Kolesnik over could go to prison for up to 5 years. Guilty of corruption the former head of welled up plastics lamine diac is sentenced 2 years in prison. Now a 2 prong to weather assault in the United States has people fleeing wildfires in one part of the country and rushing to avoid severe flooding and another slow moving Hurricane Sally is unleashing heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the gulf coast another powerful storm is also brewing in the atlantic hurricane teddie could hit bermuda as early as this weekend and they are just 2 of 7 storms currently moving across the atlantic 5 of them categorized as tropical storms its only the 2nd time on record this has happened the last time was back in 1971 on the other side of the u. S. And oregon a federal disaster has been declared as wildfires that continue to burn forcing people out of their homes well jay gray is in may be alabama. Were still getting a lashing from the dorm keep the brain continue to fall here and well deal about
The things is found guilty of corruption i mean diac is sentenced to 2 years in prison. Were going to begin in the u. S. What extruding weather is bringing flames and flooding to office at sides of the country strong winds of finding wildfires on the west coast well a major storm has inundated communities with heavy rain on the gulf coast Tropical Storm sandy made landfall as a category 2 hurricane on wednesday its been bringing in whats been described as catastrophic and life threatening flooding its the 2nd how to can to hit the area in less than 3 weeks its one of 5 active tropical cyclones from the Atlantic Ocean the only other time on record this is happened was in september 19th 71. 00 on the ah. This side of the u. S. A federally declared disaster is happening in all are gone its now the hot spot on the west coast unprecedented wildfire season hundreds of thousands of people have faced evacuation orders and some entire towns have been destroyed down a few moments were going to g
Voiceover live from our studios in singapre and london. Voiceover live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and ham in the morning in eastern australia, where fire crews are assessing the damage from the weekends bushfires. The weather has cooled down a little, but the political debate is raging on. The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, returned home from holiday having been heavily criticised for going away with his family to hawaii. Shaimaa khalil has the story. It feels like a deserted war zone, but this is the aftermath of the catastrophic bushfires that have ravaged New South Wales. And in the village of balmoral, the devastation is everywhere. Russell scholes has been a volunteer firefighter for six years. He was out with his team trying to control the blaze in the village when his own house was burned to the ground. So many of the brigade are tired. Thats the mental side of it when you
Now on bbc news, its extra time with rob bonnet. Welcome to extra time. I am rob bonnet. In many ways, the most anticipated game might not be the final but this weekend pakistan versus india, which someone described something between sport and war. The stadium holds only 25,000 but they were a million application. My guest will be there. Wasim khan is the managing director of the cricket bonn and he wants pakistan to win the cup but what is his Long Term Plan for pakistani cricket . Rocky units said that they dump it a war. But it is notjust sport either. It is somewhere in between. The former cricketer. Particularly the players, they all try to play it down because there is so much right emotion running through india versus pakistan, if you take in history and what is going on that there is so many what is going on that there is so ma ny fa cets what is going on that there is so many facets of play and because the health of the nation isjudged by how well india are performing or pakis
Of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the United States looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the International Discussions about the u. S. Could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the United States and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the Foreign Policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u. S. Was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. And i remember when i was at arge