Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
Today marks one week since powerful flooding tore through communities and Tibet and Nepal.
“Rescue crews are still searching around it doesn't hydropower plants for people who remain”
missing. NPR's D. Hadid reports about 500 people are believed to be trapped inside. Nepal's military is leading rescue effort, and on x they shared a video of coffee-clad men pulling themselves through on ropes in a narrow dark dripping tunnel. And just finding that tunnel is an achievement, Arnold Dix, a tunneling expert, describes
the flood. Like a bomb's gone off, they've got multiple power stations all blown up in each of them with potentially got people trapped. And he says it's a challenge to find the power stations because they were covered up by mud, debris, and boulders.
They're trying to locate the tunnels or the plants because that will lead them into the turbines. A government spokesman said two tunnel rescue teams from India and another from China had arrived to assist Nepal, the workers. The spokesman said crews had not yet made any rescues. D. Hadid and P.R. News.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin is professing support for Iran in its conflict with the U.S.”
and Israel, and PR's Charles Mains reports from Moscow. ahead of yesterday's talks with Iran's President, Masud Besish Khan, that original security form in Central Asia, Putin said he regretted the collapse of Iran's ceasefire with the U.S. but expressed solidarity with the Iranian people. Putin said Russia is "trying to give you the help you need during this difficult time."
Putin's comments come amid U.S. intelligence findings that Moscow has been providing Tehran with targeting assistance and perhaps more to strike U.S. military assets in Middle East, a charge Putin has previously denied. Moscow and Tehran signed a strategic partnership agreement last year that expanded economic and military ties, but did not include a mutual defense pact.
Charles Mains and P.R. News. Moscow Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it now has enough body cameras for all of its officers and agents, and PR's Hemenibu's deal reports calls for ice officers to where the cameras
“have intensified after several deadly shootings this year.”
The update comes after years of immigration officials telling lawmakers and civil liberties advocates that they did not have enough devices for a body-worn camera program to be implemented agency-wide. Now, Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wynne Mullins says he expects every agent in the field to be using one by the end of September.
"That doesn't mean every ICE agent ever had this in the field where he had a body-war camera. It's for our safety and the public safety too." In a statement to NPR, ICE said that training is still ongoing. It is still unclear how many cameras the agency has acquired.
Earlier this year, top ICE officials told Congress they needed about 10,000 cameras for all their officers. Hemenibu's deal, NPR News, Washington. This is NPR News. Jory deliberations are underway at the hour for their fifth day in the murder trial of Massachusetts
mother Lindsey Clancy. George told the judge Tuesday they were deadlocked over whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The judge ordered them to keep deliberating in an effort to reach a unanimous verdict. A new spider species has been discovered in Idaho.
Lauren Patterson, from Boise State Public Radio reports on how the discovery highlights a unique ecosystem in the northern part of the state. The small, nickel-sized brown arachnid was found in the remote mountains of the NPR's Clearwater National Forests. Under its student Arnaut Coletayu Maskade found the spider along the lock saw River.
The genus known as Hexora is usually found in the northwest and parts of Canada, but
had never been seen here before.
The paper detailing the new findings outlines how conservation action is needed to secure the survival of the species that is only found in damp, conifer forest in the Rocky Mountains of Northern Idaho. The research team has named the spider Hexora Vandal, honoring the University of Idaho's mascot.
For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Khusky, Idaho. Stots are trading higher at the sour on Wall Street than that was up 365 points than as that composite up 89. Canada and Tariffs Venezuela and oil, the war in Iran, these are big, complicated stories. And they're changing fast.
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