this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm gareth barlow, our top stories: a major disaster is declared in the us state of kentucky, after floods cause at least 25 deaths. there at least 25 deaths. is no word. it's just ha rd there is no word. it'sjust hard to imagine. there is nothing really that you can do but we are just glad that we got out. back in isolation, president biden tests positive for covid—19, for the second time in nine days. pope francis says health problems are likely to force him to travel less frequently and he may even have to retire. translation: with all honesty,

it's not a catastrophe. _ translation: with all honesty, it's not a catastrophe. you - translation: with all honesty, it's not a catastrophe. you can . it's not a catastrophe. you can change your pope, it's not a problem. one lucky ticket—holder in illinois wins almost $1.3 billion on the mega—millions jackpot. and, england stand on the brink of women's football history, as they take on germany in the european championship final at wembley. the us state of kentucky has been hit by its worst floods for decades, killing at least 25 people. hundreds of homes and businesses have been flooded, in the east of the state, president biden declared it "a major disaster." the record flooding wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in america, and the the governor has warned it could take weeks to find the victims. our north america correspondent, peter bowes reports.

flowing water, powerful enough to sweep away entire homes. torrential rain has wreaked havoc. some areas received more than 20 cm in a 24—hour period. swollen streams and mudslides have torn through several communities with devastating results. everything's gone. like, everything is gone. my whole life is gone. there's no words. it'sjust hard to imagine. there's nothing, really, that you can do, but we're just glad that we got out. some areas are difficult for rescuers to reach because local roads have been badly damaged and are impassable, cars engulfed in the muddy waters. there's widespread poverty in the affected areas. making matters worse, tens of thousands of people are now without electricity. the biggest concern is the many people who are still missing. we continue to pray for the families that have suffered

an unfathomable loss, some having lost almost everyone in their household. this is still an emergency situation. we are in search and rescue mode. but again, that count is going to continue to go up. and we don't lose this many people in flooding. this is a real tough one. rescuers fear the search for survivors — and bodies — could last several weeks. scenes like this are becoming more familiar. this part of kentucky has had flash floods before, but nothing on this scale. we didn't have no time to get nothing out of my little apartment in the basement. i lost everything twice. this makes twice that i've lost everything. and i ain't the only one. we going to have to have some help, more than what they bring in here the last flood. president biden has declared a disasterfor this area, freeing up funds and equipment to help.

but the worst may not be over, with more rain expected early next week. this is, according to experts in kentucky, another glimpse into the future, becoming hotter and wetter due to climate change. peter bowes, bbc news. well, earlier i spoke to bill haneberg who's a climate expert and director of the kentucky geological survey. i asked him to explain how severe the flooding in kentucky had been. when you talk to the people they say they are unprecedented in terms of their lives. i actually downloaded some data today from the us geological survey, some historical data for one of the most heavily affected areas and plotted those up and calculated the recurrence interval. so basically, there was one stream gauge in the heavily affected area i looked out, and it's at the point it would be a 420 year flood, a flood you would expect once in every 420 years. that was the point where the entire river gauge was swept away and destroyed.

this is something we would expect to occur maybe every 500—1000 years. truly an extraordinary, unprecedented event. how is this weather interacting with the landscape of kentucky? what is the situation there? eastern kentucky, the region is known as appalachia, the appalachian mountains. very narrow valleys, steep valley walls, a very landslide prone area. there are very few flat places to build, and that is part of the reason the problem is so severe, is that there are not any good places to go. the only good places to build are in extreme valleys. people have very little choice in terms of selecting safe places to build their homes. that seems, thinking more broadly across the country in general, we look at yosemite, wildfires there, the colorado river running to a relative and comparative trickle, floods in kentucky.

it does pose a question, where is safe for human habitation? in fact we have also had extreme tornadoes on the other side of kentucky last december. as we move forward i think we will find there are fewer and fewer places. if you think of climate change and sea level rise, you might think we are ok in kentucky because we are in the middle of the country but we will see more and more of these storms. in western states we will see more and more fires and drought conditions. i think unfortunately the number of really safe places is going to continually decrease into the future. and it is this weather or is this a new climate? is this the climate change we have been talking about? everything we are seeing is consistent, it is always hard to say, was this rainstorm due specifically to climate change, and would it have not occurred if you were due to climate change? that is really hard to answer.

