 Law enforcement officials are investigating threats against members of the grand jury that are overseeing former U.S. President Donald Trump's legal battle in the state of Georgia. Threats that reportedly came after the personal information of jury members was leaked online. That's according to the sheriff's office in Fulton County, Georgia, the center of that legal battle. It's where Trump and associates were charged earlier this week with conspiring to illegally subvert the 2020 election results in that state. NBC News and CNN had previously reported that names, addresses, photographs and social media profiles purporting to belong to the jury were being shared online. It's been high security around Fulton County's courthouse in Atlanta over Trump's indictment. State government policy is that indictments that are made public record include the names of grand jurors, but no other personally identifiable information. The sheriff's office says it's working with both state and federal agencies to track down the origin of the threats. Legal experts told Reuters Thursday that any attempt to move Donald Trump's legal battle in Georgia to federal court in the hopes of a more sympathetic jury is likely to fail. Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows filed a motion on Tuesday to move the case after he Trump's case belongs in the federal court for the northern district of Georgia. If he succeeds by raising rarely tested legal questions according to the filing, it means he will be tried before a broader jury poll that covers the congressional district of conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene, rather than jurors solely from Fulton County, which supported Joe Biden by nearly a three to one margin. Georgia state law school professor Eric Siegel said Meadows' effort would add uncertainties and delay proceedings, but ultimately it would be dismissed if courts applied the law correctly. The request for removal is definitely going to delay this trial. It's going to be complicated and messy. Now Donald Trump and the other defendants should lose these motions and under the law their case for removal is very weak. However, the lower federal courts and the Supreme Court in this country have changed a lot over the last three years and there's really no telling what could happen in the courts. But if they apply the law to the facts, these motions should be denied. Trump may follow Meadows with a similar maneuver, but associate professor of law at Georgia State Law School Karen Morrison says facts at hand don't make a great case for either of them. In a phone call after the 2020 presidential election to Georgia's top election official Brad Raffensperger, Trump urged him to find enough votes to reverse narrow loss in the state. Raffensperger declined. Was it really their job to call Brad Raffensperger and say, come on, fellas, I just need 11,000 votes. If that's part of the regular job of the president, then okay, you can remove yourself to federal court. But I think the fact of the matter is that's not part of a president's job or any candidate's job to put pressure on local officials. And therefore, I don't think it should be removed. And who can tell what the judges are going to do? But I think overall it's not a great case for removal. Donald Trump had tried in June to move his criminal prosecution in New York stemming from hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels to a federal court. A U.S. judge denied his bid last month. The legal experts Reuters spoke to say Trump's odds are quote, definitely better this time. Because it is more plausible that, let's say there's a closer nexus between, you know, making sure that the election was fair and being the president, then there is between paying a porn star and being the president. But they also say he still doesn't necessarily have a winning claim. The facts are very clear. They were trying to change the result of the election, not maintain its integrity. Trump has called the indictment a political witch hunt in the social media post and accused prosecutor Forney Willis, an elected Democrat, of trying to sabotage his presidential comeback bid. The emergency management chief of Hawaii's Maui Island resigned on Thursday. One day after he defended not using sirens during deadly wildfires early this month. Do you regret not sounding the sirens? I do not. Herman and Daye had been criticized by local residents and media for the island's response to the wildfires. Some have said more would have been saved if the sirens went off. However, he told reporters Wednesday that the sirens would have been ineffective and confusing because they were chiefly used for tsunami warnings and would have possibly driven people away from the ocean and into the island's mountains where fires were burning. It all comes more than a week after the blaze killed more than 100 people and hundreds of others remain unaccounted for. More than 2,000 buildings were also destroyed, causing billions of dollars of damage. Andeya cited health reasons in submitting his resignation, according to Maui County's statement. Maui County Mayor Richard Bison was also quoted as saying, given the gravity of the crisis we are facing, my team and I will be placing someone in this key position as quickly as possible and I look forward to making that announcement soon. Meanwhile, Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez on Thursday issued a statement saying she will appoint a private third party agency to investigate and review how state and county officials responded to the fires. We're like, we can't have people here and I think that's how I felt. We're like, we can't have tourists here right now. We need to feed and take care of our own people. But no, we are sitting here in Kihei and Wailea and a lot of places in Kula, Makawa, Paella, Haiku, those places are still running. And all those people still have their bills to pay and their single parents and they have mortgages and they own businesses. This Kihei Cafe is one of the most popular breakfast place in this town. Usually it would be like lying, up on at least 10 to 11 people or even longer. But right now, if you look around, it's empty. We were out for dinner and my wife went out to use the washroom and there was a person out there who was upset that tourists were still here and just wondering why we were still here and all of that. First they said no travel and now they're saying, well, part of the island, it's okay. And tomorrow it'll be some other story. But I can tell you almost without an exception, all the little shop owners that we met in Moapu and Paella and some of these other little towns, they're excited to see us. There's no one here. Our resort is empty. So if the goal was for the resorts to