of climate change. our correspondent in france mark lowen sent this report. a cloak of fire shrouding south—westauty turned to horror... ..as flames tear through the gironde, destroying almost 7,000 hectares, fanned by winds, searing heat and france's worst drought on record. a tranquil village last week, a ghost town this one, with 10,000 people evacuated. firefighters and planes have come from across europe to help france manage a nightmare that keeps recurring. translation: we must continue more than ever to fight _ against climate change, and we must continue to adapt to it. we will begin debates on a new climate change plan this autumn. elsewhere in europe too, fires rage. in spain, galicia is one of a dozen regions battling them. while in portugal, flames have destroyed more than 10,000 hectares of forests, scarring the night sky. how quickly our earth is drying up. this was france a year ago. and now look — lush land turned to wasteland, forests and fields barren. paris may be looking glorious in the sunshine, delighting its tourists, but we are, of course, facing a very serious situation

a cloak of fire shrouding south—west france. to horror... ..as flames tear through the gironde, destroying almost 7,000 hectares, fanned by winds, searing heat and france's worst drought on record. a tranquil village last week, a ghost town this one, with 10,000 people evacuated. firefighters and planes have come from across europe to help france manage a nightmare that keeps recurring. translation: we must continue more than ever to fight _ against climate change, and we must continue to adapt to it. we will begin debates on a new climate change plan this autumn. elsewhere in europe, two fires rage. in spain, galicia is one of a dozen regions battling them. while in portugal, flames have destroyed more than 10,000 hectares of forests, scarring the night sky. how quickly our earth is drying up. this was france a year ago. and now look — lush land turned to waste land, forests and fields barren. paris may be looking glorious in the sunshine, delighting its tourists, but we are, of course, facing a very serious situation. crops ac

heat waves, and forest fires, with new fires in the last few hours, 6000 hectares burning inhe west of france this hot weather is causing drought and wildfires, too. this was last night in southwest france. thousands were evacuated, 16 homeestroyed. this is that same fire from the air. you can see what fire crews are up against. today, more than 1000 firefighters are trying to control that fire. >> our first objective in this fight is tsave lives. we have no victims so far, and that is why preventative evacuations have been carried out since yesterday evening, and will continue today. there were more than 3000 600 people evacuated last night. 2000 more are being evacuated. it is likely that figure will increase. lewis: there are warnings about the extreme heat in the u.k. this week, too. temperatures are likely to reach 33 degrees for four consecutive days from thursday. our correspondent reports. >> after weeks of warm weather, another unsettling bout of high temperatures is fast approaching. as the he starts to rise to unpleasant levels, people are having to queue to cool off. the next few

coast and for the other side of the mediterranean, also some showers around northern spain, south west of france, south east of france. that's gonna help with the wildfires, but we need much more and much steadier rain to really call those wildfires some big down ports to be expected in shad capital and jemina on thursday 30 degrees. the high for you. and that weather maker that was in the western cape now shifting into the eastern cape and flinging cooler air into quanzhou luna tall. so durban got a hive. 21 degrees on thursday cas airway official airline of the journey. debating the issues of the day from use of the always in criminalized around the boundaries of right these numbers. there people are families and our friends and our community members on an online job voice military don't believe in dialogue. the political crisis must be off with them. political climate change progress is there some people who are in places that they're just going to have to? there's no recognition about what we're ready. thing the stream on our just 0 ah, ah ah, you're watching out, is there a reminder of our

against the backdrop of abnormal heat, strong natural fires are fighting a bad test in the south-west of francean 7,000 hectares have already burned down, other european states promise to help the fifth republic, a difficult situation in spain, this country in 2022 accounted for almost 40% of the lands scorched by natural fires in the eu all the details our european correspondent regina sat down. south of france at the mercy of the fire at the daily briefing on friday morning, the assistant prefect of arcachon called it good news that the flames in the gironde did not spread further last night, the burned area of ​​​​the forest is still 7.500 hectares, the bad news is that the scorching heat in combined with very low air humidity will remain in the region as at least until saturday, more than a thousand firefighters are fighting the fire, more than 10,000 people have been evacuated. the forests in the jura have been burning since tuesday, the fire has consumed 660 hectares in the south of this department of france the fifth republic has requested assistance at the pan-european level, reinforcem

