the head of the catholic church, pope francis has urged people to pray for his predecessor, pope emeritus benedict, whose health has worsened. officials say his health has deteriorated overnight. benedict xvi, who is 95, left office in 2013 the first pope to resign in six centuries. now on bbc news what s killing our rivers. you see herons and dragonflies. you see lots of little shellfish in the shallow parts. sometimes you will see a salmon jumping out of the water. you start to realise that how many people don t have stuff like this, particularly in lockdown, when we were very grateful to have it. these school friends have made the most of a record breaking summer. like thousands of others. but there is something wrong with our rivers. a sad sight to see. it s absolutely devastating what we re finding out in the water, look at this. just look at it. this is algae. it s taking over our rivers and waterways. and when human and animal waste gets into a river not only is it
Tonight ettu franken, plus stephen welcomes ben affleck, greta gerwig and musical guest dead company featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen whooo how are you . Hey, everybody. applause . Stephen hey, everybody, how are you . Thank you. Please sit down, everybody. Welcome to the late show, im your host Stephen Colbert. Folks applause . Stephen every day it seems like we find out about another highprofile sexual harasser. And today is no exception. Brace yourself, because it is senator al franken. Hes been accused of kissing and groping a woman without her consent. Come on, franken i guess there are no good people left so lets just get it over with. Just tell us whatever you did, jimmy carter, barack obama, tom hanks, malala. laughter . Jon oh my. Stephen as a fellow comedian i long admired al franken but i got to say this does not bode well for louis c. K. s senate hopes. l
Tonight ettu franken, plus stephen welcomes ben affleck, greta gerwig and musical guest dead company featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen whooo how are you . Hey, everybody. applause . Stephen hey, everybody, how are you . Thank you. Please sit down, everybody. Welcome to the late show, im your host Stephen Colbert. Folks applause . Stephen every day it seems like we find out about another highprofile sexual harasser. And today is no exception. Brace yourself, because it is senator al franken. Hes been accused of kissing and groping a woman without her consent. Come on, franken i guess there are no good people left so lets just get it over with. Just tell us whatever you did, jimmy carter, barack obama, tom hanks, malala. laughter . Jon oh my. Stephen as a fellow comedian i long admired al franken but i got to say this does not bode well for louis c. K. s senate hopes. l
Sexual harassment this week. But astronomers, you know those guys who have been over doing this all time . Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown planet only 11 light years from earth that could possibly support human life. They call it ross 128b. Which sounds like a friends spinoff where david sha miller is divorced from rachel and forced to live alone in a sad apartment. But its not, its a plan tet. It might have water which would make it possible to sustain life. As far as they know, donald trump is not president there. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] anyway. Do you know nasa didnt even start looking for new planets until after donald trump was elected president . [ laughter ] so the plan, they have a plan to test whether this new planet is habitable. This is interesting. Theyre going to send Harvey Weinstein and kevin spacey up there. [ laughter ] just to check it out. Meanwhile, here on earth, the house passed the gopbacked tax plan today which is very good news for