florida home during last month s fbi search. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s 7 in the morning in singapore and midnight in london where liz truss, who has been elected leader of the conservative party, is preparing to become britain s next prime minister. borisjohnson is due to announce his resignation to the queen later on tuesday, and the monarch will then invite ms truss to form a government. our first report is from our political editor, chris mason. liz truss arrived as foreign secretary and would leave as tomorrow s prime minister the final act of the contest to replace boris johnson the outcome. inside, an expectant crowd after a long campaign awaits the candidates. rishi sunak and liz truss. and then, the result. i give notice that liz truss is elected as the leader. of the conservative and unionist party. the words to follow her winning, in the han
barr, who did much of donald trump s bidding during the russia investigation, defends the fbi decision to seize classified documents from the former president s florida estate. this as we learn more about what was found in the search, including dozens of empty folders marked classified. plus, the former president sharpens his attacks against federal law enforcement, calling the fbi and doj, quote, vicious monsters, while warning of unprecedented backlash. how will his supporters interpret that? and president biden hits the campaign trail this labor day, visiting two key battleground states, pennsylvania and wisconsin, both union strongholds. we ll have a preview of his holiday campaign events. good morning. it is monday, september 5th. welcome to a special labor day edition of morning joe. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your holiday with us. we now have a clearer account of what the fbi seized from former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home in palm be
Team from germany have won the world s oldest gas balloon race. wilhelm and benjamin eimers set off on friday from st gallen in switzerland, and were airborne for two days, 12 hours and 50 seconds. they flew almost 1,600km in a straight line, along the border between germany and austria, travelling through hungary, serbia, romania, and bulgaria. they are the first father and son team to win the race. you have been watching newsday. stay with us. just a reminder of the breaking news from canada canadian police say damien sanderson, one of the suspects in a mass stabbing in the saskatchewan province, has been found dead. a senior police official said the other suspect, damien s brother myles, is still at large, but is believed to be injured. the two had been charged with murdering ten people and wounding at least 18 others in a stabbing spree that devastated an indigenous community on sunday. the motive for the attack is still unknown. visiting the province earlier, the canadian prime
What will britain do in terms of taiwan? these are the big foreign policy areas where there could be tension. well, they certainly won t be cracking out the champagne in the kremlin at the news that liz truss is the new prime minister. there s no secret really that the current russian leadership does not like liz truss. it does not like her very public strong support for ukraine, it doesn t like her very public and strong opposition to the kremlin, the fact that she s publicly called for vladimir putin to be defeated in ukraine. and it didn t like her when she came to moscow back in february as british foreign secretary, when she came from meeting with sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister. to say that meeting was frosty is a bit of an understatement. i watched the press conference afterwards, and it felt as if there was a cold