swamp california roads in a storm not seen since the 1990s. plus, president biden s mission to maui. the consoler in chief tries to bring comfort to a community all but wiped out in a wildfire. and a consequential week for donald trump. the former president set to surrender in charges to georgia and skip the first gop debate in wisconsin. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m danny freeman. we begin this morning with something southern california hasn t experienced in decades but people there are facing it right now. torrential record rain and strong winds from tropical storm hillary. overnight hillary has been bringing down power lines and trees, flooding streets and triggering mudslides. in fact, one mudslide forced firefighters to take fast action in san bernardino county when it came barrelling towards their fire house. trees are going. just incredible images right there. rescuers have had to pull several people from flood waters an
did john kerry do a lot of planet saving on a private jet. have you flown on a private jet since have you taken this position? possibly once. extreme heat continues baking large pockets of the country to a crisp. the mercury has been in the triple digits. the stubborn heat poses health risks to everyone. start early in the morning and try beat the heat. group of friends in florida largest python 19 feed long. 125 pounds. pretty terrifying we have these destructive animals out there. beneficial the more people we get out there to join the effort my xavier the one who will never fail he many never fail. steve: live from new york on this friday, july 14th, 2023. it is a friday in the summer. that means it s our all-american summer concert series. you are listening to elevation worship. they are our featured performers today. they have been practicing outside for an hour. they are wonderful. they are also very noisy. ainsley: they are great. they help you ge
force entirely focused on al. i the city of bakhmut, in ukraine, now seems to be pretty much entirely in russian hands. capturing it took almost a year and cost thousands of casualties and all for a place that, right from the start, military experts said didn t have any discernible strategic value. but there s no doubt that belatedly, the russians have learned to fight better. and nato s weapons aren t reaching ukraine in sufficient quantities yet. few expected this ceasefire to hold in any way. it was. the bbc correspondent james waterhouse has covered the war from its earliest stages. i caught up with him when he had just arrived in the city of dnipro to report on the fighting in southeastern ukraine. there isn t a single ukrainian city which is untouched by russia s latest tactic, really, and we thought its strategy of targeting ukraine s infrastructure would stop as the weather improved. but it s clear that the kremlin wants to sustain the pressure on both the ukrainian
plans for supermarkets to introduce a cap on the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello, and thanks forjoining me here at the bbc s headquarters in central london. is there any sign yet of the much heralded counteroffensive by ukraine? for the west, in ukraine, if they were to go too early ahead of all of that hardware being in place, then we could see the front lines we see now in place for some time to come. after the g7 summit in hiroshima, is a chinese attack on taiwan more likely or less likely? i think for now, xi jinping has made the calculation that he simply can t afford to invade taiwan. and, should we lose sleep at night for fear that artificial intelligence, ai, is going to take over the world? we ll have to have systems in place to police it. - we almost need a new police force entirely focused on al. i the city of bakhmut, in ukraine, now seems to be pretty much entirely in russia
is there any sign yet of the much heralded counteroffensive by ukraine? for the west and ukraine, if they were to go too early, ahead of all that hardware being in place, then we could see the front lines we see now in place for some time to come. after the g7 summit in hiroshima is a chinese attack on taiwan more likely likely or less likely? i think for now xijinping has made the calculation that he simply can t afford to invade taiwan. and should we lose sleep at night for fear that artificial intelligence, ai, is going to take over the world? we are going to have to have systems in place to police it. we almost need a new police force entirely focused on al. the city of bakhmut in ukraine now seems to be pretty much entirely in russian hands. capturing it took almost a year and cost thousands of casualties and all for a place that, right from the start, military experts said didn t have any discernible strategic value. but there is no doubt that belatedly the russians hav