own research has shown. sri lanka s president says his country will no longer be deemed bankrupt as it prepares to receive the first installment of a bailout from the international monetary fund. the bbc discovers seven british patients who travelled to turkey for weight loss surgery died after operations there. others have returned home with serious health issues. good afternoon. a 50 page dossier of evidence which the former british prime minister borisjohnson believes will prove he didn t knowingly mislead parliament over partygate allegations has been published. in it, mrjohnson accepts that he misled parliament when he said covid rules had been followed in downing street, but insists the statements were made in good faith. he raises serious concerns about the way the cross party privileges committee is looking into the case, saying it has gone significantly beyond its terms of reference. mrjohnson will be questioned by mps tomorrow. our chief political correspondent,
there is still a long way to go in the battle against inflation for families up and in the country who are seeing food price inflation of nearly 17% and that is causing a massive hike in the cost of the weekly shop. church of england bishops won t back a change allowing priests to marry same sex couples, sources tell the bbc. government plans to scrap thousands of eu era laws by the end of this year will be challenged in the commons today. britain s emma raducanu is in second round action at the australian open tennis. she s up against the american coco gauff. welcome. we begin this morning with breaking news coming to us in the last few minutes from ukraine. the country s interior minister denys monastyrskyy died in a helicopter crash in a suburb of kyiv. mr monastyrskyy was travelling with his deputy interior minister and a state secretary they have all been killed in a helicopter crash next to a kindergarten in brovary, east of kyiv. 16 people have been killed in total,
an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution. and the image that s gone round the world of a 16 year girl old in her prom dress in front of her bombed out school. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 6am in singapore, ”pm in london, and 6pm in washington where lawmakers have been hearing searing testimony from the victims and families of those caught up several recent mass shootings. among them was an 11 year old girl, mia cerrillo. a student at the robb elementary school in texas, she described how she smeared herself in blood and played dead to avoid being killed along with 19 other children and two teachers. the shooting, carried out by an 18 year old gunman, has provoked a nation wide debate about the sale of firearms. our north america editor sarah smith has more from washington this is the last photograph of lexi rubio, getting a school prize just hours before she was shot dead, the last time her pa