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tonight at ten... fears of food shortages in pakistan
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— the government says up to half of the country's crops have been destroyed by the floods. many more children could die, warns the un, because of the high risk that water—borne diseases will spread rapidly. the scale of these floods is difficult to imagine. 80% of dadu district is already submerged. the families that you see around me came here hoping they would be safe but they now fear that things are about to get a lot worse. we'll have the latest from one of the worst hit areas of sindh province. also on the programme: russia scraps plans to reopen the nord stream 1 gas pipeline that serves germany tomorrow, sparking fears for european supplies and prices. voting has closed in the conservative leadership election — will it be rishi sunak or liz truss moving into number 10 next week? it's been revealed that more than 11,000 government documents were seized by the fbi during their serach of donald trump's florida home last month.
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and andy murray is out of the us open, beaten by italy's matteo 0pen, beaten by italy's matteo berrettini in the third round. and coming up on the bbc news channel, a freak golfing injury means england starjonny bairstow is out for the summer season, and the t20 world cup which starts next month. good evening. there are fears of food shortages in pakistan, after the devastating floods there washed away what officials say is nearly half the country's crops. so far around 1,200 people are known to have been killed, but today unicef said many more children could die from the rapid spread of diseases like
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cholera and malaria. about a third of pakistan — the worst affected areas seen here in red — is essentially underwater, according to its climate minister. that's a landmass roughly equivalent to the whole of the uk. 0ur correspondent pumza fihlani reports from dadu, one of the worst hit areas of sindh province. meet this boy, he's two days old, her sixth child. as he sleeps under a tree that's become this family's only shelter, his mother is anxious. this is no place for a baby. translation: we don't even have a tent, just this tree. . we spent the whole night in the rain running away from the flood, trying to get to safety. when we arrived, this was the only space we could find here. it gets really hot and he starts crying and won't stop. it's very difficult.
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the baby was born in a nearby hospital, but she was forced to return to the river bank because she'd left her husband and five young children. hundreds of families have taken refuge along a flood wall. their homes were washed away by the floods. this was the only high ground for kilometres. the scale of these floods is difficult to imagine. 80% of dadu district is already submerged. the families that you see around me came here hoping they'd be safe, but they now fear that things are about to get a lot worse. and with good reason — the water across this district is rising and a quarter of a million people are in harm's way. it's notjust one woman who's worried about her young family. there are children in each tent we come across and scores of pregnant women.
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0n the other side of the flood wall, i meet mariam, who is due to deliver any day. her village is buried under water, 20 kilometres from here. when the floods came, all they were able to save from her old life were the clothes on their backs and four cows. translation: i've already got eight children. - look at where we live. i can barely take care of them. sometimes, we don't eat for days. i'm worried notjust about my health but about my unborn baby. i don't even have money to go to hospital. if i get sick here, i wouldn't know what to do. uncertainty surrounds the families marooned on this sliver of dry land. not even the next meal is promised. whatever little there is has many hungry mouths waiting, and as always, there isn't enough for everyone. pumza fihlani, bbc news, dadu. the russian energy giant gazprom
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says it won't resume gas supplies to europe on saturday as planned. the company claims it can't restart nord stream 1 because of an oil leak in a turbine, but the eu has accused russia of using gas as an economic weapon. 0ur economics editor faisal islam is with me. what what exactly is going on tonight? it what what exactly is going on toni . ht? , what what exactly is going on toniaht? , ., , ., , tonight? it is a serious development. - tonight? it is a serious| development. gazprom tonight? it is a serious i development. gazprom is tonight? it is a serious - development. gazprom is run tonight? it is a serious _ development. gazprom is run and owned by the russian government, and it says that the gas supply has been fully shut down after it was shut for maintenance. let me show you a map of the pipeline, and you will see it connect is essentially germany with russia. it is a symbol of germans' traditional dependence on russian gas, a0%, up until a few months ago. the russians claim to have found leaks in the maintenance, it was due to stop tomorrow, but
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many in the markets and amongst the diplomats think this is a predictable escalation of an attempt essentially to blackmail europe over supplies. the timing does seem questionable. earlier today g7 finance ministers including nadhim zahawi, the uk chancellor, agreed to cap the price we pay for russian oil, the world will pay for russian oil, the world will pay for russian oil, and this seems to have an element of tit—for—tat, very serious because even during the height of the cold war, those gas supplies from russia to europe continued. haw from russia to europe continued. how reliant particularly is this country on that gas? the reliant particularly is this country on that gas?— reliant particularly is this country on that gas? the united kingdom isn't so reliant _ on that gas? the united kingdom isn't so reliant physically, - on that gas? the united kingdom isn't so reliant physically, but - on that gas? the united kingdom isn't so reliant physically, but we| isn't so reliant physically, but we are reliant on the impact of a lack of russian gas in continental europe, because that sets the price. there has been an interesting development here, which is that literally over the past month, the stock levels in key european countries, germany, france and italy, have gone up above targets to around 85%, so really significant levels of gas stocks now have been
