In our news wrap Sunday, Cyclone Mocha made landfall over Myanmar and lashed refugee camps in Bangladesh, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy made stops in Berlin and Paris to meet with German Chancellor Scholz and French President Macron, and Homeland Security reported that illegal crossings at the Mexican border were halved since Title 42 ended midnight Thursday.
News Wrap: Tropical Cyclone Mocha batters Myanmar coast
World
May 14, 2023 05:45 PM EDT
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John Yang:
Elsewhere, tropical cyclone Mocha made landfall over Myanmar today battering the coast with heavy rain and winds up to 130 miles an hour. The storm lashed the sprawling Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, but the country was spared a direct hit. So far, officials report three casualties all in Myanmar to the east.
In recent days, hundreds of thousands of people in Myanmar and Bangladesh will move to safer areas and sturdier structures.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has diplomatic tour of European allies took them to Berlin today. He told reporters there that the goal of a plan counteroffensive is to drive Russian forces out of Ukrainian territory they occupy not to attack Russia.
He spoke at a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and disputed a report that said leaked U.S. intelligence documents suggested he considered trying to capture Russian territory as bargaining chips in peace talks.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President (through translator):
We do not attack Russian territory. We liberate our lawful land. We are not interested in this. We don`t have time for this. We don`t have powers for this.
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John Yang:
Zelenskyy also already arrived at his next stop Paris for talks with French president Emmanuel Macron.
And Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said today, the number of people crossing the Mexico border illegally was cut in half since the pandemic era immigration policy known as Title 42 ended at midnight Thursday.
Mayorkas said Border Patrol agents encountered more than 10,000 people entering the country illegally in the days leading up to Title 42 is expiration. But on Friday, there were just over 6, 000 and just over 4000 on Saturday.
Illegal border crossings remain higher than in previous months and remain well above the lows (ph) during the pandemic.
Still to come on "PBS News Weekend," the celestial events thrilling space scientist and enthusiast, and the story of the first Indian American astronaut who gave her life exploring space.
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