. —— chennai's largest lakes. also in the programme.dent trump says he'll use an executive order to find out how many illegal immigrants there are in the united states. and england will face new zealand in the cricket world cup final after thrashing australia — the predictions are already coming live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 6 o'clock in the morning injakarta where, according to their lawyers, relatives of people who died in the boeing 737 max crash in indonesia have been cheated out of compensation. many families who lost loved ones in the plane crash last october were persuaded to sign agreements that prevent them from taking legal action against boeing. the bbc has discovered relatives signed similar agreements following two previous crashes in indonesia — and the agreements prevented them from suing in the us courts. boeing declined to comment on the agreements. richard bilton reports. last october, a boeing 737 max cra

once in chennai the water is deep counted into tankers. but it could be more people get excited once they see our lorries earlier we used to go home by 8 now it takes till 12 am to go home and sleep there's no time to even eat underneath. the drivers have been putting in extra shifts for weeks chennai is home to more than 4000000 people. thousands stand in line for a few connoisseurs of water for hours so this water is just a drop in the ocean. and this could be only the beginning more indian cities could suffer water shortages if drug continues in the future. i'll have to leave it there nice doing business with you i'll see you again very soon to tell. the full. millenniums do some things a bit differently another things very good. from. the older generation on the labor markets. their focus not confident and optimistic. and it was nothing less than to change the world. to check the pools of generation looks made in germany improve human response to w. . germany which. any time any place. video never. happened at the benefit of pop. songs

chennai's about the house i mean if we. are the same thing we'll be getting this spark. in some other bank and we have some kind of let's say in fall of the depression. and i just it has come of them yeah you know because it's a structural problem of a structural problem and also the levy structure as an idea and because i'm not expect that because if you look at what has happened in chad i object the evidence that i get it you see the extent of damage we have done to all our natural back to you know. what busy to do a little of you know helping us during the floods basically the city the city in which was planted just a few years ago which is not working today actually tell you there's something fundamentally a hole in the rebuilding look at the idea of all down and you look at the idea when the construct many people don't know about patients what do they really do with all the national education natural we didn't we just want to actually particularly down in to the water table all of this has to magically destroying and that is also a fundamental structural problem in

rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, chennai. nada: extraordinary to e the large reservoirs reduced to dust. llthe discovery of a sn southern greece has researchers rethinking the origins of history. the fossils suggest the first homo sapiens may have d in europe much earlier thanht previously thoat a time when the continent was populated by neanderthals. pallab ghosh has more on the discovery. pallab: in ttant past, the first of our kind evolved here in africa. there were other now extinct species of humans like the neanderthals in europe and asia. our ancestors eventually left the continent and spread aoss the globe, and quickly took over from all the other species. so the theory goes. but the discovery of this human-looking skull in souern greece has changed everything. scientists used to think that 200,000 years ago, europe was exclively populated by the neanderthals, whereas our kind,r modern humanained in africa until 40,000 years ago. but the discovery of the new skull greece has shattered that view. the flattened,e elonga

as the crisis in chennai continues, millions rely on these trucks.l the lake," they chant. families keep praying for the rains but that alone cannot solve this city's water woes. environmentalists warn this is a problem of our own making. england have secured their place in the final of the cricket world cup after thrashing australia by eight wickets. it's the first time in 27 years the side has made it to the final match, which will take place this weekend in london against new zealand. for more on how the match unfolded, here's our sports correspondent will perry. "cricket‘s coming home" was the chant from the england fans as they left edgbaston having watched their side thump their old rivals australia by eight wickets to book their place in the world cup final on sunday against new zealand. australia won the toss and it looked like a good toss to win because they put themselves into bad but, reg retta bly put themselves into bad but, regrettably the might not think that was the right thing to do. they were 14 /3 having lost an early wickets. davi

