the bay of bengal in recent years. in bangladesh hundreds of thousands of people were forced to take shelter. now on bbc news, europe s royals revealed. washington dc is the heart of the free world. let s go now to capitol hill. i m katty kay, and in more than 20 years spent here in the news business, i ve grown accustomed to thinking of this as the centre of power. decisions that reverberate around the globe are made here by politicians who proudly champion democracy: the rule of the people, by the people. we are here to assess the real meaning of the results in hundreds of races. but it s not the only way, or necessarily the best. a recent poll shows that of the 15 most successful democracies, 9 are monarchies. the founding fathers rejected a king, but many europeans feel a royal family is an asset. i am leaving washington on a royal mission, as the uk has a new king, charles iii. i want to find out how other royal families, many of them king charles relations, manage to
the lowest incomes. a manchester city masterclass. they dominate real madrid to reach the champions league final in their pursuit for a remarkable treble. good morning. a cloudier start to the day to day that we will see sunny spells developing. a few showers across southern, eastern and central england. another front bringing rain across western scotland and northern ireland later. all the details throughout this morning s programme. it s thursday, the 18th of may. water companies in england have made an unprecedented apology for failing to do enough to stop sewage from flowing into rivers and seas. water uk says it will invest £10 billion over the next decade to put things right, promising the biggest modernisation of sewers since the victorian era. our environment correspondent, jonah fisher, reports. for years, campaigners have complained about the amount of sewage that flows into our waterways, and that profit has been put before the health of our rivers and beaches.
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