on behalf of the bbc world service, whether you are joining the bbc world service, whether you arejoiningat on both health and transport as well. a good deal of sunshine around through sunday morning, particularly across england and wales. showers developing though across northern ireland, some mist and low cloud clinging to the north—eastern coasts. temperatures will be the talking point once again. 35 or 36 celsius, the top temperature, across parts of south—east england. widely in the high 20s or low 30s celsius. the showers start to become more active as we go through sunday evening and overnight. they're starting to develop across north—west england, wales and south—west england. again, still heavy and thundery but falling onto dry ground. there may be problems with flash flooding in some places. and still a very muggy night. parts of southern england could have a tropical night again. temperatures not falling below 20 degrees celsius. as we head through monday, the low pressure starts to become more dominant, and we will start to see more frequent showers developing. now on monday o

on behalf of the bbc world service, whether you're joining us via the internet around the world or here a warm round of applause to our brilliant pioneering engineers — jamie shotton, arjo van der ham, linda zhang. applause. hello there. over the past couple of days we have seen some torrential downpours across parts of england and wales. localised flooding in places. but those heavy thundery showers have now eased away, and it looks like, over the next few days, we will see a little bit of rain at times, mainly in the north and west, with increasing amounts of sunshine, particularly in the south and the east. low pressure pushing in off the atlantic will bring more of a breeze during thursday, and this weather front will bring a band of cloud and rain, which will slowly spread from west to east across the country. so, initially we start off with quite a bit of cloud around. one or two heavy showers in the south—east there, but increasing amounts of sunshine for central, southern and eastern areas into the afternoon. this weather front will bring patchy rain across scotland, northern ir

link, as well as a large audience here in the gallery for a programme that will be broadcast on bbc world service, on radio and television. the climate catastrophe and the sheer weight of traffic on our roads and the horrific rate of accidents that they cause has forced a revolution in the way we think about cars. with me today are three engineers who are at the forefront of that revolution. we have arjo van der ham from the netherlands who is the chief technical officer at a company called lightyear. he has developed the world's first family—sized solar powered car. jamie shotton, an expert in al and in autonomous vehicles. he is the chief scientist at a company called wayve and he is here to tell us about autonomous driving vehicles and, last but not least we have linda zhang from the united states. she is the chief engineer for the f150 lightning and has managed somehow to electrify one of america's most iconic and brilliant cars. pleasejoin me in welcoming them today. applause linda, let's start with you. people outside the united states probably will not know what an icon the f150 is. yes, i

oi soft power of the bbc through bbc and world service.— soft power of the bbc through bbc and world this is i been triggered partly by maintenance is speech last week but a lot of cuts is well here, which will actually close bbc world channel in the next few months. and this is about independence that lucy powell says she is going to bring in reforms to stop political appointments and to protect the bbc going forward. xties. appointments and to protect the bbc going forward-— going forward. yes. the argument about the revolving _ going forward. yes. the argument about the revolving doors - going forward. yes. the argument about the revolving doors of - going forward. yes. the argument. about the revolving doors of people who've _ about the revolving doors of people who've had worked at the bbc, gone into political appointments and then come _ into political appointments and then come back— into political appointments and then come back as members of the bbc board _ come back as members of the bbc board. that's what she was referring to when _ board. that's what she was referring to

on behalf of the bbc world service, whether you'rejoining us via the internet around the world or hereof applause to our brilliant pioneering engineers — jamie shotton, arjo van der ham, linda zhang. applause. hello, good afternoon. all change weatherwise into the start of next week. it will be unsettled with thundery showers and also feeling cooler. but one more day of that extreme heat and the met office weather warning which extends all the way up to northern england and into eastern areas of wales. it is valid until midnight tonight, the heat uncomfortable for many, of course. some thunderstorms around today with a bit of wet weather out towards northern ireland and scotland, some flashes of lightning already, but for most, the heat and sunshine continues, high cloud in the south, temperatures for some could get as high as 34—35. 0vernight tonight, still warm and uncomfortable for sleeping. some showery rain in western wales and the south—west of england, otherwise dry, temperatures dipping to the mid— to high teens for many. so, a warm start again tomorrow morning. but more shower

