spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immig
you re watching bbc world news. it s newsday. glad you could join us. it s 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 9am in north east australia, where what s being described as a monster cyclone is due to make landfall over the next few hours. tens of thousands of people, including tourists, have been evacuated from coastal areas amid warnings of winds gusting up to 250km/h and dangerous tidal surges. trees are already being blown down by the wins. cyclone debbie has been upgraded to a category four storm, one below the most violent, and is forecast to be the most powerful storm to hit the state of queensland for six years winds. let s go to hywel griffith, who is joining us from townsville. by the looks at it it s the calm before the storm and everyone is saying cyclone debbie could be as devastating as cyclone yasi in 2011? yes. they are having to prepare for the worst here, the wind is picking up a bit as we get closer to the impact time, you do to be around lunchtime a
a host of countries around the world still impose the ultimate punishment on the most serious criminals, death. what s it like to be in command of the machinery of state sanctioned execution? navalny. today as part of the bbc‘s special freedom season, i m going to get a rare insight from allen ault, who spent years running the correction facility in the southern us state of georgia. he organised the killing of criminals until he could stand it no more. now he s an opponent of the death penalty. why? allen ault, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s back in the 1990s that you were the commissioner of corrections in the us state of georgia, and you were responsible for running the machinery of capital punishment. is that experience still with you today? it is still here. i still have nightmares, not every night, but on occasion i still have nightmares about it. it s a very hard pill to swallow. it stays in your psyche forever. it s the most premeditated murder possible. the ma
patrol with the anti romeo squads of india. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. glad you could join us. it is sam world news. it s newsday. glad you could join us. it is 8am in singapore and 10am in north east australia, where residents of queensland are bracing themselves for the arrival of cyclone debbie, a category for storm. it has been described as a monster storm and they are warning of dangerous tidal surges and damaged. the cyclone has winds of 250 kilometres an hour and has already battered holiday houses on the coast. we have the details. cyclone debbie has made itself felt. people living in north east australia in queensland have been battered by high winds. authorities knew it was coming and they have given the advice to get out. knew it was coming and they have given the advice to get outm knew it was coming and they have given the advice to get out. it is clear that the time to move is now to go to family and frie
we will have more of a breeze over scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england and it will bring some rain with it, especially to north west highlands, hebrides, later orkney, and by the end of the night, shetland. not before though, we see temperatures drop close to freezing across shetland and we could get to around two or three degrees in rural parts of wales, the midlands and southern england as we start tuesday morning. a lovely, bright start, even though it is a little bit on the fresh side. good, sunny spells, a bit more cloud building through the day. occasional sunshine, northern england, southern and eastern scotland and northern ireland but we will always have more cloud, the north west highlands, particularly north west of the great glen into orkney, shetland and also across the hebrides as well. this is where we will see some rain on and off through the day. temperatures a little on the cool side, nice enough in the sunshine further south, still a nud