Fight, but they have come back. In south East Asia, Covid Vaccination Stall as governments struggle to find a way out of the crisis. And celebrations in rome as italy squeezes past spain to book their place in the final of the euros. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. 51 shootings over a single weekend in new York State alone have prompted the Governor Andrew Cuomo to declare a Disaster Emergency. New york is the first state to take that step, which allows for extra funding to bolster Police Presence in the worst hit cities, and to establish a variety of other programmes in poorer parts of the state. There has been a surge in Gun Violence across the us in the last year. Governor cuomo explained his decision at a news conference, where he spelled out the scale of the problem theyre facing. It is so bad, that when you look at the recent numbers, more people are dying of Gun Violence than of covid. It is an emergency. And i want the people of the state to understand that and i want them to respond to the emergency for the way it is. So, today, i the first in the nation is going to declare a Disaster Emergency on Gun Violence. That will lead to certain actions. Governor cuomo says more than 50 people have died in shooting incidents over the fourth ofjuly weekend. Statistics from the Gun Violence archive found that more than 150 people across the us were killed by guns, and more than 400 incidents. It prompted fears that 2021 is turning out to be even worse than the record for last year, which was itself in many decades. Karol mason as President Ofjohn decades. Karol mason as president ofjoth college of criminaljustice, where Governor Cuomo made his announcement. She gave me her reaction. What i like about Governor Cuomo� s approaches he is looking at a local level and communities, where the violence is occurring. It is occurring primarily in communities of colour. But i think one of the things they think is contributing to it is all of the anti Violence Work that we had got suspended during covid, and we have a lot of people who were displaced without things to do, no jobs, not able to go to school, no Safe Spaces for them to gather, and i think all of these things paid tribute to an increase in violence. And we were starting from historic lows. Obviously an important point. How significant is the funding for extra resources and what sort of things are going to be provided now that have not been . Well, i think based on what i heard in the Press Conference and i think i had the same things you did, he is going to be investing in our young people, investing in our communities and investing in breaking the cycle of violence. Hes going to be investing injobs, because there needs to be Safe Spaces for young people and things for them to do. And he also talked about breaking the cycle by Hospital Interventions and theres great research on this. By going to the hospital where someone has been a shooting victim, whether you dont need to wait until someone dies from a gunshot for you to intervene. You go to the hospital and you work with the person who is the victim and you stop that cycle of violence. There is great research on these Violence Interrupters are going to the community and engage with the community in stopping the violence. But wasnt able to happen during covid. People were shut in. Better, presumably, you have other people to do this job than the police over . Exactly. Right. So, in that case, where would you sit on the scale of this problem . Were talking about 51 fatal shootings in new York State over the matter of a long weekend. Which soundsjust extraordinary, to me. How big is the problem . How many people are involved . Again, based on the numbers and the data we have today, it is not a large number of people that are responsible for the violence, and i think that people need to remember it is not everywhere. That is the challenge. Not having this narrative. People thinking it is unsafe to be in new york. There are communities at risk and we need to go in and break that cycle. But it is not happening everywhere, i think that is the challenge. Look at where it is happening, why its Happening And Deal with those people and breaking them out of the cycle of violence. Karol mason. The taliban is continuing its advance across swathes of afghanistan, claiming to have captured another 10 districts over the past 24 hours. The militants have made rapid advances as nato troops withdraw, and now control about a third of the country. Afghanistans military insisted today it will retake all districts that have fallen. Our Correspondent Secunder Kermani reports. Gunfire. The taliban advance rapidly across afghanistan. Gunfire. In some areas, under resourced government forces have fled. And in others, the insurgents have faced stiff resistance. The group now controls around a third of all districts, but afghan officials have vowed to launch a counteroffensive. The afghan Security Forces, the afghan Air Force has reorganised itself. So, they may have abandoned their posts because they ran out of ammunition or they run out of supplies, but by no means has anyone defected. Bagram was americas largest base in afghanistan and was home to high value prisoners. It was handed over to afghan forces as nearly all international troops have been withdrawn from the country. 