Holiday monday on record. Coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news reflecting one of the great test innings, as ben stokes keeps england alive in the ashes. Good afternoon. World leaders gathered at the g7 summit in biarritz in the south of france, have agreed to release more than £16 million to help tackle huge fires in the amazon rainforest. The french president said most of the money would be used to fund aircraft to help put out the flames, with the rest providing technical support. Earlier, borisjohnson pledged £10 million to help restore lost habitat. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. The fires raging across the amazon, devastating thousands of acres of rainforest, prompting global outrage and now, potentially, global action. Borisjohnson and his team arrived at the summit to join other World Leaders to discuss what can be done. This morning the Prime Minister promised brazil £10 million to help reforest affected areas in the months to come. Order
And in half an hour, talking movies explores the role of the producer in both big hollywood productions and smaller independent films. A new plan to tackle huge wildfires in the amazon rainforest is expected to be agreed at the g7 summit of World Leaders today. The summits host, the french president , Emmanuel Macron says they are close to agreeing technical and financial help. Brazilian warplanes have already been dumping water on the burning woodland. And this morning, borisjohnson has pledged £10 Million Pounds in funding to help replace lost trees. Ros atkins is in biarritz now. Here on the final day of the g7 summit in south west france, two issues are taking centre stage. The fires in the amazon, something Emmanuel Macron, the host, could never have planned, and iran, something he did have a lot of influence over about bringing in the Iranian Foreign minister yesterday, surprising almost everyone here in biarritz. He put that issue ce ntresta g e biarritz. He put that issue cent
To ensure the bill to block a no deal brexit goes through parliament. Hurricane dorian is expected to bring a deadly storm surge to the us east coast, after causing devastation and at least 20 deaths in the bahamas. The story of how Police Brought down the biggest human slave gang thats ever been caught in the uk. Coming up. Scientists start to chip away at the mystery of why one in ten people is left handed. And in sport not even a stray beach ball could stop steve smith, as he helps australia into a strong start at old trafford. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Boris johnson will speak directly to the public today, setting out what downing street is describing as the vital choice that faces our country. Thats after mrjohnson suffered his fourth defeat in as many votes in the commons as mps looked to set to keep him in office, but without his working majority. There were two votes last night. First up was the brexit delay bill, thats aimed at forcing the pm to ask for a
A no deal brexit goes through parliament. Away from politics Hurricane Dorian is expected to bring a deadly storm surge to the us east coast, after causing devastation and at least 20 deaths in the bahamas. The story of how Police Brought down the biggest human slave gang thats ever been caught in the uk. And coming up, scientists start to chip away at the mystery, of why one in 10 people is left handed. Boris johnson will speak directly to the public today, setting out what downing street is describing as the vital choice that faces our country. Thats after mrjohnson suffered his fourth defeat in as many votes in the commons as mps looked to set to keep him in office, but without his working majority. There were two votes last night. First up was the brexit delay bill thats aimed at forcing the pm to ask for an extension beyond the 31 october brexit deadline if a deal has not been agreed with the eu. Opposition mps and tory rebels ensured it passed by 327 votes to 299. Then, as if eve
Let me use my own words, but its not true to say that this has nothing to do with brexit. Well, if its not true, its a lie. Well, i will let people draw their own conclusions on that. Winds of up to 180mph are battering the bahamas, parts of it are already under water and some areas, you cannot tell the difference as to the beginning of the street versus where the ocean begins. And, as campaigners tell this programme protests will start again outside Primary Schools this term against the teaching of controversial relationship education, were going to replicate the lesson in the studio with this the book which is used to teach children about same sex relationships. Out came their very own baby who had fuzzy white feathers and funny black beak. Now they were fathers. We will call her tango, they decided, because it takes two to make a tango. They taught tango how to sing for them when she was hungry and they fed her food from their peaks, they fed her food from their peaks, they snuggled