elected as leader of the conservative party. politics comes at us rather fast these days, doesn t it? this autumn s second new prime minister inherits a nightmarish soup of political and economic gloom. he moves in there tomorrow to try and sort it out. we ll have more from chris, in this extended edition of bbc news at ten, as we consider the prospects for a sunak premiership. at westminster the main opposition parties are united on the demand for a general election, so that millions of voters can have their say. labour thinks that we should be having a general election. i think everybody who i ve spoken to, the public, have said we should be having a general election. there is no mandate now. he should call an early general election. he s the second person in a row to be appointed as prime minister by tories, not elected by the population. mr sunak s rapid advance is a significant moment for politics. he s the first british asian to become prime minister. and we ll be askin
from hong kong have taken up the british government s offer of a new visa route to start a new life in the uk. the world s fifth oldest zoo, bristol zoo gardens, is set to close its gates to the public for the final time, with the animals on the move to a new location. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president biden has made an impassioned speech in defence of american democracy. he warned that donald trump and what he termed maga republicans represent a form of extremism that threaten the american way of life. he also urged all americans to come together to defend american democracy, regardless of their ideology. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes has this report. an historic setting for a speech that pulled no punches, a prime time address from philadelphia, the birthplace of american democracy. a way of life thatjoe biden says is under threat from donald trump and his supporters. we must be honest with each other and with oursel
With its fingernails if necessary. Mr netanyahus comments come after President Joe Biden confirmed the us had paused a delivery of bombs which could be used in an assault on rafah. But the idf claims they had enough weaponry to finish the rafah mission. There have been mixed reactions to mr biden s decision from lawmakers in the us. Earlier i spoke to our state department correspondent, tom bateman. You have spoken to members of congress all day, what sort of support or criticism is there for the decision to hold the shipment of the bombs to israel . One of the first things that struck me coming into the building today was the sense in which this is a very significant moment, the levels of energy and the response to this, the way people are feeling about this on both sides is extremely strong. That is because this is the first time in a generation we have had this level of public pressure applied by the white house onto the israelis, trying to change their tactics, and specifically usi
Into that final with other favourites, ukraine, france and the netherlands on saturday. Hello, im azadeh moshiri. Bordersecurity, migration, and Asylum Seekers crossing the channel in small boats are expected to be major issues during the uk election. Labour leader sir keir starmer is in dover, outlining how his party will tackle them. Heres what he had to say. As the first step in this plan, a new manifesto commitment, we will set up a new command with new powers, new resources, and a new way of doing things. Border Security Command. Now this is about leveraging the power and potential of dynamic government based on a Counter Terrorism approach, which we know works. An end to the fragmentation between policing the border force and our intelligence agencies, a collecting of the standards. So the Border Protection becomes an elite force, not a cinderella service. Lets have a look at what labour is planning to do. Sir keir starmer is promising to set up a new Border Security command to c
Forced to wait in a tent. I feel helpless, he says. The world is powerless to open the border. The hospitals here can no longer help me. Just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israels sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. Israel insists its operation is limited. But new images of tanks massing on the border earlier this week have raised fears that rafah s Densely Populated Centre could soon be attacked in defiance of washington. Translation if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. I have already said that, if necessary, we will fight with our nails. Last night, a rare warning from President Biden an all out assault will have consequences. They go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. For one former israeli Prime Minister, this is a significant moment the current government squande