politics. i the bbc she believes in cabinet led olitics. ., , the bbc she believes in cabinet led olitics. . , , , politics. i have my views but i will not be imposing politics. i have my views but i will not be imposing policy politics. i have my views but i will not be imposing policy i politics. i have my views but i will not be imposing policy i have - politics. i have my views but i will not be imposing policy i have just| not be imposing policy i havejust made up in a room by myself. labour leader, keir starmer, says his party hasn t got complacent and repeats calls for a general election. these people are so fed up. they are entitled, they want a say in this. there is a choice to be made. we need a general election. let the public in to decide. do they want to continue with this utter chaos? in other news xijinping has a third term as china s leader, after being in power for a decade already. ukrainian president zelensky says renewed russian strikes won t sto
its missile attacks on the sports city of odessa. the w.h.o. now emergency. we will look at what that means for you. home, we are following the global heat wave impacting millions of people around the world right now. plus hopes that steve bannon s criminal conviction for defying the january 6th committee could force other reluctant witnesses to get in line. all of this as the former president lashes out at the committee and at a rally. dueling appearances from trump that is former vice president. we want to begin with the state department confirming today to americans have died fighting in the donbas region of ukraine. no further information has been released about their identities or their nature of their deaths. news coming as russia attacked a critical port in odessa, which transports millions of tons of grain through the black sea, just hours after signing a deal with the ukraine and russia give us more information about what you know with the loss of these two ameri
hello, good afternoon. the funeral is taking place of mikhail gorbachev the last president of the soviet union, who helped bring the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russian president vladimir putin is not attending due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. it was the final farewell to the man who changed the world. in the columned hall of the house of unions, mikhail gorbachev lay in state. a steady stream of mourners filing past his open casket. there was a guard of honour, but the last leader of the soviet union had not been honoured with a full state funeral. a sign that today s kremlin has little interest in guarding mr gorbachev s legacy. many russians blame gorbachev for the fall of the ussr, the collapse of their superpower. yet out on the streets muscovites were queueing up to pay their respects. gorbachev had given many here their first taste of freedom and democracy. in
with him that went on for more than an hour. we ll have more on that in a moment. we re goingnd to w speak to hisn ,butt we re here in brazil broadcasting all week for a reason. heth if you re worried about the future of the united statesa ,this is a goodce place to come. to get a glimpse of it ork what it might look like depending on what choices we make, brazil, united states have much more in commonve m thc we realize. both are huge countries, but actually the larger than the continental united states countries with deep natural resources , diverse physicalro environment, diverse population and a very dividediv political climate. on one sideidal you have p a nationalist party that s currently in power. now these controls the executive in brazil. on the other side you haveav in effect a globale, party andto the tone of the politics here is bitter and the stakes are very high. people go to prison in brazil routinely when they loseti elections. to ahe reason we re here is tak
Commitment to upholding International Rules of the road, including freedom of navigation. Just this past week, the prc vessels acted as dangerously and unlawfully as our philippine friends conduct a routine mission in their own exclusive Economic Zone in the South China Sea. I want to be clear, i want to be very clear. The United States defense commitment to the philippines is ironclad. The United States Defense Agreement with the philippines is ironclad. Any attack on the filipino aircraft vessels, our mutual Defense Treaty with the philippines. And, mr. Prime minister, today we renewed our commitment to defend the values at the heart of this alliance, and we continue to stand as one to forge a Better Future for both of us and all the region. So i want to thank you again for being here. Thank you for your partnership, and your leadership in this critical moment. And id like to now turn it over to you. Well, thank you very much, mr. President. Australia and the United States have stood