the size of four football fields well that is how big it is what is the pioneering spirit in the black sea well it is here for the toughest job in gas pop like construction deep underwater stages of the turkish stream at one point it will get to two point two kilometers below sea level project is so crucial for russia that the president decided to fly in for the launch of the toughest stage that i was telling you about but it's also very important for turkey that's where the pipeline is heading towards so on this special occasion a lot of our putin made a phone call to turkish president tired on right from pioneering spirit but moscow's ultimate goal is to use the turkish stream to deliver its natural gas to south eastern and southern europe that's the extension that moscow is looking for but you know russia's attempts to build a pipeline in the black sea for its european customers that really turned into a solid take the south stream project something that was never completed it was meant to be a pipeline from here to bowl garia that got scrapped because of pressure from brussels then mos

spirit imagine the size of four football fields that is how big it is and what is it doing in the black sea while the pioneering spirit is here for the tough is job and gas pipeline construction that is the deep underwater stages of the turkish stream and at one point it will get to two point two kilometers below sea level the project is so crucial for russia that the president decided to fly in and take part in this and open this up to the stage that i was talking about it's also extremely important for turkey that's where the pipeline is heading towards so on this special occasion vladimir putin made a phone call to type barito on right from the pioneering spirit they talked about and they congratulated each other on that occasion but moscow's ultimate goal here is to deliver its natural gas to southern iraq and south eastern europe that's the extension that moscow is eyeing here but you know russia's attempts to build a gas pipeline and the black sea really these attempts have turned into a saga where remember before that there was the so-called south from here to bulgaria that got scrap

russian navy because of the tactical consequences we see in places like syria in the baltic sea in the black sea. sea power continues to be absolutely central to how nations control their destiny even in this twenty first century you spent eleven years of your life at sea is the u. s. maybe still the back him off the walls in. the days of world war two. in terms of numbers of ships we've come down a long way and let's start from the cold war we had about six hundred ships under president reagan. we declined and now to about two hundred and seventy five ships to less than half of what we had in the cold war. the good news is russia reduced their own fleet china had not yet really risen. what's changed now laura is the fact that. is china adds ships in russia adds ships the united states navy needs to get back up to about three hundred fifty ships. i'm hopeful this administration will do so because american power will depend on sea power in this century. among james to radius thank you so much for joining us. thanks laura always a pleasure. you're watching bbc world news america still to come on t

booked into the black sea resort of sochi where the group a action has concluded the results are in mexico to russia one portugal for you zealand no alongside me as always thank. the big game of the day russia mexico they were hoping that the house would go through would be very good for the tournament wasn't some of the off open the scoring for russia on twenty four minutes at a very crisp british it was across the right time of the mexican goalkeeper my well steady the nerves great wasn't to mexico came back into the game in equalizing five minutes church itself needs to look to manage your game see a game out didn't five minutes later the mexican this is a shocking way to lose i think it is one long point to brainstorms and he grew up in front of his one hundred first appearance of the russian national team was in no man's land but the hosts arrived affect the tournament perhaps not because they're still going to the very best like sanchez christiane overall though but disappointing for russia ok so the hosts go out mexico go through though they were fancied to and of course win in the

thank allah for not having the black sea resort of sochi today as we continue our coverage of the confederations cup christiane. cole mexico on the home. front next week semifinal stay with us. from moscow what's your team's national live with me thanks so much for joining us this. video has emerged from syria showing a member of the what helmets rescue group allegedly handling the decapitated bodies of executed syrian soldiers and warning you might find the video distressing a man can be seen wearing a t. shirt with the what helmets logo apparently moving the bodies into a skip the rescue group has distanced itself from the footage however its actions have sparked controversy before going to see who has more. well since this graphic video was posted on twitter people online have been outraged by it and in fact i believe we can now show you the video a blurred version of it once again so it was reportedly filmed in the southern syrian province and in this video we properly see a man wearing the t. shirt with that white helmets logo and he's apparently helping a group of people remove a number of