just open up their rooms for all the people that lost their homes, that's not happening. So what's the point of keeping tourists out? All 20,000 residents of the northern Canadian city of Yellowknife are leaving town after an evacuation order was declared as wildfires move closer. Canadian fire crews are battling the blaze as thick smoke blanketed the capital of the vast and sparsely populated northwest territories. The territorial fire service said in a statement on Facebook quote, Very tough days ahead with two days of Northwest to West Northwest winds on Friday and Saturday, which would push fire towards Yellowknife. This is Canada's worst ever wildfire season with more than 1000 active fires burning across the country. Experts say climate change has exacerbated the wildfire problem. The territories with the population of just 46,000 people have limited infrastructure and there is only one two lane road out of Yellowknife to the province of Alberta to the south. The deadline for residents to leave is noon local time on Friday. The fire is currently about 10 miles northwest of the city and authorities say it could reach the outskirts by Saturday if there is no rain. So far about 52,000 square miles of land in Canada have been scorched more than six times a 10 year average. Nearly 200,000 people have been forced to evacuate at some point this season. Leaving Yellowknife you're driving into the smoke and this is where it really would start to bring in some emotion right so starting to like feel very surreal because you're driving your environment where there's essentially small fires on either side of the road. So it's not like you know the entire force is burning up but I've never driven through a spot where you're like the road is open but there's clearly it is on fire on both sides of the road. And it's just yeah it's a very surreal experience right. Chocolate makers like Hershey and Mondalise face tougher trading conditions over the next year. That as they try to pass on soaring cocoa costs to customers who are cutting back. Over the past few years the industry has enjoyed big profits as demand for chocolate has held up despite price hikes. But data shows this trend may be breaking. It comes as prices for cocoa hit 46 year highs and sugar prices are near their highest in more than a decade. Chocolate makers are betting on the traditional resilience of their product to overcome price increases. Category maker Mondalise raised its annual revenue growth forecasts last month while Hershey hiked its profit forecast. But consumers in Europe and North America have already seen price hikes of about 20% in the last two years. And data shows they're starting to cut back on the chocolate they buy. Mondalise expects inflation in cocoa and sugar to continue. In response the company said it is ensuring it is significantly hedged and continuing to drive productivity. But after more than two years of higher prices analysts said retailers are pushing back. And Mondalise previously pulled Cadbury and Milka bars from a major Belgian supermarkets chain after failing to agree on prices. Mondalise's chocolate sales volume growth has weakened substantially this year. And data showed Hershey sales volumes increasingly declined during the period as the company hiked prices. Hershey said it hoped its sales volumes would reverse their current downtrend as it eased off the rate of price hikes. Chinese developer Evergrande has filed for bankruptcy protection in a US court. The property giant made the move in one of the world's biggest debt restructuring exercises. The firm's problems add to growing investor worries about China's property debt crisis and its overall economy. Evergrande was once China's top-selling developer but is now the world's most indebted property company. It has more than $300 billion in liabilities. Evergrande has sought protection under Chapter 15 of the US bankruptcy code. It shields non-US companies undergoing restructurings from creditors that hope to sue them or tie up assets in the US. The filing is procedural in nature but sources say the company must do it as part of a restructuring process under US law. Evergrande declined to comment. The company's offshore debt restructuring involves a total of $31.7 billion. It will meet with its creditors later this month to discuss its restructuring proposal. A number of Chinese property developers have defaulted on their offshore debt obligations, leaving in its wake unfinished homes, plunging sales and battered investor confidence. The property sector makes up about a quarter of the economy. The crisis has led to a contagion risk which could further hurt a Chinese economy already weakened by slower growth. Evergrande's problems come days after a major Chinese asset manager missed repayment obligations on some investment products and warned of a liquidity crisis. While China's number one developer country garden has become the latest to signal a cash crunch, all of this comes at a time when property investment, home sales and new construction have contracted for more than a year. China is targeting 5% annual growth for its economy this year but a growing number of economists warn it could miss that goal unless Beijing ramps up support measures to stop the decline. The leaders of Japan and South Korea are coming to the US for a weekend summit with President Joe Biden, part of a bid by Washington to strengthen ties between two key American allies. Tokyo and Seoul have a long history of acrimony and distrust, but tensions are easing amid rising concerns over an increasingly aggressive China and an erratic North Korea. Here is Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kashida before departing for the summit Thursday. As the international norms built on freedom and openness are shaken, our bilateral relationships with the United States and South Korea that have been at its strongest will be the foundation of this historical opportunity to bolster the strategic relationship between the three countries. South Korean President Jung Tung Yeol focused on the country's neighbor to the north in comments about the summit earlier this week. In order to fundamentally block North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, the Republic of Korea, the United States and Japan must closely cooperate on reconnaissance assets and share North Korea's nuclear weapons and missiles data in real time. North Korea issued another escalatory threat ahead of the summit, saying it may launch an intercontinental ballistic missile or take other military action to protest the meeting. That's according to a South Korean lawmaker on Thursday citing the country's intelligence agency. While the summit is unlikely to produce a formal security arrangement that commits the