And notjust in new york. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8 in the evening in washington where the Trump Administration has been forced to deny it plans to pull us troops out of iraq. As demanded by the baghdad parliament. It follows the emergence of a leaked letter that the us defence secretary has called misleading. All this, prompted by the us killing of an iranian general in iraq. The funeral of Qasem Soleimani in tehran has attracted huge crowds, thought to be in the millions. Our middle east editor, jeremy bowen reports from baghdad. Crowd chants death t0 america in persian tehrans broad avenues were jammed with mourners, estimated in millions. Not all iranians are this distressed about the death of the leaderships hardest man. General Qasem Soleimani was a dominant force in a regime that shot dead hundreds of protesters on irans streets at the end of 2019. His supporters were
The Bureau of Meteorology has warned Victoria could be hit with further blasts of rain in the coming days as at least 1,000 homes are inundated or cut off by floodwaters.
Sean and Genevieve Driver welcomed their son, Romeo, to the world as their racehorse business in Broke, NSW, flooded. Kind locals on the community Facebook group rescued their horses.