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causing it to collapse. they are hoping the black box can explain the lost power soon after moving into the city's port, leading to to drift into the francis scott key bridge. a group of workers were carrying asphalt on the bridge. two were rescued. six others are missing and presumed dead. so far, two victims have been entified. authorities are crediting workers on the bridge for helping save countless other lives. reports say they saw the ship approaching and flag police. a mayday call also gave first responders a crucial advance warning of the imminent collapse. as recovery efforts continue, the ship is still blocked by debris. the u.s. navy says it is mobilizing heavy lift cranes to help the channel along with support vessels.

our north american correspondent gary o'donoghue brings us this report. gary: before dawn, the gruesome task searching for the bodies of the six missing construction workers began. all hope is now finding them alive abandoned. he had been working the night shift fixing potholes on the bridge when authorities were alerted a ship was veering off course. >> make sure no one is on the bridge right now. there's a crew up there. we might want to inform whoever the foreman . gary: but the ship hit moments later. >> everybody, the whole bridge just collapse. gary: all of those who have died are believed to be from mexico and central america. two names have been released, one from honras and miguel come originally from el salvador

and a father of three. meanwhile, at least two dozen investigators have been on the ship, securing its data recorder and ensuring the containment cargo is safe. up close like this, you can cv scale of the problem facing the investigation. not only are they trying to find those who lost their lives in these frigid waters in these choppy and lonely conditions, but also, in terms of the boat, moving it or getting the bridge off of it is a huge job, and that is before you even look under the surface of the river here. the whole bridge is submerged. clearing that before the port can open is going to be a massive undertaking. maryland officials have vowed to protect the income of around 15,000 workers at the port and to ensure some kind of closure for the families who have lost loved ones. >> now that we transition to the recovery phase, my promise is

this, i will develop every single resource to make sure that you received closure. kerry: in the coming months, many questions will be asked about the safety record of the dali and the construction of the key bridge itself. meanwhile, one of america's most profitable ports will remain closed for weeks if not months to come. >> as the investigation continues, i spoke to our correspondent, tomateman, for the latest. tom, bring us up-to-date for the inv investigation today. tom: the national transportation safety board along with the coast guard managed to get on the vessel and have retrieved the data recorder. that is going to be crucial in piecing together exactly what went on during the final few minutes where the ship drifted into the central support structure and brought the bridge down. we know from the american pilots association, these are people

that represent, among others, harbor pilots, who steer big ships like this in and out of ships over time -- ports over time, they have given an account of the final few moments and said there was a harbor pilot that was steering the ship at the time and there was a loss of power. we have seen pictures of the lights going off on the vessel, a couple minutes before it careered into the bridge. when they have said is that the pilot, had hit, rather hard, to steer the ship to the left to try to get it avoid the support column. at the same time, they deploy the left anchor, to try to make the ship swing round, but it was simply not enough. it became clear that they were going to collide with the bridge. the pilot made that mayday radio call, and i gave police a minute or two to stop traffic getting on the bridge. that may be the crucial moment now that saved some lives.

i think with the safety officials are going to be looking at is exactly what caused thapower outage. it may be that the date of a quarter is useful for that. you heard the chair of the safety board asked that question about whether or not so-called "dirty fuel" could have been a factor in the blackout on the ship. maritime experts will tell you that contaminated fuel on a ship can cause these kinds of power outages. i think that is now potentially a central line of inquiry for their investigation. yeah. tom, i want to ask you more about the data recorder that was recovered, how long that might take and what exactly they are looking to find out. tom: well, they were asked a lot of these detailed questions during the news conference earlier, and we did not get too much detail about exactly how long it might take, for example, and indeed come as you alluded to, the value of information,

whether or not it would give the kind of detail about what would have caused a power outage. if it is a fuel issue and something went wrong with the fuel, it may be that is something within the data recorder. already we have a pretty clear account, it seems, from the tyler posey perspective of what went wrong. we see the pictures of the lights going out on the ship, so there is clear that there was a problem, but it may be some time into we know a bit more detail about the cause. the other element is part of the investigation is trying to take place alongside two other really crucial things, and they are the recovery work. divers still in the water and also the efforts to try to extract the wreckage. this will be an absolutely huge operation, and during all of this, you still have that incredibly important shipping channel here that collects the

