in the queue for the queen s lying in state. thousands continue to queue for hours to file past the coffin, with the line stretching for miles through the streets of london. i m mark lobel in westminster, where mourners have one day left to pay their respects to the queen. i ll speak to some of the tens of thousands already have. president biden is the latest world leader to arrive in the uk, ahead of the queen s state funeral on monday. in other news ukraine says more western weaponry is needed to beat russia, as bodies are recovered from a mass burial site, newly liberated, in northeastern ukraine. hello, welcome to the programme. the queen s eight grandchildren, including princes william and harry, have held a vigil at her lying in state in westminster hall. it s the first time in history that a monarch s grandchildren have performed such a ceremony, on their death. earlier, the king and the prince of wales met members of the public queueing to pay their respects to the
natalie pirks reporting. - time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. very dryjuly across much of england and way or is, it might be record breaking and further south in jersey, it has the driestjuly on record, the average, 45 millimetres of rain. so very dry. we will welcome rain across the uk in the next 2a, 48 hours, welcome rain across the uk in the next 24, 48 hours, courtesy of this area of low pressure, but not really where we need it. very much needed in the south. already, that rain marching into northern ireland, progressed into the western fringes of england and wales by the end of play. for many, it is still dry with plenty of sunshine. clearing the overnight cloud, the odd light shower in eastern areas and it is warm. it was a warm night and the south. chile in the north, that is about to change. but 26 locally, 27 in the south. but as that rain marches its way on a strengthening breeze eastwards overnight, heavy and appreciable rain for many as far s
in the uk and around the world. i m tadhg enright. we start here in the uk where a summer of strikes could get even worse in the winter as two of britain s largest trade unions have put forward motions to co ordinate future walkouts in an effort to cause maximum impact. this the latest move to build pressure on the government and companies as workers demand higher wages in the face of soaring inflation and the cost of living crisis. the summer has seen industrial action from railway workers, to dock workers through to criminal barristers. and there could be more to come as nurses and local government workers are set to make decisions in the coming weeks. joining me now is gervais williams, head of equities at premier miton investors. whenever we talk about such things, we often reference the winter of discontent from the 1970s when there were widespread strikes in the face of high inflation. could this match it? iithink i i think it s very serious, when we look at the cost of
and restoration of gloucester cathedral s cloisters, 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 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 floods. i am here in a valley, and this is a bridge which was collapsed by a flash flood two days ago, and since then, the village on the other side of the bridge is totally cut off from the rest of the community here. we have seen people waiting on this side with their belong