nations to each other's defense, they will likely agree to a mutual understanding about regional responsibilities. The summit comes as the leaders of the three democracies face doubts at home. Only some 4 and 10 voters say they approve of Yun, Kashida and Biden in the countries they govern. And there's little evidence closer security ties are a priority for ordinary citizens. West African bloc Ikhwas stands ready to intervene militarily if all else fails to reverse a coup in Niger. As senior officials said on Thursday, Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Abdel Fattah al-Musa, said the valiant forces of West Africa are ready to answer the call of duty. That was as he addressed Army generals from member states who were meeting Ghana. By all means available, constitutional order will be restored in the country. And this meeting today, best testimony to that. Military officers in Niger depose President Mohammed Bazoum on July 26. They've defied calls from the United Nations, Ikhwas and Western powers to reinstate him. That prompted West African heads of state to order a standby force to be assembled. Musa listed past Ikhwas deployments in Gambia, Liberia and elsewhere as examples of readiness. He also accused the junta of playing cat and mouse with the bloc. They are pretending that now they are ready for talks. But even us, they are telling them that they are ready for talks. They are still seeking reasons to justify an unjustifiable coup d'etat. Musa also strongly criticised the junta's announcement but it planned to put Bazoum on trial for treason. The United Nations, European Union and Ikhwas have all expressed concerns over the conditions of his detention. The junta has said it's open to talks to resolve the crisis. In Niger's capital, Niame, large crowds have taken part in protests against Ikhwas and in favour of the coup leaders. Demonstrators accused Ikhwas of being manipulated by foreign powers and say they reject outside intervention. Leaders of countries that account for more than a quarter of the global economy are set to meet in South Africa. Up for discussion at the BRICS summit starting on August 22nd. How to turn this loose club of nations into a geopolitical force capable of challenging the West's dominance in global affairs. BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The leaders of those countries will be in physical attendance with one notable exception. That's Russian President Vladimir Putin who faces an international arrest warrant over alleged war crimes in Ukraine. Though he is expected to attend virtually. Few details have emerged about what BRICS leaders planned to discuss. However, expansion is expected to be high on the agenda. Some 40 nations have shown an interest in joining. Either formally or informally, officials have said, including Saudi Arabia, Argentina and Egypt. However, there could be tensions. China wants to enlarge BRICS quickly as it tussles with the United States for geopolitical influence. Brazil is resisting. Fearing the already unwieldy club could see its stature diluted. Russia is keen to bring in new members as it seeks friends amid its diplomatic isolation over Ukraine. Its most important African ally, South Africa, is on the same page. India is on the fence. What unites the block though is skepticism about a world order they see as serving the interests of the United States and its rich country allies. BRICS nations are keen to project themselves as alternative development partners to the West. The block's new development bank wants to de-dolarise finance and offer an alternative to the IMF and the World Bank. However, it's only approved $33 billion of loans in nearly a decade. That's about a third of the amount the World Bank committed to dispersing just last year. The NDB has also been hobbled by sanctions on Russia. South African officials say talk of a BRICS currency mooted by Brazil earlier this year as an alternative to dollar dependence is off the table. Nevertheless, South Africa's Foreign Minister Nolendi Pandore has said BRICS wants to show leadership, particularly in terms of the development and inclusion of the global south in multilateral systems. The theme of the Johannesburg Summit is BRICS and Africa. That emphasises how the block can build ties on a continent increasingly becoming a theatre for competition between world powers. Africa is also in the eye of the climate change storm. Carbon intensive BRICS nations, accounting for 40% of the global population, also make up about the same share of greenhouse gas emissions. BRICS countries blame rich nations for causing the most global warming and want them to take on more of the burden of decarbonising the world's energy supply. Officials in Brazil, China and South Africa said climate change may come up at the summit, but indicated it wouldn't be a priority. When New York City heats up, residents head to the city's many beaches to cool off, but this summer they're eyeing the waves with renewed wariness after the city saw its first shark attack in decades. I'm kind of scared really for my kids, but she likes the beach, they like the beach, so I try to, you know, let them what they feed, but now it's really scary, so just got to be careful and stay out of the water. Police at Rockaway Beach in Queens are using drones to monitor the waters. This is set to continue seven days a week from dawn until dusk until the end of summer. Lifeguards too are a high alert. I see the drones, I hear them, and I see the helicopter, so I mean, they're doing their jobs, you know. The surveillance is full on after a shark attack reportedly left a 65-year-old woman in serious but stable condition. It was an extremely rare encounter, says Hans Walters, a field scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society. Well, shark attacks, shark incidents, shark encounters in general are rare. The ones where people are injured to that extent are the rarest of the rare. As a matter of fact, this is the first shark attack incident encounter period in New York City in over 60 years. But Walters studies the movement and pattern of sharks and says that those patterns may be changing. There were eight encounters with sharks in 2022 in New York waters, not the city, but out in Long Island. And then around 4th of July, there were five already this year. And that is unusual because prior to that, there were only a dozen. So what is the reason for it? We don't know. Some marine experts have suggested that sharks have moved closer to shore in recent years because a warmer ocean has brought their prey into shallower waters. Walters says more research is needed. We don't know if there are certain drivers or what those drivers are. It's going to be up to us as scientists, meaning the Wildlife Conservation