hour of newsday after her acquittal on tax evasion charges, philippine journalist and nobel peace prize winner maria ressa tells me about what she calls the weaponisation of the law against her. and you know, it went down to these three things facts, truth, and justice. that is who won today. and another day gets under way at the australian open but defending champion rafael nadal heads home, after his dramatic second round exit. welcome to newsday. we begin with breaking news. new zealand s prime minister jacinda ardern has announced she s to leave her post, saying she no longer had enough in the tank to do thejob. she said that a general election will be held in october, and confirmed she will also stand down as an mp at that moment, although she will finish as prime minister no later than february 7th. she said. i am not leaving because i believe we cannot win the next election, but because i believe we can and will , she told a labour caucus meeting in napier. her
from 62 to 64. and soggy takeaway! how the red hot food delivery market has started to go cold. a lot to talk about, let s get going. we start in the us where a bitter political fight over the country s finances is about to begin. later today, the federal government will hit its borrowing limit agreed by congress far earlier than expected. the figure? an eye watering $31.4 trillion. in the short term, treasury secretary janet yellen will be able to buy some time, using what are known as extraordinary measures, diverting cash to stop the us defaulting on its debts. but congress will urgently have to find a solution and it is more divided than ever as michelle fleury reports from new york. the debt ceiling or debt limit is the legal amount the american federal government is allowed to borrow. it american federal government is allowed to borrow. allowed to borrow. it has maxed it out faster allowed to borrow. it has maxed it out faster than allowed to borrow. it has maxed
the rate at which uk prices are rising has slowed for a second month, but the cost of living is still close to a ao year high. ambulance workers in the uk willjoin nurses in taking strike action next month, piling huge pressure on hospital bosses. let s start in ukraine, where a helicopter crash has killed the country s interior minister, denys monastyrsky. he s the highest profile ukrainian casualty since the war began. the crash happened east of the capital kyiv in the town of brovary. at least 1a people have died. first, let s hearfrom the ukrainian president. a tragedy happened near kyiv. a helicopter crash claimed the life of the minister of the internal affairs of ukraine, his colleagues and helicopter cruel or found near a can or garden. 1a ukrainian families lost their loved ones today and many more families are losing daily because of the war near a kindergarten. so let s take you through what we know. nine people were on board the plane three from the interio
you re watching the context on bbc news. five months since the war began, the first ship carrying grain has left ukraine under the watchful eye of the russians patrolling the black sea. the ship is bound for lebanon. we will get the thoughts tonight from odesa, where further ships are being loaded. germany turns back to coal as the gas shortages threaten a winter of blackouts and economic misery. but why are they not returning to nuclear? another weekend of extreme weather in the us as california s biggest wildfire this year continues to burn out of control. tonight with the context, nathalie tocci, former eu foreign policy advisor. and hagar chemali, former us government advisor, host of the political satire series oh my world. a warm welcome to the programme. rarely has a ship set sail from ukraine with so much hope, and so much anticipation, riding on it. the sierre leone registered razoni left the port of odesa at 09:30 this morning and into the black sea, bound for t
Russian army is attacking positions in the ssu along the entire front line, including at the berduchi semyonovka line. At the same time, the positions of ukrainian militants are subject to constant artillery shelling. At the solovyovasemyonovka line, a semicauldron was formed, south of semyonovka. Russian units in uman were able to advance in the direction the western outskirts, where they are trying to gain a foothold on. Cadres of russian attack aircraft on motorcycles, on kooperativnaya and shevchenko streets, in that very old may, in the kharkov direction, the main efforts of the group of troops are still in the north. At any cost they are trying to hold the last major settlement on the outskirts of kharkov. The sun is rising over the donetsk steppes, the first rays are touching the halfplanted forest belts, our driver is pressing harder and harder on the gas, we are approaching the front line. Fighters can never admire the hourlong fury, an incredible sunrise, and sometimes at lea