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To normality is taking too long. aruna iyengar, bbc news. an operation to put out one of the largest gorse fires in recent years in northern ireland is continuing into a third day. more than 100 firefighters have been trying to put out the flames in the mourne mountains since friday. our correspondent, catherine morrison, sent this report. halfway up slieve donard, the ground is still alight. flames fanned by a steady easterly wind spread quickly across a tinder—dry mountain. a ring of fire en...

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Seeing that. the firefighting operation at the mourne mountains in northern ireland is being scaled back. after three days of battling the fires, the major incident status has been de—escalated. firefighters have now moved to work on extinguishing hotspots. northern ireland fire and rescue service has indicated that it hopes the operation can be wound up within hours. joining us now to give an update is assistant chief officer aidan jennings from the northern ireland fire and rescue service. b...

Were asked to stay away from mourne mountains today, a warning most seem to have heeded but the fire is not out yet. the fire service expects to be here into tonight and tomorrow. this is bbc news, the headlines: hospitals in india are warning of dire shortages in the face of a huge surge of patients needing treatment for coronavirus as almost a million new cases are confirmed in the last three days alone. lets stay with that story. earlier i spoke to professor ashistha, the dean of brown univer...

And we had gone location scouting of the day before, on the wednesday, and they got married on the friday, we immediately were turned back because of the gas pollution. we knew that that was something that might happen, there would be so many things, the lava flowing in the wrong direction or the wind blowing in at the wrong direction, it is also think that we had to take mind of, and we definitely brought some extra eyes, ears and hands on deck so we could faster deal with anything that arose, ...

Them and get them ready, just in case. thankfully, with wind dying down in the middle of the night, it took a change of direction and we did not have to evacuate. this is a designated special area of conservation. hundreds of hectares have been burnt, and there are fears for the flora and fauna and the wildlife who live here. its still unclear if the fire was started accidentally or deliberately. for those fighting it, conditions are challenging. we are either travelling for one hour or 1.5 hour...

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The right level of intimacy and allowing those we are filming to have the fullest measure of dignity, that we can show hard things and her things that people should see so that they understand what is happening so we can marshal resources towards changing the current geopolitical dynamic. so was it hard to film a child passed away in front of us? absolutely. and both the doctor and the family of that child wanted us to try to include as much of that footage as possible so that the rest of the wo...

The president of real madrid football club has said the twelve sides who attempted to form a european super league cannot walk away as they have binding contracts. florentino perez insisted the project, or one similar to it, would be launched soon. real madrid, barcelona and juventus are the only clubs not to have pulled out despite a public backlash. firefighters have stepped up their attempts to tackle a major blaze spreading across the mourne mountains in northern ireland. people are being ur...

Mountains in county down — with the firefighting teams assisted by organisations including the forestry service and the national trust. our correspondentjulian fowler reports from the scene. the slopes of slieve donard, northern irelands highest mountain, have been ablaze for three days. after several weeks of dry weather, the gorse and heather on the mountainside was a tinderbox. the flames, fanned by a steady breeze from the irish sea. coast guard helicopters were deployed to get an aerial v...