Society and our various research partners in academia and otherwise in New York to sort of see if we can tease this out. Some New York residents remain unfazed by the recent trend. It will not stop me from going in the water. You shouldn't let one incident deter you from having a beautiful day on the beach. But Walters says having situational awareness is key, which means staying out of the water if you see surface disturbances and diving seagulls. He says ultimately sharks follow their fish of choice. When they move on, the sharks and the other predators will move with them. Then it's safe to go in because no shark is targeting us. We're not on the menu. More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde. The boat had left Senegal on July 10th with 101 passengers on board, according to the Senegalese Foreign Ministry. In a statement it said 38 people were rescued on Tuesday, though it was not immediately clear when the vessel capsized. The survivors have been taken to the Cape Verde Island of Sal. Jose Marrera is a health official there. The survivors are better. They're being hydrated. They're being looked after here in the tents, here at the port. The Atlantic migration route from the coast of West Africa to the Canary Islands is typically used by African migrants trying to reach Spain. Summer is the busiest time of year on what is one of the world's deadliest routes. At least 559 people died attempting to reach the Canary Islands in 2022, according to the International Organization for Migration. It said another 126 were killed or went missing in the first six months of this year, with 15 shipwrecks recorded. In late July, a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Senegal's capital Dakar. At least 15 people drowned. IOM spokeswoman Safram Saleh said safe and regular pathways to migration were sorely lacking. That, she said, gives room to smugglers and traffickers to put people on these deadly journeys. Young Afghans, Idris and Fawad have shared experience of the same horrifying ordeal. They were on a small boat with dozens of other migrants crossing the Channel from France to England when it began to sink. Six people died. 22-year-old Idris was convinced he would be one of them. I never believed I would survive. I thought I was dying and was ready to die. I asked God to forgive my sins. I also remembered my mother and father. I kept swimming for the sake of my parents and my brothers and sisters because we have left home and are going through all this suffering for their sake. I was fast losing the strength to swim but I kept trying very hard to keep afloat. More than 60 people, mostly Afghans, were saved by French and British rescue teams on Saturday. Idris and Fawad told Reuters their story in the French port city of Calais four days later. Half the passengers fell into the water and were swallowed up by the sea. Those who were left in the boat tried to stay alive but to help with their life boys. About two hours later the French police arrived and threw life boys at us to save us. Those boys who were in the boat also took along six bodies of those who had died in the boat. The rest of the Afghans were lost. Half of the survivors were taken by the UK police. The channel between France and Britain is one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Currents there are strong, making crossing on small boats dangerous. People smugglers typically overload rickety dinghies, leaving them barely afloat and at risk of being lashed by the waves as they try to reach British shores. Fawad is 15 years old. He declined to show his face for this interview. When the boat sank he says he swam before eventually falling unconscious. When the boat split up it was quite dark and we could not see anything. We were very scared but thank God he saved us. We stayed alive because of the life boys until the French police arrived. Fawad has been in France for two months, mostly sleeping on the streets. He's not sure what he'll do next but he says he's traumatised by what he and Idris lived through. Idris left Afghanistan a year ago and has been in France for eight months, waiting to go to Britain. But he says he will not risk a second crossing attempt. A French judicial source said Thursday that two Iraqis suspected to be people smugglers and two Sudanese suspected of helping them in return for a lower price for the crossing are being formally investigated over the deaths. Over 2,000 migrants have reached Britain in small boats in this month alone. Conservative British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly pledged to stop the boat ahead of an election expected next year. Paramilitary troops were called in to guard a Christian settlement in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, where a Muslim mob foundrised and torched several churches and scores of houses. The violence unfolded after two men were accused of desecrating the Quran in Jaramwala. The industrial district of Fazalabad police said. Rioters were demanding that the two accused men be handed over to them, though the pair had already fled their homes. This protester accused the police of failing to act to bring the accused men to justice. When a man smuggles cocaine, he is apprehended within hours. But the blasphemers have not been arrested after 24 hours, he says. Police should side with Muslims, he adds. The attack started on Wednesday, continuing for more than 10 hours without any intervention by police who are at the scene, witnesses said. People's houses were burned down. Three or four churches were set on fire. Whatever happened could have been settled through negotiations by sitting down together, which did not happen. Now things have reached a stage where rangers have been called in. The entire city is in lockdown. Police denied the accusations and said security forces at the scene had prevented an even worse situation. Salim Qasim, Mass' home, was among those gutted. When I saw my house, I felt a jolt in my heart and I thought I was going to fall. I immediately came out of my house and sat down. We have not committed any crime. All this is a grave injustice towards us. Residents said they witnessed thousands of Muslims led by local clerics carrying iron rods, sticks, knives and daggers during the rioting. The troops have cordoned off the Christian colony, blocking all entry and exit points with barbed wire while hundreds of Christians took refuge in a nearby district. Police arrested over 100 suspected rioters, the Pakistani government confirmed in a statement, adding that an inquiry had been ordered into the incident. Local and national government leaders pledged support for the Christian community in the aftermath. This is provincial government leader Mosin Naqvi. The losses that you people have suffered as a government, as a Muslim, as a human being, it is my duty to compensate your loss and restore it to its original form. This is my and my team's promise to you that within three or four days we will restore your properties to their original state. Our teams are already working on it. Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan and although no one has ever been executed for it, many accused people have been lynched by outraged crowds. Rights groups say accusations of blasphemy are sometimes used to settle scores. That has left hundreds of people in prison after being accused because judges often put off trials, fearing retribution if they are seen as being too lenient according to the rights groups. The criminal charges filed against former US President Donald Trump in Georgia include allegations that he violated laws designed to fight organized crime groups in the 1970s called RICO. But what is RICO and how is an anti-mafia law used against Trump? RICO stands for the Racketeering, Influenced, and Corrupt Organizations Act. It was passed by Congress in 1970, mostly to target the mafia. Most states, including Georgia, then followed suit with their own versions. Professor David Sklansky is with Stanford University's law school. Like the federal model, the Georgia statute allows prosecutors to sweep together in a single indictment and most likely in a single trial a large number of defendants and a large number of different criminal schemes, all of which are related only in that they're part of the same overall pattern of racketeering through an enterprise. And a pattern of racketeering just means two or more violations of particular state crimes. RICO was made to go after mafia kingpins who kept their hands clean by letting henchmen do the dirty work and parking any money they got from it in shell companies or other fronts. So why is RICO being used now? Today, the mafia has largely been dismantled in the United States, but prosecutors have widened RICO's used to other groups, such as Wall Street banks that engage in illegal market manipulation. The Fulton County District Attorney prosecuting Trump is herself no stranger to the statute. To date, this office has indicted since I've been sitting as a district attorney over 12,000 cases. This is the 11th RICO indictment. The district attorney who brought this case, Fannie Willis, previously prosecuted a number of educators in the Atlanta area for a conspiracy to cheat on standardized tests. And that was a RICO indictment, a Georgia RICO indictment. It charged 35 different defendants. It is cumbersome. It does create lots of complications, but it's been done before and it's been done before by this district attorney. As it pertains to Trump and the 18 associates charged with him, prosecutors wouldn't necessarily need to prove that he personally broke the law. They'll try to prove that he knowingly coordinated with others who did. The indictment alleges a conspiracy by Trump and his allies to subvert the results of the 2020 election in Georgia through a combination of pressure on state officials and attempts to illegally access election equipment. Trump denies wrongdoing and maintains that the charges are politically motivated. Are you using the right sunscreen? With world temperatures reaching record highs this summer, experts say you might need to think twice. Sunscreens aren't all the same and during extreme heat, those differences can matter. There are two major types. Mineral sunscreens create a physical barrier that reflects UV light before it penetrates the skin. They're not absorbed, so older formulas often felt greasy and left that iconic white cast. Chemical sunscreens form a thin protective film that absorbs UV rays and changes their structure. If your sunscreen comes in the form of a lighter cream or spray, it might be this. But according to the American Academy of Dermatology, you'll want to reach for mineral sunscreens during heat waves, when temperatures hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit or above with high humidity. That's because chemical sunscreens can lose their filtering abilities when exposed to extremely high temperatures. And it's not just about choosing the right sunscreen. Habits matter too. Many people only apply about 20% to 50% of the sunscreen they need. Adults need one ounce of sunscreen, about a shot glass full, or just recommend a double layer for your face or anywhere else that's more exposed. Sunscreens should usually be reapplied every two hours and after swimming or sweating. But you'll be sweating more during a heat wave, so you need to reapply more often. They also say leaving your sunscreen out in the heat can decrease its efficacy, so try storing it in a cool, dark place. When will it be released? Peru has granted a rare exception to its restrictive abortion laws and allowed an 11-year-old girl to terminate a pregnancy in a case that rights groups say highlights a lack of support for child victims of sexual abuse. The girl has been publicly identified only by the name Mila, and according to a police report, was raped for years by her stepfather. Earlier this month, she approached a hospital in an area of the Amazon for an abortion, but was turned away. While Peru's reversal of that earlier denial came after the United Nations pressured authorities to intervene, abortion is only legal there if the mother's life is endangered. Susana Chavez is the director of a feminist NGO called Promsex. Mila is an 11-year-old girl who unfortunately lives in a situation of deep poverty in one of the areas where there is the highest rate of rape among girls, and where sexual violence is widely tolerated. Mila was subjected to rape since she was 7 years old. The authorities were aware that she was a child victim of inappropriate touching. However, they did not intervene in that family until years later when Mila got pregnant. They wanted to force her to continue with the pregnancy because they told her this was her destiny and that abortion was dangerous. Meanwhile, authorities are searching for Mila's stepfather, who was arrested in July but later released for insufficient evidence. That move was widely criticized and the Peruvian presidency ordered his immediate recapture. His whereabouts are unknown. This is what the streets of Egypt look like at night. Rolling blackouts have become a symbol of its economic crisis as the country faces record inflation and a weakening currency. And that's a big problem for President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi just months before the country heads to the polls. Residents haven't experienced this level of service cuts since the uprising years ago when frequent outages helped turn the public against Egypt's