7,000 extra hospital beds this winter including in pop up sites the nhs in england unveils its plans to cope with expected pressures. and the shortlist is announced for hosting next year s eurovision song contest seven uk cities are in the running. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news channel. a drought has been declared across more than half of england, after the driestjuly on record in some areas of the country. it means water companies can impose stricter measures over how we use water at home and at work. a drought is defined by a lack of water due to extreme weather that has been built up over time. the four stages are normal, prolonged dry weather, drought and severe drought. eight areas have been moved to the third stage, including devon and cornwall, solent and south downs, kent and south london, herts and north london. as well as east anglia, thames, lincolnshire and northamptonshire, east midlands. in the wake of low rainfall and high temperatures, water c
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populous and 40% of its voters are african-american. our lunch conversation with four undecided democrats included discussion of their debate expectations. you ve got 20 democrats in your city this week trying to make their case. anybody have a firm candidate yet? not at all. no. it s too early. too early. you re all planning to vote in the democratic primary? yes. absolutely. you say you don t have a firm candidate yet. who has impressed you? it doesn t have to be one, it can be two, three, four, and what are you looking for? right now i believe my top contender, if i could pick one, would be elizabeth warren. i think she s an incredible woman who really speaks to the issues that i m passionate about. kamala harris surprisingly is someone that i m also looking at. i wasn t quite sure just based on her history as a prosecutor, but the more that i ve listened to her as a candidate, i think that she s a bold woman. i think that she commands the debate stage so she s s
where her meeting is taking place? reporter: yes. she arrived along with the over 27 european heads of state last night. they re meeting this morning. t she ll be excluded from a lunch conversation in an hour or so s time because she s not going to be part of the decisions about what approach the europeans take when it comes to brexit. blind brexit refers to this idea that in six months time, the uk has to leave the european union, no matter what. and as part of that decision to leave, they re going to include a kind of promise between the two sides about what their future relationship will look like. what may end up happening in the months ahead, before that deadline, is both sides agree on a quite vague set of circumstances whereby they can decide how they will trade in the future. that blind brexit will mean come the end of march, once the uk s out of the european union, then we ll get a totally fresh set of negotiations. no one entirely clear what the political wording ahead of