It comes as former president barack 0bama accuses Senior Republicans of undermining democracy. And joe wicks completes his 24 hour charity work out challenge, raising more than £1 million for children in need. Ifeel, like, so buzzed, full of adrenaline. Captain serotonin, as i say. Ive got all that serotonin through me. The Prime Ministers most Senior Adviser, Dominic Cummings, is to leave downing street by christmas. He has been a controversial and divisive figure in westminster, and was a driving force behind brexit. Hes denied his resignation is associated with the departure of his close ally lee cain as director of communications amid internal tensions at number 10. 0ur Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports on what it means for borisjohnsons government as it grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and brexit trade talks. And a warning that his report contains flash photography. It has become familiar, the Prime Ministers most Senior Adviser confronted by the press outside
Today at five, drama in downing street as sajid javid resigns as chancellor. He goes after a power struggle with number ten and rejecting a demand to fire his team of advisers. Hed only been in thejob for seven months, which makes him the shortest serving chancellor in half a century. Hes replaced by rishi sunak, whos risen rapidly though the ranks and only recently was junior housing minister. How do you feel about taking over in these circumstances . Delighted to be appointed, lots to get on with, thanks very much. Are you going to be the Prime Ministers puppet . Others out of the cabinet are Theresa Villiers, Andrea Leadsom, esther mcveigh, and the Northern Ireland secretary julian smith, who oversaw the restoration of devolved government at stormont. Well be analysing the reshuffle
with baroness fall, who was one of David Camerons top aides in downing street. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. World Health Leaders say theres no new cause for alarm, despite a steep rise in the
Pope francis outlines new steps to stop the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church the outcomes as a summit in rome years ago and testimony from survivors of break and assault by members of the clergy. Im sara kelly welcome to the program we begin in venezuela where the battle between the countrys rival leaders is about to spill over into a battle of the bands groups from the opposing camps are set to play rival concerts a colombian city on the venezuelan border the british billionaire Richard Branson is backing the opposition concert people have begun streaming into the venue a quarter of a million are expected branson is hoping to raise one hundred Million Dollars for food and medical aid and the other concert is being planned by venezuelas embattled president Nicolas Maduro earlier madugalle closed venezuelas border with brazil to prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid and he says the aid is a pretext for military action. Tempers run high as soldiers and opposition suppor
Im michael frolic good to have you with us. Nine cerium go to the polls today to vote for a new parliament and for the next president the elections were postponed by a week well the delay causing tensions to flare in the country after four years of economic stagnation and failure to deal with the islamist Terror Group Boko Haram president Mohammad Hari is under pressure from challenger. Voters in the capital of are finally able to cast their ballots nigerias Electoral Commission has blamed law just tickle problems for the last minute delay these have now been overcome says president mohamed do bihari. And. The delay has led to accusations that the two main parties are trying to manipulate the vote heightening tensions between rival supporters these boiled over on friday when supporters of bihari and of his closest rival actually to abu bakar clashed leaving two people dead the election will be tight alongside widespread corruption and a lackluster economy a bloody insurgency by the jih
Suffering a humanitarian crisis event aims to raise one hundred Million Dollars to help people suffering from food and medicine shortages. Powerhouse Football Club chelsea appeals of back again signing players until twenty twenty games which premier league side has been accused of breaching the rules about signing minors. Im still go welcome to the program. Today is day two of the vaticans four day summit aimed at tackling sexual abuse within the Catholic Church bishops vatican officials experts and cardinals have heard testimony from survivors first about the devastating effects of the abuse that had on their lives many of them suffered in silence others watched as the church they loved covered up reports of sexual abuse but as youll hear from a survivor in our next reports that culture could be changing. Its was ten years old when his mother died of cancer it was nine hundred eighty six the boy was sent to a relative a Catholic Priest in a village and has said the clergyman became hi