link as well as a large audience here in the gallery for a programme that will be broadcast on bbc world serviced on television. the climate catastrophe, the sheer weight of traffic on our roads and the horrific rate of accidents the cause is forced a revolution in the way that we think about cars. with me today are three engineers were at the forefront of that revolution. we have the chief technical officer at the company called lightyear who has developed the world first family sized solar powered car. we have jamie, an expert at al and all topmast vehicles, he is an accomplished scientist and a company called wave and he's there to tell us about autonomous driving vehicles. she is the chief engineer of the f 150 lightning. it has engineer of the f150 lightning. it has managed to somehow electrify one of america's most iconic and brilliant course. to join america's most iconic and brilliant course. tojoin me in welcoming them today. linda, let's start with you. people outside the us will not know what an icon the f150 is. . what an icon the f150 is. , the f series is such an iconic brand it is

with me is leonardo rocha, the bbc world service's americas editor. he is picking on the war on drugs as the number one?— picking on the war on drugs as the number one? that took many --eole b the number one? that took many people by surprise _ the number one? that took many people by surprise that _ the number one? that took many people by surprise that he - people by surprise that he started his inauguration speech first with a call for peace and for a new page in colombia's history but the war on drugs is a difficult one. gustavo petro seesit a difficult one. gustavo petro sees it as part of the problem, with the rising crime and economic problems. he said the war on drugs have failed, which any people would agree with and is calling for a new strategy and urging all the armed groups, not only the rebel groups, not only the rebel groups but the drug gangs to engage in peace talks and in a legal process where a different form of economy where things are illegal and that the country will give them options to be prosperous in this new economy. it to b

bbc world service's middle east analyst, sebastian usher has the latest on the violence and muqtada al—sadrction last october, in which his alliance won the most seats, and they will have seen themselves, once again, as being the power that could decide who would be the next prime minister, and that hasn't happened. usually it takes a long time in iraq after an election, but the different factions, despite all their differences, reach some kind of compromise, some kind of agreement, and that hasn't happened. what triggered, not just today, the sadrist took over parliament briefly, and they've been staging a sit in for the past few weeks, was when the other shia faction finally came together themselves, and they presented their own candidate for prime minister, and that was the moment muqtada al—sadr and his supporters felt that, perhaps, things resulting away from them. as you say, it is open to interpretation what this declaration that he made himself today, saying he is withdrawing from politics. looking at his past history, you would think that that doesn't mean that he is forever gone,

it is being incorporated by the bbc world service, "the new york times" is doing it, the guardian, butfrica, in eastern and western europe as well. the success really is the network that is now talking to each other, and really refashioning the idea of what should news be? is it information that tells you what is broken all the time or information that helps you understand how to build a better community? >> how do you get through editors and producers and newsroom leaders? >> the main thing for editors and newsroom leaders, they care most about accountability. most journalists feel our most important thing is to not go soft, especially now, and really hold power to account. but we need to figure out how to ensure accountability without making people feel hopeless and powerless. so when we speak to them, we say, when you actually incorporate solutions journalism into your reporting what you see is not only better ter trust a engagement, but it sharpens the teeth of the watchdog, because it takes away excuses. you can't say we can't do better if you can show here is a school system doin

sebastian usher, bbc world service middle east editor.ere his alliance wasn't the most seats, there was a lot of chewing and throwing over whether he would have his alliance stand at the end. they did. i think the fact that he says in his words it's his final retirement. i think a lot of people both supporters and others in iraq would not feel this is the end in any sense of his engagement and politics, it may be another strategic move. we don't know this for sure but it kind of looks that way. almost immediately after he made that announcement his supporters, who have you been saying have been staging a sit in within the green zone for the last few weeks made their move against the latest target which was the presidential palace and the compound. dave's sense been forced out of it or it may be left it to some extent on their own and are caught by security forces. there is some quiet in the streets. there's been quite a i talked both in terms of dozen casualties. there are still intermittent gunfire in the streets. don't his supporters ha

