High profile members of congress, like representative alexandria ocasio cortez. Hillary clinton, former secretary of state and the party s nominee for president in 2016, who lost to donald trump, will speak as well. Drjill biden, the first lady will be part of tonight s tribute to the president. And thenjoe biden himself will be the night s final speaker. It s likely not the convention he expected as he will be passing the baton to kamala harris. While the party overall is united behind kamala harris, there are still divisions among democrats when it comes to the war in gaza. These are pictures from a protest earlier today a few blocks from where we are at the united center. Organisers had promised a turnout of many thousands in the end it was far fewer. Things have been mostly orderly, but a small group of protesters did temporarily breach a security fence, as you can see here. Local media are reporting that several arrests have been made. Many demonstrators oppose president biden s b
To stop the outbreak. We meet in much better understanding of the epidemiology ended their countries. We need to understand the transmission patterns, the populations at risk. We need to understand the dynamic. There are multiple outbreaks happening, there are changes in terms of what we re seeing in epidemiology itself. To understand that lettable helpers to use the limited numbers of vaccines that we have in a targeted and most appropriate way. I want to stress at one point. Secondly, to request that if there are countries which have vaccines to donate to come forward and forward and work with this. The who, there. Let s speak to our health correspondent dominic hughes. Dorcas wangira is the bbc s africa health correspondent. I would like to start with some straightforward questions about mpox. Dominic, what is it? mpox. Straightforward questions about mpox. Dominic, what is it? mpox is a virus that is mpox. Dominic, what is it? mpox is a virus that is a mpox. Dominic, what is it
We have been looking at ukraine s targeting of bridges in russia s kursk region. Hello, i m annita mcveigh. One man has died and six others, including four british tourists, are missing, after a yacht sank in the early hours of this morning. In the last few minutes, the bbc has confirmed that the british technology tycoon mike lynch is among those missing. Sources have also confirmed that his wife, angela bacares, has been rescued. The incident took place in the mediterranean, off the coast of the italian island of sicily. One body has been recovered by the coastguard who rescued 15 other people. Captain karsten borner was on a nearby vessel and helped with the rescue of those 15 people. We saw a red flare, so my first mate and i went to the position and we found this liferaft drifting. Anything inside? i5 found this liferaft drifting. Anything inside? found this liferaft drifting. An hinu inside? , , anything inside? 15 people inside. Four peeple anything inside? 15 people inside.
Goodbye. Live from london, this is bbc news. One person is dead and six are missing after a super yacht sinks during a storm off the coast of sicily. Among those missing the british technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter his wife has been rescued. The government brings in emergency measures to prevent prison overcrowding as people continue to be jailed for their part in the recent riots. The democratic national convention opens in chicago joe biden will address the conference tonight and later this week, kamala harris will formally accept the party s nomination as its presidential candidate. President zelensky says his troops control more than twelve hundred kilometres of russian territory, as ukraine s incursion into the kursk region continues. We take a look at how moscow might respond. A search is continuing for 6 people missing after a british luxury yacht sank in a freak storm off sicily early this morning. There were 22 people on board 15 were rescued,
Hello, i m catherine byaruhanga. The us secretary of state antony blinken has arrived in israel on his 9th visit to the region since the war in gaza began to push once again for a ceasefire and hostage release deal. The us and israel have expressed careful optimism about a deal since talks resumed last week, but hamas denies progress is being made. This afternoon, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu insisted israel could not be flexible on all issues and accused hamas of being obstinate. Jenny hill sent this report. There s a crushing familiarity to gaza s grief. Funerals for those killed overnight in israeli airstrikes. Israel insists it s targeting hamas fighters. This was an entire civilian family, mohammed says. A woman and her six children. As the human cost of this conflict surges, so too does the risk it will spill over into all out regional war. Urgent diplomacy is under way. The us secretary of state, antony blinken, arriving in tel aviv hoping to seal a ceasefire