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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. cnn's chris winn reports from los angeles. >> reporter: across the west, the scorching heat is showing no signs of cooling off this holiday ...

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 country's response to the pandemic. music and europe's biggest carnival returns to the streets of london, after a three—year break, due to the pandemic. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to bbc news. we begin in pakistan, where mor...

more than a thousand people have now died in pakistan, where floods have been described by the country's foreign minister as a catastrophe. bilawal bhutto zardari told the bbc the disaster was on a scale he has never seen before. pakistan's 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 province of sindh are warning that more floods and landslides are likely there, as waters come down...

return to the campaign trail. cnn's joe johns joins us from the white house. joe, what does biden have on his agenda for this week? >> battleground states. he's 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 biden's name, of course, nowhere on the ballot. but the fact that he's going to these three battleground states tells you a little bi...

hello. more than a thousand people have now died in pakistan, where floods have been described by the country's foreign minister as a catastrophe. bilawal butto zardari told the bbc the disaster was on a scale he has never seen before. pakistan's 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 southern province of sindh are warning that more floods and landslides are likely there, as wat...