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and the duchess of sussex tells a us magazine that just existing was enough to upset the dynamics of the royal hierarchy. and coming up: we ll hearfrom one gardener who s successfully grown the world s longest cucumber. it s a lot of fun growing a giant vegetable. you can compete notjust in the uk, you can compete around the world. it s incredible. the united nations has launched an emergency appeal to help pakistan deal with devastating floods. the country s prime minister has said the floods are the worst in the country s history. provinces in the south by the provinces in the south by the worst provinces in the south by the worst affected. but mountainous regions further north have also been badly hit. more than 1,000 people are known to have been killed as roads, homes and bridges were washed away across the country. and officials estimate more than 33 million pakistanis, that s one in seven people, have been affected by the flooding. we have two reports from pakist ....
welcome to the programme. iraq s president has said an early election could resolve the political unrest gripping the country. to those who have taken their eye off iraq, the violence that broke out in baghdad yesterday, might have looked like a sudden eruption of rage. in fact, the sectarian anger has been simmering for years. the country is riddled with corruption, it has not had a functioning government since the october elections and the spiralling cost of living is pushing iraq towards an existential crisis. the spark that ignited these protests yesterday was the sudden announcement by the shia cleric, muqtadr al sadr, that he was withdrawing from political life. sadr has been a major player in iraq since 2003, when his supporters known then as the mehdi army, began attacks on coalition troops. in october, the sadrists won the most seats in parliament but refused to form a coalition with the mostly shi ite iran backed parties. injune, sadr asked all of his mps to r ....
Hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. for now, the violence in iraq has abated. but where does the country go next? today the president said fresh elections were the answer. but will it solve the sectarian tensions that are threatening to drag the country into civil war? a third of pakistan is under water, millions of people affected. the un secretary general blames monsoons on steroids , supercharged, he says, by the global warming we are failing to address. and the starter gun has been fired. we are ten weeks from the mid terms. we will set the table for you tonight, we will look at the polls, the key races, and the key issues that will determine control in washington. tonight with the context, the democrat, and former mayor of baltimore, stephanie rawlings blake and the republican strategist doug heye. ....