Hello everyone, its 2 30 p. M. Here in the iranian capital and youre watching press tv world news. It is now election day here in iran and people are heading to polls to cast their ballots for parliament and assembly of experts. Voters are taking part in the parliamentary election to choose 290 members of the legislative body from pool of 15,000 candidates. Elected members will serve a term of four years in the parliament and in another election being held simultaneously, participants are voting for 88. Members of the assembly of experts, deliberative body elected for eight years. This is a 12th parliamentary election and six voting for the assembly of experts since victory of the Islamic Revolution. More than 61 Million People are eligible to vote for both elections. Meanwile leader of irans Islamic Revolution is cast his ballot in the countrys parliamentary and assembly of experts elections. Said ali khamenei voted in the tehran constitution. در اولین ساعت ممکن بری�
But it could be good news for teams like england, as Katie Gornall explains. What this means for england potentially is that it opens up that side of the draw for them because they were on course to meet germany in either the quarterfinals or the semi finals if they got that far. And like it or not, for the players and the manager, this is now going to increase the expectations around this england team that they can go all the way in this tournament. Of course, for the england camp, they are very much focused on the next game. They are taking it one game at a time. They wont want to look past nigeria. There has been so many shocks and upset in this tournament well, the round of tournament 16 gets underway tomorrow. So so far, england will be determined to avoid another one in brisbane on monday. Maz farookhi looks ahead to the first day of knock out games. Auckland is going to her spain against saints land. We are here in wellington where we have an eating beef between two former World
Resettlement scheme, where they have the right to live and work in the country and many were housed in what was intended to be a temporary basis in hotels and that was paid for partly through government funding. Vets that scheme is coming to an end and back in april they government wrote two people who were in that Emergency Accommodation telling them they had three months to leave. Now that deadline is coming around and we are hearing from local authorities who have had the task of finding accommodation for these people, that many of them are ending up people, that many of them are ending up homeless because there simply isnt suitable permanent accommodation for them to move into. And so that is why we have this morning from the local Government Association that many people are at risk of homelessness will stop indeed many are finding themselves homeless because of the situation and they are warning that it is causing many people significant distress and destruction and the situation
Looked for policies which protected the environment. Rishi sunak says the plan is better for Energy Security and better for Energy Security and better for jobs as members of the conservative party have issued a joint letter to the chancellor concerning the natwest de banking scandal. Concerning the natwest de banking scandal. While the de banking scandal. While the letter, which is signed by several mps, including sir iain duncan smith, warns that the Financial Conduct Authority may have inadvertently encouraged a culture within banking that led to nigel farage losing his coutts account. They say the fca should be investigated. The should be investigated. The journalist and politician Vladimir Kara murza has lost his appeal against a 25 year prison term in moscow. The dual russian term in moscow. The dual russian and british citizen was jailed in april for opposing russias invasion of ukraine. The Prime Minister called for his immediate release, describing russias actions as desperate
Haidi welcome to daybreak australia. In sydney margaret have just come online. Annabelle im annabelle droulers. We are counting down to asias Major Trading opens and the stop top stories this hour. A positive move as wall street heads its 15th record high of the year. Investors are awaiting jay powells report to congress for dates on the fed rate outlook. Haidi ahead opecplus extending its supply cutbacks until midyear amid soaring production from rivals and uncertainty over chinese demand. Stephen in beijing, one of chinas most important gatherings of the year is about to begin with leaders set to unveil their targets and strategies, perhaps policies, for road reviving the economy. Annabelle kicking of the week with breaking data out of korea this morning. We have industrial output numbers dropping but coming in better than expected over the course of january. Output of more than 12 or 13 on the year passing estimate were 10 . Also industrial output is falling, still and a contraction