welcome to the black sea coast where the sun is just about to set here in sochi but it also looks like it might be setting on russia's confederation cup campaign as well i mean place that always introduced stan collymore let's talk gold action for russia to take the lead in this game against mexico took us through this gold story very brightly a wonderful finish as they said from some of the off because it dropped to even an open position in the box and he lent series roy to just pass the ball down to the goalkeepers right on a very very good finish unfortunately very noise the problem a little bit of noise you could see russia has a very young promising to be spared this for against a team like mexico royden very high in their qualification group six points against the united states they fired they off three points above costa rica that did very well in the last world cup is that it's a little bit of noise secret team and unfortunately it's a one down but like you said this is all about testing the team for chess often he found himself in a situation where they had to leave the probab

navy guided-missile destroyer in the black sea while the u.s. army was unloading dozens of tanks and 500 u.s. arm soldiers arrived in a port in nearby romania. two months later, that same destroyer, u.s.s. porter fired the tomahawk cruise missiles hitting an airbase belonging to the russian-backed assad regime. >> thank you very much, it's a great honor to be with president poroshenko of the ukraine. >> reporter: today the president met the president of ukraine and raised eyebrows when he called his nation the ukraine, a reference to pre-1991 soviet union when ukraine was soviet territory ruled by moscow. a slip of the tongue fraught with russia's invasion of crimea in eastern ukraine. on capitol hill senator john mccain had harsh words for president trump's pick for deputy secretary of defense, former boeing executive patrick shanahan at today's confirmation hearing. >> the answers you gave to the questions whether intentionally or unintentionally were almost condescending. defensive weapons for ukraine, well, something we ought to discuss. >>

navy guided missile destroyer in the black sea while the u.s. army was unloading dozens of tanks and 500 american soldiers arrived in romania. the same destroyer later fired tomahawk cruise missiles into syria. >> it's a great honor to be with the president of ukraine. >> white house, president trump met the president of ukraine and raised eyebrows when he called his country the ukraine, a reference to pre1991 when ukraine was soviet territory. a slip of the tongue that's fraught with meaning, given russians invasion of crimea and eastern ukraine. on capitol hill, john mccain had harsh words for president trump's pick for deputy secretary of defense. >> the answers you gave to the questions, whether intentionally or unintentionally or condescending. defensive weapons for ukraine, something we ought to discuss. >> mccain is a staunch defender of ukraine and has been frustrated with the last two administrations for not helping it stand up to russia. he asked the nominee to resubmit his answers. >> bret: jennifer griffin, thank you. let's get more

russians intercepted this b-52 training over the baltic and they buzzed american destroyers in the black sea. >> sounds to me like a hot doggone russian pilot. this doesn't make any sense. it's dangerous maneuvers. >> reporter: the latest intercept coming on the same day that russian's defense ministry warned that any would be considered targets if they flew west of the euprates river. there was a drone heading towards a u.s. special training base. within minutes and without warning the russians -- the american pilot shot it down. >>> now back to our weather with dangerous heat across many parts of the country in phoenix paramedics were called to save overheated residents where the temperature in the shade reached 120 dries. sky harbor airport over 40 flights were cancelled. sidewalks and roads buckled under the extreme heat. consumers asked to conserve power with little relief in sight. bill karins is back with us. we're watching the extreme heat out west and then tropical storm cindy. >> 127 yesterday in death valley. we did set our all-time record high and tied it in las vegas at 117. pho

and russian fighters have also buzzed american destroyers in the black sea. >> sounds to me like a hot dogging russian pilot. this doesn't make any accepts. it's dangerous air maneuvers. >> reporter: the latest intercept coming on the same day that russia's defense ministry that warns any u.s. fighter planes fighting in syria will be in the target. today the u.s. testing russia's warning. in southern syria, a u.s. f-15 intercepted an armed iranian-made drone heading toward a u.s. special forces training base. within minutes and without warning russians, the american pilot shot it down. u.s. military officials claimed that the hotline is open, but refused to say whether or not the russians are answering it on their end. lester? >> hans nichols at the pentagon, thank you. >>> it is election night in america. a closely watched special election in georgia to replace house secretary tom price in congress, which has now become the most expensive house race in history, pitting democrat jon ossoff against karen handel. the district has been in republican hands for decades but president trump b

