second picture there if you can see it of a toddler honouring his father who died, tribute to geoffrey keatonng a medal for bravery on behalf of his father a deeply sad and moving story and one i'm sure we will continue to cover. from the awful to the truly bizarre, this story that is in the financial times but also on the daily telegraph here, dominic cummings who is widely regarded as the most powerful non— elected official in the country seeking to transform a notoriously risk averse institution, whitehall, with an invitation to weirdos and artist. what is this about? as you say, we are moving from the sad to the sublime. i think we do have a new government in the united kingdom and dominic cummings is the chief adviser to the prime minister, and ina adviser to the prime minister, and in a blog post yesterday he sought of put his ideas down saying that he believes there aren't kind of polities needed for the kind of transformation that borisjohnson wa nts to transformation that borisjohnson wants to bring to the uk, so in other words to the people in government are not equipped, so what he

volunteer firefighter geoffrey keaton was one of them. was his funeral, where his 19—month—old son harvey was presented with his father's medal for bravery. gusty winds and temperatures soaring above a0 degrees are set to create hazardous fire conditions in the coming days. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, lake conjola, new south wales. bushfires have always been a feature of australian summers, but, as we're reporting, this season has seen some of the most intense and extensive fires ever. experts say it's difficult to pinpoint a single cause, but three years of dry weather and the hottest tempertaures on record last year clearly played a part, as our science editor david shukman reports. on a terrifying scale and burning in too many different areas to be stopped, the flames are causing a massive shock. even in a country that is used to fire. usually, the blazes strike scrubland. these are instead tearing into the forests, which means the fires are hotter and taller and harder to tackle. for a sense of their size, on a map of the uk, here is th

volunteer firefighter geoffrey keaton was one of them.was presented with his father's medal for bravery. gusty winds and temperatures soaring above a0 degrees are set to create hazardous fire conditions in the coming days. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, lake conjola, new south wales. stay with us on bbc news. the japanese people are in mourning following the death of emperor hirohito. thousands converged on the imperial palace to pay their respects when it was announced he was dead. good grief! after half a century of delighting fans around the world, charlie brown and the rest of the gang are calling it quits. the singer paul simon starts his tour of south africa tomorrow in spite of protests and violence from some black activist groups. they say international artists should continue to boycott south africa until majority rule is established. teams were trying to scoop up lumps of oil, as france recognises it faces an ecological crisis. three weeks ago the authorities confidently assured these areas that oil from the broken tanker erika would

volunteer firefighter geoffrey keaton was one of them.e his 19—month—old son harvey was presented with his father's medal for bravery. gusty winds and temperatures soaring above a0 degrees are set to create hazardous fire conditions in the coming days. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, lake conjola, new south wales. bushfires have always been a feature of australian summers but — as we've just reported — this season has seen some of the most intense and extensive fires ever. experts say it's difficult to pinpoint a single cause but three years of dry weather and the hottest temperatures on record last year clearly played a part. as our science editor david shukman reports. 0na on a terrifying scale and burning into many different areas to be stopped, the flames are causing a massive shock. even in a country thatis massive shock. even in a country that is used to fire. usually, the blazes strike scrubland. these are instead tearing into the forests which means the fires are hotter and taller and harder to tackle. for a sense of their size on a map

volunteer firefighter geoffrey keaton was one of them. funeral, where his 19—month—old son harvey was presented with his father's medal for bravery. gusty winds and temperatures soaring above a0 degrees are set to create hazardous fire conditions in the coming days. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, lake conjola, new south wales. let's stay with this story and as shaimaa reported there, the australian navy has begun an operation to move hundreds of people trapped in the fire—ravaged town of mallacoota. around 4,000 people have been stranded on a beach since monday night after fires cut off roads. 130 kilometres up the coast in the town of bega, evacuation centers are still taking in people. journalist adriane reardon, from australian broadcasting corporation, is at an evacuation centre in beega town with the latest. it's essentially the calm before the storm. as you can see, there is a fair bit of smoke behind me but it's nothing compared to what we saw on new year's eve when the smoke was so—and—so brown and people were walking around with facem

volunteer firefighter geoffrey keaton was one of them.uneral, where his 19—month—old son harvey was presented with his father's medal for bravery. gusty winds and temperatures soaring above a0 degrees are set to create hazardous fire conditions in the coming days. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, lake conjola, new south wales. australia has experienced bushfires throughout the summer over many years, but the ferocity and intensity have not been on this scale before. 0ur science editor david shukman has been investigating how the fires reached this level of destructive power. on a terrifying scale, and burning in too many different areas to be stopped, the flames are causing a massive shock — even in a country that's used to fire. usually, the blazes strike scrubland. these are instead tearing into the forests, which means the fires are hotter and taller, and harder to tackle. for a sense of their size, on a map of the uk, here's the vast area in australia that has burned so far. the impact has been devastating, with lives lost among firefighters

volunteer firefighter geoffrey keaton was one of them., where his i9—month—old son harvey was presented with his father's medal for bravery. gusty winds and temperatures soaring above a0 degrees are set to create hazardous fire conditions in the coming days. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, lake conjola, new south wales. we can now speak to our correspondent phil mercer who joins us from the princes highway close the town of nowra in new south wales where firefighters have been battling the bushfires the past week. describe the describe the scene where you are on the kind of conditions you've been experiencing. this traffic is part of the biggest evacuation this part of australia has ever seen. all the cars, the trailers, trucks, boats, the surfboards, packed cars are all part of this evacuation from southern parts of new south wales. they have been declared unsafe for holidaymakers and residents so what we've been seeing is thousands of people leaving the danger zone had a predicted extreme conditions across south—eastern australia on saturday