so far russia has not agreed to do so. here in the uk, a drought has been declared across many parts of england, amidst the driest summerfor 50 years. the announcement covers much of the south west, parts of southern, central and eastern england. it means more hosepipe bans are likely, and water companies could bring in even stricter measures, including a ban on non essential water use. our correspondent helena wilkinson reports near the village of creswell, a fire earlier this afternoon. it started in fields and spread to a neighbouring farm. people had to leave their homes. this is west bridgford in nottinghamshire. they were still trying to put out fires. and this is studland, dorset. dried out from the heat, desperate for water and reservoirs low, like this one in derbyshire. after nearly six weeks of dry conditions, a drought has been declared for parts of england. southern, central and eastern areas are affected, including devon and cornwall, kent, london and the east m
and seriously wounding author salman rushdie has pleaded not guilty after being charged with attempted murder. travel disruption after thousands of train drivers from nine rail companies go on strike across the uk today. it s the latest walk out in a row over pay and conditions. manchester united are bottom of the premier league after behind being thrashed a 4 0 by brentford. now on bbc news. our world, yalda hakim travels to afghanistan to investigate the disappearence of policewoman, alia azizi. she meets activists and protestors, asking the taliban why they are not doing more. alia azizi a policewoman in herat, has completely disappeared. she s gone missing. what do you know about that case? this is afghanistan, one year into taliban rule. i ve come here to investigate the disappearance of a woman. under the last government, alia azizi was a successful career woman. as a high ranking prison officer, hard won freedoms are being rolled back following the taliban s victory
threatening to bring some showers or longer spells around. this is the picture for friday at the details will change but you have this idea there is more cloud around and we have the potential for some heavy showers to break out particularly into the afternoon. a bit of rain in the far south west by the end of the doubt with some freshening breezes. temperatures won t be as high on friday. the last of the higher temperatures will be towards east anglia with 25 celsius here posed into the weekend instead of the high pressure that has brought all this one it will be low pressure sitting close to the uk and around it there weather fronts swirling around and some sunshine and showers. the weekend will not be a wash out. there will be someone spells of sunshine but there will be some showers. some of them heavy and most of the showers will be in the west. back to you, george. thanks, darren. and that s bbc news at six on wednesday the 22nd ofjune. you can keep up with all the late
saudi saudi arabia? good evening tonight, former president trump lashing out and insulting his daughter ivanka in the process after the january 6th committee laid the blame squarely on him, repeatedly playing video of his closest advisers admitting trump lost the election fair and square in fact one of them was his own daughter ivanka trump who said she agreed with attorney general bill barr that the election was not stolen. in fact your perspective about the election when attorney general barr made that statement? it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he was saying. trump, tonight, throwing ivanka under the bus after he heard that. as he tries to save himself, writes in part, ivanka trump was not involved in looking at or studying election results. she had long since checked out. nice thing to say, slamming his own daughter and comes as another trump ally who tried to turn the election behind the scenes trying to fight back t