did play a part in the suicide of british teenager molly russell. burkina faso s army captain ousts the country s military leader and dissolves the government in the second takeover in eight months. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has warned russia that it will not get away with seizing its neighbour s land by force after vladimir putin announced the annexation of four occupied it s the biggest seizure of territory in europe since the second world war. in a signing ceremony at the kremlin, mr putin declared that donetsk, luhansk, zaporizhzhia and kherson are now part of russia. in response, ukraine has formally applied to join nato. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. vladimir vladimirovich putin. what he was about to do had sparked international condemnation, but vladimir putin didn t care. in the kremlin, he announced the annexation of 15% of ukrainian land. in the audience, kremlin appointed officials from those territo
florida as well as tens of thousands of electric crews from all over the country. we do not have a complete picture of fatalities or injuries across florida as of yet. one death has officially been reported so far. we expect to hear more from authorities soon. almost 3 million people are still without power. it weakened to a tropical storm ian but back to a hurricane this afternoon as it heads for south carolina. the mayor of charleston, south carolina, is asking his city to shut down tomorrow. correspondent steve harrigan kicks off our coverage, charlotte county florida with the latest. good evening. good evening, bret. help is pouring into florida from across the country but still in pockets like this one it is largely neighbor helping neighbor. after going across florida s peninsula, hurricane ian north and along it led to coast. the numbers are staggering. more than 2.6 million floridians without electricity. rainfall totals approaching 2 feet in some places. heavy wind
when i ijust went home for dinner after a long day of broadcasting and in my neighbourhood, there s branches and stuff everywhere, debris everywhere, so it didn t hit us as hard as florida but certainly, it did hit us pretty hard. i was just going to say how does it compare to what happened in florida? well, fortunately for us, it went over florida it hit southwest florida with 150 mile per hour winds it hit us with 85 mile per hour winds, but there were gusts even higher than that, so. and what is interesting is, lucy, the actual centre the eye of the storm passed about 40 50 miles to our north in a place called georgetown, south carolina, and we re south of there. but even though the centre went to our north, we got the brunt of the storm as the eyewall, those real strong bands of thunderstorms with high winds and heavy rain, actually went right through the charleston area, so it has been quite a day. and it s thought that the flooding in florida and other areas could conti
at the nation s high court before the justices convene for their next term beginning on monday. jackson, appointed by president biden, was sworn in injuly and has already been participating fully in the court s activities. the rail network across britain is being brought to a virtual standstill because of strikes by tens of thousands of workers in a long running dispute about pay, jobs and conditions. rail industry bosses say working practices need to be updated. people travelling to football matches, the london marathon and the conservative party conference in birmingham this weekend will all be affected. hurricane ian has made landfall in the us state of south carolina as a category i storm after pummelling florida on wednesday. this is the historic coastal city of charleston, which has been lashed by winds and heavy rain. hundreds of kilometres of the south eastern seaboard of the us are under severe weather alerts. earlier, the hurricane caused
widespread devastation in florida, where search and rescue efforts are still under way. officials believe at least 21 people may have died but it may be days before the full number of casualties is known. rob fowler, chief meteorologist at wcbd tv in south carolina, updated us on the situation in south carolina. a lot quieter than 2a hours ago. about 2a hours ago, we were watching what was hurricane ian kinda coming up the coast on the atlantic ocean, heading our way. we had some rain and things really ramped up overnight and through the early morning hours as we saw the rain and the winds really pick up, and i would say probably by ten o clock our time am all the way until about two o clock in the afternoon, it was, as we say, rocking and rolling. we had very, very strong winds. we had a wind gust of 92 mph on folly beach, which is one of our barrier islands we re right on the atlantic ocean and a lot of wind gusts right into the 60s and 70 mile per hour range, so it has been