welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. 100 people are confirmed dead at a mosque in pakistan. nine people have been pulled out alive from the rubble after monday s suicide bomb attack. saudi arabia almost double the number of executions it carries out despite promises to reform. auckland has been hit with another wave of heavy rainfall, just days after record breaking rain left parts of the city underwater. a month s worth of rain fell on new zealand s largest city overnight, triggering landslides and flooding homes once again. the latest deluge has forced motorways and railway lines to close. weather presenter chris fawkes has more. you will remember the scenes of devastation that we had in auckland on friday following extreme rainfall, when 261 millimetres of rain was recorded in just 2a hours, smashing the previous 24 hour rainfall record. well, we have just seen another 71 millimetres of rain in auckland over the last 2a ho
good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. borisjohnson has apologised for the pain, loss and suffering discharge the commission put upon him by the home secretary and former prime minister to capture their respective so it was not lost. to date is an important day. it doesn t provide closure for the families, of course. as bishopjames himself wrote, there can be no closure to love, norshould wrote, there can be no closure to love, nor should there be for someone you have loved and lost. grief is indeed a journey without a destination, but today is a milestone on thatjourney. it is a day when i hope that families can pause and take quite pride in the enormity of what they achieved, not for themselves, enormity of what they achieved, not forthemselves, but enormity of what they achieved, not for themselves, but for others, for the british people. i hope they will serve to cement and strengthen the legacy, the changes they have made to benefit an entire nation and mak
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in a major blow to the prime minister tonight, the minister responsible for immigration, robertjenrick, has resigned at the very moment legislation on asylum seekers was being announced to the commons. his resignation came over a bill attempting to enable the government s policy of sending some migrants to rwanda to go ahead after the supreme court ruled it unlawful. mrjenrick said it didn t go far enough and it would not end what he called the merry go round of legal challenges which risked paralysing the scheme. our political editor chris mason is here. a huge embarrassment this for rishi sunak? it this for rishi sunak? is a huge embarrassment. bu quite it is a huge embarrassment. but quite the thing to do so in the very week that you are attempting a reset on, yes, you guessed it, immigration policy. on monday we had government plans to cut legal immigration adjuster the home secretary james cleverly went to rwanda to set out part of the approach on illegal immigration