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Hi I'm Carl Azuz we've got news from
asia africa and australia in today's
showso let's get to it starting in japan
there's a difficult decision and a
controversy ahead of the asian country
it needs to get rid of contaminated
radioactive water more than one million
metric tons of it
japan plans to treat this water and
release it into the pacific ocean
the water was used at the fukushima
daiichi nuclear power plant
it was damaged back in 2011 when a
powerful earthquake and tsunami swept
over this part of japan
the disaster cut off the nuclear plant's
power and cooling systems
so to prevent its damaged nuclear
reactors from melting down
japanese officials had to pump in tons
of cooling water
this water became radioactive
contaminated in the process
and some of it seeped into damaged
tunnels and basements and mixed in with
groundwater
massive tanks were built to store the
contaminated liquid and they are
expected to be completely
filled up late next year what japan
plans to do
is remove most of the radioactive
material from it and release it
gradually into the sea
a radioactive isotope called tritium
will remain in the wastewater
japan's government says it has very low
impact on people's health
and that the concentration released will
be lower than international standards
a united nations official says this has
been done before
and that there's no harm to the
environment but local fishermen strongly
oppose the idea
and china and south korea two of japan's
closest neighbors
have voiced quote grave concerns about
it they say japan first needs to make
full use of safe disposal methods and
then needs to consult with them before
emptying the water into the sea
the united states a close ally of japan
says the asian country appears to have
found an approach in line with global
standardsif all stays on schedule japan will
start releasing the water in two years
from eastern asia we're taking you to
central africa where there are a lot of
questions about the leadership
and the future of the nation of chad
this landlocked country of more than 17
million people has its share of
challenges
the us government estimates that more
than 42 percent of chad's population
lives below the poverty line
it struggled with terrorist uprisings
and rebel groups that want to take over
the chatian government
and that government a presidential
republic has just lost its president
under mysterious circumstances
apparently he was killed while fighting
with his army against a rebel group
north of chad's capital
what's happening here isn't confined
strictly to central africa
the death of president idris debbie
strong man of chad for more than 30
years
will send shockwaves through capitals in
the region and
in the west and it's a death in bizarre
circumstances
right after he was announced the winner
of a disputed election
for a sixth term the former general and
military tactician traveled north to the
front line to visit troops
battling a rebel push on the capital on
state tv
an army spokesman saying he died of his
injuries
his son is now in charge the
transitional military
council reassure the chatting people
that all provisions have been taken to
assure the peace
the security and the republican order
long live the republic
long live chad the president of the
transitional military council will be
general mohammad
ibrahim for years debbie has been a
steadyif controversial ally to paris and
washington
the u.s military has trained chad and
special forces
and depended on its highly regarded but
ruthless military
to take the lead in the fight against
terror groups in the sahel
and lake chad region but debbie's
closest ally
was always france it's where he got his
own military training
before seizing power in 1990
france uses chad as a base for operation
barkane
thousands of troops strong it's key to
fighting al-qaeda and insurgencies in
the regionfrance's military has twice stepped in
to stop attempted rebel takeovers of the
capital
during debbie's rule even as the
president's reputation
faltered domestically accused of
corruption
and political oppression on tuesday the
french president said france had lost
a brave friend a journalist in indiana
told us that the situation in the
capital
is largely calm but the power vacuum
created by the death of debbie could
provide new impetus to rebel groups
that are trying to take over david
mckenzie cnn
johannesburg ten-second trivia
which of these historic automakers was
founded first
auburn de soto riker electric or stutz
the oldest car maker on this list and
the only one founded in the 1800s was
riker electric
next a crash and a controversy involving
electric car maker tesla
investigators are trying to figure out
what caused the fatal wreck of a 2019
tesla model s last saturday in texas
both of its passengers were killed when
the carapparently failed to drive around a
curve it went off the road and hit some
trees
police say neither of the people inside
was in the driver's seat
one was sitting in the back and one was
in the front passenger seat
one question is whether tesla's
autopilot feature was turned on
the company's ceo elon musk says it
wasn't based on
information gathered so far and that the
street the car was driving on didn't
have the lane lines needed to turn on
standard autopilot
but if it wasn't turned on what drove
the car at what police called a high
rate of speed
tesla's autopilot feature has been
blamed as a factor in several deaths
since it was introduced in 2015
the company's website says autopilot
does not make its cars autonomous
and still requires active driver
supervision but hours before the
accidentmusk had tweeted that autopilot was
several times safer than human drivers
federal investigators are examining the
car's operations and the long lasting
fire that followed the crash
during the closures of covet 19
australia and new zealand came up with
the concept of a travel bubble
an international agreement that would
allow people to go to certain selected
countrieswithout having to quarantine this would
help nations that are heavily dependent
on tourism ones that have been hit
especially hard by coronavirus
restrictions to get some of the money
they badly need
different countries in asia like
thailand and indonesia
were thinking about forming travel
bubbles last year but because
outbreaks kept popping up in different
places at different times
the bubbles didn't materialize but one
has been established in the first two
countries to propose it
a travel bubble opening between
australia and new zealand on monday
with the first of 140 flights planned
this weekacross the tasman sea with no passengers
having to quarantine on arrival
that offer previously was available to
new zealanders travelling into australia
now new zealand returns the favor making
that one-way travel corridor
into a two-way travel bubble new zealand
says that will mean
billions for its economy with australian
tourist dollars targeted
and of course families split by these
border closures for over a year will be
reunited again
it's really important we're going back
for mike's dad's funeral
and we are taking this little guy to
meet his family for the first time so
he's just 10 months old so it's pretty
exciting for us
there's no replacing the human touch
and those human relationships so we're
looking forward to getting over
to new zealand speaking to our people
making sure that their welfare is great
but also
that our business continues to prosper
both countries
entering into this agreement tentatively
each say that they're willing to pop
this travel bubble
if there is an outbreak of covert 19 on
either side
of the tasman strait both countries have
had success
with that sort of strictness when it
comes to covet 19. just around
500 cases in new zealand since the
pandemic began
and just under 30 000 in australia that
platform means the countries want to
extend these travel bubbles
further into the region new zealand
wants to incorporate pacific islanders
into its travel bubble australia has
earmarked singapore as a potential
country
that it could have a travel bubble with
a new theory suggests it might have been
easy for a human
to keep pace with the tyrannosaurus rex
like you could out
walk it dutch paleontologists recently
worked up some new calculations that
took into account the t-rex's large
tail they say that because animals
prefer walking at speeds that minimize
the energy they spend
the speed the t-rex would have walked
with the 2200 pound tail behind it would
have been at just under three miles per
hour
why does this matter well it could help
scientists better estimate the amount of
food the animal would have needed to eat
to keep its energy up
and how far it might have walked in
search of that food their research did
not estimate the animal's maximum speed
but maybe this can help us visualize
what that might have looked like
so you wouldn't have died if you took it
all in stride with some speed applied
there's no need for a ride you could
sneak her away by taking one step at a
timeit's got to drag his tail you could turn
upon a dime just don't drag your feet or
you could meet defeat
it needs to eat meat to survive and
thrive so don't be what's next just
outrun the t-rex putting one foot in
front of the other to stay alive
wait don't leave just yet we've got to
give a shout out to our viewers at
tekamah hermann high school watching
today from tekamen nebraska
I'm Carl Azuz for CNN
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