PPN World News Headlines - 6 Sep 2024
• Israeli protests continue • More trash balloons for S. Korea
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00:00Five consecutive nights, Israelis took to the streets in hopes of sending a message
00:18to their government that time has run out.
00:23Demonstrators carried 27 coffins through the streets of Tel Aviv at the start of the rally.
00:29To symbolize deceased captives whose bodies are still being held in Gaza.
00:36Murderer, the crowd chants, blaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the
00:42deaths, saying he doesn't want a deal.
01:29It is a necessary and preeminent problem for us to dispose of the bodies of our loved ones."
01:48North Korea once again sent more trash-carrying balloons toward the South on Thursday evening.
01:54South Korea's military advises the public to beware of objects dropping from the sky.
01:59Refrain from touching them, and to report them to the police or military.
02:03This is the third time in two days that the North has flown these kind of balloons.
02:07The regime sent some from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, following the resumption of its
02:12balloon campaign the night before, after around a month.
02:16The Joint Chiefs of Staff said Pyongyang launched around 480 balloons from Wednesday night to
02:21Thursday morning.
02:30Georgia state officials arrested the father of 14-year-old suspected school shooter Colt
02:36Gray on Thursday, seen here in a police booking photo, who is accused of killing four people
02:42and injuring nine more at a high school in the city of Winder on Wednesday.
02:46Now authorities have charged 54-year-old father Colin Gray with four counts of involuntary
02:52manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.
02:57Officials also say that Colt Gray has been charged with four counts of felony murder
03:01and would be tried as an adult.
03:12Barely two months after Britain's new Labour government scrapped plans to deport illegal
03:16migrants to Rwanda, Germany has proposed adopting the scheme.
03:21Its Migration Commissioner says the German plan would focus on migrants coming across
03:25the European Union's eastern border.
03:28Germany has accepted millions of refugees over the past decade, but its ruling coalition
03:33government is facing rising pressure to restrict irregular migration.
03:38This follows a deadly stabbing at a festival last month, claimed by the Islamic State group.
03:43The battle against gangs continues in Haiti, as the Haitian National Police and Kenyan
03:58security forces try to bring some type of stability to the Caribbean nation.
04:05Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in the capital Port-au-Prince to try to set up
04:10a path forward to secure presidential elections next year.
04:14Blinken also announced an additional $45 million in aid.
04:20Since the killing of President Jovenel Moise in 2021, Haiti has been in chaos, with gangs
04:26gaining control over 80% of Haiti's capital.
04:33Meanwhile, United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice has expressed its apprehension over the early
04:42release of a program being implemented to free up prison space.
04:47The ministry admitted that the scheme would make eligible even the serious offenders for
04:51an early release.
04:53This is in sharp contrast to its previous submission that they would not qualify under
04:58the Labour government's scheme.
05:00Prisoners serving for a less serious crime will be eligible for release after having
05:04served 40% of the sentence behind bars, down from 50%.
05:18The bodies of 34 villagers transported on the back of trucks for a mass funeral in northern
05:23Nigeria.
05:24They were among at least 81 people killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists
05:29on Sunday.
05:31Police said about 150 Boko Haram militants, armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades,
05:37attacked the village of Mafa in Nyobe state, shooting residents and burning buildings.
05:42Police also believe the attacks may have been revenge for the killing of two Boko Haram
05:46members by local vigilante groups.