you do need to balance against that first of all the really good things he has done as prime minister, whether that is delivering the vaccine programme, getting brexit done, all the actions in ukraine, but also the challenges right now, whether that is national security or neg security, these are unparalleled challenges and i actually think that instability and uncertainty caused by a change of leadership would not be in the national interest. he would rather be talking about the rising cost of living, so he says. he would rather be talking about the rising cost of living, or so he says. today the labour leader is calling for an emergency budget to help hard pressed families. so why did he spend so long last week talking about parties? i want to talk about - the cost of living crisis,
a total of 39 covid deaths for saturday easily its highest daily figure since a strict lockdown was imposed in the city four weeks ago. china s financial capital is now battling china s biggest coronavirus outbreak to date. you re watching bbc news. here in the uk, the conservative party chairman 0liver dowden has backed the prime minister, borisjohnson, over the partygate allegations saying there is a strong case for borisjohnson remaining in office. the opposition labour leader, sir keir starmer, says mrjohnson s authority to lead is shot through and called on the government to have an emergency budget to deal with the cost of living crisis. here s our political correspondent, peter saull. the prime minister probably feels there is a lot weighing him down right now. last week s state visit to india a welcome distraction from his woes back home. some in his party think it is time for him to go, so step forward the chairman of the conservatives with a message for his restless colle
alljust to get food in. seeing video of communist party officials berated like this is rare here, but the party is digging in. everyone s being repeatedly tested but this has become less about science. it s now a battle between a resurgent virus and communist party credibility. no one has officially died here from covid, and zero covid remains the goal. china is still determined to prove it can beat nature. robin brant, bbc news, locked down in shanghai. australian politicians are starting to hit the campaign trail, after prime minister scott morrison announced that an election will be held on 21 may. morrison s liberal party and their coalition partners of representatives. but recent polling seems to point towards a change of government with the opposition labour leader anthony albanese
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the man who took four people hostage at a synagogue in texas is confirmed to be a 44 year old british citizen. novak djokovic has been deported from australia, afterjudges rejected the unvaccinated tennis star s appeal to stay in the country. surveillance flights prepare to head to the pacific island nation of tonga to assess the damage caused by a volcanic eruption and tsunami. the uk s opposition labour leader sir keir starmer says borisjohnson broke the law and should resign, over a series of parties at downing street during coronavirus restrictions.
while covid restrictions were in place. a number of tory backbenchers say they ve been inundated with messages from angry constituents, about the growing list of parties, dating back to the spring of 2020. the opposition labour leader, sir keir starmer, says it s now in the national interest for mrjohnson to be removed from office. our political correspondent iain watson has the very latest. borisjohnson has come under renewed pressure following number 10 s apology to buckingham palace over a leaving do held last year on the eve of the duke of edinburgh s funeral. so today the labour leader urged conservative mps to force him out. of course there s a party advantage in him going, but actually it s now in the national interest that he goes, so it s very important that the tory party does what it needs to do and gets rid of him. usually when opposition mps call for a prime minister to go, the troops rally round, but today the conservative chairman of the commons defence committee, tobias