Good evening. The wife of an american diplomat has left the uk while suspected of being involved in a fatal road crash. Police say they want to interview the woman about the death of 19 year old harry dunn, in a collision in crowton in northamptonshire in august. The foreign secretary dominic raab says hes called the Us Ambassador to express his disappointment that shes left the country. Duncan kennedy reports. This is how local people have reacted to the death of harry dunn, on the country road where his accident took place. This is how local people have reacted to the death of harry dunn, harry, who was 19, had been on his motorbike when he was hit by a car. He died of multiple injuries. The 42 year old woman driver of that car, whos not been identified, left this nearby american air base before the collision took place. Shes known to be the wife of a diplomat and told police she would cooperate with them and said she had no plans to leave the country, but its now been confirmed she
Good evening. Britain is calling on the United States to hand over the wife of an american diplomat whos left the uk, after she was involved in a fatal road crash. Police say they want to question the woman about the death of 19 year old harry dunn in a collision in crowton in northamptonshire. The foreign secretary, dominic raab, says hes called the Us Ambassador to say hes disappointed the americans have refused to waive her diplomatic immunity. Duncan kennedy reports. This is how local people have reacted to the death of harry dunn, a teenager from their community, killed on a country road. Harry had been on his motorbike when he was hit by a car. He died of multiple injuries. The car had been driven from this nearby air force base by the 42 year old wife of an american diplomat. The base is a centre for Us Intelligence gathering. The woman, who lives on this American Air Force base, told the police that she would co operate fully with their enquiry and that she had no plans to leav
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Masked protesters have again taken to the streets of hong kong in defiance of their leader carrie lam who has introduced a new law banning face masks in public. A human chain was formed to show theyre against the legislation which came into effect on saturday carrie lam is warning that she can no longer tolerate rioters destroying the territory. Translation the government will suppress violence with the greatest determination. I appeal to everyone to support the government to condemn violence together, and to cut ties with rioters with a firm will. Our correspondent robin brant has more now on how the shutdown is affecting the territory. A big slice of yesterday and now all of today, hong kong s metro system, the light rail underground trains will not be running. The only service you can get is from the centre of the city to the airport. The decision yesterday by the authorities to essentially shut down authorities to essentially shut down a key part, the
And why six elephants were found dead at the foot of a waterfall, in a Thailand National park. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Parts of hong kongs metro system are still closed after stations and businesses were vandalised in the latest Anti Government protests. The violence followed a decision by the territorys chief executive, carrie lam, to use Emergency Powers to ban the face coverings frequently worn by pro democracy demonstrators. Gareth barlow reports. Hong kongers resist, that was the call as protesters formed human chains. Thousands defiant against the ban against facemasks. Everyone knows carrie lam is messing up hong kong. This is why she is pushing through with the emergency law. We all expect the next step to be imposing a curfew. This is a tool, a way to suppress hong kong people. Carrie lam has not learnt from this and has not done anything to appease us. She is just constantly suppressing us. Throughout the city, shops are closed and transport hubs remain closed after a
By the territorys chief executive, carrie lam, to use Emergency Powers to ban the face coverings frequently worn by pro democracy demonstrators. Gareth barlow has the latest. Hong kongers resist, that was the call as protesters formed human chains, as they defied a ban on facemasks while demonstrating. Everyone knows carrie lam is messing up hong kong. This is why she is pushing through with the emergency law. We all expect the next step to be imposing a curfew. This is a tool, a way to suppress hong kong people. Carrie lam has not learnt from this and has not done anything to appease us. She is just constantly suppressing us. Throughout the city, shops and transport hubs remain closed after a spike in violence. In a televised address, hong kongs chief executive carrie lam pledged to quash the violence. Fellow citizens, hong kong had a very dark night last night because of the extreme acts of the rioters. Today, the city is semi paralysed. Everyone is worried or even afraid. The govern