Hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines. The online forum reddit says it believes leaked government documents, detailing uk us trade talks, and posted on its site are linked to russia. Oceans are running out of oxygen warn scientists as global temperature rises put many species of fish at risk of extinction. 12 people are swept to their deaths by floods in uganda, as east africa is devastated by heavy rainfall and landslides. Fears that a mega bushfire near sydney thats burning out of control could take weeks to put out. A chinese american researcher is freed by iran in a rare Prisoner Exchange with the us. President trump thanks the iranians for very fair negotiation. Thank you for your company throughout the afternoon. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with mejane dougall and ben croucher. The headlines this evening. A lighter anthonyjoshua says weight doesnt matter as he prepares to re claim three belts from andy ruinunior, in one
Extreme heat. Potentially record shattering heat wave expanding 12 states visiting triple digit temperatures. 70 Million People impacted and heat force wildfires to explode. Meatloaf collapses on stage in the middle of a performance. Is this really happening . The singer rushed to the hospital. The latest on his condition today, friday, june 17th, 2016. This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Welcome to today. We have willie in for matt. I wish we had a decibel counter, the squeals are loud outside. We have a huge concert coming up. Beautiful summer day in new york. We look forward to that. More new twists on the investigation of the massacre at the pulse nightclub in orlando, the Police Taking a close look at the gunmans Text Messages with his wife during the actual sho shooting. Stephanie gosk has more on this. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The shooting lasted nearly four hours. We are now learning during that time, in between firing his semiautomatic rifle at inno
Their greed is beyond belief. Drivers want a tip option and a 60 rate hike from the company that keeps cutting rates to attract customers. Do you regret having left a cab company . Sometimes, i do. That is sometimes bitter taxi cab drivers walk from the side line. No one is winning. Theyre under insured, their rates are not transparent. They change by the minute. The drivers are not licensed. Plenty of drivers did go to work today, josh stevens took an uber car to the airport this afternoon. There is no problem. What do you think the strike . I have no idea. No impact. How ironic that San Francisco muni drivers emerged from a union meeting. Among them, president eric williams. Theyre fine. Fine. Not yet an effort that tried uber users. Lets see what the weekend brings. Wayne freedman, abc7 news. Also today, uber is addressing a serious complaint involving a driver. A San Francisco woman says a driver threatened to rape and kill her. She hailed the ride but cancelled it after the driver
Good evening. In San Francisco, and across the nation, uber drivers went on strike, some of them, anyway. Has it resulted in gridlock . Wayne freedman is live near highway 101 with what be described as mixed results, so far, wayne . Well, yes. Mixed results so far. Drivers are hoping to send a message but theyre only going to send a strong message if they get people off the road. We checked our app from this spot. We can have a car here, and it may not be what drivers were hoping for. In theory this, is supposed to be the day they told managers theyre mad but was it a roar or whimper . Are you disappointed . There should be more. If there was a ground 0 for the strike, youre looking at it outside of the company head quarters. Next time, it will be bigger and better. As uber seize it, there cannot be a strike when drivers are private contractors. To quote a statement if a spokesman, we welcome feed back from driver partners. But this kind of feed back . Theyre not going there. Their gre
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