they said those arrested included employees of a private company involved in the maintenance and management of the bridge. now on bbc news, it s stephen sackur in north macedonia with hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur and today i m in skopje, north macedonia, a land subject to countless wars and conquests going back to the time of alexander the great. this young nation was, of course, a part of the former yugoslavia. now it s desperate to get into the european union, but progress is painfully slow. my guest today is prime minister dimitar kovacevski. now he knows that europe s attention right now is fully focused on the war in ukraine. but how real is the potential for new instability here in the balkans? prime minister dimitar kovacevski, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for coming to north macedonia, to skopje, and to the government. it is a great pleasure to be in skopje. but mr prime minister, it strikes me you have a problem. you in north macedoni
leadership race. borisjohnson rivals dismissed claims that he has reached 100 backers, speculation is rife that he could enter the contest. the leader of the commons is the only person to me as she is running but has fewer supporters. ukrainian officials say one million households are without power after a new wave russian attack. judy melania is the nation is the first far right leader in italy since the second world war. you are watching bbc news. time for political thinking. the turmoil in the conservative party, the psychodrama, the soap opera with ever more unlikely plot developments has its roots in brexit. the unresolved question of how this country should reshape itself, having decided the eu, that is one reason my guest on political thinking this week matters. david frost is seen by his admirers as the guardian of the brexiteer flame, the man who borisjohnson put into the house of lords and made his chief brexit negotiator, who is now considering a bid to become a
headlines claim that migration is out of control and sub is england is facing with the call and invasion. prominence to prompt the guard of rounding up the rhetoric and according to the times, that rhetoric is alarming senior tories. in the mirror also splashes on suella braverman calling her inflammatory, irresponsible and incompetent. now, large text raises incompetent. now, large text raises in the telegraph, excuse me and jeremy hunt have agreed to fill the governments of the billion for school black and that is also believed in the express which quotes a treasury source saying the item statement in just over a fortnight s time will be painful. as you can hear, i ve got a bit of a funny throat. let s go straight to the daily mirror and inflammatory, irresponsible and incompetent but still in thejob, irresponsible and incompetent but still in the job, the irresponsible and incompetent but still in thejob, the mirror not mincing its words. it still in the job, the mirror no
to announce his resignation in early july following repeated criticism of his conduct in government. the decision on who the new prime minister will be is down to a relatively small group of 160,000 conservative party members. borisjohnson will formally resign tomorrow and the the queen will then ask liz truss or rishi sunak to form a government. u nfortu nately, we unfortunately, we have some technical issues with our link to huw, but there is a picture of the door at no 10, who will be walking into it as the new prime minister? we are half an hour away from that announcement. and as huw mentioned, it will be the fourth prime minister in six years. so, the scene is set at the qeii conference centre, which is just around the corner from downing street. as you can see, there is a large press contingent gathered there, waiting for the announcement. and around the corner is where the announcement will be made. we can see all of the journalists lined up, the cameras trained on th
50 people she will make a statement at 5pm this evening about the migrant crisis as well as addressing her breach of the ministerial code. a victorious comeback as brazil s former president lula da silva beats his far right opponent jair bolsanaro to win his old job back. hope to find survivors is fading after a bridge collapsed in western india. . , ., , after a bridge collapsed in western india. . , .,, ., india. hundred and 41 people are known to have india. hundred and 41 people are known to have died. good afternoon. the home secretary will make a statement in the commons this afternoon over worsening conditions at a migrant processing centre in kent. the facility, at manston, is said to be dangerously overcrowded, with reports of an outbreak of diptheria. some 4000 migrants are being housed there even though it s meant for only up to 1600. more people were sent to manston after a petrol bomb attack on a separate migrant facility in dover. robin brant reports.