good morning. high pressure is firmly in charge of our weather so things are fairly settled. sunny spells, just a few showers, warm it tomorrow and an increased chance of rain for friday. all the details later in the programme. it s tuesday the 30th of august. the united nations will lead a global appeal today to help pakistan cope with the devastating floods which have left a third of the country under water and killed more than 1,100 people. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected but mountainous regions in the north west have also been badly hit. the crisis is not over yet as heavy rain continues and water surges down the indus river. our reporter sean dilley has the latest details. in some parts of pakistan, it s been relentless. more than 33 million people have been affected by flooding in the country s heaviest rain for more than a decade. this year s monsoon season has claimed well over 1,100 lives since june. more than 3,500 kilo
and dubbed the next david attenborough, a conservationist kid meets one of his biggest heros. hello and welcome to bbc news. teachers are calling for more children in england to be urgently given free school meals in order to support families struggling with the cost of living. they say the programme should be expanded to include all families who receive universal credit. in a letter to ministers, uniions are warning that more than two and a half million children live in households that miss meals or struggle to access healthy food and insist now is the right moment to act. alice key reports. lunch is served at this half term holiday club in stockport. staff here are responsible for keeping 20 children a day fed and entertained. but as rising prices start to hit parents pockets, there are fears that without more support, children could go hungry. we know that a lot of the families who come here are living in food poverty. and have certainly been impacted since the cost o
more of his own mps call for him to resign. russia insists what it calls the liberation of eastern ukraine s donbas region is its unconditional priority , as eu leaders try to agree a ban on russian oil. the french government has blamed what it called industrial scale ticket fraud for the chaos at this weekend s champions league final. at this weekend s it comes after french ministers held emergency talks this morning with police and european football officials. there s been widespread condemnation of the tactics of french police, who used tear gas and pepper spray on thousands of liverpool fans as they queued for hours to get into the stadium in paris. our sports correspondent nesta mcgregor reports. pandemonium in paris. fall back! some of the images which marked the biggest night in european club football. french police using tear gas and pepper spray as liverpool fans waited to enter the stadium. even with a 35 minute delay to kick off, there were plenty of empty
and in ukraine, russian forces advance on the centre of the key city of severa donetsk in the eastern donbas. good evening and welcome to bbc news. breaking welcome to bbc news. news on our top story toda with breaking news on our top story today with the problems at the football over the weekend. we are just hearing in the last couple of moments that you aare launching an independent report, commissioning and independent report into what happened. let s look at the events of saturday night. the french government has blamed what it called industrial scale ticket fraud, for the chaos at this weekend s champions league final in paris. french ministers held emergency talks earlier today with police, and french and european football officials, as the row continued about what happened at the match. there s been widespread condemnation of the tactics of the police, who used tear gas and pepper spray on thousands of liverpool fans as they queued for hours to get into the stadium.
charging fewer suspects. what would you say to the police? please, get off your arse and help people in need. i m in need of help. i need some help. gunfire can ukraine s troops hold back the russian advance in the east? we report from a front line town. a new measure of the price of basic ingredients shows essential food prices rising in one case by up to 50% in a year. and, as stonehenge is lit with pictures of the queen for herjubilee, we look at the image of britishness the queen projects around the world. and coming up on the bbc news channel, it s official chelsea s £4.25 billion sale to the consortium led by la dodgers part owner todd boehly has been completed. hello, good evening. european football s governing body uefa has tonight announced an independent investigation into what went on at the champions league final in paris at the weekend. the french government, after emergency talks earlier today with police and football officials, blamed industrial scale ti