The spotlight on chinese hip hop. Live from singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 5 30am in bangladesh. Many thousands of Rohingya Muslims are spending the night without food and shelter after fleeing persecution in neighbouring myanmar. The Prime Minister of bangladesh has called for myanmar to take back the estimated 400,000 refugees that have poured across the border since an upsurge in violence at the end of august. The un will hold an urgent meeting later on wednesday to discuss the crisis. Justin rowlatt reports from teknaf near the border. Roshida is nine months pregnant. She is expecting any day. But this is where shes living with 15 other family members and it is almost certainly where shell have to give birth. Translation im worried. There is no help. Nobodys getting any food. Here, there is no rice, no vegetables, nothing. Im starving. I first met her a few days back. Shed hiked for seven days th
One in the morning in london and 2am in riyadh where for the first time women will be allowed to drive. Saudi Arabias King Salman issued an order allowing women to be given driving licences. The announcement ends the conservative islamic kingdoms status as the only country where its forbidden. Sarah corker reports. For a 25 years, women have campaigned for the right to dry in saudi arabia. Some have been imprisoned for daring to get behind the wheel. This decision ends the conservative islamic kingdoms status as the only country in the world where it is for bid and. The shock announcement was made at the un in new york on tuesday. A royal decree has been issued in saudi arabia, giving women the right to dry. Driver. This is a historic day for saudi society, for men and women. Saudi arabia has some of the worlds tightest restrictions on women and is now fritz gender segregation rules. This decree, which risks riling religious conservatives, is part saudi arabias reform dry, aimed at imp
0nline retailer amazon leads a barrage of tech earnings. Its sales were up 34 in july to september, compared to the same period last year. And its bye, bye, bye to floor trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. After more than 30 years, its going fully electronic. Welcome to World Business report. Im ben bland. Inafew in a few moments will be live on the floor of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for one last glimpse before it closes. Thursday was a huge day for Technology Company results. Four of the big global tech giants reported their latest earnings. Alphabet, googles parent company, microsoft and twitter all posted their key numbers. But lets start with a look at amazon. The retailer reported revenues of almost 41; billion in the three months betweenjuly and september thats a jump of 34 over the same period last year. But profits were virtually unchanged since last year thats because this is often the quarter when amazon chooses to pile a bunch of money into its own projects like tech
The move to sack fbi chief james comey has caused huge controversy. Donald trump claims hes lost confidence in mr comey, and the bureau needs new leadership. But Opposition Politicians say its an attempt to block the fbis investigation into the possible links between the Trump Campaign and russia. Heres what mr trump had to say when questioned at the white house. Why did you fire directed comey . Because he wasnt doing a good job, very simply. He was not doing a good job. Did it affect your meetings with the russians today . Excuse me . Will the new fbi director be in charge of the Russian Investigation . Laura bickerjoins me from washington. Its been more than 2a hours since james comey was dismissed. What more do we know about why he was removed . The question everyone has been asking is, why now . Why remove the fbi director, the man in charge of the investigation into whether or not russia colluded with the Trump Campaign during the president ial election . That has been a big ques
The move to sack fbi chief james comey has caused huge controversy. Donald trump claims hes lost confidence in mr comey, and the bureau needs new leadership. But Opposition Politicians say its an attempt to block the fbis investigation into the possible links between the Trump Campaign and russia. Heres what mr trump had to say when questioned at the white house. Why did you fire directed comey . Because he wasnt doing a good job, very simply. He was not doing a good job. Did it affect your meetings with the russians today . Excuse me . Will the new fbi director be in charge of the Russian Investigation . Laura bickerjoins me from washington. Its been more than 2a hours since james comey was dismissed. What more do we know about why he was removed . The question everyone has been asking is, why now . Why remove the fbi director, the man in charge of the investigation into whether or not russia colluded with the Trump Campaign during the president ial election . That has been a big ques