A very warm welcome to bbc news. Im mike embley. Our top stories a leading opposition figure in belarus reportedly abducted by masked men amid more mass protests against president lukashenko. Two dozen wildfires blaze across california as the heatwave sees Los Angeles County hit its highest ever temperature. Typhoon haishen has lashed south koreas east coast, causing landslides and bringing down power lines. Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees land in indonesia after six months at sea. And is pepper, the culturally aware robot, the answer to the care home staff shortage . Hello to you. One of the leading opposition figures in belarus has been abducted by unidentified men according to local reports. Witnesses say Maria Kolesnikava one of the three women who joined forces to challenge president lukashenko in the recent election, was bundled into a vehicle in minsk and driven away. She had attended a mass demonstration in the capital on sunday. The interior ministry is saying it has no informat
The headlines donald trump is visiting california with record wildfires still burning. He claims the fires are the result of poor forest management, not Climate Change. His election rival, joe biden, says the president s policies are contributing to natural disasters. Bill gates has told the bbc hes confident the United States will step up in the fight against coronavirus. He admits his country has made mistakes, but believes progress can still be made. He also dismissed conspiracy theories about a vaccine. An International Team of astronomers believe theyve found the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on the planet venus. Theyve detected traces of a gas in its atmosphere which is normally produced by living microbes. Theyve yet to find another explanation. But the temperature on the surface of venus is more than 400 degrees celsius. It is about liz30am. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Racial discrimination is americas wound that
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. With just two months until the us president ial election, the polls show President Donald Trump trailing byjoe biden by a significant margin. This is an extraordinary Election Year marked by a pandemic, economic crisis, street protests over alleged Police Racism and a toxic political atmosphere. My guest is the veteran pollster and Republican Party consultant frank lu ntz. Can donald trump win and should republicans want him to . Frank, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Let us begin by dealing with your meat and drink. That is the polls that you watch day and night. They suggest right now that donald trump faces the most uphill task of an incumbent president to win this election of any president since george bush senior in 1992. Is that the way you see it right now . I think thatjoe biden has a significant lead. I do not think it is insurmountable. If the election were held today, joe biden is the next president. But its not being held today. Its r
class= nosel > with jake tapper, we days at for on cnn wildfires i have covered a lot of them. they are fast and deadly disasters. cnn s original series, violet earth with lives schreiber takes a look at if there is a way to protect homes and families. here s a look paradise, california burned from an ember attack, from a plume miles away from paradise this is like 9:00 in the morning and its pitch black given the smoke, it almost appeared as though it was the middle of the night and it was snowing ash and embers began to rain down we re in the middle the stapes, dan here like that i don t know to say if anywhere the fire was moving at a football field per second what in the way it did that, of course, was by jumping ahead and starting these fires they would immediately take hold and rapidly grow into its hundred acre, 200 acres spotfire that was happening all through town that resulted in the town starting to burn all at once, 30,000 people were trying to be evacuated while b
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