welcome to bbc news. i m david eades. our top stories: wildfires tear through european countries france now the worst affected, with 30,000 people forced from their homes. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there is a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky just look at the haze in the trees. sentencing begins for the parkland school gunman, who killed 17 people, in 2018. ajury in florida will decide if it s the death penalty or a life sentence. a chinese filmmaker appears in court in malawi, charged with child exploitation, following an investigation by the bbc, and here in the uk, it s whittled down to four in the race to replace borisjoohnson
welcome to bbc news i m david eades. our top stories: wildfires tear through european countries france is now the worst affected with 30 thousand people forced from their homes. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there is a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky just look at the haze in the trees. sentencing begins for the parkland school gunman, who killed 17 people in 2018. ajury in florida will decide if it s the death penalty or a life sentence. a chinese filmmaker appears in court in malawi charged with child exploitation, following an investigation by the bbc, and here in the uk, it s whittled down to four in the race to replace
our first report. into the forest and the front line of an exhausting battle, one that, today, we were able to witness. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there s a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky just look at the haze in the trees. the smoke thickens the further in we go the flames suddenly all too apparent. translation: the fire | rekindles in many places. we have to be very careful with these conditions. we re in a pine forest. the vegetation is so dry here, and with the temperatures, the fire reaches the top of the trees very quickly. flames reach up to 80 metres high. along here, we were due to reach an evacuated campsite by the coast, but we never got there. things were getting worse.
into the forest and the front line of an exhausting battle, and one that, today, we were given special access to. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there s a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky just look at the haze in the trees. the smoke thickens the further in we go the flames suddenly all too apparent. translation: the fire | rekindles in many places. we have to be very careful with these conditions. we re in a pine forest. the vegetation is so dry here, and with the temperatures, the fire reaches the top of the trees very quickly. flames reach up to 80 metres high. along here, we were due to reach an evacuated campsite by the coast, but we never got there. things were getting worse. you could see it on
welcome to bbc news. i m david eades. our top stories: wildfires tear through european countries france now the worst affected, with 30,000 people forced from their homes. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there is a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky just look at the haze in the trees. sentencing begins for the parkland school gunman, who killed 17 people, in 2018. ajury in florida will decide if it s the death penalty or a life sentence. a chinese filmmaker appears in court in malawi, charged with child exploitation, following an investigation by the bbc, and here in the uk, it s whittled down to four in the race to replace borisjoohnson