People dying for no reason, People torturing People dying for no reason, People torturing for no reason. Why . Because torturing for no reason. Why . Because they are human. Great britain because they are human. Great britain has a humanity. Thats all i can say england lose the second test. It was a thrilling and dramatic day of cricket at lords, but india came out on top. Jodie comer tells us about her hollywood breakthrough, how she mastered an american accent and the time she got her mums Sunday Dinners on set. Good morning. Today once again it is going to be fairly cloudy. The cloud thick enough for patchy light Rain And Drizzle. Limited sunshine. Details coming up. Good morning. Its tuesday, august 17th. Our top story. President biden has defended his decision to withdraw us troops from afghanistan. He admitted surprise at how quickly the taliban seized power, but blamed afghanistans leaders for the defeat. Military planes are reported to have begun flying again from Kabul Airport
I thought wed start off by looking at the weather in europe. Massive thunderstorms hitting the same kind of areas, the heaviest of the rain was to the South West of bonn. Across parts of Western Germany we saw up to 158 millimetres of rain, that looks to be about three times the amount of rainfall wed normally expect in the whole ofjuly, falling in one day. Its been extreme rainfall. You seem catastrophic Damage And Flooding as a result, partly caused by this upper low pressure. In the uk we are under the rich part of the Jet Stream and what that does is it Bills Area of High Pressure. Here is our high and in the next few days that will be with us through the rest of the week, the weekend and will influence the weather into next week as well. Today, weve got the sunshine out in full force across northern parts of the uk. Thats where the best of the sunshine has been. Across central and eastern england some areas of cloud but its pretty thin, so im pretty hopeful that we should see some
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