Holiday monday on record. Coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news reflecting one of the great test innings, as ben stokes keeps england alive in the ashes. Good afternoon. World leaders gathered at the g7 summit in biarritz in the south of france, have agreed to release more than £16 million to help tackle huge fires in the amazon rainforest. The french president said most of the money would be used to fund aircraft to help put out the flames, with the rest providing technical support. Earlier, borisjohnson pledged £10 million to help restore lost habitat. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. The fires raging across the amazon, devastating thousands of acres of rainforest, prompting global outrage and now, potentially, global action. Borisjohnson and his team arrived at the summit to join other World Leaders to discuss what can be done. This morning the Prime Minister promised brazil £10 million to help reforest affected areas in the months to come. Order
And in half an hour, talking movies explores the role of the producer in both big hollywood productions and smaller independent films. A new plan to tackle huge wildfires in the amazon rainforest is expected to be agreed at the g7 summit of World Leaders today. The summits host, the french president , Emmanuel Macron says they are close to agreeing technical and financial help. Brazilian warplanes have already been dumping water on the burning woodland. And this morning, borisjohnson has pledged £10 Million Pounds in funding to help replace lost trees. Ros atkins is in biarritz now. Here on the final day of the g7 summit in south west france, two issues are taking centre stage. The fires in the amazon, something Emmanuel Macron, the host, could never have planned, and iran, something he did have a lot of influence over about bringing in the Iranian Foreign minister yesterday, surprising almost everyone here in biarritz. He put that issue ce ntresta g e biarritz. He put that issue cent
Good afternoon. World leaders gathered at the g7 summit in biarritz in the south of france, have agreed to release more than £16 million to help tackle huge fires in the amazon rainforest. The french president said most of the money would be used to fund aircraft to help put out the flames, which the rest providing technical support. Earlier, borisjohnson pledged £10 million to help restore the lost habitat. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. The fires raging across the amazon, devastating thousands of acres of rainforest, prompting global outrage and now, potentially, global action. Borisjohnson and his team arrived at the summit to join other World Leaders to discuss what can be done. This morning, the Prime Minister promised brazil £10 million to help reforest affected areas in the months to come. Order. Order boris, order around the table, some g7 leaders and others from around the world gathering to discuss common plan. The french president promising technical
The final countdown for ppi. The deadline is tomorrow. There are still believed to be thousands of people who havent claimed. Ill have the details. Yesterday we hit 33. 1; degrees at heathrow. And that is it for a wee while. It will be cooler, wetter and windier over the next few days. More inis windier over the next few days. More in 15 minutes. Its wednesday the 28th of august. Our top story. A woman who says she was a victim of the convicted us paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and was forced into a sexual encounter with the duke of york, has urged the prince to come clean about what he knows. Virginia Roberts Giuffre spok to reporters outsid a court in new york. It was after a hearing for alleged victims of epstein, who took his own life in prison earlier this month. Prince andrew has strenuously denied the claims made against him. Our north america correspondent Chris Buckler was in court. Jeffrey epsteins victims never had the chance to face him in court, but at a hearing in new york,
75, not just those for bbc licences for all those over 75, notjust those on low incomes. Todays hottest Bank Holiday Monday on record with temperatures set to continue to rise. In 30 minutes, click look at technology that is taking firefighting to a new level. President macron has said being made to arrange a meeting between. Mister macron said it was important to ease tensions in the gulf and Work Together to help to might prevent iran developing nuclear weapons. Iran is a country of tremendous potential. We are not looking for leadership change. We are not looking for that kind of change. This country has been through that many times before. That doesnt work. We are looking for no nuclear weapons, no ballistic muscles, and a longer period of time. Very simple. We can have it donein time. Very simple. We can have it done ina time. Very simple. We can have it done in a shorter period of time. And i really believe iran can be a great nation. I would like to see that happen. But they can