First lady of the united states, jill biden, talking about military veterans. The couple are, says time magazine, part of a community that in a year of crisis have leapt into the fray. Jonny dymond, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. He is chris fawkes. We ve seen a bit of patchy cloud since the clear blue skies, nevertheless a lot of dry, fine weather. However, the northern ireland we ll see the cloud continue to thicken here with outbreaks of rain starting to spread in, as these weather fronts just our west start to approach and these fronts will be bringing more of us rain over the next couple of days as we will see in a moment. Over the next few hours turning wet in northern ireland. The rain most persistent across western counties. Turning quite cloudy for western scotland but east scotland along with england and wales dry and sunny spells, feeling warm, temperatures as high as 23 degrees. Overnight tonight the rain will begin to spread from northern ireland into scotland.
Warned of extreme weather and more extreme and climate change was here. We re living through it now. We don t have more time. Every part of the country is getting hit by extreme weather. We re living in realtime what the country will look like. We can t turn it back, but we can prevent it from getting worse. As he did in louisiana last week, the president is linking the super charged storms for the need for congress to pass the infrastructure packages to rebuild levees and drains and rebuild climate change and future proof communities susceptible to rising water. After touring the damage in new jersey, he will tour new york to get a look at queens, east of manhattan. The damage in queens is so extensive, many homes are uninhabitable. There was so much rain in so little time, it had nowhere to go from flooded roads and into people s basements. For some families, that proved deadly. This video released by the nypd showing an officer trying to reach one family, but sadly officers were blo
Hello, this is bbc news with annita mcveigh. The headlines: a change to the quarantine rules for travellers to france double vaccinated people arriving back in england and wales will still have to self isolate. And france insists uk travellers not double vaccinated must get a covid 19 test less than 2a hours before entering france. The former conservative health secretaryjeremy hunt warns lockdown restrictions may have to be re imposed in the autumn if case numbers continue to rise over the summer. Pop up vaccine centres open in venues across england this weekend in a push to get more people vaccinated before the country unlocks next week. The race to find survivors of the floods that have wreaked havoc across western europe more than 150 people are dead, most of them in germany. Hundreds of others are still missing. Now on bbc news, panorama: long covid: will i ever get better? bbc correspondent lucy adams is one of more than a million people in the uk with long covid. She s been
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