good evening. there are warnings of further disruption for air travellers this summer with more flights expected to be cancelled in the next few days including at heathrow, britain s busiest airport. it s thought airlines will change their summer schedules, with the aim of giving passengers more certainty and less need for last minute cancellations. paul charles is a travel industry consultant with the pc agency. he says this year s passengers will face a disappointing summer over the next eight weeks. i m afraid this is going to be a summer of stress after two years where many of us have been unable to travel due to covid lockdowns, notjust in the uk but in many parts of the world. what you re going to see over the next few days are thousands of flight cancellations by british airways and others because they have a window in which they can effectively hand back the slots that they use for taking off and landing at airports like heathrow. and with this window, it means ther
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. ukraine says its forces are enduring intense russian shelling in the eastern city of lysycha nsk, but denies claims that they are surrounded. russia has also fired more missiles at cities in the north and south. lysychansk is the last ukrainian held city in luhansk, which is part of the industrial donbas region. these pictures from russia s state owned domestic news agency, ria, show drone images of battles near the city. but kyiv denies the claims that russian backed fighters have encircled the city. elsewhere, russia is continuing its missile strikes. in the south, ukraine s military says mykolaiv has been hit by ten missiles targetting the port and other industrial infrastructure. it s not yet clear if there are any casualities. the ukrainian authorities have accused moscow of hitting civilian targets in an effort to force them into making territorial concessions. meanwhile, two more britons captured by russian
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. temperatures are soaring across continental europe with wildfires burning in parts of france, spain and portugal. strong winds and tinder dry conditions are fuelling the flames. more than 300 people are known now to have died in spain and portugal due to the high temperatures. to have died in spain and portugal and it comes as a national emergency has been declared in the uk after a red extreme heat warning was issued for the first time, as temperatures could hit a0 degrees celsius. mark lobel has our first report. it s still sweltering in south western europe where wildfires have come sooner, more intense, frequent and longer lasting. 900 firefighters are still cycling around ten fires across portugal, one firefighter killed plane crashed as he was putting out flames in this region. it hit a july record reaching 47 celsius on thursday before dropping slightly on friday. translation: this got | a bit worse th
to resign and flee the country. and an unprecedented win ireland make history with their first ever series win in new zealand. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. temperatures are soaring across continental europe with wildfires burning in parts of france, spain and portugal. strong winds and tinder dry conditions are fuelling the flames. more than 300 people are known now to have died in spain and portugal due to the high temperatures. more than 12,000 people have been evacuated so far in france s gironde region as fires continue to burn out of control. in southern spain, near the costa del sol, about 2,300 people had to flee a wildfire spreading in the mijas hills. and it comes as a national emergency has been declared in the uk after a red extreme heat warning was issued for the first time , as temperatures could hit a0 degrees celsius. mark lobel has our first report. it s still sweltering in south western europe where wildfires have come
and h totally get that. but in another blow to the prime minister, the conservative party chairman resigned straight after the by election results saying someone must take responsibilty. the labour leader sir keir starmer says the tories are imploding . with the prime minister out of the country in rwanda, we ll be asking if this is a moment of political peril for borisjohnson. also this lunchtime: ukrainain troops ordered to retreat from the key eastern city of severodonetsk. figures just out show another big rise in the number of covid infections in the uk 1.7 million people had the virus last week. and welcome back to worthy farm after three years, it s the long awaited return of glastonbury. coming up on the bbc news channel can emma raducanu repeat her us open championship exploits at wimbledon? she ll face belgian alison van uytvanck in the first round. hello, good afternoon. borisjohnson says he will keep going as prime minister, despite the double blow of l