Disappointment for sri lankan voters and despite in recent months trying desperately to mount a reelection bid to try and ghana support for that relax in bed president citizen there has been forced to admit that hes not going to make it the sort of reasons for public discontent with the city saying the rule has continued just here in april we did see those tragic sort of easter bombings the fact that it was sort of a tragedy of huge number of errors that led to that spate of bomb attacks claiming so many lives was not something that people are willing to forget so this is president serious in his way obviously of realizing and meeting that hes not making going to make it so hes just going to stop with that 1st president ial bid were going to weather update next here on aljazeera police again use tear gas hong kong protesters were angered by a ban on facebook well take you there. Ethiopia has put in the big strides at the World Championships to become the 1st run off for his country wit
With. A made him several offices including managing a prominent saudi funded media network. Also so good you brought it with you has been there has been serving in the embassy in london the Saudi Embassy in washington was there carol von weapons and i think his knowledge of the regime and the crew the minute it took some portion as a journalist when he spoke out. The show she kept up his criticism of bin salmoni and the Washington Post demanded spoke to me through this before because most of the that he is working with friends to establish a foundation for democracy in the art of wall promoting back out of them quasi among sleuth people and also fear thing some form of society after consideration. According to a Political Science researcher in istanbul show she was involved in projects aimed at countering saudi digital activity. The Program Producers contacted some of his assistants on one project but they were reluctant to talk in detail they said they didnt want to jeopardize the fut
What the protesters did it was not just attack government buildings but they attacked Political Party headquarters which they burned and now in syria theyre chanting that syria is free of Political Parties and thats crucial because there is a political Crisis Brewing here as well a lot of the opposition politicians a lot of the religious parties are taking a look at this protest movement and theyre thinking to themselves its not going away if anything its getting bigger and more popular and theyre trying to appeal to the protest protestors in my report that you. See the speaker of the parliament hes been even more explicit in the last few hours saying that he wants to join the protest movement and whether the protest movement actually take him to. Actually blame politicians of all of the problems remains to be seen but what were seeing now is the biggest challenge to Prime Minister. Year old government hes appealed for calm he wants the protesters to give him a chance to put in place r
It is not a political question. Also on the programme this lunchtime. Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering Police Officer Andrew Harper who was killed while investigating a burglary. Wanted more nurses. Figures reveal the rise in hospital nurses in england has been dwarfed by a jump in the number of patients. Going the distance after a gruelling 5a hours sarah thomas becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel four times in a row. Well, hopefully, i can sleep the rest of the day. I am really out of it and tired right now for sure. Later in the hour on the bbc news channel the latest reports, results and interviews and features for the bbc sports centre. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. In one of the most dramatic days of the brexit drama 11 Supreme Court judges have begun hearing to appeals to determine whether the Prime Minister acted unlawfully when he suspended parliament. Scotlands highest civil court and the high court in londo
A migrant camp which is leading toward a rise in refugees fleeing towards the u. K. Now we begin in afghanistan where at least 46 people have been killed in 2 bombings just 11 days out from the president ial election the taliban says it was behind the attacks Afghan Security forces were the targets the 1st bombing us in the election running for president on the part of one province killed 24 people vallium self was unharmed the 2nd hit near the u. S. Embassy in kabul killed at least 22 people bryant has more from kabul. And the hospitals are still dealing with the casualties and we know that the death toll is now going to 26. 00 People Killed there with at least 30 injured and now the interior Ministry Tells us that 4 of those were soldiers so once again it means that the vast majority of the victims were indeed civilians just caught up in this attack but it does seem to be a part of the talibans threat to disrupt this Election Campaign ashraf ghani was due to speak at this event and i