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in the uk and around the world. im tadhg enright. we start here in the uk where a summer of strikes could get even worse in the winter as two of britains largest trade unions have put forward motions to co—ordinate future walkouts in an effort to cause maximum impact. this the latest move to build pressure on the government and companies as workers demand higher wages in the face of soaring inflation and the cost of living crisis. the summer has seen industrial action from railway wo...

year, but could the recovery be short lived due to the cost of living crisis? pakistan will launch a global appeal to help it deal with the flooding catastrophe thats killed more than 1,000 people and affected 30 million. un member states will be asked to contribute. pakistans foreign minister has estimated the financial impact at 4 billion dollars. bilawal bhutto—zardari said he hoped the international community would grasp the sheer level of devastation in his country. and its not ...

good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. nasa is hoping to launch its most powerful rocket yet in a launch window which begins in just over half an hour for an un—crewed mission, the first step in taking astronauts back to the moon. hundreds of thousands of people have gathered near cape canaveral in florida to watch the launch of artemis i. the craft will orbit the moon before returning to earth in six weeks�* time. if successful, the plan is for astronauts to be on boar...

good morning. for many of us today it will be fairly cloudy with the odd shower. sunnier scars skies in the south—west, cooler in the north of the with an onshore breeze. its monday the 29th of august. our main story. pakistan is bracing for more of the devastating floods which have already killed more than a thousand people sincejune. officials say swollen rivers are running down from mountainous areas and threatening to deluge lower lying areas, particularly in the sindh province, ...

days, 30 of them, into the investigation into the attack on january 6th. now, the question is, who has been insnared by all this and what it could ultimately mean for donald trump and really our nation next. well talk more about that in just a few moments. but you cant lose the irony here, the idea that weve been talking a lot about january 6th, about the election-related lies, about the idea of how the u.s. democracy is in peril because there was not this expectation that was met of...

of dollars of fines. this is not something thats going to happen immediately. the judge has set october 21st as the sentencing date. it will be a few months before we know what sentence is going to be handed down. its been clear from bannons attorneys throughout this trial that they do intend to appeal. because these are misdemeanor charges its very possible that we could see the judge delay any kind of, you know, whether bannon has to serve any kind of sentence until after they go thr...

as we begin day 202 of russias war of choice, ukrainians are pushing on with their two front counter offensive which has retaken russian occupied territory at a blistering pace. in parts, ukrainian officials claim their forces are just miles from the russian border. in liberated towns and villages, there is evidence everywhere of a hasty russian retreat. tanks and other weapons left abandoned. for weeks, ukraine has been publicly hinting at a counteroffensive at the south. plans for th...

pennsylvania, the side of a high-profile senate showdown. >> two months from now the people of pennsylvania are going to fire the radical left democrats frequency will discuss the prospects for november is democrats seat momentum shift in their favor. and republicans try to shift the subject from mar-a-lago. >> i want an economy that is stronger. i want a nation that is safe. i want a country that is built upon freedom frigates are joined by both parties house campaign chiefs and tom e...

lesser extent in the south down here. theyve gained even more ground in offensives. president zelenskyy claims they have recaptured some 6,000 square kilometers of territory. its about 2,300 square miles since the beginning of the month. this is impossible to verify, but it is even more ground than the russians actually gained in the last several months and it happened fast. i want to show you this animation here, if we can zoom in. you can see the yellow there, how quickly ukrainian t...

this. thats more ground than the russians have gained in months. and it happened fast. i want to show you this. you can see sort of a time lapse here in the area around kharkiv, the yellow is where the ukrainians have made gains, just since september 3rd. you can see how quickly this all happened and how much of the territory held by the russians the ukrainians were able to take back. russia is responding, however. ukrainian officials say that russian strikes knocked out power in the r...