i think it s a convincing result, a decisive result and what it means is that, as a, as a government we can move on and focus on stuff that i think really matters. also in the programme: ukraine s president zelenskyy visits frontline troops in the donbas. and high income countries are still too slow in redistributing covid i9 vaccines. a stark warning from new zealand s former prime minister. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has survived a confidence vote brought by members of parliament from his own party. 148 conservativecmps voted against him. 211 said they wanted mrjohnson to stay in office. he s faced months of criticism after it emerged that events had been held at government offices in downing street during coronavirus lockdowns. under the current rules, mrjohnson cannot be challenged in a leadership vote again for a year. our political editor chris mason bri
ryanair comes under fire for plans force its south african passengers to take an afrikaans language test. and, the makers of the latest movie blockbuster top gun: maverick find they have a need for speed , and a good lawyer, as they re sued for copyright infringement. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. borisjohnson has survived a vote of confidence in his leadership of the conservative party, although more than 40% of tory mps voted against him. he described the result as decisive, and his supporters have urged their colleagues to allow the government to push ahead with the running of the country. but one of mrjohnson s critics said it was a very bad result , and he would be surprised if he was still in downing street by the end of the autumn. our political editor, chris mason, has the story of the vote and the result. after months of awkward question for borisjohnson, weeks of mounting speculation and a day of intense public, sometimes angry,
leadership mandate, they said, and it was time to move forward. i think it s a convincing result, a decisive forward. i think it s a convincing result, a decisive result, - forward. i think it s a convincing result, a decisive result, and i forward. i think it s a convincing i result, a decisive result, and what it means is that as a government we can move on and focus on the stuff that i think really matters. as the votes were cast at westminster this evening, and after the result, the rebels said that things had now changed fundamentally. i hadn t expected more than a third of the i hadn t expected more than a third of the parliamentary party expressing no confidence in the prime expressing no confidence in the prime minister, but it is severely damaging prime minister, but it is severely damaging for him and his reputation. we will damaging for him and his reputation. we will have the latest from westminster tonight, from downing street, on what the result means f
is that as a government we can move on and focus on the stuff i think matters to people. ukraine s president zelensky visits frontline troops in the donbas as the uk announces it will supply long range missiles to the country. are the world s promises to reduce carbon emissions being kept? we look at the pledges more than 6 months on from the cop26 summit in glasgow. hello and welcome. britain s prime minister borisjohnson has survived a vote of confidence in his leadership of the conservative party. the vote was triggered after over 54 conservative mps wrote letters calling for him to be removed. under the current rules mrjohnson can t be challenged for another year. but the result may not be decisive enough to restore his authority. in a secret ballot, 211 conservative mps voted to support borisjohnson. 148 cast their ballot against him. our first report tonight is from our political editor chris mason. after months of awkward questions for boris johnson, weeks of mou
and the international atomic energy agency says north korea is expanding facilities at its main nuclear site. those are the latest headlines on bbc news. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. and no prizes for guessing what is on the front of them! with me are natasha clark, political and environment correspondent, and professor anand menon, director of uk in a changing europe, which describes itself as providing independent research on brexit and its impact. so, as promised, let s show you the front of those newspapers before we talk about them in detail. the guardian like every front page has the story of the conservative party voting in favour of boris johnson remaining as prime minister, as he survived a vote of confidence in his leadership. the i paper says mrjohnson won the vote by 211 to 148. that means 58.8% of the tory party support mrjohnson. but the times says the result has left borisjohnson a wounded victor as