Are seeing birth rates hit new lows and ask what governments can do about it. Voiceover live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore and midnight here in london, where borisjohnson has finally secured an early general election in the uk on the fourth attempt. Mps approved his call for a snap poll on december the 12th by a huge majority, with opposition backing. The Prime Minister said the public must be given a choice over the future of brexit and the country. Labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn said the election is a once in a generation chance to transform our country. Our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has the latest. These will soon be portraits from the past. Speaker order order. The howls and the rage of a house divided. Theyll be replaced with some new voices. Some here will disappear. I call the Prime Minister. Mrspeaker, thank you. Its never been that straightforward with this group of mps, as this still new Prime Ministe
As Anti Government protesters celebrate after the Prime Minister resigns. Here in the uk, a general election has finally been called, for december 12th, to try to end the deadlock over brexit. It may also have serious implications for the unity of the country. Itll be the first december election in the uk in nearly 100 years. The Prime Minister has said the public must be given a choice over the future. The leader of the labour opposition described the election as a once in a generation chance to transform our country. These will soon be portraits from the past. Speaker order order the howls and the rage of a house divided. Theyll be replaced with some new voices. Some here will disappear. I call the Prime Minister. Mrspeaker, thank you. Its never been that straightforward with this group of mps, as this still new Prime Minister knows to his cost. There is only one way to restore the esteem in which our democracy is held, and to recover the respect in which parliament should be held by
Been popping up today. Firefighters knockdown flames of a new fire near lake sonoma. This fire started around 7 30 am west of geyserville. We have video from skyfox. You can see the fire burned a small area of brush. There were no major damages. And daly city, crews put out of the grass fire an hour ago. That was reported around 10 45 am near hamilton avenue interstate 280. No one was hurt and no word on how either fire started. Firefighters are optimistic about the progress overnight against the kincade fire. Allie rasmus was after their 40 containment and firefighters are considering that a victory for now. On this ongoing battle against the fire. Reporter you can see the smoke in the distance behind the house where we are. We are east of lake sonoma. Skyfox has a view of the fire lines from the Sonoma County, the other side of the fire. Sonomalake county borta. 5000 firefighters and personnel are on the front lines. The firefighters and Engine Companies across the western u. S. , we
The Online Market in domestic slaves claims its enabled by google, apple and instagram. And coming up how hundreds of thousands of dangerous tumble dryers could still be posing a fire risk in uk homes. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im annita mcveigh. Nigel farage has called on the conservatives to form an election pact with his brexit party. Ahead of the partys official general election launch this morning, mr farage said the two parties need to form an alliance, but refused to comment on speculation that his party would field fewer candidates to give borisjohnson a better chance of winning the election on december 12. Meanwhile, the snp leader, Nicola Sturgeon has promised whoever wins the election will receive a formal request to allow scotland to hold another independence referendum. Lets go live now to that brexit party launch, because nigel farage, as you can see, is beginning to speak. Yet, more broken promises, and indeed, a breakdown of trust and faith, not just a
Disruptive winds across southern parts of the uk through the early hours of saturday and tomorrow afternoon and into the evening hours as well. This is the low pressure over the next 2a hours, barrelling gcioss over the next 2a hours, barrelling across the uk, initially racing towards us then parking over us during the course of the weekend, yes, bringing wind and rain but also bringing some milder weather, and thatis bringing some milder weather, and that is already reaching southern and south western parts of the uk, in fact here temperatures, given brightness, might nudge up to 16 degrees, but really most of us are stuck underneath the cloudy skies and rain will come and go through the course of this afternoon and into tonight. Our eyes are cast to the west, south west of us, this area just south of island where the centre of the low pressure is, and the winds blow fastest very close to the winds blow fastest very close to the centre of the low pressure, so initially i think the ons