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and once in chennai the water is deep counted into tankers. and you put it with people get excited once they see your lorries earlier we used to go home by 8 now it takes till 12 am to go home and sleep there's no time to even eat meat. the drivers have been putting in extra shifts for weeks chennai is home to more than 4000000 people. thousands stand in line for a few connoisseurs of water for hours so this water is just a drop in the ocean. and this could be only the beginning more indian cities could suffer water shortages if drug continues in the future. i'll have to leave it there nice doing business with you i'll see you again very soon they'll. go to the. romex you just channel. most good mine of stories. with exclusive inside. the must see concerning parts culture to ensure a. place to be for curious minds. do it yourself networkers and. so subscribe and don't miss out on. earth home to millions of species a home worth saving. google ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas the protect the cl

millions of people in chennai are struggling as taps run dry. are late this year. environmentalists partly blame climate change, and warn this is a problem which could affect all countries. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. scrambling for every last drop. they are running out of water and also out of patience. it is a daily desperate ritual. here, trucks have replaced taps as the only source of water. and yet this is chennai, one of india's largest and richest cities. "we are only allowed five buckets of water a day from the lorry", this woman tells me. back at her house she shows me how her family struggles. "we have to use this for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing clothes. it is difficult." even more so because there has been a record heat wave here in india. a few houses away, a mother of two says she used to take water for granted. "water is more precious than food and gold," she tells me. "god has to bring the rain. only that can save us." for now, this landscape remains thirsty. it is hard to imagine that thi

this is one of chennai's largest lake, now parched and desperate for rain.nd amal clooney tells the bbc that a global hostility towards journalists risks undermining democracy. president trump has said he's dropping his attempt to add a citizenship question to next year's us census. the move was blocked by the supreme court last month. opponents fear it could deter immigrant households from taking part in the census, lead to an undercounting of the population in democratic districts, and benefit the president's republican party. but he still hopes to press on, announcing instead an executive order, requiring all government agencies and departments to provide records on population. today i'm here to say we're not backing down in our effort to determine the citizenship status of the united states population. i stand before you are planning new steps, my administration is taking to ensure that citizenship is counted so that we know how many citizens we have in the united states. our north america correspondent peter bowes is in los angeles. the president makes

this train is carrying water to chennai india's commented fracturing hub because they are simply out and india's tech hub pingala route is also down to 0 climate change and bad water management mean that indian cities are running on empty and no more so than in new delhi. this is where rich politicians and business leaders as well as this stuff don't have to worry but millions of poor people are now unable to access enough to drink waiting on a legal and on regulated water tanks. on the issue that we're facing is that we don't get enough water we have a big family and we only get $8.00 to $16.00 leaders every 3 days we don't even have enough to drink that. how we get enough water to bathe when we're hardly getting anything to drink so c i guess. it is funny because you know people come and beg that we vote for them during elections but they're not that now that they've won they don't even come and show their faces. to the. climate change means summers of hotter and rains more unpredictable do these go on water in many places it is going down what do you do this but if you whole you g

and drinking water for india's proud stricken city of chennai coal else fails then to bring in the precious cargo via rail the 1st. event is one let's do business after going program tonight from born in germany from the use of these eaves i want whips. d.w. did constantia africa join us on facebook at t.w. africa. no breakthrough no progress no trade deal the 1st face to face talks in so truce was declared last month between the u.s. and china fizzle out. the stock markets wobble as investors await what could be the u.s. federal reserve's 1st interest rate cut in over a decade. and drinking water pouring new year's drought stricken city of chennai else fails then bring in the precious cargo via rail. and then has one place to business the reality couldn't be any different chinese state media describes the trade talks as constructive today's meeting in shanghai only lasted a few hours then the americans said goodbye all they could basically agree upon was the next date in september in the us. if you pleasant smiles and exchange of niceties then u.s. trade representative robert light ties ar

monsoon rains haven't arrived many reservoirs are almost empty this is one of the 4 main ones in chennai a city of around 11000000 people. lives in a more affluent area than mohanna tanker supply those living in her apartment block with water every day but she says it's expensive and there's not enough there are times like when morning 7 o'clock we not have water and that's when we need to get ready to leave or walk and sometimes you want to water to you and for the 1st few it is we have no other jobs but to use the drinking water because there was no water but ok we had they offered ability so we did but looking at it it's a crying you know the big. satellite images show the city's largest reservoir at put a lake has emptied over the past year. but i would think that it would have sort of if you will do it one development expert says the city's authorities have wrongly invested in big projects like desalination plants instead of making better use of existing facilities and the moment to turn a city is facing of it is who would want to play this and the government is also in deadspin cri