france. that is helping to fan the flames of a pretty serious forest fire still raging in the south—west of france10,000 people. this fire pit had been ignited by arson. the area of france burnt by forest fires is six times larger than average. notjust here in france, in portugal authorities say they are battling forest fires that have destroyed more than 10,000 hectares and there are fires in 12 regions of spain currently raging. that is affecting food production. in spain, the olive harvest could drop by half. in italy, the river po is at its lowest level in 40 years but at that produces a third of all italian food and that will push up prices of food from italy. all that worsening the global food crisis the world is already facing. as the climate heats, there this is not a rare event, it is becoming more common and progressively worse. thank you. a man who died in a shooting on skye yesterday has been named by police asjohn mackinnon. three other people were injured in a series of linked incidents that happened on the island and the mainland. a 39—year—old man has been arrested. most victims of

perhaps it was through the basques who live not only in the north of spain, but also in the south-west of franceountry of the gauls. he is that what is already in the question of a foreign car. now you have the right to ask us a leading question or express a voluntary version, see. i'm already in the third person. no, it didn’t work, let’s ask a leading question. this is a musical instrument, it has nothing to do with musical instruments and music at all. it 's an inanimate object for sure. what about a household item? no, not household items, this weapon is not, you have one more leading question, or one voluntary version. it's not a weapon. this is not a household item. it's something out of the world, well inanimate, obviously. and it's not music. you can still decide on the area is very interesting, a leading question that we are now asking questions, or a voluntary version. so well ask this edible. and no, it's not edible. i wasn't expecting this question, but that's not bad either. why in general , the question of edible inedible is always appropriate. i beg you. you have one leading quest

we are going to brittany now in the west of france were a whole village becomes an open air photographyen june and september. the theme this summer is visions of the east, bringing us imagery from afghanistan, pakistan, and iran. our reporters went to find out more from some of the women whose unique perspectives on their home and landscapes featured in those exhibitions. >> you are out strolling in brittany in northern france when at a bend in the river, you see those photos of women dancing under the gaze of armed menn pakistan. remarkable men and women who have had the strength to survive the worst. the theme of the annual festival as women of the east in various active roles in front of and behind the camera lens. >> when you talk about iran, afghanistan, you don't necessarily think of women being the ones taking the pictures. what surprised me is that these women are fairly mbative, almost warriors. in tmsf depicting reality in their countries, sometimes with a great deal of subtlety. >> the iranian artt achieves the feet of talking about the value without us actually seeing one. i

also, some shower is around northern spain, south west of france, southeast of france. that's gonna help with the wild fires. but we need much more and much steadier rain to really call those wild fires some big down ports to be expected in shadow capital and jemina on thursday 30 degrees the high for you. and that weather maker that was in the western cape now shifting into the eastern cape in flinging cooler air into quasi luna tall. so durbin is got to have 21 degrees on thursday. i ah ah, ah sake that mm hm. and then international anti corpse excellence award, boot now for your hero. ah ah, watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the salad, at least 32 people, including a prominent cleric, have been killed in a powerful explosion at a mosque and cobble woollen 40. others were injured. no group has claimed responsibility for you in secretary general antonia t it is to sit to meet the leaders of ukraine and turkey. in the western city of las vegas, the talks will focus on grain exports and the safety of europe's largest nuclear power plant. and china says it'

