The top ten leading democratic contenders hoping to take on donald trump in the 2020 us president ial election have been going head to head in a much anticipated televised debate. Healthcare featured heavily at the start, but all eyes were on how centrist and former Vice President joe biden, seen as the frontrunner, performed against popular hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Lets head to houston, and laura trevelyan, who can give us some reaction to the debate. Well, joe biden went into this as the front runner. The former Vice President s Campaign Team said at the beginning of the night that he had a target on his back, and so indeed it proved. And just to illustrate that, here is howjulian castro, one of the ten contenders on the stage, tried to go off tojoe biden, not very subtly, and tried to imply that perhaps he was getting old and forgetting things. Lets listen to that exchange. Barack obamas vision was not to leave 10 million 0bamas vision was not to leave 10 Millio
Announcer live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. Its 7am in singapore and midnight here in london, where mps are demanding the immediate recall of parliament. It follows scotlands highest Civil Court Ruling that the british Prime Minister borisjohnsons advice to suspend parliament misled the queen and was unlawful. The British Government insists its actions are legal and is waiting until its own appeal is heard in the Uks Supreme Court early next week. All this as ministers published details of their contingency plans in case the uk leaves the European Union without a deal. Well have more on that later, first heres our uk political editor, laura kuenssberg, on the court ruling. Judgment day. In scotlands court of session, a clear verdict on borisjohnson. Each opinion expresses the view that the advice given by the government to her majesty the queen to Prorogue Parliament from 9th september to 14th october
We are working wholeheartedly, straining every sinew to get a deal, and coming up its been a summer of astonishing moments for england, but australia secure the ashes at old trafford with with one more test to play. Hello and welcome to world news today. President trump has called off peace negotiations with the taliban, after they admitted being behind an attack in afghanistan that killed a us soldier. The taliban condemned the decision to withdraw from the talks to end 18 years of war, warning that the us would lose the most. Our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet reports from kabul. A busy kabul junction. The attack said to have changed president trumps mind. A young us soldier died here and ten afghans, aged ten to 70. The taliban struck this kabul neighbourhood, too, the very day last week the us said it had reached a deal in principle with the taliban to start bringing its troops home. Theyve been negotiating for nearly a year in the gulf state of qatar, and the taliba
Hello and welcome to bbc news. The number of People Killed by Hurricane Dorian in the bahamas could be staggering, according to officials there. At the moment 30 people are known to have died, but many areas remain cut off. In the last hours, dorian has made landfall over Cape Hatteras in North Carolina in the us, and has weakened to a categoryi storm. But the full force of the hurricane was felt in the abaco islands in the bahamas. These are the latest pictures from there. Along with aid and equipment, officials are sending morticians and hundreds of body bags. 0ur correspondent Aleem Maqbool has been aboard the british ship rfa mounts bay, and has just sent this report. Heading out to try to find more survivors of the hurricane. This military helicopter is taking off from a royal fleet auxiliary ship that tracked right behind dorian as it smashed into the bahamas. Last night, the helicopter discovered a group of people who had been cut off, with no communications for five days. We de
We meet the south koreans defying age with dance. Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7 00pm in washington, where the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, says that afghan peace talks are on hold. Earlier, President Trump tweeted that a secret meeting with taliban leaders at camp david had been cancelled. The taliban has condemned the decision and warned that america has the most to lose. It is a sudden halt after nine rounds of talks to try and end nearly 20 years of war in afghanistan. 0ur chief International Correspondent lyse doucet reports from kabul. A busy kabul junction. The attack said to have changed President Trumps mind. A young us soldier died here, a romanian, ten afghans, aged ten to 70. The president vented his fury on twitter. There is not a day without violence. Taliban struck this kabul neighbourhood last week, the very day last week the us said it had reached a deal in principle with the taliban to start bringing its troops home. Theyve b