The home secretary, priti patel, will meet her french counterpart in paris today, to discuss ways to deal with the rise in illegal migrant crossings to the uk by boat. At least 25 people have been killed in a firebomb attack on a nightclub in mexico. Several more are seriously hurt. And the survival of Bolton Wanderers has been secured after Football Ventures limited completed its takeover of the club. The League One Club had been facing liquidation. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The government has insisted that mps will have time to debate the uks departure from the European Union despite plans to suspend parliament for five weeks into october. Yesterday, the queen approved the Prime Ministers request to close parliament until 14th october less than three weeks before the uk is due to leave the eu. But the move has sparked protests around the country a legal challenge is underway and a petition against proroging parliament has attracted more than one million signatur
Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. Our Asia Business correspondent Karishma Vaswani is in singapore. As you can see from the screens, the cost of crude oil is up about 10 for light crude and 11. 3 for brent crude. There was a surge of oil prices at the onset of asian trade, and one viewpoint pointed out a surge at the onset of trade, but now i think that traders are ingesting the information about when we might see a resumption in that shortage of oil supplies coming in from saudi arabia. Remember, asia is particularly exposed to this, given that it particularly exposed to this, given thatitis particularly exposed to this, given that
Million followers. And Regional Elections take place in germany. The far right afd party are expected to perform well at the polls. Hello and welcome to bbc news. As fires continue to burn in the amazon rainforest, brazils military chief says his government is in talks with four countries offering help chile, israel, ecuador and the United States. The Development Comes just days after brazils government rejected a previous offer of money from the g7 countries. More than 80,000 fires have broken out in the vast rainforest so far this year. Sophie long reports from para state, deep in the amazon. This was once lush rainforest, but now sparse land, a result of deforestation in the years gone by. But this year there has been a massive surge in the number of fires set to clear the trees and the landscape along the bau road that takes us deep into the jungle bears the scars of the blazes that are now threatening a whole way of life. In the bau indigenous village they are preparing for a nami
As fires continue to burn in the amazon rainforest, brazils military chief says his government is in talks with four countries offering help chile, israel, ecuador and the United States. The Development Comes just days after brazil rejected a previous offer of money from the g7 countries. More than 80,000 fires have broken out in the vast rainforest so far this year. Sophie long reports from para state, deep in the amazon. This was once lush rainforest, but now sparse land, a result of deforestation in the years gone by. But this year there has been a massive surge in the number of fires set to clear the trees and the landscape along the bau road that takes us deep into the jungle bears the scars of the blazes that are now threatening a whole way of life. In the bau indigenous village they are preparing for a naming ceremony for the latest addition to this tight knit, traditional community. But as they prepare to celebrate new life, the village chief tells me the threat to his people i
Chile, israel, ecuador and the United States. The Development Comes just days after brazil rejected a previous offer of money from the g7 countries. More than 80 thousand fires have broken out in the vast rainforest so far this year. Sophie long reports from para state, deep in the amazon. This was once lush rainforest, but now sparse land, a result of deforestation in the years gone by. But this year there has been a massive surge in the number of fires set to clear the trees and the landscape along the bau road that takes us deep into the jungle bears the scars of the blazes that are now threatening a whole way of life. In the bau indigenous village they are preparing for a naming ceremony for the latest addition to this tight knit, traditional community. But as they prepare to celebrate new life, the village chief tells me the threat to his people is increasing with every day of Jair Bolsonaros presidency. Translation if the president continues with his policies, he will diminish In