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time in fifteen years. a record 10,000 runners are taking part in this year s london marathon, expected to be the largest ever. you re watching bbc news. bike notice time for a special investigation. now it s time for cocaine: flooding europe. the coke is everywhere. europe is battling a cocaine crisis, and one port in belgium is on the front line. everybody knows in europe that this is the port to do something. antwerp is now the main gateway to the continent. customs are intercepting record amounts. they found this, also cocaine. but international gangs are going to new depths to get their drugs through, even steering submarines packed with cocaine across the atlantic to spain. we discover how cocaine users are finding it easier than ever to feed their habit. it s actually faster than food delivery. authorities across the continent face an almighty struggle. we ll never win this battle. go, go, go, go, go, go, go. we re at the port of antwerp, in belgium. this place is said
hello. after the abundance of blue skies many saw through the week, the weekend is already looking different. a lot more cloud out there. there will be some rain at times, not for everyone. one or two spots will stay dry. but the general trend, especially later this weekend, is for colder air to arrive. now, at the moment, we ve got two main rain bearing clumps of cloud, one to the south, mainly to the southwest. and this one here, which across southern scotland, northern ireland, far north of england, continues to produce rain through the afternoon. turning a bit lighter and patchier, never quite reaching some of the central belt. and here northwards, plenty of sunshine for most, a bit of cloud lingering around the murray firth and sutherland. warmest again, 16 degrees out towards the west of scotland. but the winds will be picking up, some rain in wales, the south west later, but central eastern parts of england, a brighter and milder day than yesterday. now, this evening a
hello and welcome. italy has become the first european country to order covid tests for visitors from china, after concern at the rapid rise in chinese infections. earlier, taiwan said it would introduce a similar scheme. japan and india have already ordered travellers from china to be monitored. the us could follow. there s concern travellers could bring new variants of the disease now that beijing is lifting travel restrictions. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, reports. from the world s most populous nation, alarming scenes. china s hospitals are overwhelmed, covid infections soaring. the country s abrupt decision to dismantle much of its strict covid regime apparently yielding terrifying results. wards full of desperately ill people. outside this hospital in chengdu, a queue for emergency services. government officials say the situation is under control. that s not what these pictures suggest. at the dongjiao funeral home, one of the city s biggest, more evidence
for eye watering energy bills but says the detail won t be announced until next month by the new british prime minister. us intelligence officials are to assess the security risks donald trump s home in florida. and restoration of gloucester cathedral cloister, known to many around the world as hogwarts. hello and welcome to bbc news. more than 1,000 people are now thought to have died from disastrous monsoon rains in pakistan. the national disaster management authority says 119 people have died in the last 2a hours alone most of them in the provinces of sindh and khyber pakhtunkhwa. a government minister says her country is unable to cope with the unprecedented flooding and that the disaster is a consequence of climate change. millions of people have been affected and many have been forced to abandon their homes. 0ur correspondent farhat javed has reached one village where people are waiting for help. this monsoon, pakistan is facing unprecedented rains and flash flood