You can see what a dangerous voyage it has been for them. The boat is listing dangerously on its side. The worlds highest paid actress, jennifer lawrence, talks to us about the gender gap in pay that must be tackled. But i think Trevor Brookings next, well, he is next to me. Laughter and the unmistakeable voice of football for half a century, john motson, decides to call it a day. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news. All the latest from flushing meadows where karolina pliskovas reign as world no 1 has come to an end. Good evening. Business leaders have expressed their deep concern about plans to restrict the number of low skilled workers who come to the uk after brexit. The plans are included in a leaked Home Office Document, which also urges employers to give preference to british people looking for work. The Hospitality Industry said today it relied on eu workers and warned the plans would be catastrophic if implemented. But the Prime Minister told mps the government was committed
Hurricane irma, a category five storm, is bringing with it gusts up to 320 kilometres an hour, thats 200 miles an hour. The hurricane has already battered several of the leeward islands. The Prime Minister of Antigua And Barbuda says 90 of buildings on barbuda have been demolished, barbuda now is literally rubble, he said. The centre of irma smashed into the island, which was home to about 1,600 people. Six people are reported dead on saint martin and the neighbouring french territory of st barts. The eye of the hurricane has passed over the British Virgin islands, President Trump has declared a state of emergency on the Us Virgin Islands and puerto rico as the storm approaches. Our correspondent, laura bicker, reports from the capital, san juan. This is what it sounds like to be at the heart of one of the strongest storms recorded in the atlantic. The winds, like a jet engine, roared through the eastern caribbean. The category 5 hurricane ripped roofs off homes and devastated parts of
Atlantic storms on record. Hurricane irma, a category five storm, is bringing with it gusts up to 320 kilometres an hour thats 200 miles an hour. The hurricane has already battered several of the leeward islands. The Prime Minister of antigua and barbuda says 90 of buildings on barbuda have been demolished barbuda now is literally rubble, he said. The centre of irma smashed into the island, which was home to about 1600 people. Six people are reported dead on saint martin and the neighbouring french territory of st barts. The eye of the hurricane has passed over the British Virgin islands. President trump has declared a state of emergency on the Us Virgin Islands and puerto rico as the storm approaches. Our correspondent laura bicker reports from the capital, san juan. This is what it sounds like to be at the heart of one of the strongest storms recorded in the atlantic. The winds, like a jet engine, roared through the eastern caribbean. The category 5 hurricane ripped roofs off homes a
Its 7. 00am in singapore. And 8. 00am in beijing, where the final day of the 19th Party Congress is just about to get underway. President xi jinping looks set to be confirmed as the most powerful man of his generation and elevated to the same status as mao zedong and deng xiaoping. His personal political ideology, xi jinping thought, is to be written into the partys constitution and will be taught in schools. Joining us from Tiananmen Square in beijing is robin brant. What will be taking place on the final day of the congress . We get is some up from the president. It wont bea some up from the president. It wont be a rerun of that epic 3. 5 hours on his feet last week. These will be the final words as this seventh and final day comes to a head, then later in the day we get to see changes that are likely to be made to this partys constitution. This is usually significant in china. Mal saved in, the people who founded the peoples republic of china. It looks like xijinping, he is neither
To protecting heritage. Abandon at sea by smugglers and left to fend for themselves more than 1,000 migrants from bangladesh and myanmar mostly Rohingya Muslims sick and starving landed on the island of langkawi and refugees picked up in indonesia on sunday. They are the latest to be rested from over crowded boats arriving on the showers of malaysia and in indonesia and faced discrimination and persecution in myanmar and they are largely in the northwest myanmar, in the past and used to escape by crossing over land through thailand. And since thailand began a crack down advocates say the rohingya are trafficked to indonesia and malaysia and we are covering this in three countries, myanmar, thailand and malaysia. Reporter police in the resort town confirmed for us around a thousand migrants arrived on their shores late into the night, they consisted of the rohingya from myanmar and bangladesh and across the water in indonesia they confirmed earlier today they rescued around 400 people o