PPN World News Headlines - 10 Sep 2024
• Israeli airstrikes in Syria • Kim's nuclear arsenal
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00:00At least 14 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Syria, according to Syrian state
00:19media.
00:21On Monday morning local time, Syrian Arab News Agency cited a health official saying
00:25that 43 more were wounded from the strikes that targeted several military bases across
00:30central Syria.
00:32The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, reported that 18 people
00:37were killed and of them, four were civilians.
00:40The SOHR also said that the strikes targeted a science research area, along with other
00:45sites which led to the outbreak of fires and material damage.
00:55We begin in southern Gaza, where at least 40 people have been killed and 60 injured
01:02in an Israeli attack in an area housing displaced people.
01:06War planes bombed an encampment in al-Mawassi, west of Khan Yunis.
01:11It happened in the vicinity of a field hospital run by the British charity UK Med.
01:16The attack caused large craters and widespread devastation.
01:20Emergency teams are recovering bodies and the injured.
01:23Israel's military says it targeted a Hamas command center, but Hamas has called the claim
01:28a blatant lie.
01:39Germany is toughening its border controls by introducing temporary checks at all of
01:44its borders.
01:46German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser says it is an attempt to reduce irregular migration.
01:53Temporary border controls will be set up at the land borders with France, Luxembourg,
01:58the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark for a period of six months.
02:03The same measures are already in place on the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic,
02:08Austria and Switzerland.
02:20At least a dozen people have died in Morocco and Algeria after torrential rains caused
02:26floods in the North African countries over the weekend.
02:30The floods destroyed homes and critical infrastructure.
02:35Officials in Morocco said 11 people were killed in rural areas where infrastructure has historically
02:43been lacking and 24 homes collapsed.
02:47Nine people are still missing.
02:50North Korea's Kim Jong-un has laid out plans to, quote, exponentially increase the country's
03:05nuclear weapons, according to state media KCNA on Tuesday.
03:10They quoted a speech Kim gave the day before to mark North Korea's founding anniversary.
03:15KCNA also reported that a so-called nuclear force construction policy is in the works,
03:22which it says would allow Pyongyang to more thoroughly prepare, quote, nuclear capability
03:28and its readiness to use it properly at any given time in ensuring the security rights
03:34of the state.
03:35Tonight, the urgent manhunt for the man suspected of being the sniper who fired at drivers along
03:50this busy stretch of highway in Kentucky.
03:53An hour southeast of Lexington, schools in nine districts shut down as police searched
03:58for 32-year-old Joseph Couch, thought to be hiding in this thick, dense forest.
04:02Couch, considered armed and dangerous, now facing charges of assault and attempted murder.
04:08According to an arrest warrant, minutes before the shootings, Couch, a former Army reservist,
04:13sent a text to a woman saying he was going to kill a lot of people.
04:17Police believe on Saturday evening, Couch was perched in the woods firing 20 to 30 shots,
04:23hitting 12 vehicles.
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