The unrest in hong kong is showing no signs of abating. Welcome e back. Thank you for joining us. The amazon reinforced is some lungs of thethe planet. It generates 1 5 of the worlds auction. The forest is on fire, prompting alarm. Emmanuel macron says this is a Global Crisis and the issue merits discussion. Bolsonaro says he is b being targeted by a Smear Campaign and says macron is trying to make political gain out of an matter in brazil. Year after year, the amazon is being chewed up. The area deforested last month was four times the amount in july last year. A 278 increase. Saysdigenous grououp chief it is responsible it is obvious who is responsible. Bolsonaro must understand. If white people continue destroying the amazon, the world will have no more oxygen. Bolsonaro has never been coy about dismantling environmental production policies. Loggers and farmers are using fire to clear plots of land. The fires are the consequence of a policy of environmental destruction and support f
Morocco to make it through to the quarterfinals. This fight. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in algeria for the twentieth friday in a row the fifth of july marks the countryss independence state from france and protesters used the occasion to keep up the pressure on the authorities. And iman indepependent institutions as well as re issued their coal for regime insiders to go Catherine Bennett reports. The fifth of july a momentous day in algerias history the dates broke away from a hundred and thirty two years of French Colonial rule. This year is the fifty seventh anniversary of independence and celebrations are coinciding with the countryss weeklkly friday prototests. Otests thahave been going on for fifive months n now. Thousands of people gatherered n the capitatal to o protest the countrys interim government well similar demonstrations took place all over the country. A heavy Police Presence triri to block protest is in algeria and around a dozen people were arrested.
For the rest of his days or let it fall into disrepair and eventually end up somewhere like slough . Patrick christys gb news is. Windsor is not that far from is. Windsor is not that far from slough, actually. Anyway. All slough, actually. Anyway. All right, get your emails coming in. Gb views and gb news. Com rishi sunak speech there. Was it rishi sunak speech there. Was it a a loser there for a winner or a loser there for you . Gb views our gb news. Com. But right now as your headlines i good afternoon. Its 3 01 im Rhiannon Jones in the gb newsroom. The Prime Minister has confirmed the northern leg of hs2 is being scrapped. Speaking after weeks of speculation, rishi sunak told the conservative Party Conference in manchester that hes ready to make tough decisions for the country. Hes defended the move, country. Hes defended the move, saying the money will be better spent developing projects in the north and the midlands. Hs2 will still run to euston in central london, but current mana
this september record breaking heatwave is set to continue and we ve provisionally had the hottest day of the year so far. and on bbc london. a nationwide manhunt continues for an escapee who broke out of wandsworth prison. we speak to a former inmate who knew daniel khalife. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a huge manhunt is under way for the former soldier who escaped from wandsworth prison yesterday morning. more than 150 officers and staff from the metropolitan police s counterterrorism unit are trying to track down daniel khalife, who was accused of gathering information for iran. he strapped himself under a food delivery van, still dressed as a prison chef. tonight, police say he has not been seen, but they have been giving more details about how he got out. we begin with our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. wandsworth prison this afternoon, the day after the infamous escape, and a clear view of the kitchen block and the short route to freedom
he used to lead. in yemen we revisit the 11 year old blind from birth who refuses to let the country s civil war defeat him, ahmed. and we are alive at the mercury music prize in london where we on newsnight at 10.30, no sightings of a man charged with terrorism offences, still on the run after escaping from wandsworth prison strapped to a food lorry. what are the consequences, for the prison service ultimately the government? good evening. a terror suspect who escaped from wandsworth prison early yesterday morning is still at large, with police saying there ve been no confirmed sightings of him. daniel khalife was awaiting trial accused of gathering information for iran. he escaped by strapping himself under a food delivery van still dressed as a prison chef. more details have emerged about how he got out. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford can tell us more. yes, reeta. this picture is the most important new development in the manhunt. it s the best cctv imag