A look atjohn bercows most memorable moments as he stands down as house of commons speaker. And england name an unchanged side to face south africa in the Rugby World Cup final on saturday. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Campaigning has begun for the next general election to be held on december 12th. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, will launch his partys campaign this morning. Hell say the election offers a once in a generation chance to transform the country and will promise to go after tax dodgers, dodgy landlords and big polluters. Borisjohnson is due to make a series of campaign visits of his own, highlighting what he calls the peoples priorities education, the nhs and crime. The Prime Minister suffered a blow on wednesday evening as one of his cabinet ministers, nicky morgan, became the latest tory mp to decide not to stand for re election. Today was of course the day the uk was due to leave the European Union. Nick eardley has more. Get used to scenes like th
No, i dont, were going to get out and what we dont want is more pointless delay unimaginable destruction the Health Minister of the bahamas says he fears the number of People Killed by Hurricane Dorian will be staggering. And coming up in sport rain delays the start to day three of the fourth ashes test. Australia are in control, but can england fight back . Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The former president of zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has died, at the age of 95. Mugabe was at the centre of his countrys struggle for independence from britain and became its first Prime Minister in 1980, before becoming president seven years later. His reputation as a hero of the Independence Movement was soon overshadowed by the brutality of his rule. In the early 1980s, thousands of people were massacred and tortured in matabeleland, and the suppression of human rights became a defining feature of his time in power. But for many africans, he remains an icon of liberation from white rule.
A 14 year old boy has been arrested in connection with a fire at a high school in dunfermline. And. Record breaking weather the hottest Late August Bank Holiday sees temperatures hit 33 degrees celsius. And in half an hour, talking movies explores the role of the producer in both big hollywood productions and smaller independent films. Good evening. The Prime Minister has told european leaders meeting at the g7 summit in biarritz not to listen to british politicians who say they can stop brexit. He told reporters at the close of the summit that hed reminded the eu britain will leave on october 31st, even if no agreement is reached, and he said colossal preparations have been made for a no deal scenario. Also at the summit, leaders agreed measures to try to help deal with the fires in the amazon well hear more about that in a moment. First, our Political Correspondent vicki young reports on the mood around brexit in biarritz. Its not easy keeping World Leaders in line. 0rder, order. Bor
Coming up. Three social media giants face a grilling. We sat in this committee, in a public hearing, and raised a clearly vile anti semitic tweet with your organisation, it was discussed, and it is still there. ello, ello, ello, whats all this then . As someone who was Police Minister when we had 21,000 more Police Officers than now, the minister needs to go back to the drawing board. Hear, hear. And the lords talk about. The lords. To put it mildly, my lords, we are not loved. But first, twitter has been strongly criticised for repeatedly failing to remove abusive tweets. The company was appearing before the home affairs committee, alongside facebook and google. The mps they faced were clearly angry and frustrated at what they saw as the failure of social media giants to deal with offensive and inflammatory content. The statistics are quite amazing. Half the worlds population use these sites every day. Its thought that 400 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute and every