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built up with the europeans buying as much as they can at whatever price. that has led to this chart, and we showed you something last week of the gas price going up and up, but it has come down. it doesn't seem like much, but it does come down a fairamount seem like much, but it does come down a fair amountjust in the last week, and that is because the market feels that the europeans may be able to weather the storm if the russians continue this cut—off. so there is a kind of silver lining to this cloud, which is that all this arises because of the suggestion that europe has a little bit more resilient, and the impact on price may not be so bad. we will find out when the markets open on monday. faisal islam, thank you for now. the impact of gas prices and the cost of living is just one of the issues that has dominated the headlines this year, along with the war in ukraine of course, climate change, covid, tensions with china and politics in this country.
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in various ways, these stories connect. our analysis editor ros atkins is with me in the studio to look at how. jane, thank you. all the issues that you've just mentioned are important in their own right — but let's look at how this year's biggest stories connect with one another. 0ur starting point is the cost of living. this year, prices are going up sharply — this shows the rising level of inflation in the uk. and those increases connect to russia and its invasion of ukraine. that's because russia exports gas across europe. and as faisal has just explained, that supply is uncertain. faced with these doubts, prices are up. the war has affected food, too. ukraine's a major exporter of wheat — wheat prices are up 25% since last year. but russia isn't the only cause of the cost of living crisis. there's climate change too. at the moment, there's a drought in europe. droughts mean lowerfood production. lower production
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means higher prices. and, as the un notes, "climate change is increasing the frequency of droughts." the war connects to climate change too. because the urgent need to get off russian energy may see countries increase their use of other fossil fuels in the short—term. in the long—term it may drive a faster shift to renewables. like wind power. and so climate change, the war and the cost of living connect in different ways. covid is connected too. because as lockdowns ended last year, increased demand pushed up energy and food costs. covid also caused labour shortages — something that was exacerbated in the uk by brexit. these labour shortages drove up costs in many ways — one was disrupting the global supply chain. that's the system that allows us to produce and buy goods from far and wide. for decades, it's helped keep prices down. but when covid put it under pressure, production costs rose — so did prices.
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and covid's disruption of the supply chain — well, that connects to another story — china's growing power. because more than 28% of the world's goods are now made in china. that's driven rapid economic growth — which requires more and more energy. much of that energy, china produces itself. not all though. and injune — russia became china's top supplier of crude oil. and so china's growth — which, in part, rests on western consumption — is now making it harder for the west to isolate russia economically. there's more, too, because chinese growth is also funding its military. these are recent drills near the self—governing island of taiwan, which china claims as its own. america condemned them. and so, in their own different ways, xijinping and vladimir putin are testing the west — and the limits of its global influence. if we step back — at stake is the world order of the 21st century.
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which is why whoever becomes prime minister knows that rising bills require an urgent response — and also that the cost of living crisis connects to fundamental questions about how we organise our world and treat our planet. thank you. ros atkins. the queen is to miss the highland games, which start tomorrow. the queen, who's 96, usually attends the braemar gathering every year, but has been suffering from ongoing mobility issues. prince charles will be at the event tomorrow. strikes that had been due to close hundreds of schools and leave beans are emptied across scotland tomorrow has been suspended. a bigger pay rise for many staff rather than a smaller rise and one—off cost of
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living payment has been offered. voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after two months of campaigning and eight initial candidates whittled down to two, we will find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader — and so prime minister. here's our political correspondent ben wright. after a long, rancorous campaign, it's now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he's backing liz truss, the presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we've just come through a pandemic. but this economy is resilient. how will they handle soaring inflation? i borisjohnson�*s ejection from office injuly triggered a stampede of wannabe successors.
