is unshakeable as he arrives there on his first middle east tour. protestors gather in washington to demand more action on gun legislation as newly released video of the texas school shooting sparks more anger about the police response. welcome to newsday. it s sevenin the morning in singapore, and four thirty in the morning in sri lanka where president gotabaya has not honoured his promise to resign. he flew out of the country, to the maldives, about 2k hours ago. but in a public letter, he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state while he was absent. that s led to anger among protestors, who wanted both men to quit. meanwhile, a curfew is in force and the prime minister and now acting president ranil wickremesinghe has told the military to do whatever is necessary to restore order. from colombo, our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime
executed detainees and murdered unarmed people in afghanistan. the heatwave is expected to hit a peak on monday as temperatures rise towards 35 degrees in parts of the uk. in sri lanka, the president flees the countryjust days after protesters storm his palace. and the extraordinary impact of the deepest, most detailed view of the universe ever seen. and coming up on the bbc news channel. england are bowled out for 110 as they slumped to a miserable io wicket defeat against india in the first one day international at the oval. welcome to the bbc news at 10:00pm. the first round of voting for the new leader of the conservative party will involve eight conservative mps, with the final two candidates selected before the end of next week. so the next prime minister will be one of these. from left to right nadhim zahawi, rishi sunak, suella braverman, tom tugendhat, penny mordaunt, kemi badenoch, jeremy hunt, and liz truss. any candidate attracting fewer than 30 votes tomorrow
rules helped murkowski survived, at least for now liz cheney never had a chance and she knew it. two years ago i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump s lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. [ cheers and applause ] against the backdrop of the teton mountains at sunset, cheney, whose father served five terms, gave her concession speech to just 150 people, an invite-only event where i.d.s were checked before entering. i think can you guess why. her father sitting off to the right of the stage watched as his daughter ended the family dynasty. let as resolve that we will stand together, republicans, democrats and independents against those who would destroy our republic. they are
Celebrate. Within minutes of winning a third term, army announced they were taking over. Bongo has been president since 2009, succeeding his father was in power since 1967. General Brice Oligui Nguema takes over as traditional leader, the army saying it wants to bring stability. The president of the transition insists on the need to maintain calm and stability in our beautiful country. He pledges to preserve the economic tools that guarantee social prosperity and the dawn of a new era. We will guarantee that piece, stability, and dignity of our beloved gabon. Mohammed president bongo is under house arrest. In an online message he pleaded for support. I do not know what is going on. So i am calling you to make noise, to make noise, to make noise. Im thanking you. Thank you. Mohammed we will explore more with our guests in a moment, but first, our correspondent has more from senegals capital. Reporter there is Popular Support for this coup because people had been expecting and waiting fo
Support of israel and palestine. A happy family, a strong state on the eve of mothers day in polotsk spoke about important things parliamentarians, heads of ministries of the Family Dynasty spoke, public organization. 3 days of grace and 16 sets of awards, the capital is preparing to host an international rhythmic gymnastics tournament. We cannot allow the cis countries to separate, stick to each other, our president called on the summit of the commonwealth, today he was hosted by kyrgyzstan as chairman of the unification, the leaders of seven states arrived in bishkek, in addition to Alexander Lukashenko, these are also the heads of azerbaijan, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, russia, tajikistan, turkmenistan and uzbekistan. The belarusian leader presented our countrys position on topical issues of interaction within the commonwealth. Our president is convinced to preserve it. Connections between our states after the collapse of a large country was the main goal of the cis, and a headache for