at least 20 cities will have completely run out of groundwater including new delhi bengaluru and chennai taps are already running dry under schapelle has more. mana fills as many containers as she is able to carry after joining a queue for water but having to fetch supplies for herself her husband and 2 small children interrupt her job. numbers. they want the problem has become very troubling we got to work and then have to run back home under water tank arrives this has been our life lately in a single day and we come back from work to do free time to feed water it's very difficult not just for us but for the whole city. the region is suffering a severe heat wave and seasonal monsoon rains haven't arrived many reservoirs are almost empty this is one of the 4 main ones in chennai a city of around 11000000 people. he lives in a more affluent area than mohanna tanker supply those living in her apartment block with water every day but she says it's expensive and there's not enough there are times like when morning 7 o'clock we not have water and that's when we need to get ready to leave for

least 20 cities will have completely run out of groundwater by next year including new delhi and chennai where taps are already running dry under schapelle has more. mona fills as many containers as she's able to carry after joining a queue for water but having to fetch supplies for herself her husband and 2 small children interrupts her job. like they want a problem has become very troubling we go to work and then have to run back home wonder what's going on right this has been our life in a single day and we come back from way too much of free time to feed water it's very difficult not just for us but for the whole city. the region is suffering a severe heat wave and seasonal monsoon rains haven't arrived many reservoirs are almost empty this is one of the 4 main ones in chennai a city of around 11000000 people. lives in a more affluent area than mohanna tanker supply those living in her apartment block with water every day but she says it's expensive and there's not enough there are crimes like when morning 7 o'clock we not have walked out and that's when we need to get baby leave or

challenge is in these mountainous areas a different from what they are built upon cities like mumbai and chennai and over here because of the because of climate change impacts is actually been worse than was extreme climate situations that have been that studies have shown odd increasing with time you mention climate change surely this is something that as you mention has been studied so the government would be aware what measures have governments in the region taken to try and address. well british again the group the prime of the security forces seems to be the main effort of the governments in the region have tried to make both as well as in india there have been a massive deployment of security forces and of the locational people the question being raised is that why aren't there more long term georgia bill solutions being undertaken why aren't these people in low lying areas. moved bowman and clear and white on them or infrastructure actions taken a good deal of this but of course when you're talking about extreme climate change conditions extreme weather events because of climate change it

and drinking water for india's prout stricken city of chennai all else fails then bring in the precious cargo via rail. and then for one let's do business the reality couldn't be any different chinese state media describes the trade talks as constructive today's meeting in shanghai only lasted a few hours in the americans said goodbye all they could basically agree upon was the next date in september in the us. if you pleasant smiles and exchange of niceties then u.s. trade representative robert light ties are in treasury secretary stephen minucci got down to business with chinese vice premier heard. there was little expectation of an agreement being reached before hand found the likelihood of that probably wasn't helped by the coinciding harsh criticism of china's economic policies by president trump one of his complaints that china makes promises but fails to follow through and beijing wasted no time in responding to a shot 19 shuffle me i think it's meaningless for the u.s. to pursue zs maximum pressure attacked.

reasons are way different from bill to borneo as in india such as flooding in mumbai or the city of chennai now in these either of them all mountainous it isn't the flooding will be here because it's still a lot of loss of life because of these events lying alongside druids as well so also extreme climate change has extreme weather conditions have become more common that is an mit study that actually predicts that by the end of the century india would be 80 percent of the u.s. population would be subject to extreme weather conditions so this is something that authorities have to prepare for even though the contraband floods in mountainous regions they do have to deploy more forces more efforts to make sure that people are not as badly affected as they are every year and look at let's look at that level of preparedness that you reference in bangladesh specifically because i mean they have some unique challenges with hundreds of thousands of refugees from me on mar how were they affected. well exactly the condition in baghdad this is different and there is the challenge of the refugee camps c

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rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, chennai.called for him to quit over his handling of the epstein case. mr trump told reporters that the two had spoken on the phone earlier on friday morning and that it was mr acosta's decision. in the same outing on the white house lawn, mr trump was asked about the story which has been running here are this week, about the leak of diplomatic telegrams by the ambassador to washington, kim darroch in which he made some criticisms of the trump white house and donald trump himself called kim darroch someone who was pompous, wacky and other unflattering things. kim darroch resigned mid week and today donald trump has some slightly more positive things to say.|j today donald trump has some slightly more positive things to say. i wish the british ambassador well. some people told me he actually said good things about me and he was referring to other people. i guess i am quoting lindsey graham who said some nice things about the british bass. i wish them well but they have to stop their linking prob

