Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 8 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 11 00am in australia where a state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales and now also queensland. Dozens of bushfires continue to burn in the region. Earlier, authorities issued the highest level of warning in some areas known as catastrophic for the First Time Since new fire warnings were introduced a decade ago. For more heres the bbcs phil mercer in sydney. Well, we have heard that 850,000 pairs of bushland has been burnt in New South Wales since the start of this years fire season hectares. So that is a huge area of land. Today we have heard that both New South Wales and queensland have declared a state of emergency. What that does, gives the fire authorities greater powers to protect life and property. So that just gives you an indication as to how serious this is. Dozens of fires are burning in both Eastern States and the fo
The worst of the flooding at the moment. Living with hiv in pakistan weather warnings in force, details on our website. Time now to go live to singapore if youre concerned about more rain we find out how families are coping in a part of the country where you are, you do really need to keep across the forecast where infection rates are growing. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. As we go through this week. We begin with breaking news. Police in hong kong have used live ammunition during clashes with protesters. Footage broadcast on social media appears to show an officer shooting a demonstrator in the chest at point blank range. The masked man is seen collapsing to the floor. Pro democracy activists have been trying to disrupt transport in hong kong by setting up barricades. Months of demonstrations in the territory have turned increasingly violent. On sunday, an International Panel of experts expressed support for an independent inquiry
Welcome to the programme. We start with breaking news this hour. Police in hong kong have used live ammunition during clashes with pro democracy demonstrators, shooting one protestor at close range. Activists had called for a general strike on monday, and have been trying to disrupt transport in hong kong by setting up barricades. Shocking pictures of the incident in the sai wan ho district were live streamed on social media. An unarmed demonstrator can be seen approaching an officer, and then falling to the ground after being shot at close range. Local media have reported that he is in a Critical Condition in hospital. Iam going i am going to show them to you now. We will not show the incident its self stop we will pause it. Itself. You can see the Police Officer grappling with a demonstrator. An unarmed officer approaches, dressed in black, a shot appears to be fired on the demonstrator. The ground unarmed demonstrator. The ground unarmed demonstrator. Local media report he is in dem
And i think also if you take a snapshot of whats going on right now in the area you would see an increased naval presence without this being organized less convoys for example but if you go back in history back in the late eightys when iran and iraq were fighting a war and attacking each other shipping we saw that quite moisten close escorting up was indeed being and it carried out i think also British Naval vessels so it is a potential scenario and im that of course if that is jason is. Will worsen even more than what we see now thats certainly something that the shipping would appreciate in if the situation does worse and one of the scenarios is of course that the strait of hormuz is closed entirely whats it implications would that be if that happened. To close the strait of hormuz entirely is impossible for for example a country like iran and that would be my assessment but i think it would be difficult to keep it closed for a sustained period of time if its would immediately be tak
National figures whereby we pave the way for building the state on the rule of law and democracy 2nd during this congress and the agreement will be reached on a future roadmap whereby the Constitutional Foundation be laid and agreed upon whereby president ial and parliamentary elections be held before the end of 2019. Head has more now from the libyan capital. Its the 2nd speech to be delivered by libyas recognized Prime Minister. But this is different from the 1st the speech in this speech. Is announcing a new stage of the political settlement in libya and it seems that hes announcing a road map to include civil categories of the libyan Political Landscape but not with the Warlord Health that is indicating that the negotiations between the rival factions before april the 4th thats when half those forces launched at the military offensive in tripoli is different from the negotiations after april 4th so now it seems that the meetings held with the elderly. Personalities from the east of