Wales. The wintry blast has hit victoria and wildlife has had to contend with the icy conditions. But there are fears that trees and power lines could collapse under its weight. Forecasters have said this is a one in a 15 year weather event. Australia is a land of extremes. Snow falls on its mountains every year, but the amount varies. Want to have a taste . No. The complex slope pressure system that brought this wintry spectacle is expected to ease. A world away up in the tropics, the temperature in the city of darwin on sunday will reach 3a celsius. Phil mercer, bbc news, sydney. Now its time for a look at the weather with ben. Hello. There are still a few to few days of august remaining but as far as the weather is concerned, it will feel like autumn has arrived early at times this week. More wind and rain to come, particularly around tuesday and wednesday, it will turn cooler later in the week as well. Some showers in the forecast later today and most will ease tonight although som
Patel hello this is bbc news the headlines. As more pupils prepare to return to the classroom englands chief medical officer says the risk to schoolchildren from coronavirus is low. Many more are likely to be harmed by not going than harmed by going, even during this pandemic. President trump declares californias wildfires a major disaster releasing federal funds to victims whove lost their homes. Opposition protesters in belarus hold a big demonstration in minsk 2 weeks after president lukashenkos disputed election victory. And Health Charities are urging the government to take action to tackle the increasing numbers of people seeking help for drinking too much alcohol during lockdown. Now on bbc news, its the travel show and rajan datar completes his journey down the longest river within the balkans the sava. Im on a voyage through the heart of the balkans, exploring the places that have grown up along the route of the river sava. Its a journey through four countries that just over 2
Certainly some poor travelling conditions. Not as windy further north but, with the heavy rain continuing, if youre in aberdeen, for example, with a strong wind off the north sea, those outbreaks of rain, temperatures of just 13 or m degrees, it will not feel too pleasant. 22 degrees down towards the south. All the while, though, the far north of scotland, the Northern Isles particularly, will stay dry with some sunshine. Now, through tuesday night, you can see this curl of wet weather. Here is our area of low pressure, still spinning its way through, still providing some pretty strong winds. Those winds only slowly easing through the early hours as our area of low pressure drifts out into the north sea. But you can still see plenty of white lines, plenty of isobars on the chart for wednesday morning. We will still have some very gusty conditions across eastern scotland, and particularly eastern coastal counties of england. Some rain as well. But from the west, things will be calming d
Ahmad nawaz, changed forever when his school was targeted by taliban gunmen. The attack left more than 130 children dead. Ahmad, then aged 1a, only survived by playing dead. The road to recovery has been long, but ahmads life is about to change again. Hes accepted a place to study at Oxford University. The bbc Asian Networks Shabnam Mahmood reports. That was a horrible day. I will never be able to forget the things that happened on that day. December 2014, over 130 children and their teachers died in an attack by the taliban on a school in peshawar in pakistan. My friends being killed, of course, in front of my eyes, and thats one of the pictures that i will never be able to forget. Ahmad nawaz, who also lost his younger brother in the massacre, was shot in the arm. It shattered the bone at that time, and i had to go through 11 surgeries. So severe were his injuries, he was flown to a birmingham hospital, which specialises in trauma surgery. I met him shortly after his operation. He ex
Your realtime captioner is mrs. Linda m. Macdonald everyone on the floor, on the floor now tsa targeted, a gunman shoots three security screeners at l. A. X. Killing one of them. The shootout with police, the chaos for travelers and clues into the shooters motive tonight. Hello, im denise koch. Im vic carter. Heres what people are talking about tonight. A man with an Assault Rifle opens fire at Airport Security in los angeles. Shooting three agents before being captured by police. Investigators say a note in his bag said kill tsa. We have complete coverage of the shooting. Kai jackson has images from the airport as passengers ran for cover but first to teri okita with the latest for wjz from san francisco. Reporter authorizes say 23 yearold paul ciancia sent a text message to his family that he was going to kill himself. That was before he allegedly carried a semiautomatic rifle into Los Angeles International airport friday morning and started shooting. Right when i heard the shots of