fiji, a country of more than 300 islands strung together in the pacific ocean. this is the economic and technology hub of the south pacific, and has one of the region s but in recent years, this island paradise, along with other countries in the pacific, have been battered by cyclones and extreme weather patterns, even as rising threaten to leave entire villages under water. and then came the pandemic. as borders closed and countries went into lockdown, fiji sought lucrative sea food and while its tourism sector all to map the way forward, pacific island leaders met face to face for the first time in almost three years in the capital of fiji tackled a regional approach to climate change, post pandemic economic recovery and as china expands its influence in the region, leaders will have to decide who will future of the welcome to surrounded by sea, it is no surprise that i have been talking to some fishing communities to find out the issues they are facing. 0n the journey to
of rain continues to push north and eastwards through scotland, into northern ireland for a time but rain returns later in the night an altar into wales and south west england. elsewhere, variable cloud, clear spells, no lower than 13 degrees. the rain is still with us, clearing tomorrow morning through northern ireland, centring behind it, pushing north and eastwards into scotland, easing in south west england for a while before moore put it in later in the afternoon. elsewhere, warm spells of sunshine, warm it in south west england and east anglia, temperatures up to 26 degrees. further showers or longer spells of rain in the forecast next week, and slowly temperatures easing down. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. nasa calls off its second attempt to launch its most powerful rocket, artemis 1, to the moon, five days after technical problems scuppered the first. we are going to stress this and test it and test that heat shield, and make sure it is right before we put
president who fled abroad afterjuly has returned to columbo. he d been staying abroad on a temporary. jane here with a full round out hill will be here with a full round up but now his our programme, britain s hong kongers. over 100,000 people from hong kong moved to the uk in the past year and more are arriving every day. probably one of the biggest migrations of our generation. they ve got a one way ticket to a new life thousands of miles from everything they know. we can t go back to hong kong right now, but i think ten years or 20 years we can. if she is still in hong kong, then i think she sjust going to be brainwashed. i think they deep down know that i won t come back to hong kong. many are cash rich and are buying homes outright in towns across britain. they re bringing over on average, six, 700, maybe 800,000 into the uk economy. but are the tensions they were hoping to escape now in the uk? this is my bloody face after being attacked by those chinese people. i m
and at how the pandemic has this cohort of 18 year olds. also on the programme. the killing of 87 year old thomas o halloran, who was stabbed on his mobility scooter in west london a man is arrested. another rail strike leaves only one in five trains running with widespread disruption for passengers. and divers say they struck gold off the isles of scilly when they found the us warship which sank during world war i. and coming up on the bbc news channel. south africa take a lead in the first test as engalnd desperately try to limit their advantage on day two at lord s. good afternoon. there s been delight but also disappointment on results day for hundreds of thousands of teenagers across england, wales and northern ireland who ve had their studies severely disrupted by the pandemic. almost 850,000 a levels were taken this year and the proportion of top grades fell compared with the last two years, although they are still higher than before the pandemic. these pupils w
continues across the continent. music. and finland s prime ministerfaces a backlash after a leaked video shows her dancing and singing at a party with celebrity friends. she says she did nothing illegal. we start with the war in ukraine. the leaders of ukraine, turkey and the un have been holding talks in the ukrainian city of lviv. one the agenda the situation at a nuclear power plant in the south of the country. it s here in the city of zaporizhia. and it s occupied by russian forces. kyiv has called for the plant to be demilitarised this is the ukrainian president. the nuclear security is a clear priority for everyone in the world, so russians should immediately and unconditionally withdraw its forces from the territory of the nuclear power plant, as well as stop any provocations and showings. it is unacceptable that russia is intentionally bringing us on the verge of a catastrophe in a global scale. the nuclear black man on the part of russia is a decisive argument