Claims the law is failing victims of spy camera crime. A race against time in the philippines. Delays and corruption claims overshadow saturdays opening of the Southeast Asian games. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 4 30 in the morning in afghanistan, where President Trump has made an unannounced trip to visit american troops. In his first trip to afghanistan since taking office, he said washington was substantially reducing troop numbers in the country, although he did not provide specific numbers. The visit comes a week after a prisoner swap with the taliban aimed at restarting talks with the group. Chris buckler reports from washington donald trump arrived in afghanistan ona trip donald trump arrived in afghanistan on a trip surrounded by secrecy and a huge amount of security. The white house said the was intended to support show support for trips during americas thanks givin
Also in the programme. Shame and suicide in south korea. Claims the law is failing victims of spy camera crime. The footage from this can be updated from your phone in seconds, then can be on the internet. And a race against time in the philippines. Delays and corruption claims overshadow saturdays opening of the Southeast Asian games. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, one oclock in london and 5. 30 in the morning in afghanistan where President Trump has made an unannounced trip to visit american troops. In his first trip to afghanistan since taking office, he said washington was substantially reducing troop numbers in the country although he did not provide specific numbers. The visit comes a week after a prisoner swap with the taliban aimed at restarting talks with the group. Chris buckler reports from washington. Donald trump arrived in afghanistan on a trip surrounded by secrecy and a huge amount o
For allegedly sparking violence at some of its venues. Campaigners want the price of a bag for life to rise to 70 pence to cut the amount of plastic we use. And in sport. Draws for both liverpool and chelsea mean their bids to reach the Champions League knockout stages will go down to the last group match. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The bbc understands that labour has agreed a new Electoral Campaign strategy in a bid to gain ground in the two weeks that remain before polling day. A major part of the plan is said to be a renewed effort to retain labour voters who support brexit. Members of the shadow cabinet who back leave are likely to be given a higher profile than those who support remain, while therell also be an attempt to give a greater emphasis to issues other than brexit, such as the cost of living. For more on this, and what it could mean for tactical voters, norman smith joins us live now from westminster. Good morning. What does this apparent change of str
Supporting hong kongs pro democracy protesters. Vue cinemas looks to resume screenings of blue story, days after it banned the film for allegedly sparking violence at some of its venues. Campaigners want the price of a bag for life to rise to 70 pence to cut the amount of plastic we use. And a special report from the black sea where major efforts are being made to stop it from being the dumping ground for agricultural and industrial waste. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Neither the conservatives nor labour are offering credible Spending Plans ahead of the election thats according to the institute for fiscal studies. The leading Economic Research group said that neither the convervatives or labour were being honest with voters. The institutes director said the conservatives were continuing to pretend that tax rises will never be needed to secure decent public services. Labour, he added, pretends that huge increases in spending can be financed byjust Big Companies and the ri
Though the rain is diminishing, we have a number of flood warnings out. The rain is meandering through Northern Ireland for the rest of the afternoon across the north of wales, the midlands, Northern England for a time and heading south. For the south weve got some sunshine, but a scattering of heavy showers. Its relatively mild steel but already the northerly wind is making its presence felt further north, bringing in the sunshine but equally a few wintry showers which will continue, particularly over the hill, in northern and eastern areas overnight, pushing our weather front further southwards leaving rather damp surfaces behind. With a widespread frost temperatures are going to plummet after dark. Is becomes the main concern if you are travelling through the night and first thing tomorrow morning with possibly the odd bit of mist and fog, but more the following night ice is the main concern. Tomorrow, perhaps cloudier but not that much rain, patchy light rain for the most pa rt rai