first for indian film making. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start in new zealand where, in the past hour, chris hipkins has been sworn in as the country s new prime minister, after the shock resignation of jacinda ardern last week, who said she didn t have enough in the tank to continue in thejob. mr hipkins was sworn in at government house in wellington, alongside carmel sepuloni, who becomes the country s first pasifika deputy prime minister. mr hipkins labour party will face a general election in october. our correspondent phil mercer is following the story. hejoins me now he joins me now for hejoins me now for more. great to be on the programme. i know this is something you have been covering extensively for us. just give us a sense of how chris hipkins might be different to his leadership style from jacinda ardern. this will be a big style from jacinda ardern. this will be a big year style
you desperately need. this is an act of cruelty kitted out by the united nations, and it s unacceptable. in the un, there is a law that says respect should be shown to all people in all religions. our religion does not allow women to work in that way. in sakhi mohammed s family, the oldest daughters didn t go to school. they couldn t afford it. ia year olds zainab was the luckiest 14 year old zainab was the luckiest she got to go, but then the taliban shut girls high schools. such hard lives in such harsh terrain. afghan rulers come and go. nature s power ever present. lyse doucet, bbc news, salang.
selling chains for tyres, in the coldest winter in a decade. tough stuff, in threadbare clothes. translation: it gets so cold you can t see the road. - you can t walk, and the heaters in cars don t work. these are the lives people live here. it s so cold, but he said it s going to get colder still. we ve been outjust for minutes and my eyebrows are frozen and my face feels like it s going to fall off. imagine if you lived day in, day out, in conditions like this. this is the only way to reach saki mohammed s home. sakhi mohammed s home. there s no road. nothing is easy in this life. this is what life is like here literally lived on the edge.
6 NC, 2 Congress Councillors join hands to form DDC at Ramban
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 2: The recently elected Councillors of the National Conference and the Congress in Ramban district today resolved to join hands and form the District Development Council in the larger interest of the development in the area and to strengthen the secular forces, as per urges and aspirations of the people.
Soon after arriving at the decision, the six Councillors of the National Conference Dr Shamshad Shan, Shamim Akhter, Sakhi Mohammed, Gulshan Parveen, Jagveer Dass and Mohammed Shafi Zargar and the two Councillors of the Congress Imtiyaz Ahmed Khandey and Bashir Ahmed Naik, led by the district presidents of the respective parties, called on Provincial President Devender Singh Rana here and pledged to work for respecting the mandate of the people.