Start your monday morning. A little bit of rain for some, even some thunderstorms mist and rain to start your monday morning. Good morning, it s monday 2nd september. One or two word 0fsted inspection grades for england s schools are being scrapped with immediate effect. Last year an inquest found an 0fsted inspection had contributed to the suicide of primary headteacher ruth perry, leading to widespread calls for change. Headteacher ruth perry, leading the government said the overall grades weren t fair or accurate, but the change was criticised by the conservatives for removing a vital indicator for parents. Here s our education editor branwen jeffreys. After an inspection, caversham primary was but yes, it s this. . . A relief, really, that no other head teacher will have to go through what ruth went through. So from today, overall inspection grades are scrapped, like good or inadequate. School inspection standards remain the same. And from september 2025, there will be a new rep
Category 3 storm, winds one hundred 25 miles an hour. Those winds will die down as a boost to the north, that water is colder, warm water pool these storms, that is what ultimately lets these storms become more powerful. We expect this to weaken but that will bring a ton of moisture. When you talk about earlier landfall what you are looking at is sunday morning. Winds 80 miles an hour. Thats a landfall in the baja peninsula. Still running into Southern California. More so Sunday Evening into overnight monday. Those initial bands of rain are going to be there you will see a lot of rain, the center of the storm moving in. In this area you are going to see rain much earlier than you initially thought. Sunday evening, the center of circulation moving into Southern California. The leading edge is going to be here and we are looking at a big area with Tropical Storm warning, first time this has ever been issued in Southern California. This is a rare event. We havent seen a Tropical Storm in
Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me again, stephen. Well, its a pleasure to have you back in the studio. We talked last soon after you fled from hong kong. Youve been living a life in exile for pretty much three years now. But your situation has changed recently because the chinese authorities or the hong kong authorities, i should say have put a bounty on your head of1 million hong kong dollars. What difference has that made . Well, its definitely a step up of the Intimidation Tactics that the chinese and Hong Kong Government has been using. For me, ive been wanted on several other charges, but putting a bounty on someone s head is completely new. Like, when i google and search on the list of bounties from the governments list, its actually quite strange because you saw people who are wanted under homicide or any other serious crimes, they were wanted with 300,000 hong kong dollars and we were, like, triple of their bounties. But the charges, of course, ar
Had called on people to turn out at midday in moscow and other cities to spoil their ballots or vote for any other candidate. These were the scenes in moscow. Thereve been no Protest Chants the authorities warned that activists could be arrested. A Rights Monitoring Group in russia says more than 70 people have been detained. Vladimir putin is almost certain to win, giving him another six years in power. The kremlin has ensured he faces no credible opponent. Protests were also held at russian embassies abroad. Mr navalny s widow, yulia, was among those queuing outside the Russian Embassy in berlin to vote. There have been demonstrations in the uk, france, tokyo and georgia. With me is the bbc s Vitaly Shevchenko. Thank you for being with us. Third and final day of voting, give us a sense of the picture in russia. People are voting and queues did form at a greater number of Polling Stations, as far as we can tell. The opposition had called for its supporters to come at noon to Polling S
East coast, 8 00 in los angeles and this is americas late news, fox news night. Breaking tonight, then there were two. Biden and trump appear to be in, nikki haley is out refusing for now to endorse andy is a bigtime question for both sides because trump has more republican support then biden has democratic support but the president has a Big Stage Tomorrow Night and the nation will be watching as the 81yearold delivers the State Of The Union speech. Lets begin with Senior National correspondent kevin corke live in dc with a rundown on where we stand. Reporter good evening trace. Saying the time had come to suspend her campaign and that she had no regret, former South Carolina governor nikki haley as you pointed out stepped aside last night, shelving her attempt to secure the 24 gop nomination but she did so without endorsing the parties overwhelming favorite, former President Trump , whom she lost to buy an astronomical margin in the Super Tuesday primaries. When i began, i said the c