300,000 people are living in famine conditions with another 2 million on the brink of famine. so it is hard to imaginea famine. so it is hard to imagine a situation more desperate, more urgent, more compelling. twitter confirms that the world s richest man, elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. # well i was born a coalminer s daughter. a? # well i was born a coalminer s daughter. 33. # well i was born a coalminer s daughter- - - daughter. #. physicians advance daughter. #. physicians advance pay daughter. #. physicians advance pay tribute - daughter. #. physicians advance pay tribute to - daughter. #. physicians- advance pay tribute to country music staff loretta lynn who died at the age of 90. reaching for the sky. a man who spent 60 years building his spitfire by scratch can finally take off. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. the focus is on the city near kherson, in a region unlawfully a
secrets of a shipwreck. ooh, stale beer. he laughs is that you or me? definitely not me! and on the subject of smells. so this is the first ever bbc click perfume. this is not nice. right. let s go for a ride. they ve been a long time coming, but in the last few years we ve watched self driving cars get closer and closer. we ve just pulled out in front of quite a fast moving car there. we made it. i call that quite a human manoeuvre. not that it s always been a smooth ride, mind you. i m holding on tight. oh, that s quite weird. but whatever the experience, one thing has been constant. whenever we ve been in autonomous vehicles, we haven t been alone. there s always been someone with us to take over in the case of an emergency, as the ais behind the wheel rack up enough miles to convince us all that they are ready for the road. and now, finally, there s a driverless taxi service that s taking paying customers. it s in san francisco and when we say driverless, we mean there is
we don t take whole trees. you do. and how billions of pounds of our cash is funding this. logging naturalforests and converting them into pellets to be burned for electricity, that is absolutely insane. there s no other word for it. this is britain s biggest single source of electricity. the drax power station in yorkshire used to burn coal, but it s switched to burning wood pellets as part of the uk s drive to cut carbon emissions. and that means the company has received around £6 billion in green subsidies. there s just one problem. burning wood pellets actually gives out more greenhouse gases than coal. now, carbon dioxide is invisible to the human eye, so you can t actually see all of the carbon coming out of that chimney, but wood burning releases plenty of it, even more than coal. so we re actually paying for this power station to kick out more greenhouse gases than before. and drax is in line to get billions more from the taxpayer. actually coming out of those chimne
twitter confirms that the world s richest man, elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. australia announces plans to halt its extinction crisis to save more than 100 endangered species. # when i was born a coalminer s daughter. and musicians and fans pay tribute to the american country music star loretta lynn, who s died at the age of 90. it is one of the most severe humanitarian crises anywhere in the world right now. somalia is in the grip of the worst drought since the 1980 s. hundreds of thousands of people, many trapped by conflict, are facing extreme hunger and death. a full blown famine where households have no food, children suffer acute malnutrition and people die every day from starvation is likely within a matter of weeks, we are told. 0ur africa correspondent, andrew harding, reported on somalia s last famine in 2011, in which 250,000 people died. he sent this report from baidoa in the southwest of somalia, it s a city at the heart of the curre
more compelling. twitter confirms that the world s richest man, elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. # well, i was born a coalminer s daughter. #. and musicians and fans pay tribute to the american country music star loretta lynn, who s died at the age of 90. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with ukraine where the country s forces have retaken more territory from the russians in the south. the focus is near the city of kherson in one of the regions unlawfully annexed by russia last week. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenzky says his troops are making rapid and powerful advances against russian forces and dozens of settlements had been recaptured from the russian military in the south and east. over the weekend, ukraine retook the strategic eastern town of lyman, which the russians had been using as a logistics base. but both sides paid a heavy price for the fighting there. 0ur senior international correspondent,