And prompts an international row. The countdown begins its one year until the Tokyo Olympics. But organisers are already worried about the summer heat. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Hello and welcome to newsday. Its 7 00 am in singapore and midnight here in london, where borisjohnson is preparing for the biggest act of his political career. On wednesday, after being invited by the queen to form a government, hell pick up the keys to number 10 fulfilling an ambition hes held for decades. Borisjohnson promised a new spirit of can do and said he would get brexit done by october the 31st. Heres our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Applause. And therefore id give notice that borisjohnson is elected as a leader of the conservative party. A brief moment of weight away go now, as the rest of the room got to its feet. A thumping majority for mrjohnson, a knowingly controversial pick. There will be people round the place who will question th
Temperatures like this. On his first full day as Prime Minister, borisjohnson heralds what he called a new start on the road to brexit. Today is the first day of a new approach which will end with our exit from the eu on the 31st of october. Nissan cuts its workforce by 12,500 worldwide, after reporting a 98 drop in profits. And nominations are revealed for this years prestigious mercury prize. We might be Going Old School and Holding Things up at the camera in a minute. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me areJessica Elgot, whos the chief Political Correspondent for the guardian, and lucy fisher, the defence correspondent at the times. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The sun is a real treat tonight. Something well all feel at least slightly familiar with after todays heatwave. An overheated grenadier guard features on the front page of the guardian, alongside reports of the Climate Emergency being a factor in th
Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight here in london and 1am across Central Europe which is in the grip of a record breaking heatwave. The hottest temperatures ever were experienced in germany and the netherlands this week. While in paris on thursday it was more than 42 degrees celsius thats 108 in farenheight, the highest ever temperature in the french capital. Lucy williamson reports from paris. The city of light has become the city of heat. 42 degrees, just bearable if you are mostly underwater. The government has repeatedly warned people not to stay out in the sun, but with offices and schools closing early, and most homes without air conditioning, not everyone is listening. Its difficult to enjoy it. Here we are in this most amazing city in the world and its tough to want to go and do much. Its very hot. The summer in brazil is not like this. Its hot too but here its too much. This is a short, sharp spike
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The firstjoint air patrol by russia and china sees south korean warplanes fire warning shots and prompts an international row. The countdown begins its one year until the Tokyo Olympics. But organisers are already worried about the summer heat. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Hello and welcome to newsday. Its 8 00am in singapore and 1l00 in the morning here in london, where borisjohnson is preparing for the biggest act of his political career. On wednesday, after being invited by the queen to form a government, hell pick up the keys to number 10 fulfilling an ambition hes held for decades. Borisjohnson promised a new spirit of can do and said he would get brexit done by october the 31st. Heres our political editor. Laura kuenssberg. Applause. And therefore i give notice that borisjohnson is elected as the leader of the conservative and unionist parties. A brief moment of where do i go now, as the rest of the room got to its feet. A thu