welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i m mariko oi. the headlines. downing street is in turmoil, afterfour senior aides to borisjohnson resign within hours of each other. will covid disrupt beijing s winter olympics? we take a look at the tight restrictions imposed on chinese citizens. president biden gives details of how the head of the islamic state group was killed during a raid by us special forces in syria. and america says the kremlin has plans to broadcast fake images of the ukrainian army shooting russian sympathisers as a pretext for an invasion. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news.
it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and midnight in london where downing street is in turmoil following the resignation of four senior aides to borisjohnson. director of communications jack doyle confirmed his exit shortly after the departure of policy head munira mirza. two more senior figures followed. ms mirza quit over the prime minister s false claim that the leader of the opposition was personally responsible for the failure to prosecute notorious paedophilejimmy savile, when he was director of public prosecutions. our political editor laura kuensseberg reports. applause borisjohnson managed to keep a blackpool tram on track today. yet it s not clear tonight where his leadership is really going. that went well, thank god for