after a costumed character appeared to snub two little black girls. mother s response right here on cnn as the park called the incident a misunderstanding. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our earth matters series. half of humanity is in a climate danger zone. that is the message today from the very top of the united nations and the record temperatures many of you are feeling right now are just a symptom, multiple heat waves across the globe are creating a series of crises just look at this video from london. a row of houses on fire. officials say because of the heat. the london fire brigade says they have never seen weather related incidents, quote, on this scale before. in spain, in france, in italy, wildfires spreading rapidly. the flames on top of an extreme drought in italy, destroying crops, which could cut off a source of food this fall. in major cities, travel disrupted. trains and flights canceled over and over, due to the heat and causing a glob
in england and parts of wales, an amber warning for extreme heat has begun. the five remaining candidates for prime minister will battle it out in their second tv debate later. a cargo plane has crashed in northern greece killing all eight people on board. the uk chief of the defence staff speaks out about vladimir putin. and at golf s open rory mcilroy and viktor hovland share a lead at st andrews after the third round. ben brown taking over at 2, with more on all of those stories. right now on bbc news though the travel show. this week on the show. on board the world s biggest civilian hospital ship. where would you like to go, do you have any ideas? aruba. 0h, nice, aruba! i like that. greening up your trip while staying in the black. affordable travel is definitely green travel. and building a record breaker in the himalayas. when covid swept the world back in 2020, shutting borders and grounding flights, holiday makers weren t the only travellers to be stuck at hom
speaks out about vladimir putin. some of the comments that he is not well or that actually, surely, somebody is going to assassinate him or take him out, i think they are wishful thinking. and in golf rory mcilroy and viktor hovland share the lead at st andrews after the third round. hello, good afternoon. an amber warning for extreme heat has come into force for most of england and parts of wales, ahead of record temperatures forecast for the coming days. the alert will extend to southern scotland from tomorrow, when the warning in parts of england will rise to red. it comes with predictions of record temperatures of up to 41 celsius. our correspondent jon donnison reports. an amber heat warning for much of the country, so what better to do than limber up for a half marathon? runners in london s richmond park undeterred, with hydration the order of the day. stayed cool yesterday by drinking lots of water all day. we are wearing as little clothing today as possible. we ve g
all the while, exposing widening cracks in american democracy. plus can win your after the fall of kabul. how the taliban takeover has received daily life in afghanistan. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks so much for being with us. we begin in ukraine, with the two largest nuclear facilities in europe, pumping an outcry from world leaders. 42 countries, along with the european union, now calling on russia to immediately withdraw its troops from these nuclear power plants. it comes after days of repeated shelling around the facility, raising fears of a nuclear catastrophe. russia and ukraine have blamed each other for the attacks. to the south, ukraine says, an underground resistance movement blew up a railway bridge near the russian-held city of variable. ukrainian officials say, russian troops used the bridge to transport weapons and other climate from occupied crimea. meanwhile, a u.n.-charted ship carrying 23,000 tons of wheat