Ten killed in New Orleans as a truck drives into crowds in the French Quarter. Also, the flow of gas from Russia to Europe stops as Ukraine refuses to renew a transit deal and trains are 200 years old this year.
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I'm Danny Clarkson at 14 hours GMT on the 1st of January 2025.
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10 people have died and 35 injured after a pickup truck drives into a crowd in the US City of New Orleans.
The flow of Russian gas into the European Union through Ukraine has stopped after President Zelensky refused to renew transit contracts.
South Korean investig investigators have finished extracting data from one of the black boxes of the Jeju Air passenger plane that crashed on Sunday, killing 179 people.
Also in this podcast, Belgium becomes the first European Union country to ban sales of disposable vapes, while Milan bans all outdoor smoking.
Promoting healthy lifestyle habits, accustoming people to respect themselves, others and the environment are important commitments for all of us as we record this broadcast at lunchtime on New year's day.
The US city of New Orleans has reported that 10 people have been killed and more than 30 injured after a pickup truck drove into crowds celebrating New Year.
It occurred on a popular nightlife strip in the French Quarter.
The New Orleans Police Department said the attacker was hell bent on creating the carnage and the damage that it did and it's now working alongside the FBI.
Speaking at a press conference, Superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick of the New Orleans Police Department confirmed the incident was not an accident.
This event started at about 3:15.
It did involve a man driving a pickup truck down Bourbon street at a very fast pace and it was very intentional behavior.
This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could.
It was not a DUI situation.
This is more complex and more serious based on the information we have right now.
What I also can tell you is that this man, this perpetrator, he fired on our officers from his vehicle when he crashed his vehicle.
Two of our officers have been shot.