Industrial heartland on the impact of trade wars on Small Businesses. Close to 200 days with hardly any rain. The impact of water shortages in the indian city of chennai. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its midnight here in london, 7am in singapore and 2am in turkeys biggest city istanbul where thousands of opposition supporters have been celebrating on the streets after their candidate has been re elected as mayor. Its the second time he has won this year. In march he narrowly beat a candidate from president erdogans ak party, but the result was annulled. This time he increased his lead to nine per cent. Its been seen as a rebuke to the president his worst political setback in decades. Mark lowen is there. They roared, not just they roared, notjust in victory but in celebration that there turkey still exists. An opposition thats waited 25 years to control istanbul but long felt incapable of success, savoured its moment. Ekrem imamogl
Online have their sentences increased. Russia bans flights to georgia after clashes in the capital, thousands of protesters have gathered outside parliament for a second night. Eltonjohn receives frances highest civilian honour, the legion dhonneure from president macron. Welcome to bbc news. President trump has confirmed that he called off a military strike against iran with minutes to spare after deciding to many human lives would be lost. Mr trump tweeted that the us had been cocked and loaded, but he is now facing criticism from democrats or revealing details of the plan. The attack had been planned in response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. That happened in the volatile region which is a major supply route for one third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace the us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the straight of hormuz. Here is our north america editorjohn sopel. In iran they are celebrat
Defiant iran says its exceeded its uranium enrichment account but european signatories to the nuclear deal say terran should stick to its commitments so what incentives are they providing and can europe save the agreement this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im mr a iran is fed up with just talking and once action thats the islamic republics message to the remaining signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal particularly the europeans tehrans warning that its ready to act more decisively on its commitments under the agreement iran has already passed the 3. 67 percent uranium enrichment cap set by the pact and couldnt reach even higher levels possibly upping them every 60 days but the country has said its actions are reversible if the signatories fulfill their obligations and that its open to talks dosage of our reports from tehran. It diplomatic advisor to french president emmanuel micron will be making his way to attack iran in the coming days thats according to Irans Fore
This new documentary traces the rise of the best selling author hewletts or a Nobel Prize Winner and force of nature Toni Morrison. Before becoming a writer made her way up the male dominated world of new york publishing always fearless she soon realized that she not any of the old white guys was the smartest person in the room. I was more interesting than the critics damper 1st novels with faint praise and condescension one of the early reviews says shes got a great talent one day she wont limit it to only writing about black people like really its women for her to write about black people are going to be black. I prefer. But im tired of people asking the. Oprah winfreys book club to make more so in a household name her novels became bestsellers and 1007 her masterpiece beloved won the Pulitzer Prize details about the lasting trauma of slavery was turned into a film produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey sadly film critics didnt know how to handle morrisons story of an escaped slave w
The Company Comes up with its own ideas. Cutting back on plastic. Boots says it will roll out paper bags across its stores over the next year. Jonathan pearce oh, thats a shocker. Whatever happened to the beautiful game . The fall out from the england cameroon match. And coming up on bbc news, Rafael Benitez is leaving Newcastle United after three years in charge. The club say they couldnt agree terms for a new contract and thanked him for his significant contribution. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The race to become the new conservative leader and our next Prime Minister has become even more heated today. Jeremy hunt has described his rival borisjohnson as a coward for not agreeing to take part in live debates. The two men were meant to go head to head on sky tomorrow, but the broadcaster says it will cancel the event unless both men appear. Heres our deputy political editorjohn pienaar. Solid, steady, if only borisjohnson could always appear in friendly photos with