It s a big day. This afternoon an important speech from the president on voting rights and texas democrats catch a plane out of austin. They are running away to block a republican effort there to limit the ways people can vote. Plus new covid cases are climbing again. The surgeon general says it s possible we ll need covid booster shots but no change in the vaccine guidelines for now. And protests in cuba saddle the biden administration with another big foreign policy puzzle. Can the white house do anything as the cuban regime moves to crack down on demonstrations. First, voting rights. There s no disputing the urgency of the issue. Whether the president can do much to turn the tide is a giant question. Texas is the latest battle ground. Dozens of democrats fled the state coming to d. C. In an effort to block legislative action in austin. The texas drama backs up the president s complaint. Republicans in state after state are taking steps to make it hard tore vote. But it also highligh
and then it did and we were, like, everyone was just in shock. and then it did and we were, like, everyone wasjust in shock. 40,000 troops begin a major operation to fight fires in the amazon. it s the hottest august bank holiday weekend on record, with the top temperature reaching 33.3 degrees in west london. and coming up in half an hour, sportsday will have more on england s thrilling comeback at headingley. good evening. borisjohnson has told the bbc that whether the uk leaves the eu with a deal at the end of october is now touch and go . the prime minister was speaking at the g7 summit in france, where he s also said no deal would mean the uk keeping a substa ntial part of the £39 billion the uk had agreed to pay the eu. he s also been meeting president trump for the first time since becoming prime minister, as our chief political correspondent vicki young reports from biarritz. side by side, but not quite in step. borisjohnson hopes his american friend will help him
murdering a businessman at his home in south london after meeting him on a dating app. and more than 50 hours of surgery. the great skill of great ormond street hospital surgeons as they try to separate these conjoined twins. good evening. the prime minister is hosting a reception tonight for england s world cup cricket champions, after the most extraordinary when they enjoyed against new zealand last night. after more than eight my hours of play the result could hardly have been tighter. the two teams drew and even the so called super over ended neck and neck, but england claimed victory simply because they had scored more boundaries during the game. it is the first time the england men s team has ever won the cricket world cup after being runners up three times. this morning excited fans gathered at the oval to meet their heroes and tonight the celebrations continue, as an hour ago theresa may welcomed the team to downing street for a victory party. the prime ministership c
with ten nominations. british actors olivia colman and rachel weisz are both up for a gold stauette. good evening. the search in the english channel for a light aircraft which had been carrying cardiff city s new signing emiliano sala has been called off for the night. guernsey police say there is so far no trace of the plane. the 28 year old argentinian striker was being flown to cardiff after saying goodbye to his team mates in france. but all contact was lost with the plane just off the coast of guernsey. the pilot is also missing. a lifeboat and two planes have been searching the channel and a number of floating objects have been spotted, but the authorities have been unable to confirm whether they are from the missing plane. the search is expected to resume tomorrow morning. from cardiff, jon kay reports. he only signed for cardiff city at the weekend, and was due to meet his new team mates today, but tonight emiliano sala is missing. he was so happy tojoin cardiff cit
when they award countries international tournaments. we will have more at around 2:30pm. i drove through snow this morning, then. yes, little in places, not an awful lot, not a lot more to come in the forecast over the next few days. we will talk all things snow here but also the other side of the pond, very cold thanksgiving on the way, details around 2:30pm. thank you thank you very much, ben. also coming up, change of tune in whales. we ll have more on the scientific discovery that populations of male humpback whales undergo a cultural revolution every few years and change their song anthem. hello, everyone this is afternoon live i m simon mccoy. 0ur nightmare has just got worse the words of daniela tejada wife of british phd student matthew hedges on hearing he d been sentenced to life in prison for spying in the united arab emirates. hedges, who s 31 and studying at durham university, was arrested during a research trip to dubai where he was looking into se