0fficials here claim they werent even warned when exactly the americans were leaving. Us Air Strikes had been a key weapon in holding the taliban back now theyre largely stopping. Afghan officials are still trying to sound positive. This is war. In a combat, everything is possible and nothing is stable. But the point, the men the people, or the Government Goal is mentally, they dont want taliban, physically they do not want taliban. From the villages, they do not want the taliban. Under pressure last night, neighbouring tajikistan ordered thousands more troops to the border after hundreds of afghan soldiers fled across it in recent days. Many fear come september and the formal deadline for the withdrawal of remaining foreign forces the talibans Military Offensive will only grow even stronger. Secunder kermani, bbc news. Lets get some of the days other news. A well known investigative journalist in the netherlands, Peter R de vries, has been shot and seriously injured in an attack on a street in amsterdam. Police said hes been taken to hospital in critical condition. De vries has covered numerous high profile Crime Cases over the past 20 years. Three people have been detained in connection with the shooting. A former challenger for the presidency in belarus, viktor babarico, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail. The banker was found guilty of taking bribes and Money Laundering charges he says were fabricated to prevent him challenging Alexander Lukashenko in last years election. Just over two weeks to go before the start of the tokyo olympics, and Japanese Media is reporting that the partial State Of Emergency for the Tokyo Area is likely to be extended over coronavirus concerns. Some 0lympic events, such as the Opening Ceremony and the marathon, may also be held without spectators. It went to a nail biting penalty shootout, but italy have beaten spain at wembley to reach the final of the Euro 2020 football tournament. Italy will face either england or denmark who play their Semi Final at wembley on wednesday evening. Heres mark lobel. Cheering. It was italys night. Horns honking. The four time world champions. Cheering. Now have a second euros crown firmly in their sights. We loved it we are so happy that we win. Its been 53 years now without the european cup. Its time its about time to win it. And were gonna bring it home Spanish Fans coming to terms with their side losing a semifinalfor the first time in their history. It was an intense start to a game of the highest quality, but a goalless first half. It took until the 60th minute, when chiesa curled one in on the counterattack. As you would expect from italy. But with just ten minutes to go, morata had stepped off the bench and coolly slotted in an equaliser to rerwrite the script for spain and rectify some of his misses this tournament. Then, into extra time, with spain dictating play, dominating possession. Italy, seemingly playing for penalties until berardi scored but was caught offside. As penalties began, the drama did not stop. Locatellis efforts saved by simon. Then 0lmo missed his. Five well taken penalties later, it was moratas turn, surely . But he fired towards donnarumma, who saved it. Which meantjorginho could win it for italy. He strolled up, sending the keeper the wrong way. It was an enthralling end to an unforgettable encounter. Translation i have to say that we are very happy about all of this and i thank the players because they believed right from Day One that we could produce something incredible. We havent done everything we need to, yet, theres still another step to go, but now we have to rest. Cheering. Italy will go into the final at wembley with a record that even roman soldiers would be proud of. They came into this Match Unbeaten for 32 games they saw 14 straight wins can they now conquer europe . Mark lobel, bbc news. Many parts of south East Asia coped well when covid first hit, in spite of limited resources. More than a Year And Half into the pandemic and several lockdowns later, goodwill among the people is wearing thin. Vaccination programmes have stalled and several countries are struggling to cope. In indonesia, the government has appealed for international help to secure supplies of oxygen, a day after recording its highest numbers of daily covid infections and deaths. 0ur south East Asia Correspondentjonathan Head reports. As other businesses flounder, its a sign of the dismal times we live in that this one is thriving. This Jakartan Coffin Maker says hes making three times as many these days after the new outbreak of the delta covid variant. Indonesians may have thought last year was bad enough. This year, though, is much worse covid deaths running at more than 500 a day. Oxygen is in critically short supply. People have to fill up their own cylinders to ensure that hospitalised Family Members get it. Anwar says his best efforts were not enough. His sister died at this hospital on monday morning. Here in thailand, these shuttered bars tell the story of how far the government was willing to sacrifice the all important Tourist Industry to keep covid out which, last year, it did very successfully. This year, though, despite all of this economic pain, infections have surged so fast, theyve overwhelmed the hospitals and completely outstripped the governments faltering vaccination programme. This hotel cleaner, now out of a job, was forced to camp on the street after Testing Positive for covid, but unable to self isolate in her cramped home. An ngo helping Thai Covid victims heard of her plight and eventually found a hospital that could take her. There is growing public anger here over the Governments Failure to order vaccines early enough and in sufficient quantities. After a well publicized launch last month, vaccines have run out in many areas. Ministers are also accused of failing to prioritise the elderly, of giving over optimistic predictions, and of not imposing tougher measures quickly enough to curb the new outbreaks. But after a year and a half, many businesses here just cant survive more lockdowns. This Restaurant Owner is in despair after the government banned on Site Dining last month with no warning. Translation The Voice of little people like me never gets heard at the top. But if we close down, then what will i do . Will i have to give up everything ive built and lay off all my staff . Malaysia is