but the field known as attribution science is steadily growing and we are more able to look at these events in retrospect and say it is extremely unlikely it would not have occurred due to climate change. certainly the patterns we are seeing a very consistent with what we would expect for climate change under the current path. severe thunderstorms have also caused chaos in las vegas. a witness recorded this footage of ceiling panels falling down and water pouring into a restaurant as the storms passed over the city. torrential rain caused heavy flooding and thousands of people have been left without power. more bad weather is forecast in the coming hours. the iranian president, ebrahim raisi has been visiting areas devastated by two days of severe floods and landslides that killed at least 53 people. president raisi and iranian red crescent representatives viewed the damage from the air, before visiting some of the areas worst

affected on the ground. some 400 towns and villages were battered by the storms and emergency services are still searching for a number of people who are missing. president biden has tested positive for covid—i9 for a second time and is returning to isolation, but his white house doctor says the president "continues to feel quite well". the 79—year—old returned the positive test on saturday morning, after four consecutive days of negative results. doctors believe biden is suffering a rare case of rebound positivity experienced by some coronavirus patients. earlier, i asked dr peter hotez, co—director of the texas children's hospital center for vaccine development how a covid rebound infection comes about. what happens is, you know, you take a course of paxlovid, which you typically give early on in the course of the illness in order to stop virus replication. after a five—day course that should be the end of it, particularly if you are also vaccinated in addition to getting the medicine.

but in the clinical trials for paxlovid it was shown about i—2% of individuals several days later actually had a rebound infection, and it was considered a rare event. but those studies were done with pre—omicron virus lineages. now, with the omicron sub—variants, it may not be so rare. we don't have the exact number, they are a bit all over the place, some people are saying 20%, 30%. i don't think we really know. it happened to me personally after going on paxlovid. it happened to my good colleague dr tony fauci, it happened to the president. anecdotally it appears to be more common than we were led to understand from the clinical trials, and it may be because of these unique omicron sub—variants which replicate in far higher viral loads. paxlovid is an antiviral medicine. is this then a reinfection or is this a re—emergence of the original infection? here is what we know.

it looks as though, first of all, it is not due to drug resistance. this came out of a study from the university of california san diego. that the virus isolated from patients with rebound were still sensitive to the drug, so that is good news. it looks genetically similar or the same as what the patient originally had. the thinking is, right now, that what happens is the medicine may not be getting into cells in high enough doses in order to knock out all of the virus. and that creates a reservoir of virus from the original infection and it literally rebounds, the number of viruses start to replicate again. i think that is probably happening. now the question is what do you do about it. there are some investigators including eric topol�*s group at the scripps translation and research institute that is looking at extending the course of the medicine. currently it is a five—day treatment course, perhaps

by going to seven or ten days, that will take care of the problem and hopefully we will have some data about that soon. and briefly, just in regards to the president, a 79—year—old man, what is the outlook for him? the fact that he is doing well is a good sign. a number of us who had rebound were doing it because we had stopped testing and then we got sick again. and to our unpleasant surprise, we were positive, that is what happened to myself and doctor fauci. in the president's case, they were doing regular testing and it was noted to be positive although he was having no or minimal symptoms. i expect he will do quite well. the only decision to make is whether to give a second course of paxlovid or leave it as is. let's get some of the day's other news: the russian energy company gazprom says it has suspended gas supplies to latvia, the latest eu country to be hit with such action as tensions continue over ukraine. gazprom accused latvia of violating conditions of purchase but gave no details of the alleged violation. iraq's caretaker prime minister, mustafa al—kadhimi, has called for calm after supporters of the powerful

cleric, moqtada al—sadr, stormed parliament for the second time in a week. the protesters want to stop the iran—aligned opposition voting in its nominee for prime minister. in the czech republic, rain and poor visibility are preventing aircraft from taking off to help put out a forest fire that's been raging for almost a week on the northern border with germany. almost seven hundred firefighters are trying to douse the flames in the bohemian switzerland national park. pope francis has said that he might step down, if his health deteriorates, to the point that he feels he can't carry out his duties properly. the comments came on his return flight from a week—long trip to canada, where he met indigenous people to apologise for the catholic church's role in the residential schools scandal. mark lobel reports. as the pope departed canadian

