hello this is bbc news. the headlines. union leaders say that talks trying to prevent rail strikes next week have failed and the walk outs will go ahead. passengers across the country will be affected. i think there are so many sectors of our society at the minute and people who are struggling and we need to help each other where we can. theyjust want more money and yeah, they can hold the country to ransom. tens of thousands of people have marched in central london calling on the government to do more to help tackle the cost of living crisis. the government is to trial a scheme allowing asylum seekers who cross the channel in small boats to be electronically tagged. police in brazil confirm a body found in the remote amazon rainforest is the missing british journalist dom phillips. now on bbc news it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m isaac fanin tigers on top again leicester are premiership kings after late drama at twickenham. day three of the
police chief is defending his actions as questions continue to mount over his department s response to the deadly school shooting. a new saudi-backed golf league is luring some big-name golfers with some reportedly getting nine-figure payouts. what s behind the saudi strategy, and how the pga is responding. and dangerous heat is gripping part of the country. 60 million of you are under heat alerts. when we re going to start to see some relief from the triple-digit temperatures. newsroom starts right now. wish you a good morning. we are grateful to have you with us on this saturday, june 11th. happy weekend to you. i m christi paul. great to be with you, i m boris sanchez. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with a national call for gun reform. hundreds of march for our lives rallies are planned in nearly all 50 states today with activists demanding lawmakers address the epidemic of gun violence in this country. a series of high-profile mass shooti
railways. we start with the war in ukraine, and russia is denying that its invasion has caused a global food crisis, despite the fact that we ve seen soaring wheat prices driven by the collapse of ukrainian exports. its foreign minister, sergey lavrov, is in the turkish capital, ankara, for talks with his turkish counterpart mevlut cavusoglu. on the agenda creating a potential sea corridor for ukrainian agricultural exports. throughout the war, russia has been blockading black sea ports, including odesa. 20 million tonnes of grain is now stuck there grain many countries are reliant on. but mr lavrov says the onus is on ukraine to demine the waters around them, which were laid by ukraine as part of its defence. here s mr lavrov. to resolve this problem, we need one thing for the ukrainians to allow access to their ports, either by demining or the provision of safe corridors. nothing more is required. ukraine wants proper assurances that any safe, demined pathway wouldn t
time for a look at the weather. here s susan powell. loveit love it or hate it we finally seeing some proper rain across england and wales this morning and further showers pushing across the uk. here is the satellite picture with this area of cloud bringing the more persistent rain and showers dotted about across scotland, northern ireland and the north of england. a wet afternoon to come but getting brighter behind that system. fresher than yesterday thanks to the presence of the rain. in the sunshine it should still be quite a pleasant afternoon and into the evening eastern areas join pleasant afternoon and into the evening eastern areasjoin in pleasant afternoon and into the evening eastern areas join in with that brighter weather. overnight the wind is quite light with plenty of fine weather. rural areas may be sliding down into single figures. we start thursday with high pressure to the south of the uk. quite a westerly breeze established between these weather systems in