new wave of abnormal heat has caused the strongest forest fires in two departments in the south-west of francent. large forces of more than a thousand firefighters, several planes and helicopters are thrown there, but the flames continue to spread the fire. it has already destroyed about 2 dozen houses and almost 7,000 hectares of forest and 10,000 people have been evacuated from the disaster zone. some of them have to be saved for the second time in recent days. to the people who evacuated back in july, when they were nearby, another forest fire, it's very hard to be in the same situation again the main goal of this fight is to save human lives and so far we have not had a single victim, and we have been conducting preventive evacuation since last night and continue to do so. today, the previous month, there was no vegetation rain in the region, the soil dried up, and now a forty-degree heat has set in, which, according to forecasts, will last until the end of the week, the fight against fire is ongoing around the clock among firefighters, one of them received a severe burn the authorities tu

for 3 days for scheduled maintenance of the remaining turbines. , as to save electricity in the west of francehey promised not to heat student classrooms to temperatures above 19 ° this coming winter, and the president of serbia, vučić, said that he turned off the refrigerator and was ready to show everyone how he turned off all the lights on his floor. i can’t turn it off here because of the interview, but everything is turned off there, even the refrigerator with water and soda does not work. it's not hot right now, so i'm doing my best to contribute. i help the country to save as much as possible, because the prices are crazy. impossible tons. everything is fine. prices, while alternative gas suppliers for the european union algeria us hopes, do not justify the europeans. perhaps to divert the attention of citizens, various fantastic projectors are being published. the british have proposed placing solar panels on the longest railways in the old world in germany, 38,000 km. they dream of equipping the roads with energy equipment, but the germans do not believe they are skeptical about the i

fires as well, with new fires in the last few hours ablaze, 6,000 hectares burning in the south west of franceom the area and 16 homes were destroyed. this is that same fire from the air — you can see what fire crews are up against. today more than 1,000 firefighters backed by water—bombing aircraft were trying to control that fire. translation: "our first objective in this fight is to save lives, - we have no victims so far and that is why preventive evacuations have been carried out since yesterday evening and will continue today. there were 3,600 people evacuated last night, 2,000 more are being evacuated, and it is likely that the figure will increase." and there are warnings about extreme heat in the uk this week too. the met office says temperatures are likely to reach at least 33 degrees for four consecutive days from thursday. our correspondent, matt mcgrath, reports. after weeks of warm weather, another unsettling bout of very high temperatures is fast approaching. as the heat starts to rise to unpleasant levels, people are having to queue to cool off. the next few days will also put

a cloak of fire shrouding south—west france. a landscape of beauty turned to horror. ying almost 7000 hectares fanned by winds, searing heat and france's worst drought on record. a tranquil village last week, a ghost town this one, with 10,000 people evacuated. firefighters and planes have come from across europe to help france marriage and nightmare that keeps recurring. translation: ~ , _, recurring. translation: ~ , .., ., translation: we must continue, more than ever to fight — translation: we must continue, more than ever to fight against _ translation: we must continue, more than ever to fight against climate - than ever to fight against climate change and we must continue to adapt to it. we will begin a new climate change plan this autumn. elsewhere in euroe, change plan this autumn. elsewhere in eur0pe. fires— change plan this autumn. elsewhere in europe, fires rage. _ change plan this autumn. elsewhere in europe, fires rage. in _ change plan this autumn. elsewhere in europe, fires rage. in spain, - in europe, fires rage. in spain, this is one of a dozen region

france. a number of european countries are sending equipment and help. it's prompted increasing concern about the effects of climate change, as our correspondent mark lowen reports. a cloak of fire shrouding south—westbeauty, turned to horror. as flames tear through the gironde, destroying almost 7,000 hectares, fanned by winds, searing heat and france's worst drought on record. a tranquil village last week, a ghost town this one, with 10,000 people evacuated. firefighters and planes have come from across europe to help france manage a nightmare that keeps recurring. translation: we must continue more than ever to fight _ against climate change, and we must continue to adapt to it. we will begin debates on a new climate change plan this autumn. elsewhere in europe too, fires rage. in spain, galicia is one of a dozen regions battling them. while in portugal, flames have destroyed more than 10,000 hectares of forests, scarring the night sky. how quickly our earth is drying up. this was france a year ago. and now look — lush land turned to waste land, forests and fields barren. paris may be looking glorious in the sunshine, delighting its tourists, but we are, of course, facing a very serious situation

