Around the world. Welcome to Bbc News we begin with the race for the White House which heats up this week with a Star Turn from, Kamala Harris, at the Democratic National Convention, which is getting underway in chicago. The event will offically confirm Kamala Harris as the Partys President ial candidate. Protesters continue to gather around the event theyre demonstrating over issues including Israels War in gaza, immigration, abortion rights and criminal justice reform. There is a substantial Police Presence as well. At the moment very peaceful you could see a palestinian flag being waived. But this convention is a Far Cry from what organisers had planned just a month ago when President Biden was still the democratic Partys Nominee for novembers election. Itll be a bitter sweet moment for him when he addresses the convention in the next couple of hours. Sumi somaskanda and Ione Wells are at the venue in chicago with more on what to expect in the hours ahead. A lot of excitement here t
Hurricane ida is likely to hit louisiana this evening. We have got some live pictures to show you. This is in mississippi along that Gulf Coast. Of course, lots of areas beyond louisiana are preparing for the arrival of 21. It is 16 Years Today since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, bringing so much devastation to the city. The arrival of 21. These are the live pictures. The whole Gulf Coast of the us prepares for the arrival of 21 later today. Lets Take A Look at the weather now. Clea rest skies for clearest skies for longer in wales and the south west, it could be a little chilly here and the cloud will lower. It could be a bit misty and damp and grey across the South East of Scotland And North East England throughout monday. Elsewhere there is a lot of cloud, the best of the sunshine towards west wales, and developing in central areas of scotland. In the Sunshine Temperatures getting into the low 20s. Heading into tuesday and pretty much more of the same really. Cloud for many
week. hello and welcome. the high court in his lab is bad has ordered the release of pakistan s president imran khan. this follows his dramatic arrest of charges. there was a heavy presence of media and security. he is expected to speak to supporters after a wave of violence and unrest. this is the scene inside court earlier as mr khan was released on bail. he is unwilling to leave that courthouse until the details of that bail are provided to him. let s take you live to our correspondent. just bring us up to date, we had been waiting for these pictures and expecting to see him leave court. we are told he is waiting for the paperwork to be handed to him. waiting for the paperwork to be handed to him. , , handed to him. yes, exactly. right now he is waiting handed to him. yes, exactly. right now he is waiting for handed to him. yes, exactly. right now he is waiting for the handed to him. yes, exactly. right now he is waiting for the court - now he is waiting for the cou
tonight with the context. from edinburgh, alex massie scotland editor of the spectator. bill browder, the ceo of hermitage capital management and long time critic of vladimir putin. and joel rubin, who served in the obama administration as assistant to the secretary of state. welcome to the programme. whenjoe biden spoke to vladimir zelensky on this day last year, there wasn t much confidence in washington he would be president for much longer, nor indeed that kyiv could be defended. yet here we are, a year on and not only is zelensky still there, but the us president was today standing alongside him, in kyiv. plans that involved extraordinary subterfuge and secrecy. on sunday night, as is usual, the white house issued the president s public schedule for monday, on which we were told he was leaving for warsaw at 7pm tonight. in fact, he was already in poland. air force one took off at 4:15 sunday morning, the press pool was left behind. and by late evening, the president was
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