Brazils president has bowed to International Pressure and ordered the armed forces to tackle a Record Number of wildfires raging in the amazon forest. Tens of thousands of British Airways passengers could be affected, as pilots are to strike next month, in a dispute over pay. Its not looking good for englands hopes of regaining the ashes in the third test at headingley. And click looks at trailblazing technology thats taking firefighting to a new level. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. The European Council president , donald tusk, has warned that the eu will not co operate with borisjohnson on a no deal brexit. Speaking in biarritz, where the g7 summit is being held, mr tusk said this weekend may be the last chance to restore unity among the worlds main industrial nations. Leaders of most of the Worlds Largest economies make up the g7, the uk, canada, france, germany, italy, japan and the us all take part in the summit. One by one, they have been touching down at biarritz airpo
Johnson would not like to go down in history as mr no deal. Brazils president has bowed to International Pressure and ordered the armed forces to tackle a Record Number of wildfires raging in the amazon forest. Tens of thousands of British Airways passengers could be affected as pilots are to strike next month, in a dispute over pay. Its not looking good for englands hopes of regaining the ashes in the third test at headingley. The women using facebook to name and shame the men who have abused them. Thats in the Victoria Derbyshire review in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon. Prince andrew has defended his formerfriendship with Jeffrey Epstein, saying at no stage did he see or suspect any criminal behaviour. Epstein took his own life in a jail cell this month while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. In a statement, the duke of york said he wanted to clarify the facts around his former association or friendship with the us financier. A little earlier, i asked our ro
Started world war 2 and we have live pictures that were looking at right now in a violent poland of the when there were terrorists every morning getting underway. Maybe we were still the losses the whole not a whole the world just to go up if i mean she. Thought she should be going to shut all the. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Show us. The best and like us. Youre looking at live pictures now coming to us from below in poland the 1st city that was attacked by nazi germany 80 years ago marking the beginning of world war 2 this is a special 80 Year Anniversary commemoration ceremony underway right now we will hear from both the polish president. And the german president. Really significant moment seeing these 2 leaders standing side by side when 80 years ago these 2 countries started a war really we have in our studio with us emmanuel shahs our Political Correspondent while we are watching this. Lets talk about the time that has passed this is all now taking place against the backdrop
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Zeinab badawi speaks to the icelandic danish artist Olafur Eliasson at the tate modern in london. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi, from tate modern in london. Where my guest has a major exhibition. He is the Award Winning icelandic danish artist Olafur Eliasson. He believes that artist can change the world by, for instance, attempting to tackle Climate Change. This is one of his exhibits, a giant wall made of moss, and the idea is to get people thinking differently about the environment. For instance, could our buildings from the future be made from more Sustainable Materials . Is this kind of thinking visionary, or just simply far fetched . This kind of thinking visionary, or just simply far fetched . Olafur eliasson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You had a fairly unorthodox ringing. Your parents were extremely young when they had you, your mother 20, your father young when they had you, your mother 20, yourfather i9. Young when they had yo
Would be something, very interesting in my mind at least, and some thing predictable. But i learned it is a very wide subjects. I wont cover all of it by any means. I have learned a lot. I hope you will profit as well. Living in new york, im very fortunate to be living close to the museum of modern art and also to the whitney. I take full advantage and so to my students. I think art can be a really profitable way to teach history, and i would be curious, how many of you use art or artistry in your history classes . A good number of you. And i would say in what ways, briefly come of do you use art . I dont know if we can get the microphone just for a couple. I teach english like which arts and i use art to establish Historical Context or two help show multiple perspectives on an issue. Prof. Friedman perfect. History and i do what i call quick pic vocab, where it , so it is not professional art by any means, but yeah. I teach history also and i use it to show cultural changes, to give s