PPN World News Headlines - 5 Aug 2024
• US send warships to Middle East • Houthis downs US drone
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00:00This is a picture released by North Korea's state-run news agency on Monday, showing what
00:19appears to be the transporter erector launcher vehicles for the Hwasong-11 Da close-range
00:25ballistic missiles.
00:26This is a type of tactical missile that the regime has been testing since April 2022.
00:32That's known to fly around 110 kilometers.
00:35During a ceremony held in Pyongyang, the state media reported that its leader Kim Jong-un
00:40announced that some 250 of these new tactical ballistic missile launchers have been handed
00:46to front-line units.
00:50Yemen's Houthi rebels released footage that they claim shows the wreckage of an American
01:01drone they downed.
01:05Since Yemen's civil war started in 2014, when the Houthis seized most of the country's north
01:10and its capital, the U.S. has lost multiple drones to the rebels.
01:15MQ-9 drones, known as Reapers, are unmanned aerial vehicles which can be remotely controlled
01:24and cost around $30 million a piece.
01:37U.S. warships and fighter jets are on their way to the Middle East to deter an all-out
01:41war and, in quote, defense of Israel.
01:45The show of military might comes amid rapidly soaring tensions in the region following the
01:50assassination of top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week, and a rocket strike on
01:57Israel's Golan Heights area that killed a dozen children on a soccer field days before.
02:04Israel blamed the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah for the attack and struck what it
02:08said were Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
02:10A Hezbollah commander was killed.
02:12Both Hamas and Hezbollah are backed by Iran.
02:24The Ukrainian military is certainly this weekend saying on social media that it has indeed
02:30attacked and subsequently sunk the Rostov-on-Don attack submarine in the port of Sevastopol,
02:37which of course is in Russian-occupied Crimea.
02:40Now, this submarine was actually in port following repairs after she was hit by a Ukrainian missile
02:48last year.
02:50But this time, Ukrainians are saying that they have finished the job off, saying that
02:55she is now, quote, at the bottom of the Black Sea.
03:07In Bangladesh, the army chief says the prime minister has resigned.
03:11That comes as anti-government protesters were gearing up for a march on the capital, Dhaka,
03:16this Monday.
03:17They're now reportedly storming the presidential palace.
03:20This also comes one day after the deadliest day of unrest since those demonstrations first
03:24broke out last month.
03:26On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of protesters and government supporters across the country
03:30fought each other with sticks and knives as security forces opened fire with rifles.
03:35Nearly 100 people were killed.
03:46An Israeli woman in her late 60s and a man in his 70s were killed in a stabbing spree
03:50on Sunday morning in the central Israeli city just south of Tel Aviv.
03:55The police quickly arrived to the scene as the terrorist was attacking the civilians
04:00who were here behind me.
04:01As you can see, enjoying the morning in the park, the terrorist managed to get to the
04:04main road where the police officers engaged him with gunfire and his death was declared
04:10at the scene.
04:11According to Magan David Adam, there were three separate attacks around 500 metres apart
04:15from each other.
04:17An elderly couple was stabbed at the entrance to a park.
04:20The husband taken to hospital in serious condition, whilst the wife was pronounced
04:24dead at the scene.
04:34Police in Somalia said Saturday that 32 people died and 63 others wounded in an attack on
04:40a beach hotel in the capital Mogadishu on Friday night.
04:44Al-Shabaab said through its radio that its fighters carried out the attack.
04:49It involved a suicide bomber who set off a vest and shooting.
04:53The Lidl beach area has in the past been targeted by militants allied to Al-Shabaab.
04:59The most recent attack last year killed nine people.
05:03The attack comes as African Union peacekeepers begin to withdraw from the country.
05:17Rotherham, Yorkshire.
05:21The latest flashpoint in the UK's civil chaos.
05:25An angry mob pelt police with whatever comes to hand.
05:32The officers are attempting to prevent them getting into a hotel housing asylum seekers.
05:38The riot squad forced to fall back and the masked men gain access.
05:43At one point the incensed crowd attempts to set fire to the building with people trapped
05:49inside.
05:50This, another front of a growing battleground.
05:56In cities and towns throughout the country, far-right groups and supporters are gathering,
06:01clashing with police and targeting businesses of migrants.