Announcer live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1am london and 2am in the french resort of biarritz, where the g7 summit of World Leaders has ended in an unexpectedly positive mood. French president Emmanuel Macron persuaded his colleagues to agree to help brazil fight the fires in the amazon. He also convinced President Trump to at least consider a meeting with irans president rouhani. And mr trump himself was upbeat about the resolution of another crisis he has initiated the trade war with china. I think they should make a deal, and i think if they dont make a deal, its going to be very bad for china. And i very much appreciate the fact they came out last night, very late last night, and they said they wanted to make a deal, they wanted it to be under calm circumstances. It was a little different kind of statement, i thought it was a beautiful statement. The us president stood beside emmanual macron as
To world news today. Greeces leftist Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, has conceded victory to the centre right opposition, following a snap election. Mr tsipras has called the new democracy leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to congratulate him. Vote counting is under way, but Greek Interior Ministry projections suggest 39. 8 support for the new Democracy Party, with mr tsiprass populist left wing syriza party trailing on 31. 5 . Mr mitsotakis spoke a short time ago. First of all i asked for a strong mandate to change the country. And the greek people delivered and i am very grateful for the result. We won an outright majority which was our main target. Almost reached 40 which is an incredible number given the context of a fragmented Political Landscape and i feel i have a strong mandate to deliver on my agenda which is an agenda to grow the economy, create morejobs but also to make sure the greek people feel safe again. So what is this getting reaction in terms of this streets of athens . A
And not have it put out in the public domain. Skirmishes have broken out between demonstrators and police in hong kong, after another large scale protest against chinas increasing control over the territory, International Condemnation of irans announcement that its breached another condition of its 2015 International Nuclear agreement. The Jodrell Bank Observatory in cheshire which has been at the forefront of Astronomical Research is declared a unesco World Heritage site. In the past five minutes, the United States have won the 2019 womens world cup. They beat the netherlands in lyon, 2 0. Its the fourth time america has triumphed. Lets go straight to olly foster in the bbcs sports centre. And they are a very worthy champions. They simply overpowered the netherlands, the only oddity about this World Cup Final, which was a sell out, by the way, over 57,000 in attendance, to see the now four time champions, as it was goalless at half time but itjust turned on a couple of goals within tw
In after the death of Natasha Ednan Laperouse. We will speak to her parents. Elitist britain. People that went to private school continue to dominate the top jobs. That is according to a major study into social mobility, which has found that not much has changed in the last five years. Rafa leaving the toon. Newcastle fans want owner mike ashley out of the club after manager Rafael Benitez wont renew his contract. Good morning from me. This morning we do have some heavy rain moving northwards from southern england, pushing up eventually into the north sea. For the rest of us, were looking at some bright spells, also the risk of the thundery shower. But it is going to be humid, and its going to be more humid as we go through the rest of this week. I will have more in 15 minutes. It is tuesday 24th june. Our top story after facing criticism for avoiding media scrutiny, borisjohnson, who is campaigning to be the next Prime Minister, has spoken exclusively to the bbc. He says he would ensu
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, a new study shows the benefits to mother and babys health of a swedish law that allows fathers to take up to 30 days paid leave in the year after birth whilst the mother is still on leave. Tell us what you think just use bbcthebriefing. In the us theres no mandated paid leave for dads. After a day of politics where President Trump hailed what he called, the extraordinary alliance between the usa and britain, helljoin other World Leaders for the 75th anniversary of d day. It was on this day in 191m that the go ahead was given to liberate nazi occupied europe. The invasion, which involved thousands of allied boats and planes, took place the next day on the 6th ofjune. Graham satchell has been looking ahead to todays events. In the shadow of the vast Portsmouth Naval memorial, southsea, and is being searched and made secure. Three year old spaniel trying to find