soil, apologising for his church's oppressive and unjust policies, he raised his own departure on—board the papal plane. translation: i don't think they — plane. translation: i don't think they can _ think they can keep travelling with the same rhythm are used to at my age and with the limitation of this knee. i either need to save myself a little in order to continue serving the church or a need to consider the possibility of stepping aside. it is not a catastrophe to change pope, it is not a taboo.— is not a taboo. there is precedent _ is not a taboo. there is precedent for - is not a taboo. there is precedent for a - is not a taboo. there is precedent for a pope . is not a taboo. there is - precedent for a pope resigning up precedent for a pope resigning up the pope benedict shocked the world in 2013 when he became the first pope to do so in almost 600 years.— in almost 600 years. pope benedict, _ in almost 600 years. pope benedict, his _ in almost 600 years. popej benedict, his predecessor, in almost 600 years. pope - benedict, his predecessor, had opened that door and he used the same expressionjust opened that door and he used the same expression just now on the same expression just now on the papal plane meaning that from now on every pope must consider if there is a moment where they feel too frail to carry on, where they are simply not able to do the job as the job nowadays do mine they are open now to consider that and thatis

open now to consider that and that is what has changed. the 85-year-old _ that is what has changed. the 85-year-old pope _ that is what has changed. the 85—year—old pope insists his exit will be guided by god but still wants to visit ukraine upon a doctor's lessing. he never upon a doctor's lessing. he: never expected to be elected pope. what he has decided though is to remain in office until the reforms he has brought about or are trying to bring about our irreversible. in sharp contrast to popejohn paul ii who died in office after 28 years in the role, pope francis has been seen as a reformer for almost ten years now but speaking to reporters he warned of the dangers of the church going backwards under traditionalist.— traditionalist. because the po -e traditionalist. because the pepe has _ traditionalist. because the pope has appointed - traditionalist. because the pope has appointed the i traditionalist. because the l pope has appointed the vast majority of cardinals who will elect his successor and many of those are in the mould of francis it is very likely that whoever comes next will be in the same mould as this pope. for now, the pope remains in

good spirits, maintaining his reforming zeal over rules on contraception to church governance but also now, a very public acknowledgement. his health may determine how long health may determine how long he carries on. mark lobel, bbc news. havana will begin electricity blackouts. other energy—saving plants have been announced including cancelling next month's carnival, more working from home and mess vacations. they have been experiencing blackouts for months already. this is bbc news. the headlines: a major disaster has been declared in the us state of kentucky, after floods caused at least 25 deaths. president biden is back in isolation, after testing positive for covid—19 for the second time in nine days. a lottery player in the us has won $1.3 billion, one of the biggest prizes

in lottery history. the jackpot has grown because no—one has won it since april. the megamillions ticket was bought in the state of illinois but the winner, who can choose to take the cash or be paid in installments over 29 years hasn't yet come forward. so what should you do if you find yourself holding $1 billion prize ticket? well, earlier, ispoke to kurt panouses, an attorney in wills, trusts, and estates law, as well as the rare specialism of lottery law. i asked him what he would advise the lucky winner in illinois. the most important thing for the winner right now is to try to relax. i know that's very easy to say, but to try to relax, gather themselves and just keep the circle of people that know about this good fortune as small as possible. so, you know, the first thing obviously from my perspective as an attorney that has practised in this area and has helped two with the prior

three larger winners — i think they have been four tickets now total that have won over $1 billion, this is the fourth one, but i have handled two of the prior ones. and basically the winner at this point in time just has to, you know, understand that things are going to take some time. i would prefer them not signing the back of the ticket. most state lotteries say, "sign the back of the ticket," and there is some credence to that in the sense that if you lose the ticket, you know, obviously someone else could bring it forward. but i haven't run into too many people that have lost a billion—dollar ticket. so from my perspective, if they don't sign the back of the ticket that gives me as the attorney a complete use of my toolbox to help them, and do exactly what they'd prefer to have happen between not only themselves but other family members that they may want to include. what does it do to people to go from maybe being someone that works in the media, for example, or down on a farm or on a corner shop to go

