Australia recover from a top order collapse in the fourth day of the ashes test. And in half an hour, well take a look at the best and worst of this weeks film and dvd releases in the film review. Good afternoon. A group of mps are preparing legal action if borisjohnson refuses to carry out the instruction of a new law requiring him to ask for a further delay to brexit. The legislation, to rule out the option of a no deal exit at the end of october, is expected to become law on monday. The Prime Minister has said he would rather be dead in a ditch than ask for a brexit extension. Our Political Correspondent, matt cole, reports. After a week of wrangling and some of the most testing days a fledgling Prime Minister has faced, borisjohnson now has a weekend to pause and think. As many of that opinion will say content. Content the contrary not content. The contents have it. The lords have followed the commons, approving legislation, so by monday it should be locked in law that britain cant
First line of russian defences and part of the south. Now mine fields have been blocking the troops for weeks. That means when they are blocked, of course they are vulnerable to russian shelly. Its been dangerous, but careful my Clearing Operation has been making it where they can advance. Ukraine says gains have been made in the south and have expanded their units towards the town of tokmak, Logistics Centre for russian forces. In the last hour or two we have these pictures into the newsroom of zelensky there visiting with troops on the front line. This is it donetsk. I spoke to drjenny mathers. She is a Senior Lecturer at the department of International Politics of the Aberystwyth University in wales. I asked just how significant this is. I think its potentially very significant both symbolically and in material terms because i think weve known for the last several months that the russian defences were very formidable. They would be difficult for the ukrainians to get through, and th
Lets start with the story thats dominated the uk Political Agenda for the last few days. Rishi sunak says its Utterly Wrong to blame him forfailing to tackle the issue of unsafe concrete in school buldings. As thousands of children return to classrooms today after the summer break, its emerged that more than a hundred schools in england and scotland will be closed or partially shut. Its over Safety Concerns about what is known as raac a type of concrete, thats known to be at risk of crumbling. Our Political Editor chris mason reports on a busy first day back for mps. You probably hadnt heard of it until the other day, but this stuff concrete that can get crumbly is building into a political mess. Did rishi sunak, when he was chancellor, walk away from repairs happening sooner . The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme
Again. So youre not looking at a bounce back. At least not in the early trade. After you have such rough seas like that its not unusual to see it the next morning. But right now at least it looks like the dow is indicated to open down another 77 points. Yesterday closing below 17,000 for the First Time Since october. The s p 500 is down another 8 points after closing down by 2 yesterday. Check this out, though, the dow negative on the year. S p is negative on the year as well. This is decline of 2 yesterday for the dow. 16990 is where it closed at the end. Its at risk of the annual winning streak for six years in a row. We should point out the five dow components hitting 52 week lows yesterday includes utx, conoco, exxon and Procter Gamble an intel. Japan was down by 3 as well. Shanghai composite down and hang seng composite down by 1. 5. Chinas august flash factor pmi. Thats a key Manufacturing Index. It dropped to a 77 month low. Do the math on that, thats more than six years. Domest