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mikhail gorbachev in her exclusive interviews for the ukrainian bbc service, she prepared the following material this was a soviet leader the world had never seen before mikhail gorbachev was smiling he was unchained in the west he became a real star for the fact that he managed to put an end to the cold war, he grew up in a peasant family and as a child spoke ukrainian, his mother is ukrainian and after legal education he quickly climbed the career party ladder up to the politburo 10 years old вышем народном хозяйсте the old-timers of crimea died one by one in the early 80s and moscow buried three leaders in a row. therefore, in 1985, the young and energetic gorbachev led the country and started the reconstruction of the reform was designed to revive the soviet union in its own country, it reached out to people in a western style abroad, it charmed the leaders of the time, the iron lady of the british prime minister and the us president, together, the gorbachevs, reagan, reduced the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers with a reformer in the kremlin, eastern europe got a chance to free itself from moscow, it was in kyiv at a

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it helps us, and how we, together with the world and the armed forces of ukraine, fight against the influx. from my colleagues from the ukrainian service of bbc ukraine , congratulations on the broadcast of bbc news ukraine live from london olga palamaryuk is working in the studio and today in the program nuclear blackmail what is happening now at the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant britain promised britain fulfilled ukraine received a batch of rocket systems of salvo wildebeest m-270 minister of defense will say that the support of the armed forces will last as long as it is needed and the battles for the black sea as ukraine breaks the plans of the russians and let's start with the latest news this day the military the state of emergency and mobilization in ukraine will be extended for another three months. the corresponding draft laws were submitted to the verkhovna rada. president volodymyr zelenskyy proposes to extend the period of martial law for 90 acts starting from august 23 . on the morning of february 24. after that, martial law continued in march-april and may. also today, the russian mass media published information about explos

work of the ukrainian of the special services and they are spreading hysteria all over the world around this and want to present ukraine as a terrorist state on bbcraine. and olga palamaryuk works in the studio in london and today in the issue

subversive work of the ukrainian special services, and they are spreading hysteria all over the world around this and want ukraine to be presented as a terrorist state on bbc news ukraine and olga palamaryuk works in a studio in london and today in the release of de-energization at the zaporizhzhia npp in energoatom they warn about radiation danger the tragedy in chapliny the number of dead from the russian attack on the station in dnipropetrovsk oblast has increased to 25 in the kremlin they say they hit military facilities and how the intervention stimulated vladimir putin's aggressive policy, which eventually led to the war in ukraine, an exclusive interview of the third president of ukraine, viktor yushchenko , and we begin the issue with an emergency message to the zaporizhia nuclear power plant. the zaporizhia nuclear power plant was disconnected from the power grid for the first time, as reported by the department. this happened due to a fire on the ash dumps of the tpp, which is located next to the plant . attention to the disconnection of the only dnipro line, which is still working, three other lines of communication were previously damaged durin

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service. antonio otelis said that the world is one step away from a devastating nuclear war in a danger unseen since the cold war, the bbcand the quote is still incredibly lucky for us, oterish said at the opening of the conference of the countries that signed the nuclear non-proliferation agreement. he added that the result of the increase in global tensions is only one misunderstanding, one miscalculation separates humanity from nuclear annihilation, your comment, are we really on the verge of nuclear annihilation, please, we are talking about what nuclear weapons really are today is the most destructive type of weaponry, it was created by e-e created by mankind, there are so many stocks and technical and strategic nuclear weapons that it is enough to completely cease the existence of our e-explode several times. they have been going on recently quite actively, but we understand that we are now at a slightly different stage. when those of the russian federation actually programmed all the existing restrictions on legal regimes the coexistence of states and er in such a field er it is extremely difficult to adhere to an

bbc news. finally to south africa — where a new music genre is emerging from the townships west ofjohannesburg called amapiano. it's become one of the fastest growing on streaming services around the worldlanguage, amapiano simply means the pianos. it came from the genre's earlyjazz influences. sonically, is a blend of many genres. in a studio station, i sat in with three of the sounds top producers. what actually changed everything was the log drum. the log drum... when you hear it, you know you are listening to amapiano. the log drum, it needs to be balanced. it is a bass but at the same time you need a sub bass just to give it that, so, usually that is how it sounds. amapiano is the sound of a young south africa. it belongs to the dance floor and the township. built out of apartheid segregated city planning, townships are a melting pot of style, music, hustle and culture. so, this is home. this is what made kutloano nhlapo become who he did today. kutloano became a singing in his school choir now he is amapiano's top vocalist. when we talk amapiano we are not only talking the music. it a lifestyle now. we know that it is monday—wednesday. we rest three days. weekend, on thursday, fri