We talk to one of the regions winemakers. The chief executive of boeing has been sacked less than a week after the planemaker said it would temporarily halt production of its troubled 737 max airliner. The company has struggled to recover after 346 people died in two crashes involving its planes. Our business correspondent, theo leggett, has the story. Two devastating accidents and 346 people died. The first plane crashed into the sea off indonesia late last year. Then, in march, an identical aircraft went down in these fields in ethiopia minutes after take off. Since then, boeings newest and fastest selling aircraft, the 737 max, has been grounded worldwide. Blames been placed on a piece of Flight Control software, known as mcas, that activated at the wrong time and forced both planes into a catastrophic dive. Boeings failures and mr muilenburgs leadership have been angrily condemned in the us congress. Those pilots never had a chance. These loved ones never had a chance. They were in
Has had to say about that. Hong kongs Pro Democracy Movement delivered a landslide victory in local elections this weekend. Across hong kong, turnout was over 70 thats a record. Nearly three Million People voted, and they voted overwhelmingly for pro democracy candidates. Just have a look at this. This is the electoral map. The yellow shows us the electoral map. The yellow shows us the progress made by pro democracy politicians. They took 17 out of the 18 districts. Compare that to 2015, when all 18 were controlled by pro beijing groups. Weve also seen some of the territorys best known politicians defeated by young inexperienced pro democracy candidates. And of course, the context for all of this is that pro democracy anti beijing protests have been going on for over five months. And these results represent yet another blow to the authority of hong kongs chief executive carrie lam. Shes said. And while shes reflecting, the protests go on. Jonathon head is there. Today, Office Workers i
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Announcer live from out studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its midnight in london and 7am in the morning here in singapore, and also in hong kong, where the airport Authorities Say operations have now resumed after mondays shutdown. Theres been a weekend of skirmishes between police and demonstrators, angry about what they believe is chinas erosion of their freedoms. Beijing has raised the stakes, claiming the weeks long unrest, has begun to show what it calls the sprouts of terrorism. Jonathan head reports. As the last flights came in, the passengers were greeted with a chorus of appeals from young people waving posters, pleading for support. They feared the police were about to storm the airport. Its sudden closure left travellers bewildered and stuck. Catherine morgan and her daughter helena were due to fly back to britain, but their flight was cancelled. We flew in from taipei this morning, and it was fine until we got to arrivals an