The headlines donald trump is visiting california with record wildfires still burning. He claims the fires are the result of poor forest management, not Climate Change. His election rival, joe biden, says the president s policies are contributing to natural disasters. Bill gates has told the bbc hes confident the United States will step up in the fight against coronavirus. He admits his country has made mistakes, but believes progress can still be made. He also dismissed conspiracy theories about a vaccine. An International Team of astronomers believe theyve found the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on the planet venus. Theyve detected traces of a gas in its atmosphere which is normally produced by living microbes. Theyve yet to find another explanation. But the temperature on the surface of venus is more than 400 degrees celsius. It is about liz30am. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Racial discrimination is americas wound that
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Im mike embley. As the us west coast continues to suffer devastating wildfires, the rivals for the white house clash over the cause. When you have dry leaves on the ground it sets it up. If you have an arsonist as president why is anyone surprised . The British Government gives initial approval to legislation that could override parts of the brexit withdrawal deal with the eu. Anger in lebanon against politicians, corruption, and poverty, brings people onto the streets. Lebanon is being eaten by poverty and in communities like this it is increasing attention, anger and fear, this it is increasing attention, angerand fear, in places where guns are never far away. And, life on venus . The extraordinary possibility contained in the clouds above the planet. President trump has been visiting americas west coast to be briefed by officials on the wildfires that have so far claimed more than 30 lives and bur
Wildfires continue to burn. He said the fires were the result of poor forest management, not climate change. But his election rival, joe biden, says its the president s policies that are contributing to natural disasters. Borisjohnsons controversial plan to override key elements of the brexit deal he signed with brussels has cleared its first commons hurdle despite deep misgivings by some senior tories. Mps voted to give the uk internal market bill a second reading by a majority of 77. The American Software giant, oracle, has confirmed it wants a Technology Partnership with the chinese owned video sharing app, tiktok. Time was running out for a deal after President Trump threatened to ban the popular app unless its american operations were sold. Thats all from me for now. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Racial discrimination is americas wound that will not heal. And in this president ial election year, with donald trump in the white house
Families alerted local authorities first they were missing. I it became apparent in a few days they went to National Security officials and went to the middle east likely trying to get to syria in the hopes of joining isis. And the fact remains, anderson that these families are frantic right now trying to figure out what actually happened to their children. So their exact location right now is not known. Reporter no and in fact Security Officials on the ground in turkey are trying to help canadian officials but as we just discussed, anderson there are many westerners right now that security authorities are trying to track, and its a huge problem. And the trail has, in fact gone cold. And once they step over to syria, it is very difficult to figure out exactly whats happened. You reported the canat canada started revoking passports. That did not happen here. Reporter we covered it for years and talked about in britain, whats different in the canadian cases . These families are alerting
Ed in the last four month, and the families were alerted that they were missing, and it is apparent that it was hand eded off to the National Security officials, and that they had gone overseas to the middle east likely trying to get to syria in the hopes of joining isis. The fact remains, anderson, that the families are frantic to find out what happened to the children. Their exact leication is not known . No, the officials on the ground in turkey are trying to help the families figure out what happened. But the fact is that there are many westerners that authorityies trying to track, and it is a huge problem, and the trail is cold. Once they step over into syria, it is very difficult to find out what happened to them. And you have reported that canada started to revoke passports passports in these cases, but that did not happen here. Yes, anderson you and i have been cover inging this for more than ten year, and we did it in britain, talking about the radicalization and what is diffe