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tory mps had the job of picking two final candidates. sunak, 137. truss, 113. leaving the former chancellor and liz truss to slug it out in front of party members. good evening. it's fantastic to be... here in darlington. it's fantastic to be... here in eastbourne. gosh, it's fantastic to be... here in birmingham. and at hustings around the country, one issue dominated. this autumn and winter, a conservative government that i'm privileged to lead will be proud not just to cut vat on energy bills, but to go further to support the most vulnerable in our society, because that's what compassionate conservative governments do. i would lower taxes. we shouldn't have put up national insurance, we said we wouldn't in our manifesto, and i will have a temporary moratorium on the green energy levy to make sure that customers' bills are lower. she promised immediate tax cuts. rishi sunak said that would be a huge mistake.
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both avoided spelling out precisely what they would do in a coming budget. in downing street today, a clear sign change is coming. borisjohnson is moving out, but the two candidates vying to replace him have very different views about the departing prime minister. he's one of the most remarkable people i've met. i was very grateful that he gave me thatjob and i'm proud of all the things we achieved in government together, actually. but it got to a point where for me, personally, and these things are personal decisions and liz made a different decision to me on this, but that's understandable, enough was enough. he admitted he made mistakes, but i didn't think the mistakes he made were sufficient that the conservative party should have rejected him. borisjohnson remains pretty popular among tory party members and liz truss sounded more loyal to the outgoing leader. she also pitched herself as a born—again brexiteer despite voting remain in the referendum.
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decision—making in government has been paused while the candidates court the tory party faithful. the winner will have to grip the troubles facing the country. ben wright, bbc news, westminster. all this week, we're looking into some of the key issues which will face the new prime minister. today, we focus on housing — and how a shortage of new homes can have an impact on whole communities. here's our home editor, mark easton. thank you, jane. the challenge of providing the people of this country with a decent and affordable home is probably greater than ever. housing is a devolved matter, so the new prime minister will be focused on england, where the crisis is at its most severe. private rents are rising at their fastest rate on record. the average monthly rent now almost £800. the price of the average home in england is more than £300,000 — more than nine times typical annual pay, making buying a house more unaffordable than ever,
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despite years of promises to make it easier to get on the housing ladder. the problem is most acute in london and the south—east, of course. i have been to the constituency of epsom and ewell in surrey, where rents are soaring, the average house costs 18 times the average salary, and there's no sign of things getting any easier. where blue tory heartlands meet the green belt is where the housing affordability crisis is at its most acute. constituencies likes epsom and ewell in surrey, where rents are 50% and house prices 200% above the national average. let's help you out with some bits to tide you over for a while. thank you, that would be very helpful. sarah is 68, a psychology graduate, now working as a carer on a zero—hours contract in epsom, and this is where she sleeps. on her son's sofa, unable to save enough to get a deposit
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for a rented home of her own. prices are going up everyday. it's not an unusual plight. three households a week are accepted as homeless by the council, usually because theyjust can't afford the rents here. it's impossible. you can't cope, you just live each day as it comes. it's very difficult because each day, you think, tomorrow, there will be a solution and when the solution is never coming, it gets more frustrating and it's very, very hard. the huge need for affordable homes in epsom is assessed at 577 extra properties every year in the borough, but the council hasn't even got close. in fact, they admit they won't provide more than 40% of what's required — a performance so bad the government has threatened to take away their planning powers. this is technically green belt land. protecting the green belt is why many affluent councils like epsom say they can't find the land to build the homes so desperately needed, but research by housing analysts land tech shows that the area could meet all of its annual housing need by developing just 1% of the green
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belt in the borough. green belt was a planning designation introduced in the �*50s to prevent urban sprawl, so to stop towns and cities and villages merging together. but not all green belt is green and pleasant land. some areas could be developed and could go towards solving our housing crisis. with the government encouraging no building on green belt, the only option is brownfield sites — previously developed plots like this bit of waste ground by a railway station in epsom. we had significant local opposition to this one. encouraged by the council, developer ben spent more than £200,000 devising plans forflats. this is utterly inexcusable. the whole idea seems to be a nonsense. but after a stop—the—tower campaign sent more than 1000 protest letters to the planning committee, the development was rejected, not once, but twice. you get to the point where the costs
