London. Also on the program australias Prime Minister responds to public criticism and cut short his holiday to face the bushfire crisis to volunteer firefighters battling a blaze near sydney are killed crews are working to contain more than 100 fires fuelling temperatures and high winds. And police in india tackle renewed nationwide protests against its controversial new citizenship people die the rest and more than 4000 to detect. Im sure welcome to the program. Thirties Prime Minister baraks johnson has won the backing of lawmakers for his brags that bill to take britain out of the European Union todays vote comes after the conservative leader secured a big majority in last weeks general election the vote was 358 to 234 largely along party lines the government for and won the election on this issue it had been unable to pass the legislation and the only parliament busy moments when the results of the vote was announced a short while ago. The rise of the right track 358 a nurse on th
Why thousands of women are dying because their heart attack symptoms are missed. Ill be talking to an expert at quarter past nine. And theres a silver medal and a new british record for Dina Asher Smith at the world athletics championship in doha. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Ministers will attempt to focus attention on spending pledges on the second day of the conservative Party Conference in manchester. It comes after the opening day saw the Prime Ministerfacing questions about his private life. Chancellor sajid javid is promising what he calls an infrastructure revolution with a 25 billion pounds upgrade of englands roads, a National Bus Strategy and five billion pounds for ultrafast Broadband Internet in the uk. But its been a stormy week for Boris Johnson culminating in number ten denying newspaper accusations that the Prime Minister squeezed a journalists thigh under the table at a private lunch 20 years ago. Away from manchester, opposition parties are expected
Falling already on saturated ground, very wet the last few weeks and no surprise we have dozens of flood warnings out across england and wales and more rain to come which will exacerbate already existing flooding problems. It comes with this next area of low pressure moving up from the south west gradually but you will noticed across much of the north and east, not a bad start with sunshine around and apart from a few showers across northern scotland, mostly dry but the rain spilling in from the south west will become heavier across parts of South West England and wales over the next few hours and wales over the next few hours and push into southern portions of Northern Ireland but a apart from those shows across northern scotland, a cold breeze blowing down the northern isles, it is not going to be too bad, some hazy sunshine and temperatures mid to high teens celsius. We focus on the rain pushing northwards, much of Northern Ireland, central and southern scotla nd ireland, central an
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