don t. and that is the stark reality that were facing at the moment. in a ceremony at the vatican further cementing his influence on who will eventually succeed him. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. aid agencies say the flooding in pakistan is one of the worst disasters in the country s history. nearly a thousand people have died and hundreds of thousands have seen homes and livelihoods destroyed by the flood waters. southern pakistan has been hardest hit by the rains particularly sindh province. it has received nearly eight times its average rainfall for august. rivers have also burst their banks in the north west khyber pa ktunkwa province. our correspondent pumza fihlani reports from sindh. swathes reports from sindh. of land across pakistan had been swathes of land across pakistan had been turned into islands. the rains have been unforgiving and the water is still trapped between the peoples homes. homes, roads and infrastructure hav
bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political commentatorjo phillips and the political editor of the sunday people and the sunday mirror, nigel nelson. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the observer leads on reaction to comments by borisjohnson that he s planning for a third term, with senior conservatives apparently calling him delusional . according to the telegraph, the prime minister is planning to impose sweeping new steel tariffs as he tries to win back support in red wall seats, but the paper says he could be accused of breaking international law. the sunday mirror reports on a high court verdict that government plans to house asylum seekers were unlawful. the sunday times has further allegations about prince charles by the paper s investigations team. crackdown on militant unions is the lead for the express, with suggestions that the prime minister is being urged by the attorney general not to give an inch to striking rail staff. so, let s begin. we are goin
good evening and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has insisted that questions over his leadership have been settled and that he will lead the conservative party into the next general election. his comments follow the tories defeat in two by elections this week. speaking to the bbc from rwanda, where he s attending a commonwealth meeting, he said people were heartily sick of questions about his conduct and that a psychological transformation of his character would not happen. earlier, i spoke to lucy fisher, who s chief political commentator at times radio. she told me she thinks mrjohnson is trying to distance himself from the byelection results. in the immediate wake of these two rather disastrous by election defeats, we had the prime minister try and link the discontent of tory voters or voters in those seats to the cost of living crisis. this weekend, he has moved the narrative on slightly, almost suggesting it s his mps, possibly the media, at part to blame with what he
norway cancels this year s oslo pride parade, after a deadly shooting at a gay nightclub, which police are treating as an act of islamist terrorism . and sir paul mccartney the star of glastonbury on stage in front of a massive crowd. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. watching in the uk in a breakthrough for president putin, russian forces have taken control of severodonetsk. the city occupies a key location in the east of ukraine. kyiv pulled out forces after ferocious russian attacks. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins. here s the mayor of severodonetsk announcing that the city had fallen into russian hands. the city has been fully occupied by the russian federation. as far as i know, they re trying to impose their rules and appoint some sort of commandant two is in charge. our ukraine correspondent joe inwood has the latest from the capital kyiv it isa it is a significant moment, maybe not as surprising when given