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Much of india is struggling with an extreme heatwave. Millions are having to cope with drought and there are already reports of dozens of deaths from heatstroke. Temperatures have been exceeding a0 degrees celsius, thats well over a hundred degrees fahrenheit, for several weeks. Kathryn armstrong reports. This woman struggles every day to collect water for her family from this almost empty well. Her village in the indian district of beed in maharashtra, is facing extreme water scarcity. Since all the wells and ponds in her village have dried, the girl has to trek more than two kilometres to fe...

Egypts 1st democratically elected president has died after collapsing in court while on trial on espionage charges Egyptian State t. V. Says Mohamed Morsi had a heart attack the 70 the 67 year old Muslim Brotherhood leader had been in prison since 2013 when he was toppled. In power in a statement the Muslim Brotherhood says it holds president. And his government responsible for what it calls the planned criminal killing of morsi his son says egyptian authorities have refused permission for morsy to be buried at the family plot human rights activists say more medical condition was ignored by eg...

Hello to you. Chinas government has previously denied they even exist. Now it says the state run detention camps its built in the far Western Region of xinjiang are simply schools to combat the rise of violent islamist extremism. Its thought up to a Million People are being held there. Last year, our correspondent John Sudworth exposed how rapidly these secure facilities were being developed. Now he has returned. And even though access is tightly controlled, and his itinerary was set by the government, he has found out more. You may find parts of his report disturbing. China used to deny it wa...

It is about half past four in the morning. You are up to date with the headlines. Now on bbc news Hardtalks Stephen Sackur talks to valerie jarrett, who was Senior Advisor to president obama from 2009 2017. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. It is one of the great puzzles of american politics how voters could make history by putting barack obama in the white house, twice, and then elect donald trump as his successor. How much responsibility should team obama take for the course american politics has taken since they left centre stage . My my guest today is valeriejarrett, close friend and...

A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And we would like to hear from you about facebooks soon to be launched cryptocurrency. Will you be signing up . Do you trust facebook with your spending . Get in touch. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The United States is to deploy another 1,000 troops to the middle east, as tensions rise with iran. The us military has released what it says is further proof that iran was behind the attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman last week. The government in tehran has denied any involv...