Major, major development in the investigation surrounding
the US capitol police officer who died after defending the capitol
during the January 6th insurrection, this video from that day right there.
Two men are arrested and charged with assault
on officer Brian Sicknick.
" ... that there are two individuals that were both arrested, charged and today
facing a federal judge.
Those individuals we are told, a 39-year-old
George Tanios of Morgantown West Virginia,
and also 32-year-old Julian Khater
of Pennsylvania.
Now Tanios, we're told, was picked up
at his house in West Virginia.
Khater,
was arrested at Newark Airport in New Jersey as he was getting
off a plane.
Now, collectively they are facing nine charges in all."
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korea's leader,
delivered a blunt message to the US administration on Tuesday.
A news reader on state media relayed Kim's words
warning that the Biden White House was quote,
'trying hard to give off gunpowder smell in our land'
and that if the US wants peace,
it had better refrain from causing a stink.
She also criticized the ongoing joint military drills in South Korea
that kicked off last week.
The timing of the comments coincides with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken
and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's trip to Asia this week.
Their first stop has been Japan
where Blinken said he wanted to work with allies
on the denuclearization of North Korea.
Fed up with Covid-19 restrictions,
around 2000 protesters faced off with police in The Hague.
They're angry about the Netherlands' strict pandemic lock-down
and are urging people to oust Prime Minister Mark Rutte
at this week's general election.
Police on horseback tried to disperse the crowd
in what officials say was a mostly peaceful demonstration,
but when they refused to leave, they were hit with water cannon.
The demonstrators want the government to reopen businesses.
Bars and restaurants have been shut since mid-October,
yet the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 remains high.
Not in his usual four-star general's uniform but a gray suit,
former coup leader Amadou Sanogo walks out of the tribunal a free man.
Along with 15 other soldiers, he no longer faces charges
of torture, killings and rape,
but this woman says
she was among those Senegal soldiers rounded up
when he took power in a coup in 2012,
and she was held in captivity for 19 months
and raped every night.
To her the court's decision is wrong.
The lawyers of those she accuses deny any wrongdoing
saying there's no proof to her allegations.
The court did not issue a verdict, but instead the judge cited
a 2019 reconciliation law
offering amnesty to specific crimes committed during the 2012 crisis.
South Africans should brace themselves for more load shedding
over the next five years.
Eskom CEO,
André de Ruyter, says the power utility
has a shortfall in the electricity supply.
Over this period, the power utility is expected to have
an electricity supply shortage of 4 000 megawatts,
However,
the shortfall could increase as the economy grows.
These are members of the French military.
They are in the middle of an exercise codenamed AsterX.
The first ever French military exercise in space.
Sitting inside the French space command operations room,
these servicemen conducted 18 simulated events.
A promotional video shows China, Iran, Russia, North Korea
and the United States,
listed as allies and adversaries of France.
The French say space is being militarized and they need to prepare.
The threat is real.
By 2019 more than 2 000 satellites were floating above the earth,
and almost everyone in the modern world depends on them.