facts, truth, and justice. that is who won today. also coming up in this hour of newsday. ambulance staff and nurses in england and wales will strike on the same day next month in the health service s biggest walk out of the current dispute. and another day gets underway at the australian open, but defending champion rafael nadal heads home after his dramatic second round exit. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 2am in ukraine where the government says it s suffered its biggest loss of the war, when the three principalfigures in the interior ministry were killed after their helicopter crashed in kyiv. interior minister denys monastyrskiy died with his deputy and the department s state secretary, along with the crew, when the aircraft came down in bad weather in brovary, a suburb of the capital. the crash set fire to a children s nursery. at least 1a people died, including one child. our ukraine c
hour of newsday after her acquittal on tax evasion charges, philippine journalist and nobel peace prize winner maria ressa tells me about what she calls the weaponisation of the law against her. and you know, it went down to these three things facts, truth, and justice. that is who won today. and another day gets under way at the australian open but defending champion rafael nadal heads home, after his dramatic second round exit. welcome to newsday. we begin with breaking news. new zealand s prime minister jacinda ardern has announced she s to leave her post, saying she no longer had enough in the tank to do thejob. she said that a general election will be held in october, and confirmed she will also stand down as an mp at that moment, although she will finish as prime minister no later than february 7th. she said. i am not leaving because i believe we cannot win the next election, but because i believe we can and will , she told a labour caucus meeting in napier. her
the ball bounces which can be very good for some players depending on their game style, and maybe not so good for other players. so maybe it s a matter of fighting through on one day until you get the conditions that you prefer. players have been making their feelings known about the quality of tennis balls? i ve been reading that, blair, at this year s open, and the reviews haven t been too kind. talk us through that. so we ve heard from some of the players that maybe the balls aren t responding to spin quite the same way that a normal ball would. and again, some of that could be because of the changes in temperature, that affects the way a ball bounces. but if a player doesn t feel they can get that good feel when they re rushing up the back of the ball, getting that top spin or slice spin, that ll be a big challenge on the tennis court. that s all for now
and maybe not so good for other players. so maybe it s a matter of fighting through on one day until you get the conditions that you prefer. yes, players have been making their feelings known about the quality of tennis balls? i ve been reading that, blair, at this year s open, and the reviews haven t been too kind. talk us through that. yeah, so we ve heard from some of the players that maybe felix auger aliassime. djokovic, that maybe the balls aren t responding to spin quite the same way that a normal ball would. and again, some of that could be because of the changes in temperature, that affects the way a ball bounces. but if a player doesn t feel they can get that good feel when they re brushing up the back of the ball, getting that top spin or slice spin, that s going to be a big challenge on the tennis court. it s one of those things most people don t know that throughout the year, there are different tennis
reporter: trump has repeatedly targeted ohr because of his contacts with christopher steele, the former british spy who investigated trump s ties to russia. the department of justice has said ohr has no involvement with robert mueller s investigation. for him to be in the justice department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. that is disqualifying for mueller. reporter: trump reveling in what he sees as rave reviews. i know that i ve gotten tremendous response from having done that because security clearances are very important to me. reporter: but the reviews haven t all been positive. in a stinking rebuke, more than a dozen former intelligence officials issued a joints statement criticizing the move, calling it ill considered, unprecedented, and an attempt to stifle free speech. the president in his own words drawing a direct line between revoking clearances and the