philadelphia leaders are asking everyone for patients as they work through the traffic nightmare there crediting divine intervention that the situation is not a mass casualty event. right now both lanes of i-95 are closed in northeast philadelphia as crews work at the side of the bridge collapsed, it s the truck carrying gasoline that caught fire under thedg happening before 630 this morning causing the northbound overpass to collapse. now about 10 miles of i-95 north and southbound lane are closed. officials warning other streets near the bridge could also be closed as cleanup continues. i-95 is one of the country s oldest and most travel routes firefighters arriving to the scenes this morning by portions of northbound lanes reduced to rubble, pennsylvania governor josh schapiro saying one vehicle is trapped as of this evening and crews are trying to identify if anyone was caught in that vehicle and in the fire in the collapse, the city public transit leaders are asking em
hello and welcome to the bbc s headquarters here in central london for another edition of unspun world. this week, what s it like for a journalist to be treated like an enemy in moscow? as relations deteriorate between russia and the uk and russia and the west, and just when you think they can t get any worse, they get worse. you know, that makes it difficult. the civil war in myanmar, something the outside world seems completely unaware of. it really is a david and goliath war here, when you re seeing drones versus russianjets. so if they do win, it will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid i9 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now- who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny- the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility- that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could
at least 59 people, including a baby, are reported to have died after a boat carrying migrants sank in rough seas off the southern italian mainland. dozens of bodies were found on a beach near a seaside resort in the calabria region, with others found in the waters nearby. these pictures from the italian coastguard were filmed in darkness, early on sunday morning and you can see the wreckage of the boat. one local official has suggested as many as 150 people had been onboard. rescuers are still searching for survivors, after the vessel reportedly broke apart near the coastal town of crotone. the coastguard says 80 people are known to have survived but a large search and rescue effort continues on land and at sea. the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyenm urges eu asylum reform after italy migrant deaths. richard galpin reports. this is all that remains of the wooden boat in which so many people died last night as they tried to reach the southern coas
hello and welcome. the president of the european commission ursula von der leyen will meet prime minister rishi sunak in london tomorrow. earlier we learned that an announcement of a new deal between the uk and eu on the post brexit trading arrangement for northern ireland is imminent. ione wells is here now. we have a statement between ursula von der leyen and rishi sunak where they are agreeing to continue their work and they are crucially meeting tomorrow. what does that tell us? that s right. essentially, this statement which was issued jointly by the european commission and number ten here in the uk says that the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen and the prime minister agreed to continue their work in person towards shared practical solutions for what they describe as a range of complex challenges around the protocol and ireland and northern ireland. they are going to meet in the uk tomorrow. this is very significant that ursula von der leyen wil
government and , blood grown in a laboratory has been given to people , in a world first clinical trial. the un secretary general antonio guterres has told a major climate conference that humanity has a choice: co operate or perish. over 120 world leaders are attending cop27 in egypt. we ve got lots of clips to play you. first this warning from mr guterres. the clock is ticking. we are in the fight of our lives and we are losing. greenhouse gas emissions keep growing. global temperatures keep growing. global temperatures keep rising. and our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will meet climate chaos irreversible. we are in a highway to claimant tell. with our foot still on the accelerator. with our foot still on the accelerator. cop is an annual event where governments meet to agree steps to limit global temperature rises. many of the world leaders here are from developing countries demanding greater accountability from the richest, most polluting nations. abs