now a warning from harry and meghan s lawyers. and, grab the popcorn, smell the coffee and settle in. new york is hosting the tribeca film festival, with a blockbuster rollout of the much anticipated musical in the heights. welcome to the programme. president biden has arrived in the uk for the g7 summit. he began his first overseas trip with a rallying cry for the world s democracies, insisting the united states was back after the trump years. within the last hour, air force one arrived in cornwall where the summit is taking place. he will meet the prime minister, borisjohnson at carbis bay on thursday, before the summit begins on friday. our north america editorjon sopel has this report on the start of the us president s visit. for the first time since becoming president injanuary, joe biden stepped out from air force one on to foreign soil. the soil of suffolk and raf mildenhall on a perfect summer s evening. the president wants this first foreign trip that will take him t
what was your reaction to the accusations made by dominic cummings? let me know on twitter, it s @annita mcveigh, or #bbcyourquestions. president biden orders an intelligence report into the origins of the covid 19 virus, after recent us media reports it could have emerged from a chinese laboratory. victoria heads into a snap week long lockdown. more than five million people in australia s second biggest city, melbourne, will now face restrictions. ten years after the winterbourne view scandal, campaigners fear people with learning disabilities and autism are still facing abuse in long stay hospitals. the cast of friends! also coming up. friends reunited they re back, 17 years after the prgramme ended its run. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk health secretary, matt hancock, will in half an hour s time respond in detail to a series of explosive claims by the former downing street adviser dominic cummings, including that tens o
now crystal meth. this, an exclusive look at where the meth is coming from. these drugs in southern afghanistan will be smuggled to countries as far away as australia. the amount in this room alone would sell there for around £2 million. this is how it is made. makeshift open air labs in the desert under the noses of the taliban. these trucks are full of a key ingredient. traffickers here have discovered a common wild plant that can be used to produce meth cheaply. last week the taliban banned farmers from picking it, but they are not shutting down the meth labs. this man with links to the trade says crystal meth is booming. when the taliban announced their ban on this plant, he tells me, the wholesale price of meth doubled and there are still warehouses full of it. this is another dangerous drug, opium, from poppies like these, most commonly associated with afghanistan. around 80% of the world s heroin supply originates here. before the taliban takeover opiun traders paid o