after the worst drought in a0 years. international condemnation after north korea fires a ballistic 300,000 people are living in famine conditions with another 2 on conditions with another 2 million on brink of famine. it s hard to the brink of famine. it s hard to imagine the situation more more urgent, desperate, more urgent, more compelling. and twitter confirms that the world s richest man, elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and one in the morning in ukraine where the country s forces have retaken more territory from the russians, in the south. the focus is near the city of herson, in one of the regions the focus is near the city of kherson in one of the regions unlawfully annexed by russia last week. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says his troops are making rapid and powerful advances against russian forces. in his nightly video address, he ass
at an emotianal concert to pay tribute to foo fighters drummer taylor hawkins, who died in march. the lionesses are going to the world cup. victory in austria sends england through to next summer s tournament in australia and new zealand. hello, good morning. we ve still got some heavy rain about at the moment. it will clear away northward, we will be left with a few showers, but also some warm shum shine. sunshine. i ll have more details later on. it s sunday the 4th of september. our main story: the foreign secretary liz truss who looks likely to become the next prime minister on tuesday has given her clearest indication yet of how she plans to tackle the cost of living crisis. writing in the sunday telegraph, she says she would set out immediate action on energy bills. her opponent, the former chancellor rishi sunak, says nothing is off the table to ease the pressure on households. ben wright reports. as borisjohnson as boris johnson packs as borisjohnson packs
Let me bring you two new lines coming in in the last few moments. Reuters news agency reporting that alerts are being sounded in more towns in northern israel. Warnings of incoming aircraft, i say aircraft, the thought is we are talking about drones. That is happening in the north, alerts in more towns in northern israel with warnings of incoming aircraft. We are keeping an eye on that, we have been talking to our correspondent on the borders with lebanon so well get the latest on that line. And diplomatically the Afp News Agency reports that china has urged, quote, an immediate ceasefire in a call with palestinian officials. That is coming from the Foreign Ministry in the last few seconds. If there are more details we will obviously return to those. Time for a look at the Business News now with ben thompson. Thank you, matthew. We will look through some of those top Business Stories right now. Economies around the world are assessing the potential fall out of the conflict between isra
Of israeli hostages. They want their hostages back. They want them alive. As many as still remain alive. And the mood was encapsulated by a Facebook Post from elad katzir s sister, she posted. Basically, she was the one who announced as much as the israeli army announced that her brothers body had been recovered and returned to israel. And she wrote on facebook, youre going to hear from the army about their Daring Rescue operation in which they got my brothers body and returned it to israel. And she said, dont let anyone fool you. This is not a rescue operation. This is an incident of my brother having been abandoned to die. The first abandonment took place when the military did not move into the kibbutz from which he was kidnapped, in time, and he was kidnapped. And there were two videos released of her brother alive and in captivity. So they know that he did not die on october 7th, that he was killed by his captors, by islamichhad, who was handing him. And she said, make no mistake,
Watters along with. Its 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. Secretary of the state blinking. Your favourite tv show is okay. After a fourpoint magnitude earthquake scared these people, the powerful Shockwave Rattling skyscrapers and homes in New York City, it was felt as far down as maryland and all the way up to boston. Everybody was freaking out. The group shots and social media blowing up. Thankfully no reports of damage or injuries yet. Heres how it down. It looks like its going to be a nice day today. Just got a bit weirder here in the northeast. Are we having an earthquake . Is seriously. Are we having an earthquake . There was an earthquake. And the entire building just moved. Earthquake cant be felt in the air though it can be felt on the ground. Jesse it happened just after 10 20 in the morning with its epicenter 50 miles outside of manhattan and new jersey. Leave it to liberal new york to scrub up screw up the response. It took the geniuses who run the Emergency Alert