into the past. newly discovered footage of mardi gras the oldest moving images of new orleans. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. joe biden used a visit to a former coal plant in massachusetts to issue the latest stark warning on the threat posed by climate change. the us president is using executive powers to usher in measures, including offshore wind farms and expanded flood control. more on that in a moment. meanwhile, wildfires are still raging in europe. in south west france, president macron has been to see the devastation caused by a blaze that forced almost 40,000 people from their homes. 0ur correspondent lucy williamson was there and sent this report. fire chiefs are too cautious to talk about a turning point, but the fire here has stabilised enough for president macron to visit teste de buch today to congratulate the crews. translation: we know the - weaknesses in the management of this forest. we have to make it grow again, but with d
is awareness of a complaint that may have been, or an allegation that may have been made, and something that trips the wire, if you like, meets the threshold for formal disciplinary action. a man is arrested by police in the us state of illinois after six people were shot dead at an independence day parade. 50,000 people have been put on evacuation alert as floods hit sydney for the third time this year. a bbc investigation has found that children as young as 11 have been housed in temporary accommodation as record numbers are placed into care. and england beat india by seven wickets on the final day of the fifth test at edgbaston. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson s decision to appoint chris pincher as deputy chief whip is facing further scrutiny after a former top civil servant said the prime minister was briefed in person about an investigation into the mp s conduct when he was a foreign office minister. downing street s account of what happened ha
weeks at heathrow the uk s busiest airport. the biggest ever london pride is more thani million revellersjoin in the festivities, the first in three years. welcome if you are watching in the uk or around the world. heavy fighting has been continuing around the eastern ukrainian city in the eastern donbas region. it s the only remaining city in the area not under russian control. these pictures from russian control. these pictures from russian state news agency show fighting near the city. elsewhere, russia is continuing its missile strikes. in the south, ukraine s military says mykolaiv has been hit by ten missiles targetting the port and other industrial infrastructure. it s not yet clear if there are any casualities. the ukrainian authorities have accused moscow of hitting civilian targets in an effort to force them into making territorial concessions. meanwhile, two more britons captured by russian forces in ukraine have been charged with being mercenaries, according to
to separate conjoined twins with shared fused brains. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden says an american drone strike has killed the al-qaeda leader, ayman al zawahiri. he said the operation, which he authorised, took place in the afghan capital kabul on saturday. mr biden said ayman al zawahiri was had been deeply involved in the september the 11th attacks as well as earlier attacks on us embassiesin africa and the uss cole in the late nineties. zawahiri, who succeeded osama bin laden as al-qaeda chief, was on the fbi s most wanted terrorist list. this is what president biden announced a short time ago. my fellow americans, on saturday at my direction, the united states successfully concluded an airstrike in kabul, afghanistan, that killed the emir of al-qaeda, ayman al zawahiri. ayman al zawahiri was bin laden s leader, he was with him all the whole time, he was his number two man and deputy at the time of the terrorist attack on
political thinking helps to shape ours. once again, london and brussels are at loggerheads. once again come row between the uk and the eu is about the status of northern ireland. once again, politics in belfast is deadlocked, with unionists refusing to share power with sinn fein. my guess is someone whose life and career is based on your refusal to take sides in the political battle to stop it is a decision that has paid dividends for naomi long, who leads the alliance party, which won a record number of seats in the recent elections. brought up in one of the most fiercely loyal as parts of east belfast, she insisted that politics should not be defined by whether you want northern ireland to stay in the uk ought instead to be united with the rest of ireland. but does she and her party really represent anything more than simply none of the above? naomi long, from belfast, welcome to political thinking. hi there. do you everfind welcome to political thinking. hi there. do you e