are just some of the countries facing water shortages — and in france — more than 100 municipalities have no running drinking water. our correspondent mark lowen is in nantes in the west drought since records began, back in 1958. it follows a month ofjuly that was the second month, second driest month on record and there is not forecast to be any significant rainfall in the coming days or indeed weeks. so they are really struggling here. we are in the noir valley and we went to the river yesterday, the longest in france, where there was no water after all. france, where there was no water afterall. i france, where there was no water after all. i was standing in the middle where they should have been water and it was just sand and grit and people were picnicking at a low level on the water bank, where there was a sort of wall measuring where the tide used to reach up to in another era and now they can just sit there and have picnics on the side. so some people enjoying the hot weather but of course it is a real worry for people who depend on the river and on lower temperatures, particularly farmers. france of course an agricultural, a strongly agricultural country but

our correspondent bethany bell is in the south—west of france.till on very high alert and as _ is not, they are still on very high alert and as you can see the fire swept _ alert and as you can see the fire swept through this would hear and even underground, on the ground now it is still— even underground, on the ground now it is still quite warm, we have seen areas _ it is still quite warm, we have seen areas where — it is still quite warm, we have seen areas where the ground is still smoking, _ areas where the ground is still smoking, where there are embers underneath the ground in this pete rich soil— underneath the ground in this pete rich soil where things are still burning. _ rich soil where things are still burning, so this is still quite a volatile — burning, so this is still quite a volatile situation here that for the moment, — volatile situation here that for the moment, their hopes that they seem to have _ moment, their hopes that they seem to have contained a big spread of this fire — to have contained a big spread of this fire but w

irrigation has been banned in much of the north—west and south—east of france to conserve water.that corn exports from france are expected to be a lot lower this year, putting further pressure on food prices. joining me now from toulouse is celine imart, farmer and board member of the general association of maize producers in france. thank you for being on the programme. just tell us what farmers are facing currently. we have a very big problem because the drought has been prevalent since may,, if you take more than 35 celsius degrees, it is not a valuable, so the grain has the problem. there is a problem about corn and the harvest is going to be lower compared to 2021 and lower compared to 2021 and lower compared to the five year average. lower compared to the five year avera . e. �* lower compared to the five year avera . e. ~ . , lower compared to the five year averaue. ~ . , ., ., average. and farmers have had to change _ average. and farmers have had to change how _ average. and farmers have had to change how they _ average. and farmers have had to change how they operate, i

next few days as well as a side to some wet weather, pushing back into northern parts of france, pushing into west of the merits of england wells. as we go through the next hour, so as this area of high pressure slowly slips away. but we've got plenty of heat ad of that, and there are heat warnings and force across across much of the area, the heat warnings therefore england and wales temperatures will get up into the low to mid thirty's, over the next few days at 31 on thursday afternoon in london, picking up a touch as we make our way towards the weekend symbol of any there for friday. some parts could get into mid thirty's through the weekend, then things cool off with a chance to some re finish. i was me monitor eastern parts of europe and where to whether they're just creeping across sir ukraine down towards the black sea, live the showers in to southern parts of the italy. of course i was wet weather for greece as well. dry weather across northern parts of africa. we got plenty of showers through that central bout with a possibility of some localized reading writing to see really on ah, with

greece, the emperor of ethiopia, the president of france, britain's prince philip, the president of the philippines, the president and chancellor of westny and many others. among them is -- first deputy premier of the soviet union. that the departure for the journey to arlington national cemetary. little john junior, who is three years old this day, responds to a whispered request from his mother. as the cortez crosses the bridge over the potomac river, there is a distant view of a memorial building dedicated to another martyred president, abraham lincoln. now the last goodbye to john f. kennedy. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the flag that has covered the casket is folded. it is passed from hand to hand by the honor guard. ♪ ♪ ♪ it is received by the widow. mrs. kennedy ignites an eternal flame at the head of her husband's grave. john fitzgerald kennedy reaches the end of his earthly journey. those he loves leave him at the great hills of arlington cemetery. the new president takes over is duties at once, for the presidency is a continuing institution. with secretary of state dean ross can out his side, he receives the distinguished leaders who attended th

