singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 12am in london where the former uk prime minister, borisjohnson, has said he won t stand in the race to replace liz truss next week. he insisted he had enough support among mps, but said that putting himself forward was not the right thing to deal. nominations close on monday afternoon with a former chancellor, rishi sunak and cabinet minister penny moudant the only declared candidates. are you running for the leadership, mr sunak? could september s loser be october s prime minister? rishi sunak is a step closer to downing street tonight, beaten by liz truss just weeks ago, he could replace her as soon as tomorrow. declaring his candidacy today, he wrote. he also felt the need to say. throughout the day, the public support for mr sunak among tory mps has continued to tick up. this minister reckons borisjohnson would be a guaranteed disaster. what we can t do is have him in as prime minister in circumstan
And so far we know that 3000 people have died in the uk from infected blood and infected Blood Products given by the nhs. 0verall, 30,000 victims have been identified and these fall into two main categories. There are the people with rare genetic Blood Clotting Disorders such as the haemophiliacs, and there are people who needed Blood Transfusions after surgery, for example. So lets start with this first group, the haemophiliacs. People with Blood Clotting Disorders, they need a special protein called factor eight, Orfactor Nine injected which helps the blood clot. But by the 1970s the uk was really struggling to meet demand for these Blood Products and so they started to import from america but because america pays for blood plasma rather than it being donated for free, it came from a lot of high risk individuals, including prisoners, drug addicts and those most in need for money. And so with these donations came some deadly viral infections such as hepatitis c and hiv. In the late 7
election campaign season. they puts it at the tail end of the campaign process and it is guaranteed, certainly right now, that donald trump is properly going to be the nominee. he is the clearfrontrunner for the nomination and just to remind people what this trial is about, he mentioned the classified documents and he faces counts of allegedly will holding classified documents relating to national security. he is charged alongside his aid with making false statements and conspiring to obstructjustice. he has pleaded not guilty to all the charges. just to give you his reaction, he says that the schedule is a setback for the department of justice, the ones who have brought the case forward. he says the delay gives extensive time to fight what he describes as an empty hoax. because donald trump wants the delay until after the presidential election. this trial would happen six months before americans start
by the supreme court, she announced a special conference due in march to discuss the way forward. now a way forward with a new leader. the risk undoubtedly is that the party can t find somebody who can provide it with the kind of leadership that both mr salmond and ms sturgeon have provided it with, can t unite it on the independence strategy, can t appeal to the public, and therefore, as a result, the independence movement goes backwards. nicola sturgeon said she s confident her successor will deliver independence and said this is the final phase of thatjourney. alexandra mckenzie, bbc news. nicola sturgeon ran unopposed in 2014. there is no clearfrontrunner this time, so there is likely to be