Australian intelligence officials investigate allegations of a plot to get a chinese spy elected to parliament. And we meet the malaysian punk rocker whos leading the Straight Edge Movement, by promoting a totally sober lifestyle. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore and the same time in hong kong, where leader carrie lam has said the government will seriously reflect after local elections saw Massive Gains by pro democracy candidates. They secured almost 90 of District Council seats in sundays poll. Its being seen as a stinging rebuke of ms lams leadership and a show of support for the protest movement. From hong kong, Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. This is not the sort of Media Attention usually given to the winners of a local council election. But last nights victory for hong kongs democrats was no ordinary win. It was an unprecedented landslide. These newly minted young politicians won 85 of all the
Also in the programme australian intelligence officials investigate allegations of a plot to get a chinese spy elected to parliament. And we meet the malaysian punk rocker whos leading the Straight Edge Movement by promoting a totally sober lifestyle. Live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. It is newsday. Glad you could join us. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore and the same time in hong kong, where leader carrie lam has said the government will seriously reflect after local elections saw Massive Gains by pro democracy candidates. They secured almost 90 of District Council seats in sundays poll. Its being seen as a stinging rebuke of ms lams leadership and a show of support for the protest movement. From hong kong, Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. This is not the sort of Media Attention usually given to the winners of a local council election. But last nights victory for hong kongs democrats was no ordinary win. It was an unprecedented landslide. These ne
In sundays local elections. The World Anti Doping Agency calls for russia to be suspended from International Sporting competitions for the next four yea rs. Tens of thousands take part in demonstrations around the world to mark the International Day for the elimination of violence against women. Concentrations of Greenhouse Gases in the earths atmosphere have reached new highs, according to the latest figures, and there is no sign of any decline, not even a slowdown. One of the worlds leading experts on Climate Change has said that like many other people, he is now scared for the future of the planet. Responding to the latest report by the world meterological organization, sir david king, former chief scientific adviser to the uk government, says there is a lack of Political Leadership to tackle the scale of the problem. Our chief environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt has more details. Floods in england. Record spring temperatures and wildfires in australia. The worst floods venice
Investigation that sent shock waves through multi government the Prime Minister could be next to resign. We begin here in london where 2 people have reportedly died after a knife attack in the London Bridge area a suspect was shot dead during the incident which police are treating as terror related the citys mayor says passers by showed breathtaking heroism in bringing the incident to a close while chorus want to pull brennan is live now in near where the attack took place and so paul whats happening there now and any more details on the attack itself. Im standing at the cotton at the south end of London Bridge just off for a high street in front just about 700 meters from where the attack took place back in 2002017 the noise you can hear is actually a Burglar Alarm just on a building thats adjacent to where were standing but the details that have been emerging in the past hour are the through all the people who were injured during that fire knife attack on the bridge at around 2 ocloc
Wedding of the king of pop and the daughter of the king of rock and roll. But we begin with the murder trial that would consume the nations attention in the 90s and beyond. It began after former nfl star o. J simpson was arraigned on two counts of murder for the deaths of exwife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend ron goldman in june, 1994. It was dubbed the trial of the century and it had all the makings of a hollywood film with bigger than life, real life characters from the prosecution to the defense to the judge to the defendant himself. And it all played out on television every day for the whole country to watch. O. J. Simpson was back in court today for the First Time Since a judge ordered him to stand trial for two brutal murders. The formal charges against him were read. Then he entered his plea. July 22, 1994, oj simpsons high Profile Defense attorneys pushed their way through a throng of onlookers to reach the court for their clients arraignment. In the hushed courtroom, supe