monsoon rains haven't arrived many reservoirs are almost empty this is one of the 4 main ones in chennai a city of around 11000000 people. lives in a more affluent area than mohanna tanker supply those living in her apartment block with water every day but she says it's expensive and there's not enough there are crimes like when morning 7 o'clock we not have walked out and that's when we need to get the need for walk and sometimes you want to water to you in but out for the 1st few it is we had no other jars but to use the drinking water because there was just no water but ok we had they offered ability so we did but you're going to get sick i mean you know the big bringing water out and then to use it for your satellite images show the city's largest reservoir at put a lake has emptied over the past year. from what i would be better if you would have sort of if you will go to one development expert says the city's authorities have wrongly invested in big projects like desalination plants instead of making better use of existing facilities and the moment to turn a city is facing of it if

these are one of the four main ones in chennai. she lives in a more affluent area.in her apartment block with water every day, but she says it is expensive and not enough. >> there are times when we do not have water. that is when we need to get ready, leave for work. sometimes, you want water. the first two days, we had no other choice but to use the drinking water because there was no water. ok, we had the affordability. looking at it, it is a crime to take drinking water. andrew: satellites show the city's largest reservoir has emptied over the past year. one development experts and the city's authorities have wrongly invested in big projects like desalination plants, instead of making better use of existing facilities. >> it is a very serious water crisis. management cannot be the solution. at have to think very loudly the ways and means of storing rainwater. andrew: millions of liters of water are being brought into train. by the waterboard authority says it's water storage practices are not to blame for the shortage. it is the weather. still, this sort of scen

in these mountainous regions are very different from built upon it as like mumbai or the city of chennai but there are other areas in india that i hit by drought studies have been formed that this is related to climate change and extreme weather conditions are expected to be much more likely as we progress if nothing is done right now about this in fact there is a study by the massachusetts institute of technology that predicts that 80 percent off just for predation ville be exposed to extreme weather conditions by the end of the century if more action is not taken right now it's to prove and or the fact that climate change is having in the subcontinent bangladesh's facing some special challenges with hundreds of thousands of refugees from being more now in the country will will these refugees be getting the help that they need. but bangladesh of course has a very specific and of a unique challenge and we have lots of bizarre we've seen visuals from there of people in temporary housing is trying to keep up the must light since april has taken lives and is also a product of heavy rainfall

indian authorities have transported more than 2 and a half 1000000 liters of water to chennai the city is struggling with months long shortages people living on the outskirts of the city have been blocking bones and holding up tank and ali so if he is reservoirs are being prioritized to businesses and not sure hotels groundwater levels in the city of rounding the end surrounding regions have been falling due to a lack of rainfall and poor management still ahead in sports a day of drama in the wimbledon semifinals sproul has the best of the action on center court. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. it was. odd. the boy. thank you roger federer won the latest edition of tennessee's greatest rivalry to beat rafa nadal and reach his 12th wimbledon final meeting on the semi's on center court was their 40th clash but their 1st at wimbledon for 11 is the 1st set went to federer on a tie break but it was all rough in the 2nd he broke twice to take it 61 and thoughts of another classic between the 2 were on the cards but federer really seize control after that winning the next 2 sets 6

region colombia indian authorities have transported more than 2 and a half 1000000 liters of water to chennai the city is struggling with months long shortages people living on the outskirts of the city have been blocking roads and holding up tanker lorries overthe years reservoirs are being prioritized to businesses and luxury hotels groundwater levels in the city surrounding region and surrounding regions have been falling due to a lack of rainfall and for management. to tunisia now where the beaches are disappearing fast because of rising sea levels any beauchesne the country's economy relies heavily on the coastline as. reports a number of unesco world heritage sites are also being threatened by climate change problem yes seen bran has been fishing for 40 years or longer to new zealand crystal town of her element and while the traditional method of catching fish hasn't changed for generations the climate has you seen so the effects of global warming are evident in these waters. there's no 80 percent less fish than before we now live day to day we catch a pitiful one to 2 kilos of fish the

to drink and stay clean so every drop house was speaking to al jazeera this month one resident of chennai explained how dire the situation has become take a look out of without water we are not able to cook food we are not able to sleep as we are running.

