A major step toward democracy the Police Military reaches a firm deal with civilians that has put the country on a path to elections actually. 100 hard to take as most the police caution opposition rallies police say the gathering was illegal practices and says theyre fighting or failing to action. And im christine want to welcome to the program a popular tourist district in downtown hong kong has descended into scenes of chaos as Police Clashed with protesters crowds were repelled with tear gas after a few demonstrates has set a fire at the entrance of the Police Station the semi autonomous chinese city has seen several weeks of unrestricted by a controversial extradition role for sisters are now calling for wider democratic reforms and they blame the police for it escalating the vice. The protests that erupted in hong kong in june show no sign of abating in august there are no in the 9th weekend and violence seems to be escalating. We have to keep or theres no way we are going to bac
Knows well the chemistry of the dreamliner battery. Boeing chose the most powerful there is but also the most volatile they went to lithium. Which is why here is our danger look so stepped down to secure a plane president just before the fire he started a new company to make lithium ion batteries for business jets. Bugs i was a true believer in the technology. Then he began testing 23. 3 m. Series. Battery that. Went beyond even the latest industry guidelines going so far as to fire bullets into batteries to see if they could be made safe military applications. You know you could run the test that you feel that you need to meet the requirements to be safe but. You also need to have a conscience thats going to tell you i want to do the extreme. In the end testing with a conscience like so couldnt make the batteries meet the requirements is new company failed. We became professional and destroying batteries and am the more we learn about it the worse it got i mean with home i got him to
In siberia, an area the size of belgium is burning. The kremlin has sent in the army, by pedro pierluisi. Military planes doing what they can to extinguish the blaze. The fires are sparked by hot weather and dry thunderstorms. Theyre mainly in remote areas, the governor of the bank of england, but could the effects mark carney, has warned be more widespread . Theres concern that Carbon Emissions from here may be melting ice in the arctic and speeding up global warming. So black carbon is black, small particles, which falls down on ice and turns them from the white to black, so the ice cannot reflect sun radiation and sun starts to heat the ice in the arctic and it melts faster. And as if fire wasnt bad enough, there have been floods too. In this town, injune, a dam burst, following torrential rain, 23 people died. Now, the town has flooded again. From forest fires, to flooding, so far this has been a summer of hell for people in siberia. And its because of wild fires and the floods tha
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Russias arctic north and far east are being ravaged by huge wildfires, with up to four million hectares ablaze, and vast areas engulfed by smoke. The Prime Minister, dmitri medvedev, has ordered police to investigate whether the fires were started deliberately to hide evidence of illegal logging. Russian militaryjets are providing back up to firefighters battling the blazes, which have been burning in some cases for weeks. Fires are common at this time of year, but record breaking summer temperatures and strong winds have made this year particularly bad. Our moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled to the remote irkurtsk region of siberia, and he sent this report. For weeks now, siberia has been smouldering. Vast swathes of forest shrouded in smoke and many ravaged by fire. Wildfires are common here, but not on this scale. In siberia, an area the size of belgium is burning. The kremlin has sent in the army, military planes doing what they can to
Good morning, welcome to breakfast with tina dahely and Steph Mcgovern. Our headlines today thousands spend a second night out of their homes as efforts continue to prevent a dam from collapsing and flooding a derbyshire town. Prime minister borisjohnson visits those affected in Whaley Bridge and promises to make the area safe. Because this is a major problem. Because this is a major problemm that dam goes, you know the potential destruction that can wreak on the whole of the village below. Telecoms bosses question the governments ability to deliver the fastest possible broadband across the uk by 2025. The home secretary, priti patel, says she wants criminals to feel terror at the thought of committing an offence. A day to remember for rory burns. As he hits a first test century to give england the advantage, heading into day three of the first ashes test against australia. And breakfast enters the robot wars but can our machine overcome the heavyweight champion of the world . Some dri