right now in texas, the manhunt is intensifying for the suspect police say fatally shot five of his neighbors execution style. what we know about the victims including one who was just 9 years old. flood waters are still rising in parts of iowa as residents are using boats to salvage what they can from their underwater homes. we ll take you live to davenport. and on this international workers day, as many as 1 million demonstrators are taking to the streets of france amid president macron s decision to raise the nation s retirement age. we ll take you live to paris. and we begin with breaking news on the state of the u.s. banking system. overnight, federal regulators moved to close down first republic bank and sell its assets to jpmorgan chase. this morning first republic s 84 branches in eight states reopened as branches of jpmorgan chase. this is the third and actually the biggest u.s. bank to fail this year. it s also the second largest bank by assets to fail in u.s.
time in three years. and, coming up at 8.30pm we meet the members of one of ukraine s top rock bands, who ve become army medics in kharkiv, helping the military to fight invading russian forces. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the devastation caused in pakistan by extensive flooding has been called a crisis of unimaginable proportions by its climate change minister. she says that a third of the country is now underwater. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. international help has begun to arrive but water is still surging down the indus river and will flood low lying sindh even more over the next few days. the province has received eight times its average rainfall for august. the bbc has been filming across the country, including our correspondent pumza filhani who has sent this report from sukkur, a city in sindh. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern
What is the latest we are hearing . Jake sullivan meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. First and foremost, reiterating the us insistence that the Military Offensive Around Rafah remains restricted. The warning has been if israel steps up that military operations there, it will put even more palestinian lives at risk. We know already there are 800,000 palestinians who have fled that city in the last ten days or so, since israels military moved in there. The consistent warning from there. The consistent warning from the us has been not to launch an all out assault, that would put even more palestinians on the move and at risk. There are also calls for more aid to get into gaza, To Feed Palestinians in need of shelter and diplomatic aid. There are efforts going to try to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu into laying out some sort of plan as to what will happen next in gaza once the fighting is over. Who will represent the Palestinian People . Who will coordinate the rebuilding of homes and infrastr
In the past decade, ten us states have given parents an option on school choice. If they choose to they can opt to send their children to Private Schools and in return they will get some tax relief to help offset those fees. That gives countless families says jo, particularly those who live in inner cities with underperforming schools the chance to attend a Private School. Makes it more affordable. But this side of the pond, the opposition wants to go the other way. Labour say they will add vat to Private School fees and wont strip schools of their charitable status, which would deny them the 80 relief they got on business rates. That Change Say Labour would generate up to £1. 5 billion in additional revenue. The daily mail says today that will unfairly punish the smaller independent schools. Good one for this for one panel. Joe supports it. And since leaving parliamentjustine has campaigned for social mobility, equality of opportunity. So lets see how they view this. Why is offering