Democratic heavy hitters turning out to help california governor gavin newsom as he tries to keep his job. The message they are hoping breaks through to voters in the final days before the recall election. Welcome to your sunday, september 5th. We are so grateful to have your company, as always. Good morning. Hope you are enjoying this sunday. Good morning, christi. Good morning to you, too, boris. For the second time in less than a week president biden is visiting an area of the country that has been ravaged by hurricane ida. Tuesday he travels to new jersey and to queens, new york, to survey the damage, and this is following his visit, of course, to louisiana last week. Yeah, there have been at least 50 stormrelated deaths across six states in the northeast. The remnants of hurricane ida brought unprecedented rainfall that led to catastrophic flooding along the gulf coast, meantime, gas is in short supply. People have been waiting in line for hours to fill their cars and gas cans, to
Javid says he has tested positive for coronavirus and is experiencing mild symptoms. I was feeling a bit groggy last night so i took a lateral flow test this morning and it s come out positive, so i m now self isolating at home with my family until i get the results of a pcr test. Olympics organisers announce the first case of coronavirus in the athletes village, six days before the tokyo games begin. And why the world s new space race is all about getting technology rather than people up into orbit around the earth. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Rescue crews have been racing to find survivors after the floods that wreaked havoc in germany and its western neighbours switzerland, luxembourg and the netherlands. 153 people are so far known to have died across europe, 133 of them in germany alone. Hundreds remain unaccounted for, and thousands are now homeless. Thousands of residents of wassenberg, an area west of the german city of cologne, have left their homes after a dam was breache
I thought we d start off by looking at the weather in europe. Massive thunderstorms hitting the same kind of areas, the heaviest of the rain was to the south west of bonn. Across parts of western germany we saw up to 158 millimetres of rain, that looks to be about three times the amount of rainfall we d normally expect in the whole ofjuly, falling in one day. It s been extreme rainfall. You seem catastrophic damage and flooding as a result, partly caused by this upper low pressure. In the uk we are under the rich part of the jet stream and what that does is it bill s area of high pressure. Here is our high and in the next few days that will be with us through the rest of the week, the weekend and will influence the weather into next week as well. Today, we ve got the sunshine out in full force across northern parts of the uk. That s where the best of the sunshine has been. Across central and eastern england some areas of cloud but it s pretty thin, so i m pretty hopeful that we should
But we have come to the view that this is the best and only way to facilitate an effective information retrieval and provision process and the best way to help northern ireland move further along the road to reconciliation. Borisjohnson promises new measures to deal with racism in football including banning from matches fans who racially abuse players. And britney spears battle to end the conservatorship that has controlled her life for 13 years goes back to court in los angeles. There s growing confusion about the guidance on wearing face coverings to prevent the spread of coronavirus. It will continue to be compulsory on public transport in london, but not in the rest of england from monday, when restrictions are lifted. London s mayor, sadiq khan, says the rule should have been retained throughout the country. The mayor of the west midlands says he is expecting passengers on all forms of public transport in the west midlands to wear face coverings. In scotland, masks still have t
G7 summit is underway. A short time ago, president biden holding a bilateral meeting with french president macron, part of his first foreign trip as president, with one clear message america is back. The european union is incredibly strong and vibrant entity in a has a lot to do with the ability of europe to not only handle its economic issues, but provide the backbone and the support for nato, and so i we are very supportive, very supportive. Well, today s focus is on global infrastructure, combatting china s growing influence and pandemic recovery and prevention. It comes as the president is set to have his first sitdown with russian leader vladimir putin on wednesday. Yore overnight, a preview into what the highly anticipated meeting may look like. Nbc s keir simmons exclusively sat done with putin and asked him directly whether he can work with biden. Translator: it is my great move, but there will not be any impulse movements. First, back in washington, new developments on that bo