across the region. they re venting their anger over soaring fuel and fertilizer costs, low prices for their produce, and increasingly restrictive eu regulations. demonstrations by farmers are planned in poland, hungary and italy today. italy s government has promised tax breaks to ease hardship for farmers after hundreds began gathering with their tractors this week, on motorways outside rome and turin. this was the scene on thursday. and in cyprus, farmers blocked the entrance to the european union s offices in nicosia, on thursday. there were also demonstrations in bulgaria. and more tractor protests across spain for the third day in a row, with farmers disrupting traffic in barcelona, and in smaller cities all over the country. they say eu rules to protect the environment make them less competitive. they have also had to compete with imports from ukraine after brussels waived duties and quotas after the russian invasion. this and renewed eu talks on a south america trade d
as the candidates to be the uk s next prime minister prepare to go head to head. welcome to the programme. we start with the extreme heat across europe. it s facing its worst drought in a long time. we ll look at that in a moment. but first the high temperatures are also causing big wildfires. let s go to france. there s a huge wildfire near bordeaux, in the south western region of gironde. this is what it looks like at night. thousands of hectares have been burnt. 10,000 people have been forced to evacuate the area, and several homes are destroyed. it s spreading so fast because it s so dry. this is the scene in the day. you can see a plane dropping chemicals used to slow the fire down. more than a thousand fire fighters are there trying to control it. let s hear from one of them. translation: for l the moment, the fire is progressing in every direction. if i may say, the wind is not steady for the moment. it will rise in the course of the day. we are told that the wind will
unable to off load patiently much out of ambulances. a meeting in downing st with energy bosses, but it provides no solution yet for households struggling with soaring bills. the police watchdog says forces in england and wales are failing victims of bulgaries, robberies and theft with too few suspects being charged. go! the crisis of local swimming pools, the bbc finds more than 60 have closed across the uk in the past three years. good evening and welcome to bbc news. an amber extreme heat warning has come into force in some parts of the uk to last four days, as temperatures are forecast to hit 37 degrees celsius in some areas. although temperatures are unlikely to reach last month s 40 degree high, this heatwave is much more prolonged and some temperatures could get close to local or regional records. there s concern about wildfires, pressure on water supplies, and transport problems. it s also expected that a drought will be officially declared tomorrow. sarah campbell re
the us state department has called for a demiliterized zone to be set up around the station in zaporizhia. tonight with the context, the republican strategist rina shah and the writer and broadcaster chris morris. hello, welcome to the programme. it is three days since fbi agents executed a search warrant on the florida home of donald trump. there are reports today the feds removed 11 boxes of documents, on top of the 15 boxes they took away in december. there are also reports within the us media today that the raid on mar a lago was based largely on information from an fbi source. someone from within who was able to identify what classified documents the former president was hiding and where they would find them. so unprecented was that search that some within thejustice department have been calling for the attorney general to give an explanation. and in the last hour, merrick garland called an unscheduled press conference to announce he will make the warrant public. the dep
president biden: yes. you are? president biden: that s a commitment we made. it s a commitment we made. here is the situation. we agree with one china policy. we signed onto it and all the attendant agreements made from there. but the idea that it could be taken by force, just taken by force is just not appropriate. dana: jacqui heinrich is reporting live. those comments stole the show away from the economic message the president wanted to deliver and the white house is constantly finding themselves in this position and the president saying this on asian soil makes it different this time, jacqui. no kidding. very significant, dana. the white house is claiming that the president did not announce a policy shift but everything that we witnessed shows that it was. it was a clear break from strategic ambiguity for years has supported helping taiwan defend itself but september very vague about whether the u.s. military would come to its aid if china attacked. the question