-- connects the atlantic ocean to the port of baltimore. that is now out of action. up to around a dozen container ships, who cannot get out of the port still. that gives you a sense really of how operations here have simply grounds to a whole. >> tom, thank you so much for your reporting. as you heard, baltimore is one of the biggest ports in the u.s., and there are concerns about a rickel effect on supply chains. our reporter megan owen looks at the impact. megan: it is not the largest but it is the biggest when it comes to the car trains. last year alone, there were 800,000 car shipments and 47 million tons of foreign cargo passing through. now officials have said that maritime traffic will be suspended until further notice. what impact will this have on global trade? according to u.s. secretary of

transportation, there will be a major traffic impact to supply chains. some are already diverting their business to other east coast ports, either new york or virginia, which have the capacity to absorb more shipments. it is still likely to add to the pressure facing global sea trade, partly because of attacks in the red sea but also because of low water levels in the panama canal. but now, the big question is, how long will it take to clear the shipping tunnel so that business can resume as normal? >> let's talk about all of that with william p doyle, a former commissioner of the federal maritime commission as well as warmer executive director of the maryland port administration. good to have you on world news america today. how long do you think it will take to clear this channel? mr. doyle: yesterday was

search-and-rescue. that es is a paramount piece of work and needs to happen when there is a disaster like this. yestday was a search-and-rescue, and there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes, ok? at 3:00 in the morning, when i got the call, i contacted my private sector companies. these are the folks that are going to dredge the waterway, coming with the cranes, pull the trusses out of the harbor, out of the channel, and clear that channel as soon as possible. and every single company that i assessed and worked with has equipment available and also equipment that is stationed inside the inner harbor in what is known as curtis bay. so we have the equipment, these american companies that do willing construction in and around chesapeake bay, in and around the gulf of mexico,

everything is being brought to bear in order to clear this channel as soon as possible. >> you are talking about a massive effort across a number of companies and also local, state, federal officials. how long do you foresee that process taking? mr. doyle: look, this is going to be a tremendous effort. this will be a federal, state, private sector, that is what america does. when we get together and you have state and the fed and the private sector working together in order to get the asset. this will be a private-sector removal. the equipment and the work that goes into this will be private-sector vessels, the majority of which will be construction and dredging and equipment of that nature. so, i mean, we are looking at, right, one of the companies that i work for, they use this light

detection and ranging, they are scanning the hull of the vessel, they are scanning the walls of the channel, and they are scanning the bottom depth of the channel in order to see what metal is in there. where is this located, so we can pull this out when the green button gets pushed, and we have to get that equipment in place to pull of these trusses. that is going to be the data that we use. >> to make sure i understand, the federal state officials have already contracted these private companies to start his work? mr. doyle: w.h well, i mean, the are several ways this works. in maritime shipping, if you are a notion carrier that comes into the united states, you are required to have a salvage company on contract. the federal government also has a separate avenue where they have salvage companies that they can access. and that of course you have the state level, and the state level

can access companies. so what you have going on right now is basically you have three pieces of the government with private-sector companies that are moving assets in place. there's going to ba.5 hundred-time private-sector frame that will be in and on theater on sunday. >> as the former executive director, can you tell us what it means for the city to have this blocked in the port close? mr. doyle: first of all, the city is resilient. it is baltimore. we did have the ever forward, go around two years ago outside of the francis scott key bridge. and also ioa, international arms

association union port. everyone, governor wes moore, mayor brandon scott, president joe biden, sec. pete buttigieg, everybody is moving in the direction to make sure that this channel gets cleared and all of the longshoremen, all of the people in the supply chain, including the distrution centers, or back to work. >> we will have to leave it there. william p doyle, thank you for joining us on bbc news today. mr. doyle: thank you. >> the un's special repertoire on human rights and the occupied palestinian territory says she believes the threshold for genocide has been met in gaza. speaking to the u.n. human rights counsel, francesca urged the international committee to impose an arms embargo and sanctions on the country. francesca: soldiers have intentionally distorted using

principles, subverted in an attempt to legitimize genocide against the palestinian people. the only reasonable inference that can be called from the state policy is toward the palestinian people in gaza. >> david mentor is a spokesperson opinion. david: she is not an impartl, someone that looks at this whole conflict impartially. she has got a record as long as your arm. justin 2022, people from congress, from both sides of the house, said she should resign, because she has a ridiculous hatred of my nationstate. she does not even believe that israel should exist. she has made that clear again and again. so, look, it is a terrible

conflict that is going on in gaza. it is a war. it is a terrible war that we did not wantwe did not ask for, and it is terrible when civilians are killed, but the truth of the matter is that the combat ratio right now, while it is very unpleasant, is 1:1, that means onterrorist to one civilian. that is what the prime minister has made clear. so these ridiculous remarks by francesca albanese, she has unfortunately got a long record of hatred for my country. >> the white house confirmed it is working to reschedule a meeting with an israeli delegation to discuss the future of southern gaza. that comes two days after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu dropped france to suspend the high-level delegation to the u.s. in protest of the u.s. decision to abstain this week, choosing not to veto a resolution that demanded an immediate cease-fire

