yeah, she s doing much better. the man who sold the laurie sisters the tour insisted it was safe to swim in the lagoon, even though it is hatching season and female crocs are protecting their young. it seems melissa is now on the road to recovery. but that she s even alive to tell the story of what happened here is extraordinary and thanks in no small part to the quick thinking and sheer bravery of her twin sister. will grant, bbc news, oaxaca. time for a look at the weather. here s louise lear. hello. the world s ice are focused on cornwall. it isn t quite shining in all its glory. we need this cloud to break up. i spent many a childhood on this beach in cornwall waiting for the cloud to break up playing cricket. the cloud has arrived for the cricket in edgbaston as well and the cloud may be thick enough for the odd spot or two of drizzle but it shouldn t interrupted play. the reason we ve got the cloud around is this where the front that is splitting the country. behind i
what chance the end of lockdown in england onjune the 21st? and at last, football s euros get underway, wales, england and scotland all vying for glory. hello and welcome to bbc news. the g7 summit between the leaders of the seven of the world s most advanced economies is getting under way in cornwall. my colleague ben brown is there. he has been there all day, he will be there for the next few days, and we join will be there for the next few days, and wejoin him now over in cornwall. and we join him now over in cornwall- yes, hello from cornwall, and the weather is brightening up in this beautiful cornish coastline, just as the world leaders are right for this g7 summit, we will have the family photo in about half an hour, and that will be followed by an initial welcomed all the leaders from the british minister, borisjohnson. so we are here at the castle resort here in st ives in the south west of england, which is host to the g7 summit of world leaders, and during the fir
hello, wlecome to the programne, i m frankie mccamley. let s start with the fast moving developments in thailand. the parliament in bangkok has voted for the candidate of the pheu thai party, srettha thavisin, to be the next prime minister. mr srettha won a majority of votes in a joint session of the elected lower house and unelected senate. he heads a coalition which includes conservative, military aligned parties which have previously opposed pheu thai. the vote coincided with the return from 15 year exile of former prime minister thaksin shinawatra. he s the founder and main funder of pheu thai. hours after his return he was taken to prison for corruption. mr thaksin has long argued that the charges levelled against him were politically motivated. it s widely believed that a deal has been agreed that will allow mr thaksin to serve only a short portion of his eight year sentence. straight to bangkok. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head is there. jonathan, first
school children who are stuck in a cable car. they are dangling precariously above a river bed in the mountainous khyber pakhtunkhwa province. the children were on their way to school when two cables of the aerial trolley snapped. lots of people on the ground watching the rescue operation, a huge amount of concern about what might happen. with me is our reporter courtney bembridge. how is the rescue operation going? in the pictures we just so we can see that the army has sent a couple of helicopters to the area but the rotor blades from the helicopters could disrupt the cables, so it is precarious, we can see the images now, it is hanging on its side, the cable car, it is an open cable car which means that the doors on each side, there is nothing to stop people falling out, which is adding to the risk, and the fact that there are children on board. we have heard from one of the men on board, he is 20 years old, and he has been in contact with some of our colleagues working on
that the helicopters. as much as they are part of the rescue operation, the helicopters are a challenge. some of the additional wind that the rotors on the helicopter create, can also be problematic in that very precarious and delicate rescue operation. if you re just and delicate rescue operation. if you rejustjoining us on bbc news we can tell you now that for children have been rescued from the helicopter in pakistan. we got that confirmation from the central secretary of information from the pakistan s peoples party. i spoke to him earlier today. just a reminder that cable cars are used quite often in pakistan, especially in remote mountainous areas. you can see on the map there. this cable car was used to transport children from the village that they lived in to the school that they go to. that is when tragedy struck earlier today. as the rescue continues there is a challenge because the sun has now set. it is dark now, it is evening and that remains a huge challenge. no