face is bbc news. it s newsday. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 1am in israel where prime minister, naftali bennett is to step down from his post and dissolve parliament triggering a fresh election. the current foreign minister, yair lapid, will temporarily take over. mr bennett has been in thejob forjust over a year and has struggled to stabilise his increasingly fragile governing coalition. here is the israeli prime minister, naftali bennett, speaking earlier. translation: i held a series of talks with officials - and i realised that in ten days where the expiration of the west bank regulations, israel will experience serious security damages and legal cast. security damages and legal chaos. we spared no efforts to galvanise whomever was needed to pass the regulations, but our efforts bore no fruit. therefore, my friend the foreign minister and i decided to act together to dissolve parliament and set an agreed upon date for elections. i m j
the first that lester was one of the places, the first place are made subject to affairs the first place are made subject to affairs local lockdown. and later manchester. evidence has been given to the manchester. evidence has been given to the inquiry by the mayor, mr rotherham, that he believes manchester. it wasn t mr rotherham. andy burnham said manchester was treated appallingly. not necessarily in terms of their being not necessarily in terms of their being a not necessarily in terms of their being a public health need for this intervention, but in terms of the process intervention, but in terms of the process by intervention, but in terms of the process by which manchester was placed process by which manchester was placed under restrictions, the debate placed under restrictions, the debate about the fiscal support given debate about the fiscal support given and the speed at which it was done given and the speed at which it was done in given and the
Livermore, San Francisco already at 63 degrees and were watching some clouds moving in, and interest there will be a slight cans that there could be a little bit of some light thing along the copacifica reaching 66 degrees, los gatos today 62 degrees and San Francisco 70 degrees on the embarcadero in the north bay 80 degrees, in the napa, while oakland tops out at 73 and livermore reaching 81 degrees. Another mild day across the bay. There could be a few changes as we head closer to the weekend. More on that coming in the microclimate forecast. How are the roads looking . So far looking grood today. In dublin west of el charro a little slowing coming in out of the altamonte pass. As we loo look at or Speed Sensors it nothing draks tick. Starting to go from yellow to green out of the altamonte passing by west grant line road and we are looking over toward the rest of the bay. No problems heading toward the san mateo bridge or on the peninsula. We begin now with the latest developments o
In texas. The immediate area has been evacuated. This is happening north east of houston, which has been badly damaged by Tropical Storm, harvey. We have pictures of the plant. You can see the fire and the plant. You can see the fire and the smoke there that is rising. The problem is that the plant lost power, so that means that refridge raters keeping the chemicals coal are not working. The question is whether or not we can get in to assess the full scale of the impact from an environmental stand point to infrastructure stand point so. That is ongoing. The bottom line is we do what is called plume modelling. That is what we base the evacuations on. So by all means, yes, the plume is incredibly dangerous. This is a spokesperson for the company that runs the plant. These materials have to be maintained cold. If they start to warm up, they become unstable and they will decompose. When they decompose they generate heat and when they generate heat, there is the possibility of a fire and po
In the morning in delhi, where the full impact of the devastating floods across south asia is now becoming clear. Heavy rains at this time of year are not unusual but the sheer loss of life certainly is. More than 1,200 people are believed to have died. Relief agencies are struggling to help millions more made homeless. The monsoon rains are the heaviest south asias seen in decades. The bbcs Sanjoy Majumder has this report. Weeks after the worst flooding in decades, a third of bangladesh is still under water. Many villages in the northern part of the country are still cut off. Aid agencies are desperately trying to reach those affected. Its a similar situation across large parts of south asia. The eastern indian state of bihar has been hit the hardest. Heavy rain and overflowing rivers have left large areas under water. More than 500 people have been killed, here, in the last few weeks. Tens of thousands of people have lost their homes, and are staying in temporary camps. Theres still