in gaza. oumiddle east correspondent is in jerusalem. he explained the growing tensions over the war. >> after prime minister netanyahu canceled this visit, the white house said it was an overreaction, and the israeli defense minister had talked with senior american officials, described the meeting as productive, but perhap these new term by the prime minister is the result of those conversations. i think what is clear here is that the growing frustration in the biden administration with the way the israelis have been conducted this war. we have heard from a number of senior american officials have said that too many palestinians have been killed in gaza, that the israelis must do more to step up the delivery of much needed humanitarian aid in gaza, but we still have not seen any kind of major change in the

israeli strategy. prime minister netanyahu said the israeli army must enter rafah to defeat hamas. this is where israelis say four hamas facilities are still operating. this is a relatively safe place in gaza, where more than one million palestinians are seeking shelter. a major offensive could lead to a disaster. the united states says they have alternatives for a major operation, and they want to share those plans with the israelis. a meeting could happen as soon as next week. >> in haiti, guns from abroad have helped fuel the gang violence that have plunged the country into further chaos. it is estimated nearly half a million traffic firearms were in haiti in 2020. gun trafficking is a challenge that the yet to be named transitional presidential council will have to tackle more than two weeks after the country's prime minister resign following a surge in violence. our correspondent reports.

>> a volatile nation now a war zone, plundered with guns and gangs. haiti is a country that is not manufacture wpons, get its people are living in a state of terror, perpetuated by hundreds of armed gangs. julia points to where she was shot. guns aimed at an event she was working at in port-au-prince. juliette: i say to everyone, run, run, run, because they are shooting, and i was shot twice. >> 10 people were killed, including her business partner. she struggles to talk about what happened. juliette fled, carrying her belongings and bullet scars. this shared space is all she has. gangs have taken over the home she owns in port-au-prince. juliette: at the beginning, our

political leaders did not do anything to stop these gangs. they let them grow and grow and grow, and now it is too complicad to stop them. the gangs are everywhere. >> more than 30,000 people have fled the capital, paying high prices to take the bus to capitation. this father has major his 14-year-old sun has made it safely. >> more than six hours. >> i was praying the hallway. there were a lot gunshots in one area. >> another passenger has a message for america. >> all the guns here are from the u.s. if the u.s. wants to stop this, they could do it in one month. >> there's no exact number four how many trafficked firearms are currently in haiti. a report pointed at half a billion legal and illegal weapons here as a 2020.

weapons are being smuggled into haiti by air, land, and sea. there have been seizures in the main port, including here in cap patient -- cap-haitien. they then end up in violent hands. the u.s. state department wants to work with haitian police to truckle gun trafficking. but with no head of state and effectively no government, gun violence is yet another vicious circle haiti is trapped in with no way out. naomi, bbc news haiti. >> the lower hou of parliament overwhelmingly approved a new draft of a law that gave equal marriage rigs to all couples regardless of gender. under the law, same-sex couples can have their marriages legalized and have the same

legal rights as everyone else. our southeast asia correspondent jonathan has the details. jonathan: it is the first time in this region any government has come so close to passing the law, giving completely equal rights to marriage. something lgbtq q plus groups have been campaigning for for a veryong time. they have come close to it before. it has been years and years of campaigning. tylahas a very open and accepting attitude toward lgbtq, but the law has always been the hardest to get over. we believe the law has now passed 399 votes-10. that leaves only the upper house with the appointed senate to approve it, which we believe is essentially a formality, and the law is likely to be enacted by the end of the year. people living in same-sex relationships, this is enormously important. it is not just about having

formal official recognition of the partnerships, their marriages, but also inheritances, properties, power of attorney when your partner may be incapacitated, the marital tax benefits, and in particular for children, to give them a right for parents legally and as recognized as anybody else. there are some details to be hammered out on the issue of adoption, and there are issues inevitably involved with things like surrogacy, but broadly the law has now passed. people, same gender partnership, will now be viewed as the same as any other partnership under thai law. people in the region will now look to tylan, hing it inspires changes in their own country. same-sex is actually criminalized in a number of southeast asia and countries, and thailand itself hopes to

benefit from this, that it will become a very attractive destination for lgbtq people and same-sex couples to come here on holiday and even to settle down and live. >> jonathan head reporting there. the boss has earned one of britain's most coveted songwriting prizes. only 26 people have ever received the fellowship of the academy, including sir elton john and kate bush. now there is a new name on the list, bruce springsteen, whose albums have sold millions of couples worldwide. tthe boss of the first american musician to make. thanks for watching world news america. you can find more on our website, bbc.com/news. you can find live updates with the latest on the bridge collapsed in baltimore. make sure to check us out also on your favorite social media site.

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