The wreck of the titanic and discover the secrets of the worlds most famous shipwreck. Good morning. For many of us today it will be a cloudy and cool day. The best of The Sunshine will be across central and Southern Scotland and parts of southern england, but there are a few showers in the forecast, and i will tell you where shortly. Good morning. Its friday the 12th ofjuly. Our main story. The us president , Joe Biden, has insisted he remains the most qualified candidate to take on Donald Trump in Novembers Election despite growing pressure from within his own party for him to stand down. It comes after Mr Biden mistakenly called the ukrainian Leader President Putin during an event marking the end of the Nato Summit in washington, before later referring to his deputy Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump. Our North America Editor Sarah Smith reports. Applause World Leaders at the Nato Summit have cringed when Mr Biden introduced a key European Ally as his sworn enemy. find introduce
Of the guantanamo detention centre. Good afternoon. The cabinet office minister, michael gove, has said the snp cannot expect the government at westminster to approve a second scottish independence poll. Speaking this morning, mr gove said the results from the holyrood election showed that a majority of people had voted in constituencies for parties opposed to a referendum. But the first minister, nicola sturgeon, has accused the westminster government of a lack of respect for scottish democracy. I ve not been planning for a referendum over this past year. I have been focusing on covid. But anyone who knows anything about the legislative process in the scottish parliament knows that any government needs to consult its law officers before it brings forward legislation. That will all be part and parcel of what we do. I don t want to lose this point, andrew. So, no, we haven t got to the stage of introducing a bill formally, but that will be part and parcel of the process. But can ijust b
hello and welcome. joe biden has begun his time in office by reversing key trump era policies just hours after being sworn in as the 46th president of the united states. mr biden said there was no time to waste . he has signed executive orders tackling coronavirus, climate change and racial injustice. the us is to rejoin the world health organization and paris climate accord, and the keystone oil pipeline is being scrapped. the bbc s nomia iqbal is in washington. welcome to you. a busy first few hours in the oval office for president biden. he is doing his best to try and dismantle president trump s legacy full up at a faster rate than probably any president has done. certainly mr trump did the same when he took office in 2016 from barack obama. as you mentioned there there were some key executive orders, about 15 and all he needs to do is sign them with a pen and they will be reversed. the climate change, he will return america to the paris climate deal. there is also re
hello and welcome, if you re watching in the uk, or around the world. several people have been killed, and scores are missing, after a glacier broke free in northern india and smashed into a hydroelectric dam. one witness said a wall of water and rock sped down the river so quickly there was no time to sound the alarm. a massive rescue operation is taking place, and survivors have been pulled from under the mud and rubble. it happened in uttarakhand state on the dhauliganga river in the district of chamoli. our delhi correspondent rajini vaidyanthan reports. this dramatic footage shows when the nanda devi glacier in the himalayas burst on sunday morning. as water gushed down the valley, damage and destruction. translation: i witnessed something that looked like a scene from a bollywood film. i ve never seen anything like it. about 50 100 people were running for their lives, but couldn t be saved. and they were engulfed by the river. the situation here is still dangerous. pe