sophie long with the latest on the strike action. the last time that both the actors and writers were on strike at the same time was in the 19605 when ronald reagan was president, not of america, but of the screen actors guild. they will go on strike tomorrow when the writers walked out nearly two months ago, they brought a halt too much of the production in hollywood. now the actors arejoining production in hollywood. now the actors are joining them, that would bring in almost complete halt to the whole industry. that will cost the california economy ten5 industry. that will cost the california economy tens of millions of dollars every day. it will mean financial hardship for many people working in industry 5till for many people working in industry still recovering from the pandemic and a major delay to shooting schedule5 the pandemic and a major delay to shooting schedules and the releases of films and television series. figs releases of films and television series. , te
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. 100 people are confirmed dead at a mosque in pakistan. nine people have been pulled out alive from the rubble after monday s suicide bomb attack. saudi arabia almost double the number of executions it carries out despite promises to reform. auckland has been hit with another wave of heavy rainfall, just days after record breaking rain left parts of the city underwater. a month s worth of rain fell on new zealand s largest city overnight, triggering landslides and flooding homes once again. the latest deluge has forced motorways and railway lines to close. weather presenter chris fawkes has more. you will remember the scenes of devastation that we had in auckland on friday following extreme rainfall, when 261 millimetres of rain was recorded in just 2a hours, smashing the previous 24 hour rainfall record. well, we have just seen another 71 millimetres of rain in auckland over the last 2a ho
Its iraqs second city, as also the last major stronghold for the so called Islamic State in the country. Now Iraqi Forces Say they are within weeks of driving the extremists out of mosul. The battle to retake the city began five months ago. Government forces are now in control of the east of the city, seen here in green, but in the west of the city, is are still very much in control, and there are significant concerns Hundreds Of Thousands of civilians trapped, in particular for those in the old city, which is heavily populated. Arab correspondence and cameraman are arab correspondence and Cameraman A Re Close Arab correspondence and cameraman are close to the front line, and sent this our correspondence and cameraman are close to the front line and sent this report. Escaping the battle ground, they are fleeing on foot for western mosul, even those who struggle to walk. Cou ntless those who struggle to walk. Countless numbers are likely to follow. And imagine if this was all you could
Welcome to bbc news. Syrian president Bashar Al Assad says claims that his forces were behind a chemical weapons attack on a rebel town are a 100 fabrication. Instead, he has claimed the United States worked hand in glove with Terror Groups to stage the attack as a pretext for american Missile Strikes, and he questioned whether the tv images of dead children were real. Tonight, International Investigators said allegations of a Chemical Attack last week were credible. Our middle east editor jeremy bowen has this report. It contains distressing images. The attack on Khan Sheikhoun produced terrible images of children poisoned by nerve gas, and Rescue Workers struggling to help. Hosing victims down to try to wash it away. President trump said he was so shocked by what he saw that he went from being prepared to deal with the assad regime to calling the syrian president a butcher. Bashar al assad denies every accusation against him. There was no order to make any attack. We dont have any ch
Welcome to bbc news. Syrian president Bashar Al Assad says claims that his forces were behind a chemical weapons attack on a rebel town are a 100 fabrication. Instead, he has claimed the United States worked hand in glove with Terror Groups to stage the attack as a pretext for american Missile Strikes, and he questioned whether the tv images of dead children were real. Tonight, International Investigators said allegations of a Chemical Attack last week were credible. Our middle east editor jeremy bowen has this report. It contains distressing images. The attack on Khan Sheikhoun produced terrible images of children poisoned by nerve gas, and Rescue Workers struggling to help. Hosing victims down to try to wash it away. President trump said he was so shocked by what he saw that he went from being prepared to deal with the assad regime to calling the syrian president a butcher. Bashar al assad denies every accusation against him. There was no order to make any attack. We dont have any ch