What we had today, not quite so mild but at least sunnier in the south west. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Tribute page of the first victim to be named in the London Bridge attack cambridge studentjack merritt visioning a prisoner rehabilitation conference which is attacker had been invited. Police have commended the bravery shown by members of the public, including convicted criminals who over powered the knifeman. It is emerge the attacker had been released on licence for his involvement in planning terror attacks. In other news, millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2. 7 more for rail tickets in the new year. And in sport, england will face croatia in their opening game for euro 2020, on now in bbc news, witness history comes in the Royal Academy in london. As part of the bbcs crossing divide season we had two perspectives on the 1917 nine reunion hostage crisis. 1979 iranian hostage crisis. Hello and welcome to witness history, as we present. Coming up, the
Country millions of you wrote. Hello there good morning this is International Live from our wooldridge queue here in moscow its just an 8 am this thursday 7 of my name is kevin stay with me for this headline round up 1st the u. S. Democrats have failed as you heard to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret republican senator rand paul block the proposal accusing the democrats of spreading selective outrage the spot comes in the heat of the trump impeachment inquiry that was sparked by anonymous testimony from an insider 1st. Reports on the fate of whistleblowers in america recently. For the democrats impeachment must now seem tantalizingly close all they need is the final piece of damning evidence to seal the deal and to Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer he has come out arguing for the protection of whistleblowers only rather of one Intelligence Officer whose insider info could make or break the impeachment dream the calls to make public the whistleblowers
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Hello again welcome back to in a National Weather forecast what we are dealing with a new round of rain here across parts of china and in central areas we are looking at very heavy rain causing problems in terms of water rescues here in greenland take a look at the most current video coming in out of the area you can see the water has been rising rescuers have it out getting people out of the homes as well as businesses but unfortunately waters going to take a little while to go down so this is going to be an ongoing problem if you take a look at the forecast map we are going to be seeing some scattered showers across much of the area over the next you days and with saturated soil already in flooded areas that means any more rain in the area is going to be causing a big problem here as we go towards tuesday more of the same for the region and we are going to be looking at most of the conditions seeing partly cloudy to mostly cloudy conditions with the rain continuing i want to take you