well ahead of both of its neighbours in vaccinating its population. The government believes it can inoculate 80 of them by The End of the year. Yet even here in a much wealthier society, thats a long stretch of continued lockdowns and Travel Restrictions to endure. Without access to more vaccines, governments across this region have run out of answers to give their increasingly frustrated people. Jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. Stay with us on bbc world news, still to come why planting extra trees across europe could combat Climate Change and, at the same time appease the rain gods. Central london has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. Police say there have been many casualties, and there is growing speculation that alqaeda was responsible. Germany will be the hosts of the 2006 football world cup. They pipped the favourite, south africa, by a single vote. In south africa, the possibility of losing hadnt even been contemplated. Celebration parties were cancelled. A man entered the palace i through a downstairs window and made his way to the queens private bedroom, then he asked her for a cigarette and, on the pretext for arranging for some to be. Bought, summoned a footman on duty who took the man away. Cheering and applause. One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution. This is bbc world news, the latest headlines new Yorks State Governor declares a Disaster Emergency, following a sharp rise in Gun Violence. After nato withdraws, afghan Security Forces insist their soldiers have not defected to the taliban as It Captures Districts across the country. Plant a tree and save the planet its one of those mantras we have become used to hearing in the battle to reduce Carbon Emissions and slow down global warming. But more trees doesnt just mean less carbon in the atmosphere. A new study shows that it also leads to significantly more rainfall. Researchers estimated that a 20 per Cent Increase in forests across europe would lead to 7. 6 per Cent Rise in rain in the summer months. Frances seymour is a distinguished Senior Fellow at the world resources institute, and a leading figure in the field of deforestation and reforestation. She gave me her thoughts on the report. I was interested to see these findings but not surprised that the impact of Land Cover Change could have impacts on the climate other than just through the carbon cycle. We are familiar, as you say, with the need to stop deforestation and recover a lot of our lost forest in order to keep carbon out of the atmosphere. But increasingly we are appreciating that Greenhouse Gas emissions are not the only way that forests interact with the atmosphere and, in fact, these other non greenhouse impacts on forestation or on local temperature are also quite important and, in fact, can be more significant at the local scale in terms of the physically lived climate experience, in particular places than the impacts of global Climate Change. 0n the face of it it looks like an added bonus, in a way that there is more water to come down but, of course, we have flooding just as we have drought. I suppose that is part of the challenge, knowing where you might want to put more forestry. I think that is right. And one of the exciting things about the new research that is coming out based on our increasing ability to do geospatial monitoring with the improved modelling with improved data and computing power, we are actually getting better at being able to nut out these different effects and see how they are distributed. But i would hasten to say that one of the things that came out of the article was, in fact, building on this unique role of protecting Forest And Forest restoration as a Climate Action because it is simultaneously a Mitigation Action as well as an Adaptation Action in that, you know, Forests Store Carbon and have a Mitigating Effect that simultaneously can moderate the severity of local extreme weather events, that is important for adaptation. It has become one of those things, hasnt it . Everyone knows that you can plant a tree and perhaps even take away a little of your own Carbon Footprint in doing so. It feels like a good thing. There is a programme in wales for planting sequoia trees which, obviously, we are more familiar with seeing those in north america, for example. There must be some risk, isnt there, of trying to plant different trees in different places and expecting to get the same result. Of course. We always have to plant the right tree in the right place at the right time and there have been some unfortunate negative experiences of forests being in areas that were not previously forested that can have Unintended Consequences on local biodiversity or hydrology. Our first best is to protect the natural ecosystem that we still have in the second is to restore them with native species and restore native Ecosystem Function and be careful about foresting areas that have not been forested before because that is where the things tend to go wrong. Tropical Storm Elsa has strengthened into a Category Hurricane hours before its expected to hit land on floridas northern gulf coast, the us national Hurricane Center said. Many floridians have begun to hunker down and protect their homes as elsa picks up speed. Florida governor Ron Desantis said elsa will make landfall probably between 8 and 9 local time on wednesday morning. Earlier today the national Hurricane Center issued a Hurricane Warning for a portion of the West Coast of florida to reflect the increased strength. Elsa is forecast to become a hurricane before making landfall. Landfall appearing most likely in the eastern Big Bend of Florida Or Nature Coast North of Tampa Bay Tomorrow morning. There are about 1500 customers across florida experiencing Power Outages but we have got, between the various utilities, more than 7000 