included employees of a private company involved in the maintenance and management of the bridge. now, bbc wales investigates: 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 with finding out here today. 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 bad for our health it is also full of nutrients like phosphate which act as a kind of super food for the algae. and as algae gets into the river, it strips the river
political mood. a week to until the us mid term elections, iam laura trevalyan in the battleground state of pennsylvania, reporting from scranton, the hometown of presidentjoe biden. we start with a special report from ukraine as russia has again targeted ukraine s energy infrastructure in a wave of missile strikes across the country including the capital kyiv where the mayor says four out of five people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles but it was able to shoot most of them down. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine from the frontline battlefields of the donbas to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s best troops are concentrated to try to stop the ukrainian offensive. his report contains some deeply distressing details. for ukrainians, this is a fight for national survival. the hardest test any nation can face. it upends every life. it has ended the lives of thous
company involved in the maintenance and management of the bridge. now on bbc news, the travel show. mind blowing. look at this. i have been to japan several times but never to explore the remote rural and volcanic south where you can expect the unexpected. the extroverts. risktakers. and the unpredictable. i want to see an aspect of japan where they enjoy the wilder side of life. japan. a country of 6000 islands, dominated by honshu, the home of their country s capital. but 500 kilometres south of tokyo is the kansai region they call the heart of japan. and a city with a very different history and personality. 0saka. this was japan s real first gateway to the rest of asia. korea and china, especially. it s a real trading hub, export, import, commerce and it was run and still is by businessmen and merchants. and it is those generations of wealthy traders who have shaped the city, creating its own unique culture. it has become a centre for food and developed as a home for popul
the current political mood. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with a special report from ukraine as russia has again targeted ukraine s energy infrastructure in a wave of missile strikes across the country including the capital kyiv where the mayor says four out of five people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles but it was able to shoot most of them down. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine from the front line battlefields of the donbas, to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s best troops are concentrated to try to stop the ukrainian offensive. his report contains some deeply distressing details. for ukrainians, this is a fight for national survival. the hardest test any nation can face. it upends every life. it has ended the lives of thousands. this is bakhmut, under heavy shelling. at the moment, the centre of the artillery wa
they said those arrested included employees of a private company involved in the maintenance and management of the bridge. now on bbc news, it s stephen sackur in north macedonia with hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur and today i m in skopje, north macedonia, a land subject to countless wars and conquests going back to the time of alexander the great. this young nation was, of course, a part of the former yugoslavia. now it s desperate to get into the european union, but progress is painfully slow. my guest today is prime minister dimitar kovacevski. now he knows that europe s attention right now is fully focused on the war in ukraine. but how real is the potential for new instability here in the balkans? prime minister dimitar kovacevski, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for coming to north macedonia, to skopje, and to the government. it is a great pleasure to be in skopje. but mr prime minister, it strikes me you have a problem. you in north macedoni