hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me is broadcaster penny smith and former conservative adviser mo hussein. well, well, well, nobody predicted this level of blood on the walls after mrjohnson s day of the long knives. a ruthless purge of senior members of his cabinet, once trusted lieutenants, cocks of the walk, now roadkill political casualties of a prime minister with an eye on the next election and a desire to level up. most, but not all the papers have coverage of the gory details of the reshuffle. check out the times johnson wields axe in cabinet reshuffle. the guardian says the prime minister s changes are laying the groundwork for the next general election, with a focus on levelling up . the ft says the reshuffle is an attempt by the prime minister to revive his reform agenda, and improve the uk s standing on the world stage. the telegraph says the reshuffle was more extensive than expected, with numerous t
the bbc reports from one of afghanistan s biggest cities on how taliban rule is having a profound effect on everyday life. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, 7pm in washington, midnight in london, and 9am in canberra where the us, the uk, and australia have just announced a landmark security pact. it will see more shared intelligence, pooling of some resources, and new deals on providing military hardware. but hovering in the background seems to be the growing military power of china. more on that in just a moment but first, here s how us presidentjoe biden and uk prime minister borisjohnson characterised the new pact we all recognise the imperative of ensuring peace and stability in the indo pacific over the long term. we need to be able to address both the current strategic environment in the region and how it may evolve. because the future of each of our nations, and indeed the world, depends on a free and open ind
in south africa, a mother s desperate action to save her baby, as widespread looting and arson grip parts of the country. and british olympic hope laura collett tells us how she got back in the saddle after a terrible accident eight years ago. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. a moment of magic helps south africa a sink the british and irish lions in cape town. good evening. spain s popular holiday islands, ibiza, majorca and menorca, are all being moved onto the government s amber list, just two weeks after they were approved for quarantine free travel. from next monday, anyone over 18 who s not fully vaccinated will have to quarantine on return home. the announcement applies at the moment only to people travelling from england, but other uk nations could follow suit. around 200,000 british tourists are understood to be holidaying on the islands now, with many more booked to travel there over the summer. let s go to our correspondent, colletta smith, who s
hello, and welcome. the violence we have witnessed in south africa these past two days is worse than anything the country has suffered since apartheid. protests that began last week over the imprisonment ofjacob zuma, the former south african president, have now devolved into widespread looting and arson. the chaos has spread tojohannesburg. over 70 people have died, hundreds have been arrested. today, the king of the zulu nation, the largest ethnic group, said the chaos was destroying south africa s economy. one of the worst hit cities is durban, from where our south africa correspondent nomsa maseko reports. dramatic scenes in durban show the extremity of desperation of those people caught in the middle of this mayhem. people were screaming, throw her, throw her! she threw her child to safety after her home was allegedly set on fire by looters. i was scared, i was really scared, but there were people down in the street. i wasn t. .. like, the way i was panicking, i was tr