so coming up very shortly, we will have that briefing from the pentagon, live here on bbc news. we will be hearing from a number of officials, including mark milley, the general. and secretary lloyd austin, as well. there is at the officials we will be hearing from but i think now we can stay with us pictures, we can go back to that as and when the briefing starts, that we can now talk about the extreme heat around europe. we have been talking about the extreme heat and temperatures across the world, and the heatwave that is continuing across southern europe. several cities in italy are on the red list, places like rome and sardinia have passed a0 celsius. we can now cross live to martinjones, who is in lazio, he is a british citizen who has lived in italy for the past five years. how hot is it where you are? the past five years. how hot is it where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. so where you are? rig
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we ll be live in north london. potter under pressure: the chelsea boss responds to critics, as his side travel to borussia dortmund in the champions league. and we ll have the latest on this week s women s internationals as scotland lose their opening game of the pinatar cup. hello and welcome along plenty to get through over the next half an hour. we start with football and the premier league s top two go head to head at the emirates stadium, as arsenal host manchester city in under an hours time. pep guardiola s side can move top on goal difference with a victory, joe lynskey previews the action. arsenal and manchester city are two clubs on each other s tail. the top two in the top flight. last summer, to city players left for arsenal and are key to their resurgence. because arteta is in his fourth year at arsenal after three years himself with city. 50 arsenal after three years himself with ci . ., ., ., ., with city. 50 animated almost mirror imaaes with city. 50 ani
Marlene engelhorn has sent out invitations to ten thousand members of the public. fifty will be chosen to help work out how more than twenty one million dollars should be redistributed. ms engelhorn is a descendant of the founder of the german chemical company, basf, and inherited millions when her grandmother died. she has previously called for the wealthy to pay more tax. our europe correspondent bethany bell is following the story from vienna. she is choosing 50 people in austria to participate in what she calls meetings that will ta ke take place at weekends between march and june this year. they will have to come up with ideas as to what she should do with this money, how it should do with this money, how it should be read distributed. she says that it s not fair that she should ve ended up with this money, she did earn it, she merely struck lucky and being born into a wealthy family. and she wants them to come
Docks in dorset. let s ta ke take you to the pentagon where we are waiting for officials to start a briefing on that us soldiers across the borderfrom briefing on that us soldiers across the border from south briefing on that us soldiers across the borderfrom south korea to north korea. we will keep the pictures on the screen as we bring you news of the screen as we bring you news of the heatwave around europe, we will keep an eye on when that is going to start. we are expecting some point officials to talk about that soldier who crossed the border between south and north korea. it was an unauthorised crossing and there are still a lot of unauthorised questions to answer about why that soldier crossed there are still a lot of questions to answer about why that soldier across, seemingly voluntarily, to north korea and what his fate is. of course, it needs no saying there are huge tensions between north korea and the countries around the region. this is a very, very sensitive issue an