to sexual health services. polls close in parts of australia as two political veterans battle it out for the country s top job. and could this be the first of record breaking heatwaves across europe? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. to australia, where polls have closed in the country s first election since 2019. it sees prime minister scott morrison go up against one of the country s longest serving politicians, labor leader anthony albanese. more than 17 million people were enrolled to vote which is compulsory for over 18s. either party will need to win at least 76 of the 151 seats in the house of representatives where the prime minister sits to form a majority government. let s take a closer look at the two main candidates. scott morrison has been the prime minister since 2018. he has been taking credit for adopting a tough closed borders approach to covid 19, which helped australia achieve one of the lowest death rates globally. an
the russian armed forces are now intensifying attacks in the eastern dom bess region of ukraine. they ve made advances after heavy bombardment of ukrainian positions at donbas region. there are now concerns they could turn their attentions to another country, moldova, which used to be part of the soviet union. it is not a member of nato so it is not protected from russian aggression. it lies between romania and ukraine and within it is the russian backed separatist region of transnistria. one month ago there was a series of explosions in the area raising concerns the war could widen. today the british foreign secretary liz truss made clear there is a serious threat which she says russia trying to restore what is described as greater russia. in another move indicating how far russia will go in destabilising countries, it has now been revealed that moscow has cut gas supplies to finland, the country at one of several now hoping to join nato. meanwhile president biden current
condemns his health officials as a huge wave of covid cases sweeps through the country. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 7pm in new york state where president biden has travelled to buffalo, to meet the families of ten people killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at the weekend. mr biden called white supremacy a poison which is running through the us. the bbc s nada tawfik was there as the president spoke and she sent us this report. america has a long and troubled history with racism and guns. the city of buffalo is the latest deadly chapter. joe biden, the latest president to console a community in mourning. in an all too familiar ritual, mr biden and the first lady paid their respects to the victims who were massacred here as they were shopping for groceries. after meeting with family members of the victims, he gave a forceful speech, calling the attack domestic terrorism and urging americans to reje
the area in western new york as they try to piece together exactly what happened inside of the supermarket behind me. investigators saying this was a racially motivated attack. the gunman who was a teenager who drove hours to get here detailed plans in online manifesto and also this afternoon, mike, we are learning more about the victims. take a look at the screen, security guard who tried to stop this from happening in the first place opening fire and actually exchanging some shots with this gunman. this is the security guard now identified as erin salter, jr., retired buffalo police officer who was working security at the tops grocery store. police telling us he confronted the gunman, they exchanged fire but he was wearing all the body armor so nothing happened. he then killed the guard and continued the rampage. listen. we are such a close-knit community we know or someone and most of the victims, we know all of them that were affected by this. not only the ones that wer