North carolina. Here tonight headlines. Track and the urgent situation of dangerous storms, strong winds and excessive heat as thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. You details after helicopters collide with firefighters responding to a brush fire. Although this was a tragic death, we are also thankful today that it was not worse. Terms lawyers push back against prosecutors and their request to limit what the former president can say, arguing it is in effect asking the court to cr his political speech. Reporter Ukrainian Authority is her saying they have thwarted an Assassination Plot against president volodymyr zelenskyy. One woman has been detained, saying she was planning a russian air strike to hit a Southern Region of the country where the preident was said to be visiting. A new study found black men are more likely than white men to die of melanoma despite making up fewer cases. Its time we are aware that this is a Silent Killer and our community is. This is something you
the sheriff will testify monday. meantime, police in japan say, the man accused of assassinating shinzo abe had a stash of weapons in his home. a number of homemade pistols made out of pipe and adhesive tape. he had, also considered, using explosives. new details on what might have motivated the attack. and a scramble to save yosemite s ancient sequoias, as wildfires close in. i m standing right in front of the grizzly giant with a speaker system set up around it. i m pamela brown in washington. you are living the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the congressional investigation into the attack on the capitol and what could be a new start with this for the january 6th committee. steve bannon, former trusted advisor to donald trump now says, he will testify, and he wants to do so publicly.his offer comes as he faces trial next week on criminal contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena. bannon had argued he wasn t allowed to cooperate because trump
cost of living crisis. we hear from the charity helping families who are struggling to make ends meet. liverpool s frustrating start to the season continues as their new summer signing darwin nunez sees red before luis diaz rescues a point against crystal palace. good morning. a cooler day ahead today, the rain we have at the moment across southern and eastern scotland were clear, leaving righteous skies behind. dryerfor northern ireland but still the risk of heavy thundery downpours almost anywhere across england and wales. they will be hit and mist. i will have all the details later. it s tuesday 16th august. our main story. dame deborahjames raised millions for charity and was an inspiration to so many people living with bowel cancer. now her mum heather has spoken for the first time since her daughter s death, to our reporter graham satchell, about her final days with deborah and her long lasting legacy. dame deborahjames, surrounded by herfamily at her mum and dads h
rest of it. despite all the warnings i don t know whether people are taking this as seriously as they ought to. clearly organisations like network rail who are saying don t travel unless you have two on monday and tuesday, we have heard warnings throughout the day on bbc news channel, on the radio, and everywhere else, and from health experts explaining that this is as dangerous and we should take this red dollar as seriously as we do when we get a red alert about high winds or bad weather. i think it is going to be hard for people but we ve never had this temperature in this country. it is dangerous. we don t have the infrastructure to deal with it. you know, rhodes could melt, tarmac can melt, train tracks can buckle. it s going to be pretty difficult but it s only for a couple of days, but people do need to take it seriously. of days, but people do need to take it seriously- it seriously. that s a good point, when we see it seriously. that s a good point, when we see th
its abortion services. and how do countries adapt to climate change? we ll be looking at new zealand s plan to deal with the impact of global warming. welcome to bbc news. taiwan has scrambled fighter planes after chinese military aircraft entered its air defence zone. beijing is protesting against the visit by the us house speaker nancy pelosi, who vowed her country would never abandon the island, china has also begun manoeuvres around taiwan that are affecting air and shipping links. taiwan is self governing, and lies about 160 kilometres across the taiwan strait. it sees itself as independent, but china views it as its own. from taiwan, here s rupert wingfield hayes. despite what china has been saying, today s meeting between nancy pelosi and taiwan president ing wen didn t look terribly sinister. president tsai began by presenting ms pelosi with taiwan s highest civilian honour. she in turn praised taiwan s democracy and promised america would stand by the island. our sol