also on the programme. in beijing, the chinese communist party congress continues, but some parts of the city are back under a covid lockdown. and a jury in new york clears the actor kevin spacey of making unwanted sexual advances on a iii year old. hello and welcome to the programme. the uk is set to get a new prime minister by the end of next week, after the conservative party announced details of a fast tracked contest to choose its leader following liz truss s resignation. she stepped down afterjust six chaotic weeks in the job, by far the shortest tenure in british history. her leadership foundered when the markets took fright, the pound crashed, she sacked her chancellor kwasi kwarteng and was forced into a humiliating series of u turns. we start our coverage with the bbc s political editor chris mason. lunchtime in downing street and the lectern is back. six weeks and two days since liz truss stood behind it as she became prime minister, she was back too this time
from soaring energy prices. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s 7am in the morning in singapore, and 5pm in the afternoon in saskatchewan in canada where police are searching for two suspects thought to have stabbed ten people to death. at least another 15 were wounded. the royal canadian mounted police say they are investigating 13 possible crime scenes. i m joined now byjason kerr who is the editor of the prince albert daily herald in saskatchewan. he saskatchewan. has been following this story he has been following this story from the start when the news came through just a short while ago. great to get you on the programme. give us a sense of what we know so far.- of what we know so far. people are dead- of what we know so far. people are dead. we of what we know so far. people are dead. we are of what we know so far. people are dead. we are also - of what we know so far. people l are dead. we are also concerned about 1
doctors successfully separate conjoined twins with shared fused brains in historic virtual reality surgery. and as england s lionesses celebrate winning the euros 2022, we ll talk to gurinder chadha, director of the classic celebration of women s football bend it like beckham. now look my god, we did it! cheering live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us it s being reported that the al-qaeda chief, ayman al zawahiri, has been killed in an american drone strike conducted in kabul. zawahiri was on the fbi s first ever most wanted terrorist list issued on the ten october, 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, which he had helped to co ordinate alongside osama biden laden. there is no independent confirmation of this, but the white house says that president biden will give details of the counter terrorism operation in afghanistan shortly. let s get more from our correspondent i
bend it like beckham. now look my god, we did it! cheering live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s 6am in singapore, and 1am in kyiv where the first shipment of grain since the russian invasion of ukraine in february has left the southern port of odesa. the ship, the razoni, has left ukrainian waters and is making its way south on the black sea, carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn. it will be inspected off the coast of istanbul by un organised co ordinators who are managing the movement of vessels out of ukraine. then it will make its way out of the bosphorous strait and through the mediterranean, finally arriving in the port of tripoli in northern lebanon, in about a week s time. the shipment is part of efforts to ease a growing global food crisis. 0ur correspondent james waterhouse sent this report from 0desa. a familiar yet unfamiliar sight. for the first time in a l