General assembly gets underway in new york tension between the u. S. And iran is set to dominate. Mali it marks 60 years of independence a day after a former defense minister was appointed interim president by the military job plus. When we receive lets say a dollar only 0. 25 maximum is what were able to use it by inflation aid agencies helping flood victims in sudan say their work is being hampered by an economic crisis. The anger on the colombian in the colombian capital as a march against Police Brutality turns violent. The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is accel raising globally but fewer people who get. Dying a 2nd look at the global picture focusing on the 5 countries that have seen the most deaths from the virus the u. K. Is 5th in the world more than 41000 people have died but its curve is going the wrong way the u. K. s Health Minister says that hospital admissions are doubling every 8 days across the atlantic nearly 200000 americans have d
Atalanta are third after their fifth win of the season. They beat lecce 3 1. It was a comfortable victory for the hosts, with goals from duvan zapata, Alejandro Gomes and robin gosens. That win leaves them just two points behind second placed inter. Well, lets take a look at some of the other results in italys top division today. Both bologna and lazio had a man sent off in their two all draw. Ciro immobile with both lazios goals. And fiorentina got their third win in a row, after a poor start to the season with victory over udinese. Barcelona closed the gap on la liga leaders real madrid to two points, after an easy win over sevilla on sunday evening. Barca, whove lost two games already this season went in 3 0 at half time at the camp nou. Luis suarez scoring an overhead kick, to get them off in style. Arturo vidal and Ousmane Dembele effectively made the game safe after 45 minutes. Lionel messi got their fourth with just over ten mins to go. Barca were reduced to nine men late in the
Correspondent in washington. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. A pop up shop is charging would be social Media Influencers £10 an hour to take their selfies against a variety of backgrounds. Would you pay money to take a selfie in a pink ball pit . Has selfie culture spiralled out of control . Let us know, just bbcthebriefing. World leaders at the g7 summit are expected to agree new plans to help countries tackling forest fires in the amazon. President macron of france said they were close to a deal providing technical and financial help. Brazilian military plane have been dumping water on the burning areas after global concern that not enough was being done to tackle the fires. From biarritz, heres our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. The fires raging across the amazon in recent weeks have been devastating, not just in recent weeks have been devastating, notjust fo
Hello. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. Also in the programme the British Council says brexit is causing poorer children to fall behind in learning foreign languages. So wed like to hear from you on this. How important is it to learn another language . Are brits lazier because we can get by . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Members of the European Parliament are due to select a president for the Assembly Later today. Theyll also consider whether to approve the appointment of the German Defence minister, ursula von der leyen, as president of the blocs powerful executive arm. Eu heads of government selected her to succeed jean claude juncker, ignoring the parliaments own candidate. Adam fleming reports from strasbourg. The Brexit Party Meps dont want to be here, and they didnt want to hear this. Music ode to joy. Its unlikely theyll get into trouble, and it sounds like theres more to come
Decades in power but he is resisting calls to go well bring you the latest from our correspondent in herat it also coming up. The plot thickens in the recent middle east drama as lebanese Prime Minister saad hariri says he will return to beirut by mid week today he was in paris for talks with the french president in mataram across all just two weeks after suddenly announcing his resignation in saudi arabia. I my a twitter thank you for joining us. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have been rallying in this a mob way in capital harare to demand the resignation of president Robert Mugabe the protest is backed by the veterans of zimbabwes independence war and influential groups who have traditionally supported the president and now even mugabes own zanu p. F. Party has called for him to step down mugabe is said to be asking for more time to leave the presidency but many zimbabweans have had enough. People power in the center of. Mcgarvie must go very these demonstrations chant its more