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millions of people in chennai are struggling as taps run dry. lack of monsoon rains last year — which the city relies on — is one of the causes. and this video is trending on bbc.com: a waterspout spins over lake pontchartrain in new orleans as the city braces for a hurricane. tropical storm barry is forecast to hit on friday. that's all. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, it's time for hardtalk. apologies for that. we will bring the programme to you in a few minutes time. stay with us, we are having a couple of technical difficulties. you can keep up—to—date on all the stories we're covering online at our website and you can also reach me on twitter. we have plenty more of all of our top stories. let's bring you a quick weather update. thursday brought us a warm and humid day across many parts of the country but we also had heavy showers and thunderstorms as well. a mix of sunny spells on friday and a few showers around across eastern england and eastern scotland but many of us will avoid the showers that we have an area of low pushing

of monsoon rains isn't causing the queues for drinking water in india's 5th biggest city people in chennai a waiting for hours in the sun having to pay for water from emergency tankers many operated by private companies some of the 10000000 people that make up the population they're blaming years of drought and government mismanagement because of the water crisis. now in a moment we'll have the weather for you with some but also still ahead here on the news. between police and protesters in haiti during the funeral of a murdered journalist. and we'll take you to alaska where the resigns of trouble one of the state's most iconic sites. and in sport the stakes are high of the african rally championships and not just for the drivers details coming up in about 20 minutes. well we'll take a closer look at those rains across southeastern china to see this big line of fun beheads which is running from the southwest right across into the eastern side of the country and for a day off the day off today we have seen some really heavy downpours coming through as you can see grilling we had 127 millime

of monsoon rain isn't cathing the queues for drinking water in india's 5th largest city people in chennai are waiting for hours in the sun having to pay for water from electricity from urgency tankers rather many operated by private companies some of the 10000000 population blame years of drought and government mismanagement for the water crisis. russian airlines are no longer flying to georgia which spells problems for the tourism industry there russia's president banned flights following the russian riots last month state media says it's no longer safe to have a holiday there robin forrester walker reports from the mountain result of good audi she's popular with russians forests or at least has been until now. russians will no longer be able to fly direct to georgia from july the 8th. that could take the wind out of the sails of georgia's tourism industry. who guides like gear are trying to stay upbeat. or. if the number of russian tourists go down there are a lot of other visitors from other countries so we're going to just adapt. the flight burn is moscow's response to the russian dem

the region indeed authorities have transported more than 2 and a half 1000000 liters of water to chennai the city is struggling with months long shortages people living on the outskirts of the city have been blocking roads and holding up trucks carrying water over fears that reservoirs are being prioritized businesses in luxury hotels groundwater levels in the city and surrounding regions have been declining due to a lack of rain for and poor management. accordion actually has rolled out in every train man accused of leading a people smuggling gang is a victim of mistaken identity madani tests for marion barry was extradited from saddam to italy 3 years ago he was thought to be in a tourist smuggling nicknamed the general he was convicted of a lesser charge of aiding illegal immigration by helping his cousin reachin to be a. police in paris have removed hundreds of undocumented migrants protesting inside the city's pantheon was and am the demonstrators who called themselves the black vests barricaded themselves inside the building for several hours they shared videos on facebook demandin

chennai's about the house i mean if we. are the same thing we'll be getting this start a spark. in some other bank and we have some kind of a person let's say in fall of the depression. or longer have and i just and it has come of them yeah you know because it's a structural problem of a structural problem and also the levy structure as an idea and because i'm not is that that because if you look at what has happened in chad i object the evidence that i get it you see the extent of damage we have done to all ringback our natural back to you know. what busy to do a little of you know helping us during the floods basically the city the city in which was planted just a few years ago which is not working today actually getting there is something fundamentally a hole in the rebuilding look at the idea of or down and you look at the idea when you construct many people don't know about patients what do they really do with all the national education natural we didn't leave water actually particularly down in to the water table all of this has been to magically destroying and back or sor

and that is the main supply of drinking water for india's sixth largest city, chennai, home to more than four million people. in guadalajara, mexico, a freak storm dumped up to six feet of hail. while in green land glaciers are melting so much and bringing so much sand there is serious consideration to mining the sand from the glaciers as a business opportunity, because the world is low on sand, which is used in con crease. increasingly the world is low on ice, but that's another matter. and there is a giant heat dome covering alaska, risking record-breaking temperatures this week. so that's the bad news. the good news, i guess, is that all of this that we're seeing is actually penetrating the consciousness of americans. despite the juvenile, the destructive lives, the president and the fossil fuel industry. the latest from the yale climate project which is the gold standard on these things, more than half americans think global warming is harming their local community. 57% think fossil fuel companies bear either a moderate amount or great deal of responsibility for it. climate is right