allies now have the ability to step them- stop them. i will well and truly serve stop them. i will well and truly serve the stop them. i will well and - truly serve the commonwealth of australia, truly serve the commonwealth of australia, holland and her peorfle australia, holland and her people in the office of prime ministen anthony albanese becomes australia s 31st prime minister, before heading to tokyo for talks with president biden, and the other quad leaders. monkeypox is detected in three more countries, as scientists say they are still unsure what is causing the outbreak. afghanistan s female tv presenters say they re determined to carry on working, after the taliban enforces an order to cover their faces. and the heir to the throne in britain is to appear in one of the country s best loved soap operas, as part of the queen s platinum jubilee celebrations. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the program
radio presenterjenny kleeman, and kate ferguson, who s deputy political editor of the sun. hello to you both. the front pages. the uk s new defence pacts with sweden and finland make the front page of the telegraph, which says britain would help them fight the russians in case of any invasion. alongside is a picture of borisjohnson and his swedish counterpart, taking to the water after signing their pact. a picture of them putting pen to paper is in the financial times, which leads with the eu vowing to retaliate if the uk rips up the post brexit trade deal for northern ireland. the paper sastoe biden is trying to mediate any dispute. a dramatic front page from the guardian the paper claims oil and gas companies are planning scores of new projects that could trigger a climate catastrophe , driving global temperatures past agreed limits. the i claims number ten wants to speed up new measures to tackle the rising cost of living, but the treasury is resisting any further gove
Respond to attacks like came out of The Middle East recently. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, is injerusalem. She told me more about the reaction, starting with that of israels foreign minister, israel katz. He has written on x that there is no more war just he has written on x that there is no more warjust than this and israel will continue to fight until hamas s destruction. We have also had in a characteristically quite shocking comment from the National Security minister, he has put on his x account. A mass heart biden. So there is a lot of upset here about these comments. From the us president , the us, of course, israels closest ally, and that will put pressure on this Israeli Coalition government as to what it does next, particularly with regard to rafah. And we know that there are also reports that from within the Israeli Defence establishment, a lot of concern there about what this means for such a critical relationship. And all of this as were Hearing Reports of