of the commonwealth games where england s alex yee got the competition s first gold. hello and welcome to bbc news. dozens of people have lost their lives this week in unprecedented flash floods. in iran officials have reported more than 50 people have died in landslides. at least seven people are now known to have died in the united arab emirates. and in kentucky in the united states, at least 16 people have died as president biden declares the situation there as a major disaster. leana hosea reports. floodwaters from days of torrential rain have inundated hundreds of homes and wiped out entire towns in eastern kentucky. bridges have been washed away and roads submerged, sending some residents are scrambling to the rooftops. but worst of all, the floods have taken people s lives, including those of children. four of whom from the same family. search and rescue same family. sea rch and rescue teams same family. search and rescue teams and helicopters and both are still lookin
will smith takes to social media to apologise to chris rock for that oscar slap. hello and welcome to bbc news. dozens of deaths have been reported as unprecedented flash floods hit many parts of the world. in iran, officials say that more than 50 people have died in landslides, while seven people have lost their lives in the united arab emirates. meanwhile, president biden has declared a major disaster in the united states, after 16 people died in kentucky. lea na hosea reports. floodwaters from days of torrential rain have inundated hundreds of homes and wiped out entire towns in eastern kentucky. bridges have been washed away and roads submerged, sending some residents scrambling to their rooftops. her little room completely crushed. i m so sorry. it s ok. there s no words. - it sjust hard to imagine. there s nothing really that you can do but, i you know, we re just| glad that we got out. but, worst of all, the floods have taken people s lives, including those of children
fire. forthe responsible for the effects of the fire. for the first time, counsel has admitted they knew that the building was defective. the infected blood scandal of the 70s and 80s thousands of surviving victims should receive immediate six figure compensation, rules a judge. and coming up in half an hour, foreign correspondents based in london give an outsider s view of events in the uk in dateline. hello, welcome to bbc news. it is good to have your company this evening. rebekah vardy has lost her libel case at the high court. in what had become known as the wagatha christie trial, the wife of the former england footballerjamie vardy had sued coleen rooney after she accused vardy of leaking private information about her to the tabloid press. in a statement after the verdict, coleen rooney said she was pleased with the judgment, but added that the case should never have gone to court. rebekah vardy said she was extremely sad and disappointed , and that it wasn t the
footballers wives comes to an end rebecca vardy says she s devastated after losing her high court libel case against colleen rooney. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we re going to start in ukraine. we re getting more details about the rocket attack that s thought to have killed a0 ukrainian prisoners of war being held by russia. it happened in the occupied part of the donetsk region. these images have come in of the attack. the russian defence ministry claims ukraine was behind it and claims the rockets were us made. but ukraine says russia fired the rockets and moscow is trying to cover up evidence of torture and war crimes at the site. the bbc s paul adams is in kyiv with the latest about the incident. this is a war of competing narratives over a particularly gruesome episode. what i ve seen, and i do not recommend that people watch this, is a horrible scene of a warehouse that was housing a significant number of prisoners of war. there
serve.com. i hanako montgomery and tokyo. and this for joining me this sunday on for greek, a whitfield. and we begin with gun violence across the us weekend, mass shootings across three states have killed two people and injured dozens there s more from massachusetts to michigan and texas. a short time ago, police in massachusetts said eight people were injured after an overnight shooting, were hundreds of people gathered at a spontaneous meetup, organized over social media seven young people were shot, two of them are in critical condition. one other person was seriously injured while trying to escape and fell official say no arrests have been made and they do not have a suspect at this time and hours earlier in rochester hills, michigan, nine people were shot at a random attack at a splash pad park, including four and 8-year-old brother s. and their mother authorities say the gunman pulled up to the brooklands plaza splash pad and open fire nearly 30 times under no circ