first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Morsi. Sisi led us ouster in July 2013. Critics like Gamila Ismail, head of Al-Dastur party, one of the opposition groups, see echoes of the past today. In Al-Kaharaba, in fact, there was a failure of economic policy and a failure in the administration. In fact, Al-Kaharabi's failure in 2013 didn't happen. He will be back for a long time and he will be back for a long time and he will be back for a long time and he will be back for a long time and he will be back for a long time so people are feeling that we are walking towards a certain direction and we are facing some challenges towards a long-term future. Sisi took power in 2014 on promises of stability and development. A former Army chief who's overseen a far-reaching crackdown on political dissent. He's widely expected to secure a third term in elections due by early 2024. But Egypt's economic troubles are shaking faith in his record. Cici has shifted blame largely on other factors like the global health crisis and the war in Ukraine. This is Mustafa Bakri, a pro-CC member of parliament. He acknowledges that the economy is suffering from crises, but likens it to the financial troubles in the US. He says the Egyptian people will bear the burden because they learn their lesson after the 2011 protests. Analysts say the electricity cuts are partly caused by a dip in Egypt's production of natural gas, which powers most of Egypt's grid and is an important earner of hard currency. The government denies that and says the cuts were simply necessary due to a surge air conditioner use during unusually hot weather. Residents say they have hit some areas harder than others, fueling a sense of inequality as many complain that life has become tougher due to subsidy reforms, taxes, and soaring prices. Cash flow problems in China's real estate sector has some investors worried. They're concerned it could spill over into multiple sectors of the country's economy. Country garden was China's largest property developer before this year, but it's now enduring a debt crisis, while one of China's top asset managers with major real estate exposure is also struggling. Zhongrong, a subsidiary of Zhongji Enterprise Group, has missed some repayment obligations, prompting investors to protest outside of its building in Beijing. The state of these firms has fuelled worries the country's real estate woes may affect its $57 trillion financial industry. It has also highlighted the potential of outsized exposure of China's $3 trillion shadow banking sector to the property sector. Dari M is a senior economist at Sino-Texas. As long as the problem in the cash flow of developers are not solved, it's possible to see more credit events like this appear and there across the shadow banking sector. So I think in general it means that investors are likely to be more risk adverse, which doesn't really serve too well for the goal to actually help developers. Since the sector's debt crisis unfolded in mid-2021, companies accounting for 40% of Chinese home sales have defaulted. Most of them were private property developers. It has led to many unfinished homes, unpaid suppliers and creditors. Those creditors are not only financial institutions, but also ordinary people who bought wealth management products linked to trust financing. There is very little liquidity left in both the equity and debt markets as investors and creditors now avoid the sector. With home sales already very weak, the debt crisis could delay the prospect of a recovery of both the property market and the broader Chinese economy. China's property sector accounts for more than half of global new home sales and home building. It is the largest asset class in the world with an estimated market value of around $62 trillion. The Chinese government is yet to announce any bold stimulus measures to combat the issue. You got it done without a single phone to the other team. U.S. President Joe Biden threw a party at the White House to mark the first anniversary of the passage of a key piece of legislation Wednesday, the Inflation Reduction Act. He addressed lawmakers who helped turn the bill into law. One year ago, with your leadership, I signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. And one of the most significant laws I think has ever been enacted, taking on the special interest and winning. This is more than an anniversary. Biden is touting the bill as he seeks re-election and he's betting on the IRA to help him get there. But he's got to be able to answer a question Americans may be asking. What's in this law? Reuters White House correspondent Jared Renshaw explains. It's basically Biden's signature climate change law. It has a basket of tax credits to promote renewable energy production, hydrogen, nuclear, solar, wind. So that's the big core of it. There's also some other elements, prescription drug relief for seniors and wealthy Americans and wealthy corporations are picking up at that. Biden said the legislation has already created 170,000 clean energy jobs and will create some 1.5 million jobs over the next decade, while significantly cutting the nation's carbon emissions. Folks, this law is transformative. Why is he promoting it? It's just being pitched for his re-election campaign. Biden omics this idea that we're going to invest in the U.S., we're going to reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing, and these tax credits are really the engine of that machine. Companies are trying to re-sure supply chain logistics back in the U.S. and this is his central argument for why he should be read about this. According to Reuters opinion polls, many Americans, including Biden supporters, don't know much about the IRA. Why is that? Some of it's the messenger, right? People are not listening to Biden. People are not tuned in to Biden. I think you'll see the White House and the re-election committee spend a lot of money and direct advertising. I think that will boost the absorption rate. There might be another reason Biden is pitching a bill that passed a year ago. It was his last major legislative accomplishment since Republicans retook the House of Representatives and very likely will be the last major bill he gets done this term. Rather than promise new legislation that will likely never win over Republicans, he will attempt to show the current and future benefits of what he's already been able to accomplish. From a job-cooking school lunches to lugging jerry cans of Fukushima seawater for radiation tests, Aikimura has no background in science. However, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, she and a group of other women began to help test the city's water and food. And they fear that Japan's preparations this summer to release more than 1 million tons of treated radioactive water in the senior bay could stir up anxiety reminiscent of the tragedy 12 years ago. The nonprofit workers call themselves Tarachine, which means mother in traditional Japanese poetry. Most of them are indeed local moms who were taught by doctors and scientists to measure radiation. Kimura serves as Secretary General of the group. It's clear that little by little the level of radiation is falling as 12 years have passed. Our measurements have confirmed that the amount of radioactive material is lower now than it was 12 years ago. Kimura lost her job making school lunches after the disaster. She joined the group in 2014 and learned to measure radiation in the hopes of protecting her daughters, who were teenagers then. There are no wars in the sea, so once you release the treated water, it will probably continue to be released for decades or even centuries until the field debris from the Fukushima plant is removed and you can't take the treated water back. The government and an international nuclear regulator say the plant to release the water is safe. But it has alarmed neighbors, particularly China and Asia's fishing industry. Authorities say the water has been filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for one called tritium, which is hard to separate from water. But the treated water will be diluted to well below internationally approved levels of tritium before being released into the Pacific Ocean. When the water is released, we will keep on providing data so that fathers and mothers can decide for themselves and children can also decide when they grow up whether to eat Fukushima fish or not or whether to go swimming in the sea or not. Kimura says what the mothers want is more dialogue between officials and plant operator Tokyo electric power on one side and fishermen and citizens on the other over not only safety but also the release's psychological impact. Japan has not yet said when they will release the water. The husband of pop superstar Britney Spears is seeking divorce after 14 months of marriage. Sam Asgari and Spears had their wedding months after she was freed from a conservatorship that her father set up in which her personal life and finances were controlled for more than a decade. However, on Thursday, Asgari cited irreconcilable differences between the pair, according to a filing in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday. He also seeks spousal support and payment of legal fees by Spears. On his social media, the 29-year-old said he and Spears have decided to end their journey together, adding they will hold on to the love and respect they have for each other. Representatives for Spears did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Asgari and 41-year-old Spears got married in June last year after dating for nearly six years. During court proceedings around her conservatorship, the pop star said she longed to get married and start a new family without any restrictions. Spears Being a companion, lifting up heavy loads, helping with physical therapy, the duties of caregivers may soon be helped or replaced by robots. In a world where humans are facing a rising demand for healthcare services and the supply of caregivers is falling short, how could robots play a bigger role in helping older people? At a conference organized by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, robot expert Nadia Magnanette Thalman told Reuters that AI-powered robots like Nadine could play a future role as companions in care homes. This is a social robot equipped with human-like gestures and expressions. Thalman said Nadine and robots like her can be on hand 24 hours a day. In China, an entrepreneur hopes robots can cope with the world's aging population. According to Yuan reports, the global population over 65 is projected to increase from 10% in 2022 to 16% in 2050. As the global demand for nurses and carers heats up, some countries see a staffing crisis in care homes. But Zen Ko, the co-founder and global CEO of Fourier Intelligence, thinks humanoid robots could one day ease the shortage. Although the robot is still in the research and development phase, Ko hopes a working prototype could be ready in two to three years. He hopes one day humanoid robots can carry patients from their bed to wheelchairs or help pick up objects. In the future, robots may be able to do all your heavy lifting. Scientists from the Italian Institute of Technology are developing a new humanoid robot called the AERGO Cup. It's designed for ergonomic interaction with humans and efficient locomotion. Developers say they're working to make it strong and robust enough to take on physically demanding tasks. That means robots may soon take on laborious tasks in workplaces for their aging human counterparts. From the sensory point of view, the robot is also in mass 3D vision. There's more sensors. It's also tactile equipped so it can manipulate objects and fields the contact with the world. Physically again, we're planning for stronger machines, more dynamics, more powerful motors, because indeed we need robots to help us. This animal allows us to have an idea of how these animals really were, this new discovery. We're seeing it for the first time as it was the face of these creatures. In fact, by adding new information to this animal, we can see for the first time one of these precursors of the aerosols in such a clear way. And this, I think is very important. This is Reuters. This is Reuters. Law enforcement officials are investigating threats against members of the grand jury that are overseeing former U.S. President Donald Trump's legal battle in the state of Georgia. Threats that reportedly came after the personal information of jury members was leaked online. That's according to the sheriff's office in Fulton County, Georgia, the center of that legal battle. It's where Trump and associates were charged earlier this week with conspiring to illegally subvert the 2020 election results in that state. NBC News and CNN had previously reported that names, addresses, photographs, and social media profiles purporting to belong to the jury were being shared online. It's been high security around Fulton County's courthouse in Atlanta over Trump's indictment. State government policy is that indictments that are made public record include the names of grand jurors, but no other personally identifiable information. The sheriff's office says it's working with both state and federal agencies to track down the origin of the threats. Legal experts told Reuters Thursday that any attempt to move Donald Trump's legal battle in Georgia to federal court in the hopes of a more sympathetic jury is likely to fail. Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, filed a motion on Tuesday to move the case after he, Trump, and 17 others were indicted this week by Fulton County's district attorney of conspiring to illegally subvert the 2020 election results. Meadows will argue his case belongs in the federal court for the northern district of Georgia. If he succeeds by raising rarely tested legal questions according to the filing, it means he will be tried before a broader jury poll that covers the congressional district of conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene rather than jurors solely from Fulton County which supported Joe Biden by nearly a three to one margin. Georgia state law school professor Eric Siegel said Meadows' effort would add uncertainties and delay proceedings but ultimately it would be dismissed if courts apply the law correctly. The request for removal is definitely going to delay this trial. It's going to be complicated and messy. Now Donald Trump and the other defendants should lose these motions and under the law their case for removal is very weak. However, the lower federal courts and the Supreme Court in this country have changed a lot over the last three years and there's really no telling what could happen in the courts but if they apply the law to the facts these motions should be denied. Trump may follow Meadows with a similar maneuver but associate professor of law at Georgia state law school Karen Morrison says facts at hand don't make a great case for either of them. In a phone call after the 2020 presidential election to Georgia's top election official Brad Raffensperger Trump urged him to find enough votes to reverse narrow loss in the state. Raffensperger declined. Was it really their job to call Brad Raffensperger and say come on fellas I just need 11,000 votes. If that's part of the regular job of the president then okay you can remove yourself to federal court but I think the fact of the matter is that's not part of a president's job or any candidate's job to put pressure on local officials and therefore I don't think it should be removed and I who can tell what the judges are going to do but I think overall it's not a great case for removal. Donald Trump had tried in June to move his criminal prosecution in New York stemming from hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels to a federal court. A U.S. judge denied his bid last month. The legal experts Reuters spoke to say Trump's odds are quote definitely better this time. Because it is more plausible that let's say there's a closer nexus between you know making sure that the election was fair and being the president then there is between paying a porn star and being the president. But they also say he still doesn't necessarily have a winning claim. The facts are very clear they were trying to change the result of the election not maintain its integrity. Trump has called the indictment a political witch hunt in the social media post and accused prosecutor Forney Willis an elected Democrat of trying to sabotage his presidential comeback bid. The emergency management chief of Hawaii's Maui island resigned on Thursday. One day after he defended not using sirens during deadly wildfires earlier this month. Do you regret not sounding the silence I do not. Herman and day had been criticized by local residents and media for the island's response to the wildfires. Some have said more would have been saved if the sirens went off. However he told reporters Wednesday that the sirens would have been ineffective and confusing because they were chiefly used for tsunami warnings and would have possibly driven people away from the ocean and into the island's mountains where fires were burning. It all comes more than a week after the blaze killed more than a hundred people and hundreds of others remain unaccounted for. More than 2,000 buildings were also destroyed causing billions of dollars of damage. Andeya cited health reasons in submitting his resignation according to Maui county's statement. Maui county mayor Richard Bissen was also quoted as saying given the gravity of the crisis we are facing, my team and I will be placing someone in this key position as quickly as possible and I look forward to making that announcement soon. Meanwhile, Hawaii Attorney General Ann Lopez on Thursday issued a statement saying she will appoint a private third-party agency to investigate and review how state and county officials responded to the fires. We're like we can't have people here and I think that's how I felt too. We're like we can't have tourists here right now. We need to feed and take care of our own people. But no, we us are here in Kihei and Wailea and a lot of places in Kula, Makawao, Paaya, Haiku, those places are still running and all those people still have their bills to pay and their single parents and they have mortgages and they own businesses. This Kihei cafe is one of the most popular breakfast plays in this town. Usually it would be like lying, up on at least 10 to 11 people or even longer. But right now, if you look around, it's just empty. We were out for dinner and my wife went out to use the washroom and there was a person out there who was upset that tourists were still here and just wondering why we were still here and all of that. First they said no travel. Now they're saying, well, part of the island, it's okay, right? And tomorrow it'll be some other story. But I can tell you almost without an exception, all the little shop owners that we met in Muapu and Paaya and some of these other little towns, they're excited to see us. There's no one here. Our resort is empty. So if the goal was for the resorts to just open up the rooms for all the people that lost their homes, that's not happening. So what's the point of keeping tourists out? All 20,000 residents of the northern Canadian city of Yellowknife are leaving town after an evacuation order was declared as wildfires move closer. Canadian fire crews are battling the blaze as thick smoke blanketed the capital of the vast and sparsely populated Northwest Territories. The Territorial Fire Service said in a statement on Facebook, quote, very tough days ahead with two days of Northwest to West Northwest winds on Friday and Saturday, which would push fire towards Yellowknife. This is Canada's worst ever wildfire season with more than 1,000 active fires burning across the country. Experts say climate change has exacerbated the wildfire problem. The territories with a population of just 46,000 people have limited infrastructure and there is only one two-lane road out of Yellowknife to the province of Alberta to the south. The deadline for residents to leave is noon local time on Friday. The fire is currently about 10 miles northwest of the city and authorities say it could reach the outskirts by Saturday if there is no rain.