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are off the menu for school dinners according to some caterers, who blame shortages and rising costs. are you worried about the food on offer at your child s school? you can message me on twitter on @benmboulos. in other news, a man s died and thousands have been told to leave their homes amid torrential rain and majorflooding in sydney. a new species of giant water lilly has been discovered by scientists despite hiding in plain sight at kew gardens for 177 years. hello, good morning. borisjohnson is facing more calls to reveal what he knew about allegations of inappropriate behaviour by chris pincher. mr pincher resigned as deputy chief whip on thursday, following allegations he groped two men at a private members club. in his resignation letter, the mp said he drank far too much and embarrassed himself and other people. he was allowed to continue as a tory mp until late on friday, when he was suspended. mr pincher now faces a series of new claims of inappropria ....
singing in italian. we start this week in one of europe s most breathtakingly beautiful destinations, venice, in north east italy. this city on water is made up of over 100 islets, interconnected by a labyrinth of picture perfect canals and elegant bridges. life around here has remained the same for hundreds of years and steadfast through that time have been the gondoliers of venice. they see themselves as custodians of the city. today, there are only 400 gondoliers left and they are almost exclusively used by tourists. so it was in the family? with the local population of around 50,000 people dwarfed by 20 million visitors every year, the gondoliers aren t short of a customer or two. and while that is good for business, the numbers swelling the main tourist areas inevitably create a huge problem. increased pollution, including discarded junk clogging up the famous waterways. but now some of the gondoliers who ply their trade in the 276 canals are doing something about ....
tuesday. and borisjohnson has defended himself ahead of a no confidence vote that he called himself. five candidates will become four. europe is in the grip of wildfires. and a heat wave. they are burning in italy, france, spain, croatia and greece and also in morocco. and north africa. in france the authorities are warning of a heat apocalypse, we know many towns and cities have recorded their highest ever temperatures. 42 degrees in the city of nantes. beating the previous high set more than 70 years ago. that previous record dates back to 1949. this is the scene overnight. on the french atlantic coast. you can see the scale of the fires that are burning through some of the forest. this is drone footage from earlier. again showing us the scale of what is happening. and this is a satellite image that shows the region. you can see smoke is clearly visible from space. we know thousands of firefighters are now battling these fires and more than 14,000 hectares of forest h ....
president volodymyr zelensky has called for ukraine s candidacy tojoin the european union to be speeded up. he said membership should be quick and not take decades. earlier, his chief of staff accused russia of waging a war on ukrainian civilians, in response to military defeats. there were missile strikes overnight on a resort near the black sea port of odesa. the emergency services say 19 people died and more than 30 others were injured in the attacks. a block of flats and a recreation centre were hit. our corresppondent in kyiv, joe inwood, has the latest. today we had another attack, once again using these old soviet era missiles which hit a resort town just to the west of odesa. it was a nine storey apartment block that was hit as well as a holiday complex. a 12 year old boy is amongst the dead. now, what s interesting about the odesa attack today is it happened maybe 12 hours after the russians had been pushed off an island called snake island in the black sea. no ....
a great day for british tennis at eastbourne is topped off by harriet dart winning two matches in a day to make today s quarter finals. for many of us today we will see some sunshine, but there are some showers coming up from the south which are likely to be heavy and thundery. forthe which are likely to be heavy and thundery. for the rest of the week it will turn cooler and more unsettled. it s thursday the 23rd ofjune. our main story. most trains in britain are not running again today, as thousands of workers walk out for the second time this week. just 20% of services will operate after talks between the rmt union and railway employers broke down. 0ur transport correspondent katy austin has the details. large parts of britain s railway have come to a halt again. 0verall, only about 20% of services will run, although in some places it s less. northern will operate fewer than 10%. where trains are running services will start late and finish early. kamala lives in cheltenham, ....