Earlier borisjohnson suffered his sixth commons defeat in a week, as mps rejected, for a second time, his attempt to hold an early general election. Theresa may is accused of rewarding number ten cronies as her former closest advisers are recognised in the ex Prime Ministers resignation honours list. Also this morning, Prescription Drug dependency, a review by Public Health england finds that one in four adults has been prescribed drugs in the past year which could be addictive. An urgent call for a one and a half trillion pound investment to help stem Climate Change. In sport, scotlands hopes of reaching euro 2020 via their Qualification Group are all but over after they fall to a heavy defeat against belgium. And the ultimate deep sea diver, an american adventurer becomes the first person to visit the deepest places in all five of earths oceans. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Parliament has been officially suspended for the next five weeks, amid chaotic scenes in the
The menu when no one east investigates dark friend. Has im sick of this is counting the cost on your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the trillion dollar moon bounty as india prepares to become the 4th nation to land on the moon we find out why theres a new scramble to get there the number of people going hungry has risen for the 3rd year running after years of improvements we find out whats gone wrong. In the multibillion dollar muslim fashion industry why are big brands buying into the trend. Of 50 years ago this week Neil Armstrong became the 1st man to step on to the moon mans flirtation with it was brief with a dozen men walking on it the last in 1972 but now theres renewed interest china plans to build a luna base by 2030 and nasa hopes to have men and women on the moon by 2024 of the next 5 years the space agency is expected to spend 30000000000. 00 on this its funding several projects from lunar landers to a mini space station that will allow craft t
Within the a. N. C. Who we know are many to go after his continued leadership of the party the public protectors verdict means that im up or so i will have to declare all donations to his campaign within 30 days the president says hell study the report and make a decision on any further action corruption continues to be an issue the governing African National congress is battling not only is president facing a scandal of his own his predecessor president jacob zuma is appearing some would say reluctantly before a commission of inquiry into state corruption during his 9 years in office zuma concluded his 4th day of testimony after withdrawing from proceedings saying he was being treated unfairly but later said he would return to the witness stand while so africans are looking for answers the promise of a corruption free south africa appears to be elusive for leader mullah aljazeera pretoria south africa. Much more still ahead on this program from london looking at why kosovos Prime Mini
From above. As we celebrate this vote today, we celebrate the lives of people like lou alvarez. Well never forget the heroes james delegate rode a, ray pfeiffer, and loual v. R. E. E. The september 11th Victims Compensation fund act is named to honor these three First Responders who lost their lives to 9 11related illnesses. Today the senate has an opportunity to honor these three and so many others that we have lost who never stopped fighting for 9 11 First Responders and the country they loved by voting yes on this critical legislation. Ive shared with many of my colleagues, i never had the privilege of going to new york city before september 11th, 2001, but i will never forget my first visit after september 11, 2001. It was just a few weeks after the attack had happened. Ill never forget the smell. Ill never forget the smoke coming out of the debris pile. Ill never forget the silent fire trucks with their lights on but no siren as they delivered even more heroes to the Recovery Effo
Considerable. What the iranian government has said is that the british ship had switched of communication devices for that not to be detected and it was going the wrong way in the streets of hormuz which is a danger to other ships the reason the british thank you has done that is probably to avoid. Iranian forces because i think the British Government realize that you may be looking to confiscate a ship as a retaliation for what they did to the iranian ship right but the british tanker did was sorry but there are also the iranian authorities are also suggesting that this tanker was involved in an accident with the reigning fishing iranian fishing that. Yes when you turn off your communication devices you get into accidents so what the british ship did was not legal under International Law and iran had the right to confiscate the ship for india injuring the lives of others but i think in normal situations iran would have given the ship a warning in a set of confiscating the ship the fac