Well. Not so great. Good morning. Its 8 00am in singapore, midnight in london and 11 00am in New South Wales in australia where a state of emergency has been declared. On wednesday, for the second day in a row, australia set a new record for its hottest ever day. And bushfires are continuing to cause havoc. Two volunteer firefighters have been killed in a road crash near sydney. The australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison has been criticised for being on holidays as the crisis unfolds. A short time ago, he released a statement saying, i express my sincere condolences and sympathies to the families of the firefighters who have so tragically been killed these most recent events, i will be returning to sydney from leave as soon as can be arranged. For more on the bushfire emergency, heres the bbcs david shukman. A roar like a jet engine as the flames advance. A line of trees is suddenly ablaze. In record heat and parched conditions, at least 50 of the fires are out of control. Lets get
But the critics arent so sure about the movie version of cats. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and midday in New South Wales, in australia, where a state of emergency has been declared. On wednesday, for the second day in a row, australia set a new record for its hottest ever day, and bushfires are continuing to cause havoc. Two volunteer firefighters have been killed in a road crash near sydney. The australian Prime Minister, scott morrison, has been criticised for being on holiday as the crisis unfolds. A short time ago, he released a statement saying, i express my sincere condolences and sympathies to the families of the firefighters who have so tragically been killed overnight. Given these most recent events, i will be returning to sydney from leave as soon as can be arranged. For more on the bushfire emergency, heres the bbcs david shukman. A roar like a jet engine as the flames ad
Because it is a nato ally but many people are questioning that commitment on the part of turkey and where its loyalties lie and one wonders whether whether President Trump actually here is some of these concerns because we do get conflicting statements from him quite often he he didnt threaten turkey a couple of days ago but youre saying hes also invited her to want to the white house next month. Yeah you know donald trump often speaks in very confusing terms often contradicting himself within moments you know with the following a subsequent sentence and so a lot of people have been left wondering where the president s middle east policy really is right now where the syria strategy is theres no question that there are some that do support the president s notion that the United States has been for too long in conflicts it doesnt really belong in the midst of situations and go back centuries without any sort of understanding of the nuances of the conflicts but at the same time there is a
Is taking place right around the Police Headquarters police out from the complex itself and also from above while the protesters are fighting against what they see as increasing control from beijing they dont change will come with the highlights on those thats a little image ill look at we know that this will not change the Current Situation at all as you can see there are more Peaceful Protesters than hot cold protesters however i think the meaning of these protests is more important we need to let the government know that we will not surrender. So protesters were arrested could be charged with not only participating it is illegal gathering but also covering their face got other aljazeera. And chinese soldiers also warned protesters a show on the laser lights at their barracks in hong kong that they could be arrested it was the 1st direct interaction with military forces from the mainland in the citys 4 months of antigovernment protests a yellow flag was raised from inside the barrack
Now on to our developing story to people died in a fiery crash after a high speed chase that ended here and San Francisco. Kron4s jack is so alive with margaret, come on in committee of 50 investigators from the chp out here on the same at fed and harrison streets. Why this person to lead to a fiery crash and left two people dead. This all started at 3 00 this morning when the chp and its an all planned spotted and 90s bmw. There ran a license plate and the play came back guessed a lot of San Francisco. At the fly the special a investigative dinner from the chp is handling this investigation. This is obviously a huge star of fair for people getting off of the bay bridge. They estimate that this a ramp that is close to the fifth street off ramp will remain closed for several more hours than the unsell finance. Still a developing story was to collect alternate route to how this will look for the whole commute. Its already backed of the bay bridge toll plaza and the westbound direction th