from living an ordinary life to becoming a billionaire overnight? you know, i've had had the good fortune to have a few of those clients and it is a big change. it is something that they're not used to. obviously on the the financial end of it they have this freedom to do whatever they want, and the clients have always said that financial freedom is what makes the most — is the mostjoy to them. being able to do whatever they want, whenever they want to do it, however, when you start doing things that are different, out of your comfort zone, you're just not ready to be rich, and that's hard — it's easy to say but it's a difficult process to learn. for instance, you know, i've had clients that now would go to a nice restaurant to dinner and, you know, they have a nice wine, they get nice service but they've never understood how much they need to tip for that type of extra service. you know, what is the,

what is the customary amount? "i don't want to do too much, i don't want to do too little." playing golf, if i have a caddie, because now i am playing on a nicer course, "what's the appropriate "amount?" they don't want to stand out. they want to be part of, you know, the enjoyment of game but, again, it's difficult for them to fit into something that they haven't had a lifelong lesson in growing into, so it makes it difficult for some people but eventually they get around to it. what is your one top tip, apart from signing the back of that ticket, in your opinion, that people should avoid doing? i think especially in the days of social media, it would be very easy to publicise it to the world. yeah, you have to be very careful, one of the things i tell clients all the time is the first thing to do is obviously get some extra phones and an extra phone line or service so in case information gets out about them they'll be able to communicate with loved ones and family, and even my office, so getting that extra phone line

makes some sense. you know, they do have — they do have a decision they need to make right away. there's only 60 days for them to determine whether or not they want this annuity or the cash option, so that's going to be one of the decisions. and with inflation today, the annuity products are — you have to take a look at them. in the past we never really did it, we always just took the lump sum over the annuity, but right now the annuity is very, very compelling to take look at, just from a standpoint of inflation, with the winner now only receiving 58% of the $1.3—billion sum that was identified as the winning ticket — it said 1.3 billion — but they will only get 58% before taxes. taxes will take another 40% out, so you are down to about $450 million after taxes.

a life changing amount of money! day two of the commonwealth games in birmingham and there was plenty of action. chetan pathak has a round—up of the winners. another action—packed day here. plenty of drama too on day two, not least in the marathon races which were the first events to get going this morning. and let's start with the women's race which was won by australia's jessica stenson, third in glasgow in 2014, third again in brisbane four years later, but this time she left her competitors trailing in her wake as she took gold. i spoke to her after the win and she said she was doing it for the mums. in the men's race, uganda's victor kiplangat won gold, despite at one point going the wrong way. it could've been costly but thankfully he corrected his course to take the win. not so lucky for six—time paralympic champion david weir. a puncture close to the finish of the men's wheelchair race ended his hopes as teammate johnboy smith took gold. australia's madison de rozario won the women's wheelchair marathon.

another good day meanwhile for new zealand at the track cycling. that's taking place in london. three gold medals won by bryony botha in the women's 3000m individual pursuit. aaron gate in the a000m individual pursuit. and ellesse andrews in the women's sprint. plenty to celebrate for the british home nations in the swimming pool, including gold medals for england's ben proud in the 50m butterfly and scotland's duncan scott in the men's 200m freestyle. olympic champion maggie mcneil from canada edged out australia's emma mckeon in the women's 100m butterfly. it was a golden day meanwhile for malaysia in the weightlifting. mohamad kasdan won the men's 55kg, and afterwards aznil bidin made it a double celebration for the country in the men's 61kg. the 28—year—old who lifted a combined total of 285 kilograms for a new games' record. and there's more weightlifting medals to be won on sunday, as well as in the pool, and it's the men's and women's rugby sevens finals.

