Attacked pro democracy activists last weekend. Good afternoon. The Prime Minister has pledged to fund a new high speed rail route between leeds and manchester. Borisjohnson says it will turbo charge the economy. It is thought the new route is part of the governments wider investment commitment to the north of england set to cost around £39 billion. But labour have cast doubt on the plan, saying mrjohnson failed to deliver on infrastructure when he was mayor of london. Tom barton reports. In manchester, theyre expanding the tram network, spending millions on improving public transport. But the new Prime Minister says he wants to go further, promising to build a fast railway line between this city and leeds, 35 miles away. I want to be the Prime Minister who does with Northern Powerhouse rail what we did for crossrail in london, and today, im going to deliver on my commitment to that vision with a pledge to fund the leeds to manchester route. But while local leaders have welcomed that p
A game of chicken with the European Union saying its must compromise to stop a new deal breaks it. And one of the biggest data breaches in banking history the personal information of more than 100000000 people stolen after capital one is hacked. And im with all your sports a court stops costa semenya from running at the World Championships in another blow to her hopes of ever defending her 800 meter title. This is sudans really military council says it has suspended schools across the country until further notice Security Forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters as mass rallies continue against the deaths of 5 students on monday the council has condemned the killings and says its not clear who was behind it it was morgan has this report from. Voicing anger thousands of demonstrators mostly high school and University Students came out on tuesday in sudans capital for assume and other cities they are protesting the deaths of fellow protesters in a low grade in north k
Own musical identity. Announcer live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore and in hong kong, which is waking up after one of the most violent weekends of recent months. Protestors defied Police Orders to stay at home and commercial areas usually filled with shoppers were instead turned into war zones, thick with tear gas, officers armed with riot shields and masked demonstrators hurling bricks. And for the first time, Chinese State officials have scheduled a News Conference in beijing later on monday to make a statement on the situation. The bbcs nick beake reports from hong kong. Theres a predictability to sundays in hong kong this summer. They start peacefully, and end very differently. Once again, tens of thousands turned out, this time to condemn alleged Police Brutality during previous demonstrations. The police had tried to ban todays event and had warned that anyone who marched through the streets could
Britains new Prime Minister is expected to be named within the hour to resume a is holding out final Cabinet Meeting at 10 downing street before she resigns then the results of the conservative partys leadership election will be revealed but as johnson is the favorite to beat rival jeremy hunt in the vote by tory party members. All right lets go straight now to lauren slays outside the Queen Elizabeth the 2nd center where the announcement will be made lawrence to take us through the vote thats going to happen today. Oh yes it is a fairly straightforward operational to sleep the last few weeks members of the conservative party 160000 of them there the people choosing the leader of the party to please use my hands assuming that that person has the confidence and can. Deliver a stable government that person will therefore become Prime Minister tomorrow. It is looking very much as if as if hes going to be Boris Johnson is nobody in westminster really who thinks hes going to be anybody else
Make that prospect a great deal more likely for now the action at stormont is outside the parliament not in sight even if the assembly does against all expectations resume its work in the near future the challenge of protecting the good friday agreement that created it could make delivering any kind of breaks it an uphill struggle. Aljazeera belfast. All right still ahead when we come back rolling out a truce why turkeys beefing up its forces in Northern Syria. Iran. 6 months after it was at the center of a deadly attack by alshabaab fighters kenyan hotel reopens its all ahead. Hello again some very heavy rain pushing into southern sections of china now the satellite is a massive cloud an enemy and so all of this we have actually got a Tropical Storm with will actually weaken in terms of winds quite rapidly over the next 24 hours but it will not ease off in those rains you can see here some very dark colors the right the way into buying dong we could well see some flooding rains 28 deg