Also still to come on the news hour including calls for an uprising in cambodia leads to the arrest of 9 members of a bands Opposition Party. Heightened security across afghanistan on the eve of president ial elections and in the sports with some of the tackle that seem very serious rugby player sat at home in the front big world cup. With. Thousands of protesters are in Hong Kong Central Business District in support of activists attains near the border with Mainland China many are in the hold and center were later treated in hospital some with broken bones on thursday the embattled chief executive kerry lamb said part of a Community Dialogue session with members of the public was the 1st time she sat down with her critics since the protests began 16 weeks ago well as cross to hong kong then get the latest live from sarah clarke sorry youre up that process what are people there saying. Well this protest its been building over the last hour and a half or so i would go thousands of peopl
Waking up in the United States. This is the pulse. We are here in london and we have got plenty coming up for you. Minirobots that assemble your table or transform themselves into chairs that you can sit on. Meet the roombots. We begin with our top story. Sterling under pressure this morning after an opinion poll showing that Scottish Independence has gained a lead for the first time this year. Next week, scotland votes on whether to break up the 307yearold union. For more, anna edwards joins me now. This poll is interesting. There are a number of statistical a lot malaise anomalies that we need to think about. It is significant. He described the results of the poll over the weekend as remarkable. Regardless of whether you look at the detail about whether you should or shouldnt include the undecided, if you exclude them, if you look at just who has they willor said vote yes, a 22 point lead for the no campaign has been lost over just one month. That has been replaced by a twopoint defi
Despite the east fire in Eastern Ukraine. Moscow says it will hit back. And a giant fossil revealing a dinosaur that feasted of massive strashgs. The cia says the Islamic State group has far more figh r fighters than originally estimated. Jamal looks how the group has been able to recruit so many men. Reporter they are well armed and well financed. Rise to permanence after capturing several towns and cities across Northern Syria and iraq, but it is their brutality that has made team that notorious worldwide, and now the cia says the group known as the Islamic State is growing. Unofficially their numbers were estimated at around 10,000, but now the cia says more than 30,000 men could be fighting under their banner. There appears to be little agreement or clarity as to why and why the i. S. Group as grown so quickly. Some experts say the failure of american fore Foreign Policy in the middle east is to blame. That is really a failure with much of the west in how they have been fighting te
Welcome to bbc news im mike embley. Our top stories blockades and barriers chinas villages try to keep out strangers and coronavirus. President trump accuses his former National Security advisor of betrayal and the white house warns him not to publish his book. Fraternal singing from some, flag waving from others. Brexit clears its final legal hurdle in the European Parliament. The sun as its never been seen before. Well talk to one of the scientists behind these new High Resolution images of its surface. More foreign citizens are due to leave the chinese city of wuhan as the number of those who are infected with the potentially deadly coronavirus continues to increase. The authorities there say that 170 people have now died with another 1,700 confirmed cases. In the next few hours hong kong will halve the number of flights to Mainland China as well as suspending train and ferry services. John sudworth has the latest. Safely out of wuhan, a plane arriving at a California Air base with
Parliament. Hello there and welcome to the week in parliament. At 11pm hello there and welcome to the week in parliament. At pm the uk left the European Union. In the European Parliament, its backpacks, flags and five are just the uks meps bow out from brussels. No more financial contributions, no more European Court ofjustice, no more common fishing policies, no more being talked down to, no more being bullied. As the clock ticks down to brexit, the commons remains divided. We are celebrating us leaving the European Union on friday with a big brexit bash. Tomorrow is not the end of brexit, it is only the beginning. Also on this programme, there is a iow also on this programme, there is a row over allowing Chinese Tech Firm huawei to have a role in our mobile telecoms. And what is a government doing to tackle the deadly coronavirus . There are 1460 people we are seeking to locate boss. We are seeking to locate but first. Were out. At westminster, the government was keen not to appear t