Say more than 1900 people have died following saturdays powerful earthquake. The plague is still a killer in parts of the world. Now a new vaccine could consign it to history once and for all. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and Around The World. We begin in kabul in afghanistan, where taliban leaders whove never been seen in public before have been making theirfirst statements on afghan soil, to a world still shocked by their lightning victory. They hope to have calmed a worried nation and international community, with assurances that those afghans who assisted international forces would come to no harm, that Media Freedoms would be protected, and that women would be allowed to study and work, within islamic principles. With the story of how the taliban claims it will rule, heres our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. The republic has fallen. Its leaders fled. Taliban rule is returnin
Hello and welcome. Team gb is celebrating after winning olympic Gold And Silver in the mens swimming 200 Metres Freestyle. Tom dean, who contracted Covid 19 twice, won the final, with Duncan Scott completing The One two. Its the first time since 1908 that two british male swimmers have shared the podium. And a bermudan athlete has made history In Tokyo, winning the tiny islands first ever olympic Gold Medal. The bbc s Sarah Mulkerrins is In Tokyo. It is going so well, isnt it, ben, for Team Gb in the pool. We had the Gold Yesterday for Adam Peaty. A phenomenal performance from the duo of Tom Dean and Duncan Scott in the 200 Metres Freestyle today. A wonderful result for them. As you mentioned, Tom Dean, he won gold. He was a surprise Gold Medal winner in that because he finished off, he had been second to Duncan Scott for most of the season because Duncan Scott came in as the favourite. He has been the fastest man over the distance in that. However it was his Team Mate, Tom Dean who pi
the fourth indictment in five months. we ll bring you live coverage and reaction to last night s debate. with us tonight, former adviser to george w bust to george w bush ron christie, former federal prosecutor joe moreno, attorney in georgia and democratic strategist chris bruce and for the international perspective, because this does have implications for the rest of us, anand menon, director of the thinktank the uk in a changing europe. good evening. in just a few hours time, donald trump will surrender to the authorities for the fourth time in five months. in all, he faces 91 felony counts. there is a risk he will face jail time, his electability is repeatedly questioned and yet right now is the runaway favourite to take the republican nomination. in the eyes of his supporters, he is the martyr, sacrificing himself on the altar ofjustice and truth. it is hard for many outside the country to understand that, but clearly there are thousands of republicans who still think
are you expecting inflation to slow in february? yes, we should get quite a significant slowdown, probably welcome in the mid 30s, between 3.2 and 3.5 present, it will be good news down from four core inflation which is what the bank of england is about amidships at energy, it will probably come in around four there will still be a big difference between this but there will be significant progress. there will be significant progress- there will be significant rouress. ~ ., , progress. do you think anything could bring progress. do you think anything could bring forward progress. do you think anything could bring forward the - progress. do you think anything could bring forward the bank. progress. do you think anything could bring forward the bank of| could bring forward the bank of england s decision to cut interest rates because you think it s unlikely, partly because it looks as if, actually, the economy is starting to grow at the start of the year, so some of the we
for the second quarter. we can provide hints on whether the bank ofjapan will continue to remain an outlier and keep interest rates ultra low. earlier, high speed two fidelity international s catherine yeung who said china is facing a confidence problem. it is lack of confidence within the consumption and corporate sector. in fact last friday we had july s money supply and aggregate financial data released and it was marginally weaker than expected, so tomorrow in fact we have this operations, and while the expectations are there will be no cuts on the benchmark generally speaking, you could see a slight increase of probability of ten basis points rent cuts, so again policy is going to outgrow chains, but it is going to be this continuing tweaking to accommodate. tomorrow we will get some extra data out. but really what is the biggest problem facing china to get its economy up and running? if china to get its economy up and runnina ? . , , ., china to get its economy up and r