damage
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were immediately reported. let's speak to jose carlos cueto, bbc mundo correspondent in colombia. what do we know about what happened here? well, we don't know a lot more than what has been reported already. what i can report from being here on the ground is that it was a scary morning. i live in a multistorey building and we could feel it was shaking the building so heavily that we immediately got downstairs, seeking safety in the street. in the street there were also many residents looking for safety, calling relatives and friends, checking everyone was safe in what i'm saying was a very scary morning in different cities across the country. the seismic activity was felt around 8:15am local time, and
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then people waited to see if there was no repetition of the seismic activity. now residents are back to their normal activities in the capital. how common is this kind of activity in the region? it is usually common but not usually as strong as it felt today. what happened today was also the sensation and the fear that the seismic activity projected in what was already a traumatic weekend. a political candidate in the election was shot at a political meeting. he is in a critical condition and we are waiting for news of his health condition. this weekend has definitely been a shock for many colombians. thank you for giving us that immediate
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reaction there to that 6.5 magnitude quake in colombia. let's get some of the day's other news now. italians are holding a two-day referendum that asks whether the time needed for foreigners to become eligible for citizenship should be halved to five years of uninterrupted residency. a "yes" vote would give certainty to more than two million foreigners living in italy. the referendum was initiated by a citizens' initative and is supported by civil society groups. but the governing coalition, led by the far-right prime minister giorgia meloni, opposes the vote and has called on people to go to the beach instead. bulgarian officials say they have rescued 75 residents from two illegal care homes where they were allegedly subjected to brutal mistreatment. they said the victims were beaten, bound, and sedated, with doors and windows locked. prosecutors say five people were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, violence, and negligence.
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bulgaria has a shortage of good care homes for older people, leading to substandard illegal facilities. the influencer andrew tate has been caught driving at four times the speed limit in romania. he was fined £300 and had his licence suspended for four months, after being recorded doing 121 miles per hour. he denied speeding and said he would appeal. mr tate and his brother, tristan, are currently facing charges including rape and human trafficking in romania, as well as separate allegations in britain and the united states. they deny all those accusations. let's run through some of the latest pictures we have in from the us, from la. we have been awaiting the arrival of the national guard, and in the last 30 minutes or so, we've had that confirmation, the california national guard have now arrived in los angeles, the first group to get there. they are currently gathering outside
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a downtown la detention centre. we have all the
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the huanghe, or yellow river, flows across china for almost 5,500km. its basin is often called the cradle of chinese civilisation. over thousands of years, billions of people have lived along its shores.
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and because this whole area was such an attractive place

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