It will be a shorter working week with no loss of pay. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport holly hamilton wales have opened their World Cup Campaign witha wales have opened their World Cup Campaign with a convincing victory over georgie. We will relive all the tries at 2 30. With rain on the way, some have been looking for a dry place to stay and that rain is brought to us by a weather system that is influenced by what happened in the caribbean two weeks ago. I will tell you more later on. Also coming up by royal appointment harry and meghan visit a south african township as they arrive in south africa with four month old archie for their first overseas tour as a family. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Its called 0peration materhorn and its the biggest peace time operation to repatriate britons stranded abroad after the collapse of thomas cook. The Civil Aviation authority has chartered a fleet ofjets to bring home more than 150,000 british holidaymakers. Thomas cook brita
Saudi arabia and the u. S. For support in soliciting 50000000000. 00 in investment pledges even though lebanon rejected the plan in countries like egypt and jordan sent low ranking officials if we managed to do it 25 years ago with significantly less money im pretty sure that it can be done today with the amounts of money with the private sector participation if we can achieve that hope of peace. For everybody to start working together to achieve what were trying to achieve the chief of the International Monetary Fund Christine Legarde says the focus should be on the creation of jobs in areas such as agriculture tourism and construction so there is an economy if there is original question of making sure that the momentum is sustained and for that it will require all the goodwill in the world on the part of all parties. Private sector Public Sector International Organizations and the parties on the ground and the neighbors the i. M. F. Expects the Palestinian Economy to shrink by 1. 6 p
International community that we are in a region that is important to the world we do not wish for any more strikes and we do no wish for any more instability we want most ability and more development of. The us foreign minister was speaking during a News Conference with russias top diplomat in moscow Sergei Lavrov made no secret of his support for to her own. There are no no return points although some would want to create such point but we will persuade our ronnie and us colleagues to step away from this dangerous line to start solving the contradiction through a civilized dialogue and of course it means stepping away from policies of ultimatums sanctions and blackmail. On monday the u. N. Security council was briefed on the results of investigations carried out by irans accusers the world body condemned the attacks but. Stopped short of pointing fingers about failing to build global consensus to blame iran might be one reason for the u. A. E. Softening its stance iran has also been u
Good evening in a moment we bring you the news at ten, but first, a reminder of the top story this evening. The conservative Leadership Contest evening. The conservative Leadership Co ntest d own evening. The conservative Leadership Contest down to the last four candidates, after rory stewart was eliminated after finishing last in the third ballot at torrey and peace. Borisjohnson the third ballot at torrey and peace. Boris johnson once the third ballot at torrey and peace. Borisjohnson once again won the lions share of the belt with 143, followed by jeremy the lions share of the belt with 143, followed byjeremy hunt with 54 and michael goes on 51. Sajid javid remains with 38 but it was rory stewart who mustered the least, 27 this time around. He drops out of the contest leading the four candidates to battle it out in the next round of voting. Earlier this evening, rory stewart gave us his reaction to being eliminated from the leadership race. Im disappointed because i think our countr
It was a murder that sparked an International Outcry and condemnation from human rights groups. But saudi arabia has angrily rejected a report from the United Nations, which says there is credible evidence that Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and other high level saudi officials are individually liable for the killing of the journalist, jamal khashoggi. The saudi minister of state for Foreign Affairs claims the report, from a un special rapporteur, is biased and contains false allegations. James landale has the story. Jamal khashoggi was a columnist for the washington post, a critic of the saudi leadership and a proud husband to be. But in october last year, he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul to get some papers he and his fiancee, hatice cengiz, needed for their marriage. He was never seen again. An independent investigation for the United Nations has now concluded he was the victim of a deliberate premeditated execution by the saudi state. The 100 page report sets out in grim