there on his first middle east tour. and as china s heatwave makes roads buckle and roofs melt, we ll hearfrom our correspondent in beijing. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s eight in the morning in singapore and 5:30 in the morning in sri lanka, where president gotabaya has not honoured his promise to resign. he flew out of the country, to the maldives, about 2a hours ago. but in a public letter, he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state in his absence. that s led to anger among protesters, who wanted both men to quit. meanwhile, a curfew is in force and the prime minister, and now acting president ranil wickremesinghe, has told the military to do whatever is necessary to restore order. from colombo, our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, cr
the king of pleats. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. senior republicans in the us have condemned the fbi s unprecedented search of donald trump s florida home on monday as an abuse of power. the former vice president mike pence called for the us attorney general to give a full public account of why it happened, saying it caused him deep concern. the former president, who was not at mar a lago at the time, said a number of agents had occupied the compound and broken into his safe. the white house says president biden learned about the search from media reports. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports from washington. cars beeping their horns. save america! the trump bandwagon is fuelled by conspiracy, and news of the search brought supporters to his florida resort even more convinced of their theories of stolen elections and deep state plots. you feel like you might be in venezuela or china, or russia. we feel the fbi s doing a polit
across england and wales. the un secretary general is in lviv for talks with president zelensky and turkey s recep tayyip erdogan. a 44 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the fatal stabbing of thomas o halloran on a mobility scooter in west london. and wonky vegetables could soon be on the menu as farmers warn the drought and hot weather have affected how their crops grow. i like a wonky carrot don t we all? also, i like fruit and veg that makes you smile. and often apples that are slightly misshapen, you know, if the plant has been under stress, sometimes they taste a bit better. hundreds of thousands of students across england, wales and northern ireland have been receiving their exam results today. a level, t level, and btec students have all been marked based on exams for the first time since two years of covid disruption. compared with 2019, when exams were last sat in person, there s been a i9% increase in students gaining a place at their
they ve told us, the ukrainian soldiers here, to take cover under the trees. the russians are flying over these positions, trying to spot where they are. and novak djokovic reaches another wimbledon final, beating britain s cameron norrie. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. world leaders have reacted with shock to the assassination of the formerjapanese prime minister shinzo abe. presidentjoe biden said he was stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened and india s prime minister narendra modi declared a day of national mourning. mr abe was shot dead in the street while giving an election speech. his attacker was a former member of the japanese navy. the former prime minister s body is due to arrive shortly at his residence. our correspondent mariko oi is there. well, this is where, as you can possibly see behind me, a long queue of media behind me. we are waiting for the body of former prime minister shinzo abe to arrive any minute now. his body had