during today s event, the former president echoed the point he made back in 2012, that presidents are renters at the white house, and that their time there is temporary. i ve always described the presidency as ays relay race, y take the baton from someone, you run your leg as hard and as well as you can, and then you hand it off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle theit runners in thatth race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer toy its highest aspirations. now the reason this event was heldth today and not during trump s term in office, the reason it hasp been a decade since we ve seen one of these unveilings is because for the first time in u.s. history, the incumbent president refused to honor his predecessor with this rite of passage. trump never scheduled the ceremony and given the content, it might have been awkward for trump given his intention of not leaving t
the world will stop warming. we ll bring you all the latest on the impact of the heatwave. our other main story this lunchtime: five will become four the latest round in the battle to become the next prime minister takes place later today. commentator: and it s a fifth title! unbelievable! and a record fifth women s 100 metre world title for jamaica s shelly ann fraser pryce, but there s disapointment for gb s dina asher smith, who finishes fourth. and coming up on the bbc news channel, after winning the first two one day internationals, england s women take on south africa, looking for a clean sweep in the third and final odi in leicester. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the uk s first ever red warning for extreme heat has come into effect, meaning there s a danger to life and the threat of major travel disruption. the red alert covers much of england from london and the south east up to york and manchester. parts of england could be hotter than the we
The Labour Run Council is struggling to pay off a huge bill for equal pay claims that dates back more than a decade. It has also had major issues with a new it system. Our Midlands Correspondent navteonhal is there. The first thing to say is that the city council here has not stopped functioning, it has a legal duty to provide Certain Services and they will continue, but this is a signal to government ofjust how dire the financial situation is here, and admission that the council here cannot pay its bills. The people i have spoken to around birmingham say they are worried about what the future may hold. But for those who have been watching the saga closely, in some ways today has felt inevitable. The pressure on this citys finances has been rising and rising, and europes biggest local authority is now in big trouble. The news that their council is, in effect, declaring itself bankrupt has left many People Living in birmingham shocked and angry. Oh my god, ive never heard of such a thin
Not have been so many consequences after that kiss. News coming in that jorge vilda has been fired. So much pressure on lewis row be our lawyers, who has insisted he will not resign despite all that pressure from fifa, from the team, internationally piling up. Of course the team coach had stayed in place, but that news just filtering in that he has been fired in at the aftermath of this. Our correspondent guy hedgecoe is there. We dont know a great deal of detail about the sacking ofjorge vilda, other than the stand and president of the Spanish Football Federation at the moment while Luis Rubiales are suspended by fifa, that he told the coach that he no longer held the post. This is something i think many people had been expecting for a while, especially since the Luis Rubiales scandal blew up a few days ago. He was seen as a very close ally of Luis Rubiales. Jorge vilda also has had quite a tumultuous relationship at times with spains womens Football Team. Around a year ago there was