For the longest time, many of its ancient stone towns have been rapidly declining. But now the call s going out around the world for people to live, buy and invest here. This is unbelievable. Look at these views. This is totally unique, and a rooftop pool, forfree, from the government. Come on. But how will it keep that balance between staying authentic and affordable. Buongiorno buongiorno, buongiorno . Whilst opening up to the world . This week, im in puglia. Now ive travelled a lot through italy. I love this place. Theres great food, theres great wine. But this is my first trip into the heel of the country. In recent years, the area has become more popular with tourists, but also with the government, thats been trying to entice people back to live in the south. So im in a town called presicce acquarica, and here, theyre offering people 30,000 euros to buy a home. Sounds like a total bargain. So far, 20 people have applied for the grant. But there may be one more. Hi, you must bejess
of the children killed. china has made a show of strength in the taiwan strait for a second day. the us has accused china of fundamentally irresponsible behaviour after beijing said it was stopping cooperation with the americans on a range of key issues including how of key issues, including how to tackle climate change. now on bbc news: take me to the opera. zeinab badawi finds out how the opera world is making itself fit for the future and what it takes to become a top opera star. i ve been an opera fan for decades, and i want to share my passion with you, so i m on a mission to find out how opera is making itself fit for the future. i ve come to munich to meet one of my all time opera heroes, the german tenor jonas kaufmann, who s widely viewed as the world s leading opera singer. he s a charismatic person, performer. his way of communicating, his intelligence that one hears whenever he is singing, isjust unique. and that makes him really very special. but the pressures
Crashes into the side of a house and bursts into flames. Welcome to bbc newsroom. The Foreign Secretary has become the latest member of the cabinet to put pressure on the chancellor to relax the Public Sector pay cap. The limit is due to be in place by 2020, that a Government Source says borisjohnson 2020, that a Government Source says Boris Johnson strongly 2020, that a Government Source says borisjohnson strongly believes pay writers can be achieved without putting undue pressure on public finances. How would this pay cap be paid for. I think what it tells us is the chances of being able to stick by the Public Sector pay cap for the next couple of years looks increasingly remote because we have now had up to six Cabinet Ministers weather themselves through their intermediate trees, saying that they need to look again at this i intermediate trees, saying that they need to look again at this 1 cap. Borisjohnson suggesting this can be done without what he calls fiscal pressure, without
you might expect over the next five days, you can see it stays completely bone dry across the majority of england and wales, and answering the big question, when s it likely to rain across these southern parched areas, well, i reckon it s probably going to stay dry for the next ten days, but the dry spell could extend as much as two weeks. either way, it s going to be a long time before we see any significant rain for southern wales, southern counties of england. any rain that is on the way will probably fall during the last third of august. now, looking at the weather picture for saturday, it s another dry story for most of england and wales. we ve got some rain crossing northern areas of scotland, and the cloud popping up enough for northern ireland and northern england to bring an odd isolated, fleeting, passing light shower, but most will have a dry day. temperatures high teens across northern areas, 25 degrees in the sunshine across the south east. feeling warm where the sunshine
these showers in parts of eastern england and eastern scotland are now thundery and for the next few hours more rumbles of thunder, particularly for east anglia and the east of england, possibly in northern ireland. through the night though should ease away and it becomes dry for most parts of northern scotland, whether the weather fronts still sits with us. through tonight humid air around, a warm night at 1a 16, through tonight humid air around, a warm night at 1a 16 , and quite misty, grey and murky, particularly in north western parts of england, wales, northern ireland and scotland. any bits of morning fog billie fog should clear quickly and a bit of sunshine around with just a passing light shower. a few showers across northern ireland, but not as many as today and the south east of scotland very not too badly. chan, but northern scotland continues to get a soaking from the weather front, which goes into saturday night and sunday starts to weaken away, so we will closely monitor