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assess his momentous life. also tonight... in pakistan, 33 million people are now said to be affected in some way by the worst flooding in the country's history. floods happen during the monsoon here every year but not like this. britain's pub chains say that without urgent government help the industry will be devastated by rising energy bills. and the british number one emma raducanu says it's all about positive energy as she prepares to defend her us open title. and as well as the latest from the us open... coming up on the bbc news channel, there's a saints stunner at southampton....

and the duchess of sussex tells a us magazine that just existing was enough to upset the dynamics of the royal hierarchy. and coming up: we'll hearfrom one gardener who's successfully grown the world's longest cucumber. it's a lot of fun growing a giant vegetable. you can compete notjust in the uk, you can compete around the world. it's incredible. the united nations has launched an emergency appeal to help pakistan deal with devastating floods. the country's prime minister has said the floods are the worst in the country's history. provinces in the south by the provinces in the sout...

inside parliament — sri lanka's lawmakers choose their new president. outside parliament — the protests continue as controversial prime minister ranil wickremesinghe is selected. a window into the past — newly—discovered footage of mardi gras — the oldest moving images of new orleans. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. joe biden used a visit to a former coal plant in massachusetts to issue the latest stark warning on the threat posed by climate change. the us president is using executive powers to usher in measures including offshore wind farms a...

england's lionesses fight back to reach the semifinals of the euros — an extra—time time winner from georgia stanway sees them come from behind to beat spain. a very welcome to the two candidates are left in the race to replace borisjohnson, as rishi sunak and liz truss, go head to head to become the next prime minister. a key battle ground is likely to be taxation — with ms truss promising immediate tax cuts, while mr sunak says he would wait until inflation was under control. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, reports. he's the former chancellor who quit borisjohnso...

dominating the argument. welcome to bbc news. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he oversaw economic reforms known as perestroika, and political ones known as glasnost or openness, which led to the break—up of the soviet union in 1991, and the end of the cold war. russian president vladimir putin has expressed "deep sympathies". our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at a historic life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was relaxed. in the west, he acquired almost pop—star...