budget that sparked turmoil on the financial markets and insists they ll be no u turn on axeing the top rate of income tax. i do stand by the package we announced and i stand by the fact that we announced it quickly, because we had to act. but i do accept we should have laid the ground better. i do accept that. up for hours to cast their votes in one of the most polarised presidential elections in decades. the right wing incumbent, jair bolsonaro, has been trying to fight off a strong challenge from his socialist rival, luiz inacio lula da silva. if neither candidate wins more than 50% of valid votes, there will be a run off election in four weeks time. we can go now to laura trevelyan in rio dejaneiro. thanks very much indeed, celia. this is the world s fourth biggest democracy. brazil is the largest economy in latin america, the amazon rainforest here is known as the lungs of the world, there is so much at stake in this election for brazilians and for the world and 156 mil
his formal resignation is expected to be announced at some point today. the bbc understands the president s military jet has landed in male, the capital of the maldives. he had been in hiding after protestors stormed his residence on saturday. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from colombo. many sri lankans feel that leaving is their only option, in a crisis defined by endless waits. hundreds queue for passports. a chance to leave their troubled homeland in search of something better. many trying to make it to the middle east, like vasana, whose hoping she ll find work as a cleaner to support her six year old. how do you feel about wanting to leave sri lanka? your heart is in sri lanka? she says she s going because she s struggling to even get food and that s one of the reasons why she s trying to find work in kuwait. me, i m planning to go to uk. we don t see any future. so that s basically we want to move on this country for our kids, not for
tomorrow but we still have the stubborn heat in the south east of england. moving into thursday, more of a north westerly breeze that will bring more showers perhaps do northern ireland, scotland and one or two for northern england but further south still dry and still more sunshine but it is continuing to cool down a little bit. even in the south east, temperatures are more comfortable, 27 degrees. so it is cooling down for a while and then it heats up. not so much for scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. sunday or monday, nearerthe far north of england. sunday or monday, nearer the mid 20s but it s across this area of england and wales where we have this extreme heat warning from the met office that temperatures will soar, not just on sunday but into monday as well and you can see in the strong sunshine how the temperatures rise significantly. it will be hotter than it s been in the last couple of days and we have 36 in london and the temperatures could
times with a picture of rishi sunak at his campaign launched today. i thought there was an interesting line in this piece, emma, a new poll by opinion said soonack was the preferred candidate of 28% of party members. it was followed by liz truss on 20%. and i think that is interesting. because at the moment all of these candidates are having to appeal to mp5. but at the end of the day it will be the membership that actually has to choose who wins and they may not necessarily want the same things, may they? you are riuht. the same things, may they? you are riht. it the same things, may they? you are riuht. it is the same things, may they? you are right- it is so the same things, may they? you are right. it is so less the same things, may they? you are right. it is so less controllable, - right. it is so less controllable, it is not your whatsapp groups, not people you can talk to in the bars and very much what, not that you can engineer the votes, but you can control your
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rachel watson, the scottish political editor at the scottish sun, along with the author and journalist, emma woolf. tomorrow s front pages, starting with the ft leads with the coversative leadership race while eight candidates have qualified for the first ballot, the paper reports that borisjohnson s allies want to stop former chancellor rishi sunak from securing leadership. the express also says that loyalists to the outgoing prime minister want to stop rishi sunak and urge tory mps to back foreign secretary liz truss instead. the i also highlights the eight candidates left in the race for leader of the conservative party. meanwhile, the telegraph reports that rishi sunak will run the economy like thatcher if he wins his bid for prime minister. the guardian features an image of a stunning view from space from the james webb telescope s view from space as well as the eigh