project aims to connect russia and turkey with the pipeline pumping russian natural gas across the black sea ice easily at the trunk i was on board the gigantic construction vessel. i hear there is this. truck going up and just say there's no way. anything that happens with spirit gets controlled and this. feeds the full force of the vehicle or the welding of the pipe that's a steering wheel if you like nothing like the regular device let's see if we can talk to the captain or the story to give us a little bit of inside of was going to. pull the tool system off the vessel prejudice here definitely the little mr big so we need to know what's going on at all the places that you see yeah. that's a position to see where you are off position exactly zero point zero meters how exclusive is this machine nothing there's nothing that can be compared with the capacity and the capability of the vessel. which is also defined by the people. over there you can see the pipe that's how they're stored before they are sent into the welding factory and right now i'm going to show you what happens to them right

russians intercepted this b-52 training over the baltic and they buzzed american destroyers in the black sea. >> sounds to me like a hot doing -- dogging russian pilot. this doesn't make any sense. it's dangerous maneuvers. >> reporter: the latest intercept coming on the same day that russian's defense ministry warned that any would be considered targets if they flew west of the euprates river. there was a drone heading towards a u.s. special training base. within minutes and without warning the russians on a military hotline, the american pilot shot it down. >>> paramedics were called in to treat overheated residents where the temperatures reached over 120 degrees. sky harbor airport over 40 flights were cancelled. sidewalks and roads buckled under the extreme heat. consumers asked to conserve power with little relief in sight. bill karins is back with more on that. when is that relief going to come, bill? >> it's going to slow down a little bit but it's going to still be well above average. still 40 million people at risk. the heat dome sitill sits over this region. sacramento is like the

project aims to connect russia and turkey with the pipeline pumping russian natural gas across the black sea. on board the joint construction vessel. such. a hard line here there's this that's all fucked up to say there's no way. anything that happened with bird gets controlled and this through the full force of the cold war the welding of the pipe that's a steering wheel if you like nothing like the regular ral device but people talk to the captain scuse me sir this is very as you give us a little bit of inside of was going to. pull the control system off the vessel prejudice here differently than to do that little mr big but we need to know what's going on at all the places that you see yeah. that's a position see where you are all physician exactly zero point zero meters how exclusive is this machine nothing discussing can be compared with the capacity and capability of the vessel. which was also defined by the people. over there you can see the pike how they were born before they are sent into the welding factory and right now i'm going to show you what happens to them after they come ou

years, it has carried cargo and passengers between the two, and also served as a gateway between the black seahis one of the most important stretches of water in the world. and a nice view, as well. yes. tragically, it was here on the banks of the bosporus that terrorists struck on new year's eve, 2016, when they attacked an open—air nightclub. it was just the latest in a series of incidents that should confidence and badly affect the city's already struggling tourist industry. but seddah says he is hopeful things will improve. well, those very unfortunate attacks made everybody scared, you know? it scared us as well. it scared the people who were thinking of coming here. the only way i think we can ove 1120 m e here. the only way i think we can overcome this is to not be scared, and continue our lives. that will be the first art in point, i think for things to get better. —— starting point. istanbul is not the only capital city that has suffered a downturn because of terrorism. hotels and downturn because of terrorism. hotels a nd restau ra nts downturn because of terrorism. hotels and restau

years, it's carried cargo and passengers between the two, and also served as a gateway between the black seaking this one of the most important stretches of water in the world. and a nice view, as well! yes. tragically, it was here on the banks of the bosporus that terror struck on new year's eve 2016, with the attack on the open—air nightclub. it was just the latest in a series of incidents that shook confidence and badly affected the city's already struggling tourist industry. but sedar says that he's hopeful everything will improve. well, it was very unfortunate, the attacks. it made everybody scared, you know. it scared us as well. it scared the people who are thinking of coming here. so the only way i think we can all recover is to not be scared and to continue our lives. that'll be the first starting point, i think, for things to get better. istanbul isn't the only capital city that has suffered a downturn because of terrorism. hotels a nd restau ra nts in paris were badly affected following a spate of attacks there which kept tourists away, although things are slowly improving. people