change it making them work in depth. analysis of the days headlines inside story on al jazeera ah, a oh, anger in the occupied west bank of the israeli frances killick senior commander of palestinian crew. ah, i'm told mccrae this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up. the white house is president biden was not brief to on an if the i search of former president on trump's hung a close rice and kenya's presidential election. but it could be a week until official results are announced. and clearing up by preparing for more, south korea feels the effects of floods that have killed 9 people. ah there have been protests and parts of the occupied west bank and east jerusalem after is riley forces killed a senior commander of the palestinian group. i'll oxer martyrs brigades. oh, this was a demonstration in bed al against the shooting of abraham l. no bull see and 2 others. they were killed 2 days after a ceasefire took hold and gaza between israel and another palestinian group. one man was killed in hebron during the protests. ah, in the sweet neighbourhood of occupied east jerusalem. israeli forces f a t a guess at young people who used fi

the president of france pointed out the macron, who said that the west should not make any compromisest even show any semblance or hint of a possible compromise with russia, that is, a non- compromising approach, said within the framework of the crimean platform. and on the one hand, and even representatives of the collective west say even the united states and the same france that in ultimately, this conflict should be resolved at the negotiating table, on the other hand, it is said that there should not be a hint of a compromise, how it fits together from your point of view, dmitry, and i emphasize once again that this was said and not just like that, but within, the crimean platform in america was recently whose president was named donald trump and once uh in private, but in the presence of enough people who i was considered entitled to mention it. he said one of the most annoying my duties as president. this is to communicate with petty, idiots and people without any principles, which led some states, for example, this type of macron. he kept calling me, pestering me, assuring me o

the agreement comes as the west reduces its support of africa. france completed the pull out of its troops from molly in august, which had been in the country since 2013 in an effort to combat international terrorism. the withdraw her contributed to a spiraling security crisis in the country where the attacks on civilians continuing less cross live now to christopher holly, political analysts and researcher christopher, why is iran now looking to expand cooperation with african saved? in particular, molly, i think number one, molly is significant because of its long standing fight against jazz forces. the will have been fell if it's forces that back, whether it be our keita or even more extreme, isis. so we see that iran under the leadership, in the past many years of general customs to le money that was brutally assassinated by the united states. iran has been at the forefront of the fight against dies with its allies in the syrian government. and lebanon says bowler in fighting dash, and iran is also appraising molly and the government in barco for the fight against terrorism. and also,

a cloak of fire shrouding south—west france. a landscape of beauty turned to horror. on record. a tranquil village last week, a ghost town this one, with 10,000 people evacuated. firefighters and planes have come from across europe to help france manage a nightmare that keeps recurring. translation: we must continue, more than ever to fight _ against climate change and we must continue to adapt to it. we will begin a debate on new climate change plan this autumn. elsewhere in europe, fires rage. in spain, this is one of a dozen regions battling them. in portugal, flames have destroyed more than 10,000 hectares of forests. scarring the night sky. how quickly our earth is drying up. this was france a year ago. and now, lush land has turned to waste land, forests and fields are barren. paris might be looking delightful in the sunshine, but we are facing a serious situation. crops across europe are dying, worsening the food crisis linked to the war in ukraine. extreme droughts and heat waves that were more freaky events are becoming common and progressively worse. france's