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you accumulate are so high, you have got to cut your losses. we sold the land about four months ago and we moved on to other things. and of course, no new homes here for people who would like to live here. no new homes, so it's a site that will sit derelict for maybe months or years to come. epsom and ewell�*s planning committee is meeting tonight here in the town hall. we asked to interview any councillor about their housing policy. none was available. it's not appropriate for residential use. but this is about more than planners in surrey, it's about the millions who are struggling to find an affordable place to live. mark easton, bbc news, epsom. there's more updates, news and analysis on bbc news online. that's bbc.co.uk/news, and by using the bbc news app. the head of the united nations nuclear watchdog has warned that the situation
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at ukraine's zaporizhia power plant needs to be treated with immense caution, following his visit to the site yesterday. rafael grossi led an inspection of the russian—held facility amid growing concerns about its safety. 0ur security correspondent frank gardner is in zaporizhzhia. frank — what else did mr grossi say about his visit? well, first of all i should just explain, it's pretty dark here because we are under curfew and the sirens have gone off and there have been some explosions on the edge of the city. down the river from been some explosions on the edge of the city. down the riverfrom here is the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and there are six un nuclear inspectors that are sleeping there tonight. this is a major breakthrough. rafael grossi, the head of the team, has said he was able to see everything he asked to see, and that's really important because there is a suspicion that because there is a suspicion that because there is a suspicion that because the russians were stage managing this visit, some things
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might have been hidden from view. he said no, that's not the case, but it doesn't solve the problem that this is europe's largest nuclear power plant and its right in the middle of a war zone. russia and ukraine are not going to stop fighting very shortly. it's going to go on, so there is that risk. that said, there is a deterrent factor in the fact that two of these inspectors are going to stay there indefinitely for the time being, and that, hopefully, will discourage anybody from firing artillery and rockets at the plant. thank you, frank gardner, in zaporizhzhia. argentina's vice—president has narrowly avoided assassination, after a man's gunjammed when he aimed it at her. i should warn you the images of what happened, that we're about to show, are quite hard to watch. video footage shows the loaded weapon was pointed at cristina fernandez de kirchner, at point blank range. the gunman pulled the trigger, but no shots fired. a 35—year—old brazilian man was arrested, and police are trying to establish a motive for the attack
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on the politician, who was the country's president until 2015. the fbi recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during the search of donald trump's home in florida last month, according to court documents made public in the last few hours. the details come after president biden warned that donald trump and some of his supporters threaten democracy. speaking two months before the mid—term elections, the president said his predecessor represented an extremism which put at risk the american way of life. donald trump said joe biden was unfit for office. 0ur north america editor sarah smith reports. election season has begun in america, so fun times at this wayne county fair in pennsylvania come with a serving of politics on the side. i'm voting republican. got to get the democrats out. they had a chance and they haven't done anything, in my opinion. donald trump is not on the ballot
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in november but he still dominates the debate. i'm definitely voting for trump again, absolutely. this guy has got to go. this whole party has got to go. they scare the crap out of me. anybody but trump, anybody that he supports, i do not. i so republicans have lost their shot at getting your vote because donald trump has made himself front and centre here? yes, and i'm a republican. voters in pennsylvania had better buckle up. they are going to be getting a lot of attention from politicians in the coming weeks. this is one of the key states that will determine whether republicans can seize control of congress in the mid—term elections and it will be a real test of donald trump's current electability because he has got a number of hand—picked candidates on the ballot. my wife wants some vegetables for crudite. including the tv celebrity dr oz, who is running for the senate in pennsylvania.
