Been starker. And coming up. The billionaire former mayor of new york Michael Bloomberg announces he wants to run for president. Hello, and welcome to world news today. The first results from hong kongs local District Council election are coming in and they show the pro democracy parties making big gains. Theyre on course to all but wipe out their pro beijing rivals. Theres been a huge voter turnout in comparison to elections in 2015. With slightly more than half of the count complete the numbers just a few minutes ago showed pro democracy parties have already taken 196 seats. While pro establishment parties have just 27 so far. These are the numbers being reported by local media and there is still a way to go yet, of course. Now, some notable names ran in the elections, including pro beijing lawmaker junius ho. Hes one of the most controversial politicians in the city and is reported to have suffered a shock defeat. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonell is in hong kong. Stephen, this cou
Chinas secret brainwashing camps bbc panorama goes inside the network of high Security Prisons where inmates are indoctrinated and punished. And coming up at 8 30 a bbc investigation finds Vulnerable Children are increasingly being placed in unregulated homes. Thats in britains care scandal exposed. Good evening. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament, as soon as possible after the election, if he wins. In a speech in telford in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england theres a pledge to add 50,000 more nurses, and restore nursing grants, thats on top of an existing promise to pump tens of billions more into the health service. He said thered be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for five years. And he pledged to raise the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance to £9,500, a saving of £85 a year, per person
Chinas secret brainwashing camps. Bbc panorama goes inside the network of high Security Prisons where inmates are indoctrinated and punished. And at 11 30pm, we will be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, ros altmann and mihir bose. Stay with us for that. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament as soon as possible after the election if he wins. In a speech in telford, in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england, there was a new pledge to add 50,000 more nurses to the workforce, partly by stemming the flow of people leaving, and also by recruiting from overseas. There was also a promise to restore nursing grants and train more staff. He said there would be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for five years. An earlier plan from mrjohnson to raise the income Tax Threshold for higher earners is scrapped, but t
Richard bilton, bbc news. And you can see panorama how to brainwash a Million People on bbc one at 8 30 tomorrow night. Now its time for a look at the weather. Hello. We start the final week of meteorological autumn, and with it comes meteorological autumn, and with it co m es yet meteorological autumn, and with it comes yet more rain. Now, through the rest of tonight, the focus of the rest of tonight, the focus of the rain is going to be across South West England, wales, into Northern Ireland, slowly moving its way north and east words, not getting to too far ahead of it. We have a lot of patchy light rain and drizzle, not so much of it getting up drizzle, not so much of it getting up into scotland and also eastern england. But everywhere there will bea england. But everywhere there will be a lot of cloud, some misty, murky conditions as well. So were going to start monday morning on another grade note. Quite wet in places, especially across parts of South West England and south wales
Our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9. 35am. This mornings reviewers are Katherine Forster from the sunday times and the business commentatorjosie cox. Prince andrew has categorically denied having any sexual contact with a woman, who says she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17. He told Bbcs Newsnight he could not have been with Virginia Roberts on the day in question in 2001 as he was at home after spending the afternoon at a Pizza Express in woking with his daughter. The prince was also grilled about his friendship with the convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein. Our royal correspondent, Nick Witchell reports. In the state rooms at Buckingham Palace, a Senior Member of the royal family, Prince Andrew, second son of the queen, is preparing to be interrogated about allegations of sleazy behaviour and gross misjudgment. Your royal highness, we have come to Buckingham Palace and highly unusual circumstances. At issue, which of these two people is telling the truth