elected as leader of the conservative party. politics comes at us rather fast these days, doesn t it? this autumn s second new prime minister inherits a nightmarish soup of political and economic gloom. he moves in there tomorrow to try and sort it out. we ll have more from chris, in this extended edition of bbc news at ten, as we consider the prospects for a sunak premiership. at westminster the main opposition parties are united on the demand for a general election, so that millions of voters can have their say. labour thinks that we should be having a general election. i think everybody who i ve spoken to, the public, have said we should be having a general election. there is no mandate now. he should call an early general election. he s the second person in a row to be appointed as prime minister by tories, not elected by the population. mr sunak s rapid advance is a significant moment for politics. he s the first british asian to become prime minister. and we ll be askin
to bring the party together. we ll be looking at the week ahead as the conservative party chooses its third leader in three months. also on the programme. the social care system in england is gridlocked, says the watchdog, with staffing shortages a majorfactor. covid infections rise above 2 million for the first time since the summer. and the first baby bison born in britain for thousands of years. on bbc london. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll have the latest on cristiano ronaldo s fall out with manchester united as their star player gets benched. and booted out of first team training after he walked out on them on wedneday. good evening. in a day s time, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons, has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. no other mp has declared yet, but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. mrjohnson left offic
he could win re election as a corpse. but failing that, zimbabwe needs to grapple with the issue of succession. and will follow mugabe? my guest is his former vice president and one time heir apparentjoice mujuru. she broke away from the ruling party two years ago and now leads her own opposition party, but how tainted is she by her long association with robert mugabe? joice mujuru, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. how can you persuade the zimbabwean people that you are an agent of change when for most of your adult life you ve been one of robert mugabe s most loyal allies and associates? thank you very much. the way how i left zanu pf did not go down well with the rest of the country, because i never replied, i never did anything. but they know me, even during the robert mugabe government, that as much as i was loyal to my party, which i fought for, i was also loyal to zimbabweans because when i ran ministries they know the relationship that i was building with them. you have
singapore. this is bbc world news. it s newsday. hello and welcome. it s 9am in singapore and iam in the morning here in london, where in the past few hours british parliament has given its final approval to a landmark law allowing the government to formally start the process of leaving the european union. earlier, scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon dropped a political bombshell, announcing plans for a second independence referendum prompted by opposition to brexit. britain s prime minister theresa may wasn t too impressed. let s hear from nicola sturgeon first. i will now take the steps necessary to make sure that scotland will have a choice at the end of this process. a choice of whether to follow the uk to a hard brexit, or to become an independent country. instead of playing politics with the future of our country, the scottish government should focus on delivering good government and public services for the people of scotland. politics is not a game. a little earl
been for the keeper, the match could have been out of sight very early on. but the strikers were kept out by fingertips. united were stretched with a second red card. that would test tactics and temperamental. the first half was heated at goalless. last season, canto was the sung here monks blessed s champions. his goal found the bottom corner and was worth a semifinal. and equaliser was almost scored. that was the only choice that united had. chelsea have so choice that united had. chelsea have so many all. cost with the best. they miss was not so costly as united ran out of steam. b double is still on for the blues. that is what victory meant for them. what defeat meant forjose mourinho is difficult to tell. so meant forjose mourinho is difficult to tell. 50 sure it was a good to tell. so sure it was a good performance against a team. a very strong team. they had good players and the best scoring team in the league. for us it was pleasing to go in the next round and beat a