here s a clip. so that s the ex girlfriend, is it? the old ex girlfriend. jodie foster. jane foster. the one that got away. that means escaped. yeah, yeah. must be hard for you to see your ex girlfriend and your ex hammer hanging out and getting on so well. what you up to, bro? come to daddy. come on! mjolnir! hey, there you are! hey! i was just calling you. i have no idea what s going on there! no, 0k. well, that gag about his hammer being like his ex girlfriend and the axe being the new girlfriend, that will go on throughout the whole movie. and i don t mind a couple of gags in a superhero movie. kind of stretches a point when the whole point of the movie is, oh, look, we re making a superhero movie, but we re making jokes about it, cos we re very, very clever! and also, if you re going to do the whole film as a kind of humorous gag, make the gags better than, oh, i need a catchphrase. what s my catchphrase? 0h, here s a catchphrase about a hammer, or a joke which basi
who wins his seventh wimbledon men s singles title. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 4.30am in colombo, sri lanka where protestors have been celebrating what they believe to be the toppling of the country s leadership. president rajapaksa whose family has dominated sri lankan politics for the best part of two decades has announced he will step down on wednesday. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports from inside the presidential palace, which is still overrun by protesters. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka s seat of presidential power now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally heavily fortified, now a free for all. at president rajapaksa s private pool, we meet carpenter ruan chiminda, who s taking a dip,
appointed a new cabinet, but sir keir starmer has said he must step down immediately or labour will try to bring a no confidence vote in parliament. he needs to go completely none of this nonsense about clinging on for a few months. he s inflicted lies, fraud and chaos in the country. we ll have all the latest reaction from here in westminster as well as from our correspondents and voters around the uk. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. borisjohnson has resigned as conservative leader. despite him saying only last night that he would stay in office, more cabinet level and minister resignations piled on the pressure, and around 9am this morning, the bbc learned that he would step down. but he would not step down as prime minister, he would stay on in office until autumn when a successor is chosen. within the last half hour, the prime minister made a statement outside downing street. let s hear what he said. in the last few days, i ve tried to persuade my co
welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. inside sri lanka s presidential palace, where protesters aren t satisfied with president rajapaska s pledge to quit. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. how does it feel to swim in the president s personal pool? translation: president s personal pool? translation: translation: i m happy, i m so ha . japan s ruling coalition increases its majority in elections in a move that could help cement the legacy of assassinated former prime minister shinzo abe. in the uk, a crowded field of candidates want to take overfrom borisjohnson as prime minister with 11 mps and counting eyeing up the top job and in tennis victory is sweet for novak djokovic,
of labour. so whoever eventually takes over from borisjohnson, of labour. so whoever eventually takes overfrom borisjohnson, the question will be will they have the same appeal? can they appeal to traditionally labour welsh voters? that will be the next question taxing welsh conservative minds. many thanks, hywel griffith in cardiff and chris in belfast and james in belfast. thank you all of you. well, of course, attention will now turn to the question of who will succeed boris johnson eventually as prime minister. let s talk a bit about the process. that process of selecting a new conservative leader effectively starts now, and the timetable will be decided by the leadership of the 1922 committee the committee backbench conservative mps. the rules as they stand today is that any candidate needs the support of eight conservative mps to take part.