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like many of trump's inept choices, he could lose a winnable seat with clumsy campaign messages, talking about crudite. guys, that's $20 for crudite and that doesn't include the tequila. i mean, it's outrageous. we've gotjoe biden to thank for this. in the pa we call this a veggie tray. the democratic candidate, john fetterman, is having a lot of fun at dr 0z�*s expense and it may cost the republicans a senate seat. president biden came to pennsylvania to launch his mid—term campaign with a dramatic warning of the threat to the soul of the nation. there's no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. unusually calling out donald trump by name, and saying he is undermining democracy. they promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence.
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they are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit ofjustice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. joe biden is telling the nation the coming elections are a choice between him and trump, between democracy and extremism. people who might have otherwise voted republican and were may be excited to sort of send a message tojoe biden and the democrats, now they're looking at these republican candidates and saying, i'm not sure i can vote for them, they're so extreme. at his mar—a—lago residence in florida, donald trump has other things to worry about. the classified documents found there by the fbi are a huge problem, but won't stop him hitting the campaign trail this weekend in pennsylvania. and sarah is at the white house, because tonight, sarah, and tell us about the documents that were seized, so many of them? there
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were seized, so many of them? there were seven — were seized, so many of them? there were seven top-secret _ were seized, so many of them? ii—ii” were seven top—secret documents in donald trump is my own personal office, 11 in a storage room at mara largo, along with dozens more which were classified as confidential or secret. they also found 48 folders that were marked classified but were empty, so that raises a serious question about where those documents have got to, and the really amazing thing is that we have learnt all of this as a result of an amazing own goal from this as a result of an amazing own goalfrom donald trump this as a result of an amazing own goal from donald trump �*s legal team. they had asked the court to appoint a special master, or an independent auditor, who could go through these documents, and in response to that request the department ofjustice has released all of these details that we know how much material was found, we know that donald trump �*s lawyers had sworn he wasn't in possession of any more government documents and we know about the haphazard way in which they were being stored and we know that because of donald trump as my own legal action. 5am know that because of donald trump as my own legal action.— thank you. now the tennis, it's been
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a disappointing evening for british players at the us open. andy murray has this evening been knocked out of the us open by italy's matteo berrettini. jack draper had to retire from his match with an injury. from flushing meadows, here's laurie scott. from great britain, andy murray. andy murray loves the big stage, the big occasion. unfortunately for him, so does the 13th seed, matteo berrettini. although the light was playing tricks, the champion from a decade ago showed his magic. but the big serving italian wasn't going to be kept in the shade, and got the early advantage and soon the first set. if berrettini thought he could make the man with the metal hip creak, he was mistaken. how's this for footwork and flair? struggling with his serve, this double fault sent murray into a rage. whoever this thumbs—up was aimed at, you sense it wasn't genuine. nor was this laugh.
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taking the second set, berrettini had the bit between his teeth, but murray often plays best with his back against the wall. benefiting from some wild and wayward hitting from the italian, this wasn't over. that one barely found the doubles court. an early break in the fourth set, the belief only built, but the fightback turned to fury, and with another booming serve, the italian�*s job was done. what had started as a historic day for british men soon went from bad to worse as 20—year—old jack draper, who had fought his way back into contention against the 27th seed karen khachanov was suddenly fighting injury. unable to push down on his serve, he realised he couldn't go on. with a shake of the head to a shake of the hands, he called it a day. well, after a such a promising week forjack draper, what a painful way forjack draper, what a painful way for it to end. his retirement means the hopes of the british man getting
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through to the last 16 now lies with dan evans and cameron norrie, who will play tomorrow, but tonight it's the third act of the serena williams show as she tries to stave off her swansong for a little longer. laura scott, thank you, at flushing meadows. let's take a look at the weather because louise lear has joined me. there is nothing subtle about our weather. we seem to have jumped feet first in the battle between summer into autumn because today, we had 27 degrees, that's the second day in a row we've seen 80 fahrenheit so it's been hot and humid for some others but it's all about low pressure this weekend and it's really going to bring some heavy, persistent rain out to the west is that low is not moving very far very fast, and that could have quite an impact. west will be wet, as you can see quite clearly. this is the rainfall
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