american football legend tom brady has announced his retirement for the second time in a year. life of our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we begin in the us, where the funeral of tyre nichols, the 29 year old black man, who died after being beaten by police, has taken place. the us vice president kamala harris was among the thousands attending the service at mississippi boulevard christian church, in memphis, tennessee. following tyre nichols death, five officers, all of them black, were charged with second degree murder. several other police officers and emergency staff have also been fired in recent days. our north america editor sarah smith was at the service. # you lift me up. the grief was overlaid with anger, as mourners celebrating the life of tyre nichols also railed against the injustice of his death. i can t speak for everybody in memphis, i can t speak for everybody gathering, but for me, i believe that if that man h
effort in ukraine with lethal assistance, something that we re watching very, very closely. as beijing reacts by telling the us to keep out of its relationship with russia, we look at whether there s a danger the war in ukraine might become a proxy warfor the us and china. also coming up on newsday. two weeks after being struck by catastrophic earthquakes turkey is hit by further tremors. a bbc investigation reveals widespread sexual abuse on tea farms which supply some of the world s most popular brands. and real treasure from cambodia dating back a thousand years or more surfaces in london hello and welcome to the programme. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 1am in kyiv where an american president has made an extraordinary visit, to an active war zone. joe biden s trip to kyiv was short on time, but long on symbolism, ahead of the first anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine. he said america would stand with ukraine for as long as it takes and pledged
labour government in nine years. experts warn record breaking heatwaves in india and pakistan are a hundred times more likely because of climate change. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 2.30am in afghanistan where the number of restrictions imposed on women under taliban rule is growing. the ministry for preventing vice and promoting virtue has been behind a raft of new, hard line laws, and among them ordering afghan women to wear the islamic face veil. our correspondent secunder kermani has been given exclusive access to a team of inspectors from the ministry, and begins our programme. we re joining the inspectors of the ministry of vice and virtue. they are remoulding afghanistan to fit in with the taliban s hardline beliefs. and how often do you do this? every day. every day? morning and afternoon? first stop, a shopping centre. bystanders and shopkeepers are given a lecture on the importance of saying yo
Its newsday. Singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsda. ,. , its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. We begin in israel, where we begin our programme, as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops, hundreds of thousands, on the southern border with gaza, the widespread expectation that a Ground Offensive across the frontier maybe coming. But the un is calling for Essential Supplies to be allowed into the territory, where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, as israel enforces a complete siege. This follows the unprecedented attack, five days ago, in israel, by militants from hamas, a group committed to the destruction of israel, and designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. At least 1,200 people in israel are now thought to have been killed in the multiple assaults last saturday. At least a thousand palestinians have been killed in retaliatory israeli air strikes. Well be inside besieged gaza, with our correspondent, ru
China, that it has been a wake up call fortaiwan. ian china, that it has been a wake-up call for taiwan. china, that it has been a wake-up call for taiwan. ian johnson there, thank ou call for taiwan. ian johnson there, thank you so call for taiwan. ian johnson there, thank you so much call for taiwan. ian johnson there, thank you so much for call for taiwan. ian johnson there, thank you so much forjoining - call for taiwan. ian johnson there, thank you so much forjoining us, | thank you so much forjoining us, great to get your thoughts on newsday. mo; great to get your thoughts on newsda. y , .,, two weeks after earthquakes flattened much of the region, and killed more than a4,000 people, southern turkey has been hit by another earthquake. the country s disaster and emergency agency said a 6.3 magnitude tremor struck close to the city of antakya, at eight o clock in the evening, local time. it was followed by three aftershocks, the strongest of which was a 5.8, near the town of