their disbelief after new zealand s prime minister announces she s stepping down. and the harrowing anti war epic all quiet on the western front leads the nominations for this year s british academy film awards. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 3pm in los angeles where we begin our programme with the news that the hollywood actor alec baldwin is to be charged with the involuntary manslaughter of the cinematographer halyna hutchins, who was shot dead on the set of the film rust. 4pm in los angeles. the film s armourer who was responsible for the weapon will face the same charge after a gun that the actor discharged on set was found to contain live ammunition. sophie long has the latest from los angeles. the frantic efforts to save halyna hutchins in the moments after she was shot. it was during rehearsals on the set at the bonanza creek ranch in new mexico when the shootings and deaths depicted on the 19th c
in the last few days. new zealand s jacinda ardern says she feels sad but relieved, after announcing her resignation as prime minister. and, the harrowing anti war epic all quiet on the western front leads the nominations for this year s british academy film awards. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. it s 9:00 in the morning in singapore, and 5:00pm in los angeles where we begin our programme with the news that the hollywood actor alec baldwin is to be charged with the involuntary manslaughter of the cinematographer halyna hutchins who was shot dead on the set of the film, rust. the film s armourer, who was responsible for the weapon, will face the same charge, after a gun that the actor discharged on set was found to contain live ammunition. halyna hutchins family say the charges are warranted and that no one should be above the law. sophie long has the latest from los angeles. the frantic efforts to save halyna hutchins in the moments after
police in england and wales have pledged to send an officer to attend all home burglaries. new research suggests elite rugby players are more than twice as likely as the rest of the population to develop long term brain conditions. # diamonds are forever, forever, forever. # and later in the hour, the stars come out to celebrate james bond on the 60th anniversary of the premiere of the first bond film, dr no. hello. good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. after a bruising week for the prime minister, which included a row about a possible squeeze on benefits and a u turn on tax, liz truss has given her first speech as leader to the conservative party conference and insisted we must stay the course . the address was interrupted by greenpeace protesters, but the prime minister went on to defend her determination to cut taxes in order to stimulate growth. she said she had a clear strategy to get britain moving, and that while not everyone would be in favour of her plans, everyone w
we begin in sri lanka where gotabaya rajapaksa has sent a letter formally handing over power to his prime minister, but stopping short of a resignation. our correspondent is in colombo with the latest development. we just had a statement from the office of president gotabaya rajapaksa, somebody that the protesters behind me, they have spent months camping out here in the centre of colombo, desperate for president gotabaya rajapaksa to resign and they blame him for this country s economic woes but we have had a statement from his office and it doesn t look like it is very clear exactly what he is planning to do. i have got the statement here. effectively he doesn t resign in this statement and he says that he is transferring the presidency to ranil wickremesinghe who is currently the prime minister, while he is out of the country, so this is a man who promised he would resign but he hasn t done that yet, and this is now leaving even more uncertainty, we are reading to the stat
of the evidence in these hearings. big news out of madrid tonight where turkey has given the green the light to finland and swedens membership of nato. it stretches nato s border with russia, and significantly bolsters europe s eastern flank and is this a 1937 moment, the head of the british army says the uk is under prepared to meet the renewed challenge from russia. tonight with the context, former adviser to hillary clinton amanda renteria the former uk national security adviser lord peter ricketts and former federal prosecutorjoe moreno. hello and welcome to the programme. in the last few hours we have heard some of the most stunning testimony from the january 6th committee. cassidy hutchinson, a senior aide to the white house chief of staff, has given evidence that former president trump and his senior aides not only knew there were plans to march on the capitol onjan 6th, they knew days before of the potential for violence. and ahead of the speech on the elipse that