two major us telecoms providers delay the rollout of new five g networks near airports after warnings it could cause chaos in the aviation industry. and betting big on gaming microsoft is buying the company that makes call of duty and candy crush for almost $70 billion. it s eight in the morning here in singapore, midnight in london, where borisjohnson s reported to be on the brink of a leadership challenge with more mps said to be submitting letters of no confidence in the prime minister over parties held at downing street during lockdowns. with a decisive day ahead, a difficult one comes to a close. faced with claims by his former closest adviser that he mislead parliament, boris johnson s categorically denied he was warned about parties at his home. in a moment we ll speak to a former conservative party press chief about the pm s position, but first here s our deputy political editor vicki young with the day s events. prime ministers are surrounded by people offering
a british man who took four people hostage at a texas synagogue had been investigated by mi5, but by the time he flew to the us, malik faisal akram was assessed to be no longer a risk. britain s emma raducanu wins through to the second round of the australian open on a good day for british players, with andy murray among those also through. the prime minister has categorically denied being warned that a drinks party in the downing street garden during the first lockdown in may 2020 was against the covid rules. his former chief adviser, dominic cummings, has said he raised concerns with borisjohnson about it at the time and has now accused him of misleading mps. the latest is that dominic cummings will be approached by sue gray, the senior civil servant investigating downing street parties, to give evidence as she continues her inquiry. also today, the mp for bury south, christian wakeford, has become the latest conservative known to have submitted a letter of no confidence in
substantially reduced next week. in ireland hundreds line the streets for the funeral of 23 year old teacher ashling murphy as police reveal a man has been arrested. and the biggest gaming deal in history is taking shape as the maker of call of duty and candy crush is set to be bought for £50 billion. and coming up in the sport, on the bbc news channel manchester city may be well ahead in the premier league title race but chelsea can move second with a win over brighton. good evening. faced with persistent claims that he s misled the house of commons the prime minister has categorically denied that he was warned about a drinks party in the downing street garden during the first lockdown. he insisted nobody had told him the gathering was against the rules but his former adviser dominic cummings says he did warn mrjohnson and he s accused the prime minister of misleading mps. at westminster, there is more evidence of discontent among conservative
the prime minister and he ll be giving evidence to the official inquiry. two major us telecoms providers delay the roll out of new five g networks near airports after warnings it could cause chaos in the aviation industry. and betting big on gaming microsoft is buying the company that makes call of duty and candy crush for more than $70 billion. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 1am in kyiv, where the american secretary of state antony blinken is due to arrive for urgent talks, amid warnings that russia could carry out an invasion of ukraine at any moment . mr blinken also plans to meet russian foreign minister sergey lavrov on friday, with the white house describing the situation as extremely dangerous . russia has amassed 100,000 troops on the border and over the weekend moved forces to belarus forjoint military drills but it denies planning an invasion. here s our diplomatic editorjames landale. russian forces training near the border with ukraine, just som
of the afternoon, the risk of plenty of showers here. for northern ireland, england and wales, sunny spells and scattered showers. if you dodge the showers it will be quite pleasant. it is quite mild for the time of year. temperatures peaking at 16 or 17. through this evening we will keep clearer skies across eastern england so temperatures could fall away. however, out to the west, another area of low pressure moving in and look at the isobar is squeezing together. the wind will strengthen in the rain turn quite heavy. it will start off on a more chilly note across the east but wet and windy further west and the rain means business, pushing on across western scotland, northern ireland, north west england and wales to begin with. it there will then drift steadily north and east into scotland through the afternoon with gusts of up to 50 mph on exposed coasts. across england and wales elsewhere, bright and breezy with more cloud generally with the south westerly wind but temper