Government was forced into a humiliating back down. Its delayed a bill to allow for people to be sent to mainland chinese courts, where demonstrators say a free trial isnt possible. But there marching are demanding more. They want the plan scrapped altogether. Basically, we shouldnt let the government have all power to us because we have our own freedom of rights and freedom of speech and this is why we are here. If the bill is passed on, has no democracy anymore. This isnt acceptable, my parents have come here today and all my friends came here today and all my friends came here today. Because we are really upset about this. If this happened, hong kong is over. Many in the crowd have blamed hong kongs leader carrie lam for instigating this crisis. They say the chief executive pushed ahead with extradition in the face of clear mass opposition. Now they want Something Else from her. The death of a protester last night contributed to a sombre mood. He had fallen from a building. People w
Iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers. Hundreds of people in lincolnshire still cant go back to their homes because of flooding descibed by the Environment Agency as unprecedented. President trump again denounces londons mayor, sadiq khan. It follows a series of violent deaths in the capital. Over a billion people are expected to tune in to watch todays world cup cricket clash between india against pakistan. And click travels to los angeles for the biggest Gaming Convention in the world. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. The conservative leadership contender, dominic raab, has warned the conservative party will be toast if britain doesnt leave the European Union by the deadline of october 31st. Meanwhile, other conservative leadership hopefuls have questioned the ability of borisjohnson, to deliver brexit. The International Development secretary, rory stewart, said no one could be clear what mrjohnson was proposing to do, while the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, said mrjoh
Hundreds of people in lincolnshire still cant go back to their homes because of flooding, described by the Environment Agency as unprecedented. Around 48 Million People may be affected by a huge electrical power failure in argentina and uruguay. And the internationally acclaimed writer Fatima Bhutto talks to George Alagiah in talking books, in half an hour on bbc news. Good afternoon. Tens of thousands of protestors are back on the streets of hong kong, a day after the territorys chief executive, carrie lam, suspended highly controversial plans to allow extraditions to the chinese mainland. Carrie lam has apologised to the public with utmost sincerity and humility. The demonstrators are calling for the proposals to be completely withdrawn and for mrs lam to resign. Our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell, has spent the day at the protests. Hong kongs streets are again a sea of protest, a day after the government was forced into a humiliating back down. Its delayed a bill to allow for
Hundreds of people in lincolnshire still cant go back to their homes because of flooding descibed by the Environment Agency as unprecedented. Most of argentina and uruguay, together with regions of paraguay and brazil, are without electricity after a massive power outage. Good afternoon. Five of the 6 conservative leadership candidates are preparing to go head to head in their first televised debate tonight. However, borisjohnson, the frontrunner in the race, will not be taking part. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has said choosing mrjohnson as the next tory leader would mean britain leaving the eu without a deal. Our political correspondent, nick eardley, reports. Catch him if you can. Boris johnson is the frontrunner to be our next pm, and he still is keeping his head down. He wont be at the first tv debate tonight, but his rivals know he is the man to catch. Jeremy hunt thinks he can make up the ground, but unlike mrjohnson, hes not promising brexit will be done by the end of o
Effective as we would like, to communicate to people to justify thatis communicate to people to justify that is very good objective which is worth doing. Hundreds of people in lincolnshire still cant go back to their homes because of flooding, descibed by the Environment Agency as unprecedented. Most of argentina and uruguay, together with regions of paraguay and brazil have been without electricity after a massive power failure. Good evening. Five of the 6 conservative leadership candidates are preparing to go head to head in their first televised debate tonight. However, borisjohnson, the frontrunner in the race, will not be taking part. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has said choosing mrjohnson as the next tory leader would mean britain leaving the eu without a deal. Our Political Correspondent, nick eardley, reports. Catch him if you can. Boris johnson is the frontrunner to be our next pm, and he still is keeping his head down. He wont be at the first tv debate tonight, but hi