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we begin with a blistering and dangerous heat wave and a stranglehold across the western united states. millions of people are sweltering this weekend. more than 40 million are under heat alerts as temperatures soar 15 to 20 degrees above normal. for the fifth day in a wroe, electric companies in california are asking customers to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances in order to save electricity during the late afternoon and evening hours. cnns chris winn reports from los angeles...

will be — injust a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step — will be blasting off. the first step in — will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 — step in our return to the moon for 50 years. legacy of covid — the new zealand museum collection, recording the countrys response to the pandemic. music and europes biggest carnival returns to the streets of london, after a three—year break, due to the pandemic. live from our studio i...

more than a thousand people have now died in pakistan, where floods have been described by the countrys foreign minister as a catastrophe. bilawal bhutto zardari told the bbc the disaster was on a scale he has never seen before. pakistans government has issued a fresh appeal for more international aid. heavy rains have caused flooding sincejune, overwhelming rivers. around a sixth of the population are said to have been affected, with millions left homeless. officials in the southern p...

return to the campaign trail. cnns joe johns joins us from the white house. joe, what does biden have on his agenda for this week? >> battleground states. hes about to go to wisconsin, pennsylvania, also ohio to a groundbreaking for a semiconductor plant there. a huge $20 billion semiconductor plant. so this time of year the labor day weekend is traditionally the time when campaigns start bearing down. the voters start focusing on the candidates. joe bidens name, of course, nowhere on ...

hello. more than a thousand people have now died in pakistan, where floods have been described by the countrys foreign minister as a catastrophe. bilawal butto zardari told the bbc the disaster was on a scale he has never seen before. pakistans government has issued a fresh appeal for more international aid. heavy rains have caused flooding sincejune, overwhelming rivers. around one—sixth of the population are said to have been affected — with millions left homeless. officials in t...

more than a thousand people have now died in pakistan where floods have been described by the countrys foreign minister as a catastrophe. bilawal butto zardari told the bbc the disaster was on a scale he has never seen before. pakistans government has issued a fresh appeal for more international aid. heavy rains have caused flooding sincejune, overwhelming rivers. around one—sixth of the population are said to have been affected — with millions left homeless. officials in the south...

pakistan will launch a global appeal to help it deal with the flooding catastrophe thats killed more than a thousand people and affected 30 million. un member states will be asked to contribute. pakistans foreign minister has estimated the financial impact at $4 billion. bilawal bhutto—zardari said he hoped the international community would grasp the sheer level of devastation in his country. and its not over yet — water is still surging down the mightly indus river and will flood ...

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 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, ...

the status by queen victoria. good afternoon. nasa is to launch a new era of moon exploration. later today the most powerful rocket its ever built will blast off from the kennedy space center in florida. the artemis test flight will orbit the moon and its hoped will help pave the way for a crewed mission to the lunar surface in three years. our science editor, rebecca morelle reports. its almost time. standing on launch pad 39b, the same one used by the apollo missions, the most powerf...