u.s. president joe biden heading to europe later today. a big item on the agenda, when and how ukraine could join nato. tensions between the u.s. and china may finally be easing as u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen wraps up her trip to beijing. we ll have a live report from taipei. mark your political calendars. we now know the date for the 2024 republican iowa caucuses. the important tradition, tures in the nation nominating contest for president of the united states. nato leaders meeting this week in lith wane that will try to cover a lot of ground in just a few days with ukraine topping their agenda. u.s. president joe biden is set to leave in the coming hours, stopping first in london before going on to vilnius. at the summit he ll press allies to continue their support for ukraine and discuss kyiv s longstanding request to join the military alliance. the summit will take place against the backdrop of the u.s. finally agreeing to supply ukraine with cluster bombs
in chile, exploring a town that was knocked down by nature and how it splitting itself back together again. also coming up on this week s show: it looks incredible. we re dangling over new york in virtual reality. it s the superman experience. and meeting the man who is attempting to bagpipe his way around the world. people were sprinting towards me and they said, never come back, but before you go, cani never come back, but before you go, can i have a go? the long coastline of chile is the point of collision between two tectonic plates, so a large magnitude earthquake are part of chilean history. no alarm sounded, some people fled to higher ground but many didn t escape in time. on the night of the 27th of february 2010, the central coast of chile was hit by one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded. the magnitude was 8.8 and the city of constitution on was sitting at the epicentre. but that was not the only deadly force of nature to strike at night. about 18 minutes afte
what it is like this morning wherever you are. mixed fortunes for some as this atla ntic mixed fortunes for some as this atlantic front brings quite a bit of rain across the north western hills of england and north west wales as well where we could see 40 50 millimetres as that front sticks in this neck of the woods. at least it pushes out to scotland and northern ireland, brightening sky is this afternoon, maybe some showers in the mix. generally speaking the warmth and sunshine, high uv levels and high pollen found across east anglia, temperatures reaching 2a, possibly 25, the weather front bushes to the south east to finish of the night, showers and not a cold night by any means coming to sunday that weather front is cloudy and with that order drip and job of rain, plenty of blustery showers across scotland and northern ireland and increasingly across western parts of england and wales as well. hello. this is bbc news. theresa may is continuing work to put together a new g
seven minutes past ten they had fatally wounded three people, then they used the knives to kill five more. at 10:16pm they were shot dead by police. detectives now believe it was ina by police. detectives now believe it was in a flat above this row of shops in east london that the men had prepared for the attack. daniel sandford, bbc news. 25 people have been arrested on suspicion of committing hate crimes in the capital in the week since the london bridge attack. the metropolitan police also says the number of officers on the streets has been increased to reassure communities who may feel worried as they gather in their places of worship. president donald trump says he is one hundred per cent willing to speak under oath about his conversations with the ex fbi chiefjames comey. mr trump has denied having asked for mr comey‘s loyalty, or for an inquiry into a former white house aide to be dropped. mr comey says he was fired because of the investigation into links between t
opposition to gay marriage won t be allowed to shape government policy. the government s chief whip is in belfast for talks with the dup. the metropolitan police has revealed the london bridge attackers tried to hire a 7.5 tonne lorry to carry out last saturday s attack but the payment was declined. the three left eight people dead when they drove a van donald trump has said he s willing to testify under oath about his conversations with james comey, the former fbi director he sacked. mr trump said he rejected mr comey‘s assertion that he had urged him to drop an investigation into links between his election campaign team and russia. and now on bbc news, it s time for the travel show. this week on the travel show: we re in chile exploring a town that was knocked down by nature and how it splitting itself back together again. also coming up on this week s show: it looks incredible. we re dangling over new york in virtual reality. it s the superman experience. doo doo doo! an