worst rain in over a century. 1,000 firefighters have been mobilised in france to tackle a resurgence of wildfires in the south—west those that devastated the region in july. france, like the rest of europe, has been struggling this summer with successive heatwaves and its worst drought on record. a beluga whale that got stuck in the river seine in france has died after a dramatic attempt to rescue it. experts used a net and a crane to hoist the mammal out of the water and into a truck, but it had to be euthanised after developing breathing difficulties. let's go to asia now. china has vowed zero tolerance for what it called "separatist activities" and reaffirmed that it would take the self—ruled island of taiwan by force if necessary. china's taiwan affairs office issued a white paper laying out how it intends to claim the island through a range of economic measures and military pressure. meanwhile, the chinese military says it's successfully completed operations around taiwan after days of unprecedented exercises. military officials say the exercises focused on sea assaults, land strikes, air operations and anti—

could be fully load laden, cannot be there is already been a record number of wildfires across south west europe including france, spain, and portugal this year, the use satellite monitoring services fires in front of sent carbon pollution there to its highest level since records began. emergency crews are battling a fire in your own region, which is destroyed more than 7000. hector is a forest. more firefighters and equipment from 60 you nations arrived on thursday to help furnace smith has more from sharon, from authorities here in the air on say that the fire has been contained overnight . within a 40 kilometer her emitter firefighters have come from across europe. these guys have just arrived from romania, but there are also greeks, austrians, germans, under the polish firefighters. here in total, across france, this year, 57200 pack tears of land has been burned in wild fires. it's 6 times the full year average in the last sort of 16 years or so. the authority say we're here today a little the fire is contained because extreme temperatures expected again, anything in to the high thirty's, maybe even 40 degr

here is what the president of france macron recently said that the hegemony of the west has come to ane same about liberalism. more precisely, global liberalism. our president, mr. putin, said about the decline of the west, which is losing its power, and it is obvious to me that such a decline is such a decline. we are now observing, despite the fact that since 2014 dugin has been under eu sanctions, his ideas had a considerable influence on the french right-wing politicians, and they themselves are right. now in the republic leash are gaining popularity. this was shown by the parliamentary elections held in june. this is how alexander dugin, the ideologist of the russian world, is often referred to in the european media . civilization is the antichrist. our fight against this antichrist is the decisive battle that will determine the course of history. you are against our values. you want to destroy democracy and freedom, your system of modern western values ​​is worthless. in this system of satanic liberalism. nothing is sacred. it destroys the spiritual and religious values ​​for the

two three three, one quarter is the ussr, and the other is the zone of france, britain, america, allies and all of germany, yes west berlin itself was divided, so it was separate, that is, it had no connection with west germany, so it was, as it were, in the middle of the country, well, as it were, in the middle of the country, it is surrounded by west berlin, this is in berlin, but the problem was then the uprising began, then the blockade began. there was there are a lot of interesting stories, but everyone understood , the soviet people understood, the soviet leadership understood that they were not fleeing, no, you just went out into the neighboring street. you are already abroad, fleeing to where it is better to develop because there is a plan american money came to marshala. they flourished . people began to live much better. in fact, with the beginning of the 50s, the germans, the west germans, began to live there many times better. you could just see it. and imagine you live on this street and on the next street. well, you drive bicycles in a year in two in three in four it's one bicycle and on the neighbor

as we head to the end of the week low pressure in france towards the north—west start to combined gives bbc news — i'm ben brown — the headlines at 5. nasa postpones the launch of the artemis space rocket on its mission to the moon, due to last minute technical issues. the next opportunity for the launch is on friday. liz truss pulls out of a planned bbc interview tomorrow. it comes as the foreign secretary's team hit back at criticism of her economic plans from the institute for fiscal studies. pakistan makes a global appeal for help — after a flooding catastrophe that's killed more than a thousand people and affected 33 million. the ukrainian military has begun its long—awaited offensive on the southern front. it claims to have broken through the first line of russian defence around the main city of kherson. after a two year pause due the pandemic, the notting hill carnival in west london is coming to an end this evening.

