A russian Opposition Leader said. To his country after being put under pressure. Betty understood that she was provided shoes to choose. But if she. Was not that it would. Say the least. Some of that come out harris is set to become the 1st woman of color to run for u. S. Vice president she was named tuesday by joe biden as his running mate on the Democratic Party ticket. As welcome to the program and we start with breaking news from scotland where the nations 1st minister has declared a Major Incident after the darrelle month of a passenger train on the countrys North Eastern coast near the 1st pictures of the crash site. The crash happened close to the town of stone haven just south of the dean dozens of emergency vehicles are at the scene local media say one person has died and there are reports that a number of people have been seriously injured and heres a scottish 1st minister Nicola Sturgeon speaking just a few more moments ago i have just come off a call with network reel and t
Response to public criticism and his holiday to face the countrys unprecedented bushfires volunteer firefighters battling a blaze near sydney a kid and crew is also working to contain more than a 100 fires huge by record temperatures and high winds. A moment that she might get to have you with us. In india theres no letup to mass protests of a new citizenship law that critics say is anti muslim despite a police ban of large gatherings thousands of people have been demonstrating across the country for more than a week 10 protesters have been killed in clashes with the targeteers and more than 4000 have been invested the controversial office an easy opponents to indian citizenship for non recent migrants from neighboring countries indias home minister has called a crisis meeting to discuss the on best. For the very latest let me draw in correspondent shes based in mumbai welcome gonna tell us what the latest situation is like in india for the kind of people who are coming out on the stre
London. Also on the program australias Prime Minister responds to public criticism and cut short his holiday to face the bushfire crisis to volunteer firefighters battling a blaze near sydney are killed crews are working to contain more than 100 fires fuelling temperatures and high winds. And police in india tackle renewed nationwide protests against its controversial new citizenship people die the rest and more than 4000 to detect. Im sure welcome to the program. Thirties Prime Minister baraks johnson has won the backing of lawmakers for his brags that bill to take britain out of the European Union todays vote comes after the conservative leader secured a big majority in last weeks general election the vote was 358 to 234 largely along party lines the government for and won the election on this issue it had been unable to pass the legislation and the only parliament busy moments when the results of the vote was announced a short while ago. The rise of the right track 358 a nurse on th
Hello and welcome to world news today. More than 1,000 people have been arrested in moscow, during unauthorised protests against the banning of many opposition candidates from local elections. There were scuffles as police dispersed groups of protesters, who responded with anti putin chants. The Authorities Say around 30 candidates failed to collect enough valid signatures, but the barred candidates say theyve been blocked for political reasons. From moscow, 0leg boldyrev reports. Police warned people from moscow not to come out for this unsanctioned protest but a few thousand came out anyway and soon they paid for it by being dragged into custody. The arrests were met with defiance. The police are trying to push back the protesters, who came here because the candidates they support were not allowed to participate in elections. We dont know how many people came to protest but plenty of people are angry that the candidates theyve been supporting were denied the chance to participate in
Russias arctic north and far east are being ravaged by huge wildfires, with up to four million hectares ablaze and vast areas engulfed by smoke. The Prime Minister, dmitri medvedev, has ordered police to investigate whether the fires were started deliberately to hide evidence of illegal logging. Russian militaryjets are providing back up to firefighters battling the blazes, which have been burning in some cases for weeks. Fires are common at this time of year, but record breaking summer temperatures and strong winds have made this year particularly bad. Our moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled to the remote irkutsk region of siberia and he sent this report. For weeks now, siberia has been smouldering. Vast swathes of forest shrouded in smoke and many ravaged by fire. Wildfires are common here, but not on this scale. In siberia, an area the size of belgium is burning. The kremlin has sent in the army, military planes doing what they can to extinguish the blaze. The fires a