it's a resort town on the black sea. than in england. but i asked the university vice—rector how she could be sure british students were up to doing medicine if they hadn't got the grades to study at home. those who approach the university are highly motivated young british people who are very much willing to study medicine. and we pass them through our system for admission. they need to sit for entry exams in biology and chemistry. there's nothing new about british medical students wanting to study around europe. what we've discovered is that there has been a noticeable increase in the numbers going to medical schools in romania, poland, hungary, the czech republic and croatia, as well as here in bulgaria. they're being promoted around the uk at events like this. an agent charging a fee helps with the application process, and says those without a grades at a—level can still get in. some universities might be actually a bit more, a little flexible, and might go for something lower like a c or something like that. but, th

yes welcome to the black sea resort of sochi alongside me as always stan collymore we're here for the action that's tomorrow of course that we're talking group a we're talking russia and mexico what is a huge game for both teams how do you think this will play out i think it should play out for church itself the russian manager is that the mistakes he made in the last game was that he was much too defensive against cristiana rinaldo as portugal in the first off of ply they got bodies behind the ball and they were reactive in the second off they were proactive they started to create more chances they were faster they were pressing i wrote the ph it's a learning curve it's people joining us don't perhaps understand the vagaries of qualification for a world cup tournament if you are the hosts you do not play any qualification games so there are very few tests every game you play you have to treat as i as a group match so he's learning everything about he's very young side it has to be said and they were much more positive in the second off of play against portugal than they were in the f

yeah and so what happened there was you had the black sea drought in affecting the grain harvest in russia and ukraine in kazakhstan this ripples through world markets bread bread prices spike in tunisia and egypt people are out in the street protesting this mahabharat state they've lived with the thirty years but it's also what you know about the price of bread and so that's one way that that environment that climate crisis appears it doesn't really appear like climb across that first you have to sort of think about the interconnections to the world economy it can look like the increased violence in the cattle raids across the east africa where using the weaponry from flowing out of them all you know right now they're quite vicious i mean they will go in with a k forty seven and wipe out an entire clan and steal their cattle yeah and so this is you know an acceleration of what is a traditional pattern there but exacerbated by extreme drought punctuated by water . lack lack of water also the inability of a state didn't deal liberal austerity to assist with you know introducing new types of

it's a resort town on the black sea.ees lower than in england. but i asked the university vice—rector how she could be sure british students were up to doing medicine if they haven't got the grades to study at home. those who are brought to the university are highly motivated young british people who are very much willing to study medicine. and we pass them through our system for medicine. they need to sit for entry exams in biology and chemistry. there's nothing new about british students wanting to study around europe. what we've discovered is that there has been a noticeable increase in the numbers going to medical schools in romania, poland, hungary, the czech republic and croatia, as well as here in bulgaria. they're being promoted around the uk at events like this. an agent charging a fee helps with the application process, and says those without a grades at a—level can still get in. some universities might be actually a bit more, a little flexible, and might go for something lower like a c or something like that.

thank allah for not having the black sea resort of sochi today as we continue auntie's coverage of the confederations cup chris johnno rinaldo cold mexico on the home. front next week some before and will stay with us on also.

roosevelt's perilous trip on the black sea for the second summit meeting with stalin and churchill leading to agreement on the united nations and soviet intervention on our side in the pacific war and crucially a compromise on poland that had little or no chance of holding, roosevelt recognized since the red army had already occupied the entire country. a few highlights. here is a sideline. by picking harry truman as his understudy, and earlier dwight eisenhower to be supreme commander in europe, both were surprised choices. fdr in effect shows not only his successor but his success of successor. all these matters were written over and over, more than if you have given rise to controversies that still can't be deemed settled but roosevelt himself came to feel, as i burrowed into my reading, to receiving many of these narratives, he was too easily presumed long after the effect, or prospectively to be a dying man and therefore any factual, fate about -- fading out and losing grasp of these big events. after all, he did die. somehow it seemed he managed to remain a convincing president to th