and the us, after decades of requests, the return of west africa was looted. trenches is suddenly gathering pace. last year, france returned objects taken from the kingdom of harbor may to benito and germany has handing back it's been bronzes. to nigeria. it will be a remarkable faith if all the $10000.00 so object looted in the $1890.00 is make their way home. but no longer can western institutions and collectors, confident, maintain that artifacts stolen during the colonial era. a rightfully there's still the british museum, the holder of 900 been in bronze is said it legally prevented from returning its collection by an act of british parliament. the pressure is really on the british museum. a few years ago, the british museum got together with a series of other museums in britain and museums across europe. and they reached a consensus between them with, with niger and counterparts that they would loan back, been in bronze is in a sort rotation between them. and the british museum was happy with that arrangement. but that arrangement has completely fallen apart because virtually every other museum that was part

of france who decide. what should zelensky do in the first place, because without financial and military assistance from the westine would be completely helpless, as the author of the article on a unified strategy for ukraine among these three parties notes. no. washington is ready to supply more weapons, and i will cut berlin, the closer the path of diplomacy, it was the united states that provoked russia to start a special operation, said the former head of the czech foreign ministry and former chairman of the general assembly. jan kavan on the air of one of the radio stations stressed washington promised georgia and ukraine membership in the alliance, ignoring putin's words and not admissibility. nato expansion andrey skvortsov to lead the digital transformation of the economy and public administration the seventh russian internet forum is taking place in dagestan. caucasus 2022 state and municipal employees employees of non-profit organizations and specialists of an it company analyze promising cases and look for ways to solve issues that pose time the key topic of the forum is the creation of new points of

that heap was broken by this area of low pressure bringing some really wet and windy weather to the north west. we saw flash flooding in parts of britain island and france, thanks to those violent thunderstorms. now that wet weather is going to shift its way more centrally on thursday, but we've still got that corridor heat running down from the baltics through to the balkans, with red alerts out for temperatures in serbia. if we haven't look at the 3 day for bell grade will be picking up to $37.00 degrees, but there's some relief that's going to come in with that wet weather. now weather has brought temperatures down from britain and island. we've got another wave of rain rolling in on thursday, effecting western areas that will move across the north sea into scandinavia. lively showers. so very heavy rain for the likes of sweden and for germany and more central areas, we could see some flooding across the southern areas of france, northern areas of italy from that very heavy rain, soaking wet and windy across the mediterranean. i'm northern areas of spain, but there is still hot and dry conditions dominating for southern areas of spain and portugal. a

as we head towards the end of the week on the weekend, low pressure across france and will give us a greater chance of seeing rain, especially across parts of the west is hoping to launch the first mission of its artemis project which will ultimately send astronauts back to the moon. the giant uncrewed rocket will spend six weeks flying around the moon and back. and i am at the kennedy space centre, where we are waiting to hear of the team can resolve multiple technical problems and launch. in our other news this lunchtime... floods in pakistan... the country's foreign minister describes it as a "catastrophe" on a scale he has never seen before. new research shows that there are farfewer shops closing on high streets and town centres across the uk. and hundreds of thousands of revellers are expected at the notting hill carnival in london.

of fueled devastating wild fires in several european countries. sleeping in campus next to fire trucks, firefighters in france earned brink of exhaustion, their tracking stubborn blazes that keep flaring up in the south west. they've made note of 8 active fires. there is no time to waste. i was eliminated all night to stop the fire from spreading from know to me to defend the village of milan. berlin numbered at the moment in the fight, dressing in every direction. the wind is not steady right now. to the deluxe. your fires continued to burn over night, and as you haunt region where the village is located, the blade has swallowed up at least 16 houses and has forced 10000 residence to flee their homes. but france isn't the only european country struggling to fend off flames. i luca or did you please little go to what? i'm still sure, gus. most them she glanced versus the are all and shocked. i'm shocked by the situation. is same. burns. we have nothing left that i know more pine trees or some people have lost houses or barnes with their equipment or, or animals my but that was happy to others. what about us? this fire is the fire of shame. here in particles, national park fires have been bridging for days

