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and nowadays, youve got something called a calculator, and these are just marvellous things. anybody that gets one of these, it does all the work for you. in other news... the investigation into the murder of nine—year—old olivia pratt—korbel continues — police are questioning a former drug dealer, who was the intended target of the attack. a think—thank campaigning on behalf of low—and—middle—income families has warned that "a catastrophe is coming this winter", unless...

rangers are back in the big time after beating psv eindhoven to reach the group stages of the champions league for the first time in 12 years. good morning. currently we have got some heavy, thundery downpours moving across south—east england which could lead to flash flooding, that will clear through the course of the afternoon. behind it for most it will be dry and sunny with a variable amount of cloud. its thursday the 25th of august. our main story. a gunman who shot dead a nine�...

rain. this is what happened through the small hours, these thunderstorms developed to the south, pushed northwards. weve seen around 5000 lightning strikes so far today and a lot of rain as you can see from the radar picture. in some places but not in all places. however, where it has been wet, take this figure, bury saint edmonds, above 70 millimetres of rain so far, that is more than that place would normally expect in the whole month of august, so it has been an exceptionally wet da...

or 25 celsius in cardiff. much the same on sunday again, a breeze in the south—east along the north sea coast, out towards the west a lot of fine weather, bar the odd shower. on the whole, a fine weekend on the way, and similar weather expected on monday. and thats bbc news at six on thursday 25th august. you can keep up with all the latest developments on the bbc website. from the six team, its goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one as now its time tojoin our colleagues across ...

democracy and suppression of freedom of speech. you played the video and we heard those two gunshots ring out. earlier today around 11:30 a.m. local time, nhk reported that shinzo abe had been shot twice, once in the chest and according to the fire and disaster management agency, once in the neck. it happened while delivering a speech, a stump speech around 11:30 this morning local time in western japan about an hour and a half, two hours ago the current prime minister held a press con...

state of ohio is bracing for more protests after a black man is shot multiple times by police. body camera footage is set to be released later today. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. ukrainian military official in the liuhansk region. he describes the city as being on fire. one of the few places still under ukrainian control in the donbas. they say fierce fighting is ongoing and denies that the city is surrounded. in the black sea, snake ...

country. i believe in the very soul of this nation. and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe it in my core, there isnt a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. just remember who we are. we are the united states of america. theres nothing beyond -- nothing beyond our capacity. thats why so many foreign companies decided to invest making chips in america. billions of dollars. were the best. we have to believe in ourselves again. and now i...

and i will see you very soon. hello, and welcome to this big, green open space. never before have we appreciated outdoor spaces and parks like we have since lockdown. yeah, unfortunately, though, lockdown also saw an increase in something thats threatening to turn some of our green and pleasant lands into brown and unpleasant landfill, and that is the illegal dumping of rubbish. thereve been well over a million fly—tipping incidents in the uk over the past year, and paul carters been...

superstar, tom cruise is filming in the british lake district. hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. a summer heatwave which has triggered devastating forest fires across southwest europe shows no signs of easing. firefighters in france, portugal, spain and greece are battling forest blazes. and new temperature records look to be on the way. the heat is thought to have claimed many lives — possibly hundreds. our correspondent, bethany bell has this report...

and your mission — should you choose to accept it — is to find out if the hollywood superstar, tom cruise is filming in the british lake district. hello, and welcome to bbc news. a summer heatwave which has triggered devastating forest fires across southwest europe shows no signs of easing. firefighters in france, portugal, spain and greece are battling forest blazes. and new temperature records look to be on the way. the heat is thought to have claimed many lives, possibly hundred...