the bbc pop smoke chetan pathak there. —— the bbc�*s. by this time tomorrow we will know if england women's wait for a major trophy has ended after they take on germany in the euros final at wembley. the lionesses who've scored twenty goals and conceded only one so far, have been getting ready to take on the most successful nation in the tournament's history. the germans have won it eight times. our sports correspondent, natalie pirks, looks ahead to the match. music: three lions - - 'football's coming home'. you know it's a big deal when the queen's guard get involved. the familiar refrain of the three lions has been echoing round every ground on route to wembley... # football's coming home, it's coming home...# ..and will no doubt again for this sell—out final. from lionesses of the past to the current squad, as they surveyed the pristine pitch that took a moment to take it all in, to work out where their families will be for the defining match of their careers, and the spot where they might be lifting the trophy. we have a 90—minute game to play first but that has

been my dream, that's been the dream of everybody since we were little. so i know how it felt like in the garden when i was pretending when i was six, and i'm sure it will feel just as good as that, yeah. just over 100 years ago, football was deemed quite unfit for females and was banned for almost 50 years. it was only four years ago that the women's super league when fully professional. england's women have been playing catch—up ever since. those at the forefront of change say this tournament will always be remembered. for sure, when people look back in history they will talk about 2022 and the euros and the sold—out stadiums, the huge tv audiences and, really, the month that those players became household names across the country. it's difficult to overstate how big a moment this is, not just for women's football but for women's sport in this country. sunday will see the biggest crowd in history for a women's european final.

regardless of result for them, this is special. every little girl now can see that women can be successful and that you can do what you really love, and that makes a difference, and hopefully that will change society in a positive way. england have steamed into this final, scoring 20 goals along the way, and only conceding one. but germany are the most successful side in european history, winning eight of the last ten trophies. for them to meet at wembley in the final is a script writer's a dream, the fairy tale fixture. only one, though, will get the hollywood ending. natalie pirks, bbc news, wembley. there we are. a lottery winner, potential football winners and also athletics winners too. good news here on bbc news. there is plenty more on our

website. it is bbcnews.com. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @garethbarlow. thank you for watching bbc news. hello there. saturday was a warm and humid day for many of us. in places, we got to see some sunshine. in other places, the humidity gave rise to a lot of cloud, mist and murk and some outbreaks of rain, and there's more cloud and rain in the forecast for sunday across some parts of the uk. the sunniest conditions will be up to the north. the earlier satellite picture shows this pipeline of cloud, bringing some outbreaks of rain. we're starting sunday on a pretty soggy note across parts of wales, northern england, the north midlands, eastern england too. very little rain getting down into the south, but quite a cloudy, murky start to the day here. much of the rain will tend to peter out. still a few showers into the afternoon, but a bit more in the way of brightness developing, particularly in north wales and northern england.

all the while, northern ireland and scotland will have the lion's share of the sunshine. always a bit more cloud for eastern scotland. cool and fresh here — 16 for aberdeen, 18 degrees from belfast. still quite warm down towards the south and the south—east. it's triathlon and pa ra—triathlon day at the commonwealth games. quite a lot of cloud, some spots of drizzle to start. should brighten up later on. and for the women's euro 2022 final at wembley, chance for a shower. i think, on balance, it should be dry, quite warm and muggy for the kick—off. so, yes, we could just see the odd shower drifting across the south—east corner during sunday evening, but overnight, into the early parts of monday, we'll see largely clear skies overhead, light winds and, actually, particularly up toward the north, something quite cool and fresh. seven to start monday in glasgow. still 17 there in london, so still a bit of warmth clinging on in the south. monday getting off to a fine start in most places, with some spells of sunshine, but we see another area of cloud starting to push in from the west. that'll bring rain into northern ireland through the afternoon, perhaps fringing into parts

of west wales and the far south—west of england. ahead of that, actually, another relatively warm day. 21 degrees for newcastle, 26 once again in london. as we move out of monday into tuesday, we see this area of low pressure bringing frontal systems and outbreaks of rain, but not much of that rain getting down into the south, where we really do need some. in fact, southern areas through tuesday are likely to be very warm indeed — 27, maybe 28 degrees — with the rain further north and west. it is then set to turn cooler but drier for the end of the week.

they have been experiencing blackouts for months already.

this is bbc news, the headlines: a federal emergency has been declared in the us state of kentucky after floods caused at least 25 deaths. the governor, andy beshear says many residents remained unaccounted for, while hundreds of homes and businesses have been washed away, in the east of the region. the white house says president biden has tested positive for covid—19 for a second time in two weeks. doctors said the 79—year—old returned the test, after four consecutive days of negative results. he is now back in strict isolation at the white house. pope francis has said health problems are likely to force him to scale down his busy international travel schedule, and may even lead to his retirement.

speaking after a six—day visit to canada, the 85—year—old