09/17/18

Hello, I'm Rose Merrick with the BBC news. The strongest typhoon so far this year is battering the northern Philippines with violent winds and torrential rains.

Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall on the country's mainland Luzon early on Saturday, blowing down trees, ripping off roofs, and knocking out electricity supplies.

BBC news. The authorities in Hokkaido in northern Japan say power has been restored to most customers today after a powerful earthquake struck the island.

But the authority has called on the customers to save power on Monday when usage rises, or it may be necessary to impose rolling blackouts.

British and French fishermen have failed to finalize an agreement to end dispute which led to skirmishes of northern France. The basis of a deal was reached at negotiations in London Wednesday

when British scallop fishermen agreed not to fish in the Baie de Seine while French boats were banned from the area to conserve stocks. But follow-up talks could not agree how much financial compensation the British should receive.

A British paramedic says he believes a Russian exile he treated 5 years ago was poisoned by 2 men from Moscow he met in the western city of Bristol. Nikolai Glushkov, announced book in critic of President Putin, was found apparently strangled at his home in London in March this year. Here's Sarry Cumble.

In 2013 a few months after the death of his friend, a fellow exile Boris Berezovsky, Mr. Glushkov shared a bottle of champagne with 2 Russians he met at a hotel in Bristol.

According to a paramedic Keith Carr, who was called to treat him in the following morning, he'd work not with carpet burns on his face and felt unsteady.

Mr. Car said Mr. Glushkov had an abnormal heart with them, and thought him been poisoned. Police confirmed the incident was investigated at the time, and no charges were brought.