Hour. England ride their luck to reach the womens world cup quarterfinals. But theyll be without laurenjames, whose one match ban could be extended, following her sending off against nigeria. And we have a north south split in the weather today. In the north, largely dry with some sunshine, but wind increasing in the far north east. In the south, turning cloudy and murky with some patchy light rain. All the details later. Its tuesday the 8th of august. Our main story. 15 Asylum Seekers have spent their first night on the governments controversial Accommodation Barge, after a series of delays over safety concerns. Ministers want to move hundreds more onto the Bibby Stockholm in dorset this week, but some have already refused to go, launching legal challenges. All this comes as the home Office Announces a new taskforce to crack down on Rogue Lawyers who may be helping migrants to remain in the uk, underfalse claims. Ellie price reports. The first Asylum Seekers move into their new tempor
Earlier, i spoke to dr matt patterson, whos a Postdoctoral Research assistant in Atmospheric Physics at the University Of Oxford and has been following the winter heatwave. He said this is not a common occurance. Its really quite unusual to see a heatwave of this magnitude in the winter. As you said, weve seen temperatures of 38 degrees in some andes towns when we would expect to see temperatures of 10 15 degrees at this time of year. So really quite unprecedented. In terms of the magnitude, 20 degrees more than average, thats comparable with Summer Heatwaves that weve seen in the southern United States, Southern Europe and china this year. Can you explain in basic terms what exactly is causing this heatwave in winter . Certainly. Its a High Pressure system just to the east of the andes, which is basically dragging warm air down from the tropics and bringing that heat down towards chile and argentina. That High Pressure is also compressing the air, much like when you pump up a bike tyr
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the hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. hunter biden appears in federal court in los angeles, and pleads not guilty to nine felony and misdemeanour tax offences. hunter biden is appearing in federal court in los angeles this hour. he s has pleaded not guilty to nine felony and misdemeanour tax offences. mr biden is facing three felony and six misdemeanour counts of evading $1.1; million in taxes. the president s son is also the focus right now of an inquiry from house republicans who yesterday staged a hearing to hold him in contempt of congress, for not complying with a subpoena to sit for a closed door deposition. what caught them by suprise was hunter appearance was hunter s appearance in the committee room in the middle of those contempt proceedings. and that sparked utter chaos. it doesn t matter who you are, where you come from or who your father is or your last name. yes, i m looking at you, hunter biden, as i m speaking to you. you ar
with it in newcastle and a world champion for the first time at 32. neah evans out points her rivals for gold in paris. hello again. if mo salah s six minute hattrick in midweek reignited liverpool s season. he s made it burn a lot brighter still this evening. his goal gave liverpool a 1 0 win over manchester city. handing the champions their first premier league defeat of the season. it had been a relatively quiet first half at anfield, but certainly got going after the break mo salah was put through by roberto firmino, one on one against ederson salah wasn t happy. a goal kick was given, and ederson had got a glove to it. and from that goal kick manchester city went straight down the other end and did this. alisson denied erling haaland only for phil foden s shot to be deflected in offjoe gomez. city celebrated. liverpool called for var to look at the build up, and anthony taylor had a second look and disallowed the goal for a foul by haaland on fabinho. my god and pep