And nervous laughter in cannes, as the Director Spike Lee, accidentally lets slip the name of the winner of the palme dor. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Well, Rescue Workers searching for victims of the devastating floods across Western Europe have warned that more bodies may be found in submerged cars, cellars and collapsed buildings. At least 170 people are known have died, most of them in western germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to visit affected areas on sunday. With more, heres our berlin correspondent, jenny hill. In ahrweiler, everything, everyone, is covered in a thick, sticky mud. Theres no power, nowhere to buy food, not much mobile reception. But theyre doing what they can. Willie told us theyve never seen anything like it here, not even in his parents , grandparents , time. The water rose two metres in 15 or 20 minutes, he told us. People tried to save their things, went on to their basements, and unfortunately got trapped. I was lucky, he said, i could get out the
Well bring it to you as soon as the president appears. The G7 Summit in the u. K. Was about holding our closest allies. This summit may prove even more of a challenge with the Countrys Alliance still unsure about the commitment to the Nato Pact which has shaped the world since 1959. Boris johnson threatens to end nato as we know it. The key to Natos Purpose is offense. An attack on nato to one member is an attack to all of them. Its no coincidence that biden wants to solidify the Nato Pact and get everybody on the same page ahead of meeting him tomorrow In Geneva, switzerland. Prior to that, Putin Sat down with Keir Simmons in a world exclusive. Are you waging a cyber war against america . Where is evidence . Where is proof . Its becoming farcical. We know it well. We have been accused of all sorts of things, election interference, cyberattacks, so on and so forth, and not once, not one time did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof. First of all, the u. S. Has produced
Washington Journal Doctor Doctor kristin englund, shes an infectious Disease Physician at the Cleveland Clinic. Joining us from your studios in cleveland, ohio. Thank you for being with us again. Good morning steve, thank you so much for having me on. I want to begin more broadly on where we are at as school begins to and for summer vacations, summer camps, graduations, family travel, where are we from your perspective in this pandemic . Well, thankfully were seeing numbers across the country that are at the lowest of any time in the last at least six months. So numbers are continuing to decline of new cases. And that certainly great news. We are still seeing pockets of infection though, so there are some areas where there are still seeing a significant number of patients in the hospitals and increasing numbers of cases. So i think its really important for everyone in the country to know what its like in your neck of the woods and know whether its a safe area for you to be participatin
The united states has said it will continue negotiations with iran over its nuclear programme after the election of a hard line Cleric Ebrahim Raisi as iranian president. A State Department Spokesperson said it regretted that iranians were denied a free and fair election. The new president , ebrahim raisi, won with a landslide, but Voter Turnout was the lowest ever, with many candidates barred from standing. This report from Kasra Naji of bbc persian. For many iranians, its been a dark day. The hardline head of thejudiciary, ebrahim raisi, has won, in elections that offered no real choice for the electors and no serious challenges for him. The Interior Minister says he won just over 18 Million votes, with the lowest turnout in 42 years, since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. A good number of iranians have been alienated from the political process, particularly the young, many of whom are tired of living in fear. Mr raisi is best known for his role in signing off on the execution of thou
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