The hard hitting lyrics of the British Nigerian rapper is just one the U.K. s Mercury Prize for music. World so let s hear more about climate change now that we ve just been hearing in the news thousands are gathering in many cities around the world to participate in what is being dubbed one of the biggest movement if not the biggest to highlight the dangers of climate change is being called the Climate striken in a moment will be heading to Australia where many in particular children are gathered in order to say why the world is facing an emergency now one of the people who is spearheading this is Grettir Thornburg who is the activist of 16 years who addressed members of the u.s. Congress urging them to heed the science on global warming but the trumpet ministration has already scrapped more than 50 regulations meant to protect the environment as we heard on the program yesterday the state of California was told it couldn t set higher emissions standards on vehicles and Alaskan Wildl
Will react they ve been chipping away at our freedoms all these years and the young could feel it and they get enough of it I hope the try to understand I m rather worried that they will take their usual hot line and Stearns and tell Hong Kong to just shut up or shut down it s been flooding and travel disruption across parts of the country after half a month s worth of rain fell in 24 hours 6 front warnings are in place across the Middle East the North West and East of England rain cause Kelso the German grump or a number of drivers crashed among them Lewis Hamilton he did manage to finish 11th the race was won by Max for a stop on the world famous Tour de France is on the final professional stage into Paris barring a disaster 22 year old Colombian agan But now when he s going to field he s with his fans in the French capital traffic gathering 34 hours before the riders are on the short of these 8 and I can see plenty of Colombian flag it s a special LATE FOR LIKE finish the race this
Month hundreds of German firefighters supported by soldiers are battling to control flames from a wildfire on a military training site in the northeast of the country munitions on the ground have been exploding and the fire threatens to a girl from the ammunition factories southwest of the town is faring the firefighters are using special vehicles and helicopters as a precaution against the danger of further explosions world news from the b.b.c. Russia s leading opposition figure like Saina Vanny has been sentenced to 10 days in jail by a court in Moscow for taking part in an unauthorized protest last month that in a valley was detained along with several 100 others at a peaceful protest calling for action to be taken against policemen suspected of framing an investigative journalist aid agencies say the Lebanese army has destroyed at least 20 Syrian refugee homes in a town near the Syrian border the agencies including say the Children and Oxfam say refugees are facing worsening condi
Of Ozan has been arrested by Scotland Yard. In the dawn raid at his home in north London of forensic a unit of Scotland Yard is urging the residents of 1000 also a report into the treatment of sexual misconduct by Oxfam stuff in Haiti is released and that isn t as Chief Technologist says the company will never totally replace humans with robots in its work force way that I think about this is a symphony of humans machines working together you need both of those and the challenge that we have in front of us is how do we smartly design or machines to extend human capability that s all coming up on the newsroom after this news update b.b.c. News Hello I m Gerri Smit the High Court in Botswana has decriminalized gay sex which had been outlawed under the colonial era penal code and was punishable with up to 7 years in prison is Milton in Cosi as he delivered the landmark vidit Judge Michael libelled who said human dignity is harmed when minority groups are marginalized He also said that la
When the pilot mistakenly flew to Edinburgh in Scotland b.a. Said the company operating the flight on its behalf submitted in correct paperwork the blunder only became apparent when the aircraft arrived in the Scottish capital that s the latest b.b.c. News. Welcome to our west new McGovern with you live from the center of this b.b.c. News room in London and each weekday at this time we bring you the stories as they happen but we also like to take time on occasions to explain what happens behind these stories top of our Africa life page at the moment is a warning from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent that the aftermath off Cyc own die in their words is a ticking bomb off disease we brought you stories in the past 11 days from Mozambique is a bad way and also Malawi and some of the stories have been told by our reporting team in Beira one of the worst affected places and hopefully in this half hour off we re going to be able to speak to one of our producers