she upset the dynamic of the hierarchy in the royal family just by existing . good afternoon. the united nations has launched an emergency appeal for almost £140 million, to help pakistan deal with devastating floods that have killed hundreds of people. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, says the country was facing a monsoon on steroids that s left millions homeless. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected, but mountainous regions in the north west have also been badly hit. our correspondent danjohnson has the very latest. so much of sindh province now lies under water after weeks of torrential monsoon rain. a third of the country has been affected, and so many people here have lost absolutely everything. translation: our houses - were destroyed by rain and floods. everything sank in water. we couldn t save our household, except for a few things. now we are sitting here in the open. translation: the rainwater came, our houses go
and the duchess of sussex tells a us magazine that just existing was enough to upset the dynamics of the royal hierarchy. and coming up: we ll hearfrom one gardener who s successfully grown the world s longest cucumber. it s a lot of fun growing a giant vegetable. you can compete notjust in the uk, you can compete around the world. it s incredible. the united nations has launched an emergency appeal to help pakistan deal with devastating floods. the country s prime minister has said the floods are the worst in the country s history. provinces in the south by the provinces in the south by the worst provinces in the south by the worst affected. but mountainous regions further north have also been badly hit. more than 1,000 people are known to have been killed as roads, homes and bridges were washed away across the country. and officials estimate more than 33 million pakistanis, that s one in seven people, have been affected by the flooding. we have two reports from pakistan. in
ukrainian forces in broken russian lines in a major offensive in the territory. that is only possible south of the country. because of the sophisticated weapons being supplied by the west. the two 16 year old boys have died after getting into difficulty ukrainian military said operations in a loch in county londonderry. had been launched in multiple locations in the south today. today, the ukrainian military said that russian positions, and munitions depots, equipment had been attacked. welcome to bbc news, very good to it is really hard to independently have your company stop. verify those claims, because it is difficult to get access to residents the united nations has launched an emergency appeal for almost £140 million living in kherson in occupied to help pakistan deal with the devastating floods. territory, but last night president the un secretary general, zelensky did not talk about what was antonio guterres, says the country happening in kherson, he said ukraine was
0n the us campaign trail, donald trump promises a great red wave, as his rivaljoe biden calls the president a conman. And coming up, after more than 200 days in hospital, the moment one patient is allowed home after being treated for coronavirus. Thank you is not enough. They save my life. Hello, good afternoon. Its emerged that the four migrants who died yesterday when their boat sank in the channel, were members of a kurdish iranian family. Their 15 month old boy is still missing. Theyve been named as Rasoul Iran Nejad and shiva mohammad panahi, who were both 35. Nine year old anita and armin, who was six, also drowned. 15 month old baby called artin has yet to be found. 15 other migrants were taken to hospital and an investigation into the sinking has been opened in dunkirk by the French Public prosecutor. Our correspondent simonjones has the latest from news correspondent. From dover. Yesterday, when we heard the news that four people had died trying to get across the channel, incl
Ido . France is to enter a Second National lockdown from friday people will only be allowed to leave home for essential work or medical reasons and applause for the coronavirus patient whos finally left hospital after 209 days as the number of covid i9 infections rises, there are new calls from scientists for more action to protect people and to prevent a much worse second wave. One expert has warned of at least five hundred deaths a day by the end of next month. The latest government figures show that in the last twenty four hours, 310 people are reported to have died with the disease, with an overall total of 45,675 deaths across the uk from coronavrius so far. Our Health Editor hugh pym has been looking at the figures across the uk. A hospital at the heart of one of the virus hotspots. Case numbers in the local derry city and Strabane Council area relative to the population were among the highest in the uk. Sandra is one of 20 seriously ill patients in this covid ward. She was admit