at least eight people have died. the south korean president has called an emergerncy meeting now on bbc news, take me to the opera. i ve been an opera fan for decades and i want to share my passion with you, so i m on a mission to find out how opera is making itself fit for the future. i ve come to munich to meet one of my all time opera heroes, the german tenor jonas kaufmann, who s widely viewed as the world s leading opera singer. he s a charismatic person, performer. his way of communicating, his intelligence that one hears whenever he is singing, isjust unique. and that makes him really very special. but the pressures of staying at the top are immense. the highs and lows of life as an operatic celebrity from one of the people who knows him best. to get to the top is not so difficult, but to stay there, this is really a hard one. are the sacrifices worth it? the moment it all falls into. place and you are at a position that you ve hardly ever dreamt| of is so much of a pa
climate critical report. after dominating womens tennis for a quarter of a century, 23 time grand slam champion, serena williams suggests she s planning to retire. hello, thank you forjoining us. senior republicans in the us have condemned the fbi s unprecedented search of donald trump s florida home, on monday, as an abuse of power. the former vice president mike pence called for the us attorney general to give a full public account of why it happened, saying it caused him deep concern. the former president, who was not at mar a lago at the time, said a number of agents had occupied the compound and broken into his safe. the white house says president biden learned about the search from media reports. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports from washington. cars beeping their horns. save america! the trump bandwagon is fuelled by conspiracy, and news of the search brought supporters to his florida resort even more convinced of their theories of stolen election
23 time grand slam champion, serena williams suggests she s planning to retire. us animal protection workers, carry out the largest ever masss dog rescue freeing around 4,000 beagles from a drug experiment lab, in virginia. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. senior republicans in the us have condemned the fbi s unprecedented search of donald trump s florida home on monday as an abuse of power. the former vice president mike pence called for the us attorney general to give a full public account of why it happened, saying it caused him deep concern. the former president, who was not at mar a lago at the time, said a number of agents had occupied the compound and broken into his safe. the white house says president biden learned about the search from media reports. 0ur north america correspondent john sudworth reports from washington. cars beeping their horns. save america! the trump bandwagon is fuelled by conspiracy, and news of the search brought
submerging homes and roads, in the capital seoul. at least eight people have died. the south korean president has called an emergency meeting now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isn t driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my guest today has a prominent voice in that debate. shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. it s great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it s described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the
235i23 facing a threat of flash flooding. flooding is also a big problem in st. louis, missouri. there have been multiple rescues of people trapped in their homes. and new video out of las vegas overnight, take a look. water pouring into some of the casinos. over an inch of rain fell there, saturating the vegas strip. i want to get right to derrek vn d dam. what is happening in kentucky, there are water under way. and there is a dam that is under a concern. yes, a flooding event that took place in st. louis and now looking likely that we have another one in 1,000 year event that has taken place across eastern kentucky. thanks to the ongoing rain that is falling as we speak, right now national weather service continuing with flood watches, flood warnings and even flash flood warnings near the border of kentucky and west virginia as some of the heaviest rains move through the area swelling the rivers and also overflowing some of the local roadways there, submerging homes as w