hello and welcome to the programme. we start in new zealand where, in the last couple of hours, chris hipkins has been sworn in as the country s new prime minister, after the shock resignation of jacinda ardern last week, who said she didn t have enough in the tank to continue in the job. mr hipkins was sworn in at government house in wellington, alongside carmel sepuloni, who becomes the country s first pasifika deputy prime minister. mr hipkins labour party will face a general election in october. 0ur correspondent, phil mercer, has more on this. this will be a big year for chris hipkins and his reshaped government. we are expecting a cabinet reshuffle in the next week or so and also a policy reset. the new prime minister says that inflation will be his key concern in the months leading up to that election on october leading up to that election on 0ctober1li, laterthis leading up to that election on 0ctober1li, later this year. cost of living pressures have been enormous i
pressure and is preparing to send leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. and everything, everywhere all at once leads the oscar nominations, with 11 nods. we ll look at what else has made the cut. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start the show in new zealand, where chris hipkins has just been sworn in as the country s new prime minister after the shock resignation of jacinda ardern last week, who said she didn t have enough in the tank to continue in the job. prime minister hipkins was sworn in at government house in wellington, alongside carmel sepuloni, who becomes the country s first pasifika deputy prime minister. mr hipkins labour party will face a general election in october. for more on this, i m joined by stephen hoadley, associate professor of politics and international relations at the university of auckland. it s wonderful to get you on the programme. in the first instance, perhaps you could tell us mo
you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: a first for indian film making the song naatu naatu from the hit film rrr has been nominated for best original song at the oscars. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after liftoff. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman schoolteacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the heart of official cairo, was in the hands of the demonstrators. they were using the word revolution. the earthquake singled out buildings and brought them down in seconds. tonight, the search for any survivors has an increasing desperation about it as the hours pass.
from singapore. i m karishma vaswani. the headlines: new zealand has a new prime minister as the education and covid response minister chris hipkins takes over from jacinda ardern. as freezing temperatures kill more than 120 people in afghanistan, we have a report. ifeel like afghanistan, we have a report. i feel like my face will fall off! imagine if you lived, day in day out, in conditions like this. also on newsday, tanks for ukraine and reports that germany has backed down following international pressure and will send leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. and a first for indianfilm making. the song naatu naatu from the hit film rrr has been nominated for best original song at the oscars.
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