Restoration Personnel prepared to respond to these outages. The lineup for the womens semifinals at walden has been completed because angelique herber, champion in 2018 is now the only former winner to get through to the last four. Rounding up all the action is chatham partick. Centre Court And Court Number One were at full capacity for the first time on womens Quarterfinals Day as ash barty, the World Number one and Number One seed, made it through to the semifinals, beating fellow australian Ajla Tomljanovic in straight sets. Barty� s grown in Confidence And Belief throughout these championships, and now sets up a last four tie with angelique kerber, the only former wimbledon champion still in these championships. What a story its been for kerber. Between 2018, when she won the title here, and the start of these championships, shed only won one title. That was in hamburg On Grass last month. Shes been looking absolutely fantastic, and she got past Karolina Muchova 6 2, 6 3. 0n the other side of the draw, aryna sabalenkas breakthrough moment continues, and that On Grass. Not many people were expecting her to get this far at wimbledon, but shes finally got past that mental hurdle in her head of only reaching the fourth round of The Grand slam. Into the semifinals she goes after ending 0ns jabeur� s story. Jabeur, the first North African woman, the first arab woman to get this far at these championships, saw her run ended in straight sets. She didnt have all the answers she needed to get past a hard hitting sabalenka. And sabalenka will play Karolina Pliskova for a place in the final. Pliskova easing through her quarterfinal in straight sets. In absolute style, as weve seen her play throughout these championships so far, she won 6 2, 6 2 against viktorija golubic. Pliskova ensuring shes now reached the last four all of The Grand slams, and those semifinals will be played on thursday. Before that, itll be mens Quarterfinals Day at wimbledon, with Roger Federer in action, and also the World Number one, novak djokovic. A little more sport to bring you. This is on a water slide, part of summer, really. And a Baby Elephant in China Canjoin in as well. She worked out how to get from A To B in the fastest and most enjoyable way possible and did it over and over. That is bbc news. Hello there. Weve seen yet more rain across many parts of the country in the past 24 hours. And the reason its been so wet, really, for so long is because of the position of the jet stream, thats the upper level winds. And as its diving to the south of the uk, with that sort of pattern, you end up with low pressure sitting close to the uk. And its around that low pressure that we see these areas of cloud rotating, keeping some wet weather going into the night and into wednesday, as well. If we look at the story over the next few days, we find some sunshine, yes, but theres still the threat of some showers which may be heavy, as well. And certainly on tuesday, there was lots of rain at wimbledon. It looks a lot drier though for Wednesday Cant rule out 1 2 showers, mind you, and temperatures will be 20 21 celsius. We start the day pretty cloudy, actually, there may well be some further rain around. As It Brightens Up, we get some sunshine which triggers more showers, particularly across england and wales, and some of those could be heavy and thundery. May see a few showers breaking out across parts of scotland and Northern Ireland. A warmer day, though, than it was on tuesday for Eastern Scotland and the northeast of england. And for many parts of the country, temperatures are a little bit higher on wednesday. A few showers in the london area, those will tend to fade away during the evening, and itll probably be dry at wembley for Kick Off with Ideal Temperatures for playing football. As we move into thursday, many places starting dry, some sunshine breaking through. Again, well see some showers developing too. These will be a little more hit and miss, but It Brightens Up in Eastern Scotland, we could get some heavy showers here. The rest of scotland and Northern Ireland looks more cloudy and not as warm, perhaps, but with the sunshine in england and wales, it should feel a bit warmer with Light Winds on thursday. Weve got slightly higher pressure to end the week the fly in the ointment is this little Weather Front here that keeps more cloud across Northern Ireland, eventually increasing the cloud across wales and the southwest, bringing some rain later on in the day. Ahead of it, some sunshine coming through, still the chance of some showers. These are most likely in Eastern Scotland and across the eastern side of england. But many places on friday will have a dry day. And those temperatures sitting at 22 23 celsius. Now i dont think those numbers will change a great deal into the weekend. There will still be some sunshine around, but we still have this threat of some showers and the greater risk of showers is likely to be on sunday. This is bbc news. The headlines new York States governor, Andrew Cuomo has declared a Disaster Emergency following a surge in Gun Violence over the fourth ofjuly, holiday weekend. The move will enable the state to bolster its Law Enforcement Presence in cities where shootings are on the increase. Afghanistans national Security Advisor has denied claims by the taliban that government soldiers have defected to the militant group. Following the departure of nato troops, the Afghan Army has come under pressure, with many worried about whether it can hold off the taliban, as they continues to capture more territory. There were wild celebrations in rome as italys footballers reached the final of the euros after beating spain. The game had to go to penalties, having finished 1 1 after extra time. Italy will now play either Denmark Or England in sundays final. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk