Meanwhile at headingley, jofra archer dazzles for england, taking six australian wickets to give his side the edge, heading into day two of the third ashes test. After of the third ashes test. A mixed august, sunshine with after a mixed august, sunshine along with the heat going up. Join me with the full weekend forecast. Its friday 23rd august. Our top story Global Leaders have expressed alarm at the Record Number of wildfires in brazils amazon rainforest. French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted our house is burning and described the situation as an International Crisis that will be discussed at the g7 summit. The brazilian president , Jair Bolsonaro, says he is investigating the fires, but claims he does not have the resources to fight them. Ramzan kamarli has more. The fires in brazils rainforest rage on. This year there have been a Record Number. Satellites have identified over 75,000, most of them located in the amazon basin. The situation has become increasingly worse over the p
Officer whod been married just four weeks when he died. Just hours to save Bury Football Club from being expelled from the English Football League for lack of funding. It is the Summer Bank Holiday but if you are travelling this weekend, bad news you could face disruption on the roads and railways. And england suffer a batting collapse to australia in the third test in leeds. And coming up on bbc news. The showpiece of rugby league the challenge cup final takes place at wembley tomorrow. But can st helens end their 11 year wait . Good evening. The fires which are currently ravaging the amazon rainforest in brazil have prompted the leaders of france and ireland to declare they wont support a major eu trade deal with south america unless brazil does more to bring the situation under control. Campaigners have blamed the Environmental Policies of brazils president , jair bolsonaro, for the spread of the fires, which are threatening a major source of the worlds oxygen. The blazes, which are
All over lives back to normal. Life back to normal. Authorities in france say the country is seeing an exponential rise in coronavirus cases, with more than 7,000 new daily infections reported on friday. Thats the highest number confirmed in a single day since a lockdown was lifted. In paris, masks are now compulsory in public spaces outdoors. Now on bbc news, another chance to see the live click show from v a dundee. This week another chance to see click live 2019 in scotland, enjoy. Trying to give spencer direction. 0k, well set back up the top, please. We just did a stagger through which is about three hours behind schedule. Hopefully its all going to work out in the end when we go live at 5 oclock. No pressure. Fingers crossed its all going to happen. Im just changing bits, i hope he doesnt mind. Like that . Yeah. Are you pleased with that rehearsal . Kind of, yeah, ijust want these to be in. It was quite nerve racking at this point but im excited. Theres a bit of a buzz, isnt ther
Football fans set foot inside a premier League Stadium for the First Time Since march, and the coronavirus lockdown. Two and a half thousand tickets have been made available for a friendly between Brighton And Hove albion, and chelsea, at the American Express community stadium, and thats less than 10 of its overall capacity. Heres laura scott. A packed crowd at the amex in january. That was what football was used to. Then came coronavirus and finishing the season meant doing so without fans. Tomorrow, tentative steps will be taken to welcome crowds back when brighton host a preseason game against chelsea which will act as a pilot event. Were delighted for football that theres a game with fans, thats the most important thing, because this is the first in what we hope will be a progressive number of events to bring the stadiums back to life in full. All of the 2500 fans allowed in here tomorrow will be spaced out. Not even families and couples can set next door to one another. Every four
And comes after another Police Shooting of an African American man, jacob blake. Our correspondent Barbara Plett usher sent this report. Chanting in the year of 2020, this is what a march on washington looks like drawing on the anger and the energy of months of unrest around the country, now bringing their demands to the doorstep of power, aiming to forge a National Movement out of their protests. Archive the lively, heralded and, in some quarters, feared march on washington. Theyre deliberately connecting their modern day struggle to the historic civil rights movement, the unprecedented march of 1963 that brought 250,000 people to washington with a thunderous roar, demanding jobs and freedom. Nearly 60 years later, its clear that not enough has changed. Im 33 and this was in my parents time, so itsjust like, ok, here we go again, so were trying to make sure that we dont have to keep reliving this whole thing all over again. I was not born when the first march happened, but i will be p