U. S. Secretary of state warns in sri lanka about chinese influence branding paging a predator china accuses us of bullying smaller nations. And its for the long wait for world series success is over for the l. A. Dodgers a 31. 00 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays securing their 1st championship win since 1980. 7 turkish president recip type is threatening legal action against a french magazine for publishing a cartoon that mocks him on the front page of its latest edition or 2 and has criticised the satirical weekly challis of dont call it a disgusting effort to spread racism and hatred. For once again a lot of our little for france and europe in general do not deserve the vicious provocative ugly hateful policies of mccrum and those who share the same mentality we invite prudent europeans to take initiative against this dangerous trend in order to have a Bright Future for them and their children we ask those who use anti muslim and turkish hostility to cover up their failures in their
Magazine charlie. And a tense wait for results in tanzania after an election mobbed by violence and accusations of fall. Thank you for joining us we begin with the coronavirus pandemic and germany is imposing a partial lockdown from next monday to try and stop the record rise in cold in 1000 infections chancellor Angela Merkel says its needed to avoid a National Health emergency germany recorded nearly 15000 new cases on wednesday evacuees following developments from london and has more on germanys. In the local service she was responding to a very serious situation indeed she said that the doubling time for the virus house got shorter and the numbers in intensive care were doubling every 10 days she said shes been Holding Meetings with the leaders of germany 16 different federal governments have largely been able to set their own coronavirus rules but what shes looking for is a nationwide concerted effort to bring these spiraling figures under control so for november the 2nd all bars
And if your timeline is not full of football transfer rumours then it may well be full of cats, because today is International Cat day. Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. You dont have to become vegan, or even vegetarian to save the planet, but you do have to eat less meat. And you have to do it now. Thats the broad recommendation of a big new un report on land and water resources. Basically if humanity doesnt start farming less intensively we wont be able to carry on feeding ourselves. Already more than 10 of the worlds population is undernourished. Soil is being lost faster than its forming and the number of food deserts is growing. Climate change, with its increase in droughts and floods and storms, is only putting more pressure on our land and water resources. But if we change our diets now, we can help to tackle Climate Change. Heres our science editor david shukman. A wall of dust smothers the parched fields of oklahoma. The planet is he
The british Prime Minister says he wants a fast track visa scheme to attract foreign scientists to the uk. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. Hoover disappointing. Shares are down sharply after the firm reported its latest results uber. Brisk domestic demand, japans economy grew stronger than expected, betrayed tensions are expected to weigh the future. In the future. Hello and welcome to this friday edition of Asia Business report. Im Sharanjit Leyl. Edition of Asia Business report. Im shara njit leyl. We edition of Asia Business report. Im Sharanjit Leyl. We start with uber because it shares are falling sightly in extended wall street trade sharply. The firm has lost over 5 billion in the three months tojune. Over 5 billion in the three months to june. The bbcs over 5 billion in the three months tojune. The bbcs Michelle Fleury has more. Responding to urban puzzle make Second Quarter results, ubers Second Quarter results. Uber has turned into the magical mone
A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Italys deputy Prime Minister and league party leader, matteo salvini, has called for a snap election, saying his partys differences with its Coalition Partners cant be patched up. It follows a row in the senate over a major infrastructure project. Andy beatt reports. A vote that has left italys government on the verge of collapse, the two Coalition Parties opposing each other over the future of the high speed train link to france. Backing the project at a rally outside rome, the deputy Prime Minister and leader of the right wing league party. He has now declared the governing coalition unworkable. The only way forward to hold fresh elections. Translation if a couple who are in love decide to go separate ways, it is better to do it consensually, quickly, and without quarrel. Colourfu