Included employees of a private Company Involved in the maintenance and management of the bridge. Now, bbc wales investigates whats killing our rivers . You see herons and dragonflies. You see lots of little shellfish in the shallow parts. Sometimes you will see a Salmon Jumping out of the water. You start to realise that how many people dont have stuff like this, particularly in lockdown, when we were very grateful to have it. These School Friends have made the most of a record breaking summer. Like thousands of others. But there is something wrong with our rivers. A sad sight to see. Its absolutely devastating what with finding out here today. In the water, look at this. Just look at it. This is algae. Its taking over our rivers and waterways. And when human and animal waste gets into a river not only is it bad for our health it is also full of nutrients like phosphate which act as a kind of super food for the algae. And as algae gets into the river, it strips the river of oxygen, ki
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. there s been a new wave of deadly clashes in iran today , with security forces firing on protestors. there have been a number of confirmed injuries, it s not known how many have been killed. activists say dozens of people were fired upon after emerging from friday prayers in the southern city of zahedan, the capital of the sistan baluchistan province, bordering pakistan. automatic gunfire is clearly audible in footage seen and verified by the bbc. there d been a build up of security forces earlier in the day. today s protests in zahedan follow a similar crackdown in the same city nearly a month ago, during protests against the death of mahsa amini. i m joined now by shayan from bbc monitoring, who has been following the footage from iran for us. tell us what has been happening in iran today. figs tell us what has been happening in iran toda . , ,, tell us what has been happening in iranto
elon musk tweets let the good times roll after he buys social media giant twitter for more than a0 billion dollars, and clears out top executives. # .balls of fire!# and jerry lee lewis, a leading figure of rock and roll whose life was marred by scandal and violence has died at the age of 87. the northern ireland secretary has said voters in northern ireland will be going to the polls for the second time in 12 months to vote yet again for members of the stormont assembly. after a midnight deadline to break months of gridlock passed chris heaton harris said an election must be held within 12 weeks although he did not give a date. back in may, for the first time the nationalist party sinn fein won the largest number of seats in the stormont assembly. but the biggest unionist party the dup has refused to restore power sharing, because it says northern ireland s place in the uk has been undermined by the post brexit trade deal signed by boris johnson. that dea
Donald trump is also in the state and will be speaking a little later in the day to his crowds. So, its big moment ahead of the midterms, just three days away. Youre watching bbc news. Its been a pretty soggy day today across the uk thanks to a slow moving Weather Front which brought patchy rain and drizzle. That rain will become confined to the southeast corner of the country for part two of the weekend. Elsewhere, its looking brighter with sunshine, scattered showers and it will be windy for pretty much all areas. So this area of low pressure is responsible for bringing the unsettled weather this weekend. That set todays Weather Front becoming confined to the southeast. All those showers out west ready to push in through tonight and tomorrow so it stays cloudy, damp across southern and eastern areas. The rain starts to pep up here. It becomes heavy and maybe some rumbles of thunder. Elsewhere, after a dry starts, the blustery showers will get going. Some of these could be quite heavy