of belgium. to the west is france, across the water is the uk.'s pushing up energy prices is spilling across borders. and governments looking at ways to help face the same question everywhere. will it be enough? i've been working on energy poverty now for the last ten years, and it's never been this bad. it's not only people in poverty that are worrying. it's a big middle class of people who are also worrying about their energy bill. the war in ukraine feels far away from here as families enjoy the last days of summer. but supply cuts from russia are feeding a crisis that could seriously test political and public resolve. jessica parker, bbc news, belgium. live now to our political correspondent, iain watson, at westminster. how much pressure is there now on the two candidates trying to become the two candidates trying to become the next prime minister to make more concrete announcements about how they would help people facing these rising energy costs?— rising energy costs? there is certainly pressure _ rising energy costs? there is certainly pr

here's what the president of france and the macron recently said. said that the hegemony of the weste to an end, same thing about liberalism. more precisely, global liberalism. our president, mr. putin, said about the decline of the west, which is losing its power, and it is obvious to me that such a decline is such a decline. we are now observing, despite the fact that in 2014 dugin is under eu sanctions, his idea had a considerable impact on french right-wing politicians, and they themselves are right. now in the republic leash are gaining popularity. this was shown by the parliamentary elections held in june. the ideologist of the russian world , so alexander dugin is often called in european media this is how he recently explained to italian viewers the meaning of a military special operation to protect the donbass, because this is, in fact, a struggle with the west, a modern western one. civilization is the antichrist. our struggle against this antichrist is the decisive battle that will determine the course of history. you are against our values. you want to destroy democracy a

but as we head towards the end of the week and the weekend, low pressure in france, one towards the north—westss parts of the west of the uk. see you soon. the headlines. nasa cancels the launch of the artemis space rocket on its mission to the moon, due to last minute technical issues. the next opportunity for the launch is on friday. pakistan is set to launch a global appealfor the flooding catastrophe that's killed more than a thousand people and affected 30 million. the head of the institute for fiscal studies labels some of liz truss�*s tax cutting policies as �*worrying' and inadequade for dealing with rising energy costs. a rapid rise in vaping over the past decade reaches record levels in great britain with an estimated a.3 million people taking up the habit. and after a two year pause due the pandemic, europe's largest street party kicks off its final day at the notting hill

we don't see significant in the politics of germany and france, the main thing is not russian aggression against ukraine, in my opinion, the support of the wests in the russian war, and also because the help that the ukrainian now receives from the request is adequate, considering that our help will forget more, and not only adequately, but хорошая about it, we wanted to ask for help, you were one of the signatories of the letter of the american military diplomats who called for an increase in aid . filippbridlov ee sleclark well, that is known even better. in our country, people are well-known in the united states, specialists in eastern europe. быть сын я я и лючешь и мы we signed up, uh , we wrote a-a, this letter is an open letter , because in my hotel, a-a will convince baden to succeed, our help, our policy in this war, and we are already eight months of dynamics, and the administration is in this war, and biden generally understands the danger of the kremlin and victory in ukraine, but he and his team are always slow to make a decision, and every decision is a step to the bottom , it’s like something, and when they explain why they don

we are also seeing a few showers across parts of france, but it is relatively dry here. rounds of rain rolling into the north west though for britain, an island is still a lot of wants to be found. despite the humidity in the south, we are going to see the temperature pick up in paris on wednesday, above average. lots of heat once again. but by friday it will dip down rather dramatically as the wet weather moves in. now, despite the lot of dry conditions across essential areas, we are still seeing that wet weather affect more northern and eastern areas with some particular fierce thunderstorms affecting norway. a rush of thunderstorms across the balkans and for greece, we are expecting those thunderstorms in athens to friday. official ally of the journey with clouds with quest struggle gives birth to a true passion where faith is more trust. where humanity do friday spake spectra with freedom is always worth fighting. robes untold stories from across asia and the pacific one. 0 one east on al jazeera. ah ah. hello. are you watching out 0? i'm emily ang, when he's a reminder of our top stories this, our shanghai h