Between the two gangs. The government begins a review of sentencing policy for the most dangerous offenders. Women going through the menopause face a National Shortage of hormone replacement therapy. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Hong kong has suspended all flights in and out of the territory as a sit in with thousands of Anti Government protesters at the International Airport enters its fourth day. Mass demonstrations and unrest show no sign of abating, more than two months after they were sparked by a controversial extradition bill. Many of those protesting are critical of the actions of police, who on sunday were caught on film firing tear gas at close range. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonell sent this update from hong kong airport. This is the scene at hong kong International Airport. Both levels are completely full, black clad pro democracy demonstrators have occupied every inch of this terminal. If we come over here, we can even see down at the bottom how many thou
Person to walk the length of chinas Yangtze River , the longest river in asia. Its one oclock in the morning in london and 8 00am in singapore and in hong kong, where the International Airport has been the scene of further, violent confrontations between demonstrators and police. Officers tried to storm the terminal building only to withdraw after facing heavy resistance. At one point, a suspected chinese official was held hostage by protesters. The trouble has done nothing to quell fears of chinese intervention. President trump has claimed Us Intelligence told him that beijing is moving troops to its border with hong kong. Jonathan head reports. This was the day a self styled Democracy Movement came close to mob violence. Fearful of infiltrators, the protesters seized individuals they believed were undercover chinese officers. With emotions so raw it was hard to restrain them. For a second day they had occupied the airport and shut it down. Luggage trolleys rammed together to make eff
Floods and heavy rains causing havoc across large parts of southeast and east asia. Millions of fans are saying goodbye for now at least to the south korean kapok sensation pts. Welcome to the programme. We start in the United States come over the attorney general says he is angry and appalled that the disgraced us financierJeffrey Epstein died in a new york prison cell instead of standing trial. He died at the metropolitan Correctional Centre on saturday, where he was awaiting trial on sex and conspiracy charges. Sex and conspiracy chargeslj sex and conspiracy charges. I was appalled, and indeed the whole department was, and frankly angry, to learn of the mccs failure to adequately secure this prisoner. We are now learning of serious irregularities in this facility that are deeply concerning, and demand a thorough investigation. William barr also promised the investigation into Jeffrey Epsteins alleged crimes would continue. Let me assure you that this case will continue on against an
The family of a 15 Year Old Girl missing in malaysia thank the search teams who are scouring the jungle for her. We are extremely impressed with the effort, your expertise, your dedication. And we hope you find nora. More than a Million People are evacuated from their homes as a powerful typhoon hits china. And click reports on internet shutdowns in kashmir and a new car scanner in israel. Thats in half an hour. Good afternoon. The Energy Regulator is demanding answers from the National Grid after a major blackout struck large areas of england and wales yesterday evening. Around a Million People were affected by the power cut, which led to huge disruption for rail passengers, caused traffic lights to fail and left thousands of homes without electricity. The National Grid said the outage was a rare and unusual event caused by the almost simultaneous loss of power at a gas station and an offshore wind farm atjust before five oclock yesterday. In a statement, rwe, owners of the power stat
The family of a 15 Year Old Girl missing in malaysia thank the search teams who are scouring the jungle for her. We are extremely impressed with the effort, your expertise, your dedication and we hope you find nora. More than a Million People are evacuated from their homes as a powerful typhoon hits china. And a woman who was conceived by rape fights to see her father brought to justice, thats in Victoria Derbyshire the week in review in half an hour. Good afternoon. The Energy Regulator is demanding answers from the National Grid after a major blackout struck large areas of england and wales yesterday evening. Around a Million People were affected by the power cut which led to huge disruption for rail passengers, caused traffic lights to fail and left thousands of homes without electricity. The National Grid said the outage was a rare and unusual event caused by the almost simultaneous loss of power at a gas station and an offshore wind farm atjust before five oclock yesterday. In a s