Good morning. Welcome to breakfast withjon kay and steph mcgovern. Our headlines today. Showdown in downing street the chancellor confronts borisjohnson after his aide was sacked without his knowledge. £400 million for colleges offering vocational courses in england to support new technical qualifications. The common virus youve probably never heard of but can be dangerous for unborn babies. Well have a special report. Johanna konta is the last brit standing in the us open singles draw. Shes on form and into the fourth round, but an unhappy dan evans is thrashed by Roger Federer. Good morning, its the last day of august. Some of us clinging on to a little bit of warmth and sunshine, but for most, were going to see some rain pushing eastwards, and it turns much coolerjust in time for tomorrow, 1st september. Full weather details on the way, here on breakfast. Its saturday 31st august. Our top story. The chancellor, sajid javid, has confronted borisjohnson over the abrupt sacking of one
Taxing takeaway boxes to tackle whats described as a global emergency. The chancellor is considering measures to help cut the 12 tonnes of plastic going into the oceans every year often found inside birds, fish and sea mammals. A rare ink picture of tintin and his dog snowy is expected to fetch more than £700,000 at auction. And made in china. The click team are looking at mobile phone production in shenzhen. Thats in half an hour here on bbc news. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The main breaking story in the southern end of africa at the moment. Jubilant scenes are unfolding across zimbabwe capital harare this morning. These are the pictures. Protests demanding the resignation of president Robert Mugabe have turned to a celebration of the armys role in ending his grip on power. Meanwhile in zimbabwes second city of bulawayo, crowds can be seen cheering an army convoy. Mr mugabe has been under house arrest since a military takeover four days ago. The rally is supported by the
Collided with a helicopter in bucks. One of those killed has been named as mike green, a helicopter instructor. And tributes for the co founder of the Australian Rock Group ac dc, malcolm young. He died at the age of 64. Time to cross to the bbc sport centre for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me Lizzie Greenwood hughes and hugh woozencroft. The headlines this evening england make it five wins in a row over australia with a comfortable victory in rugby unions autumn internationals. North london bragging rights go to arsenal as Arsene Wengers side get their first win over tottenham since 2014. Ruling the race to dubai justin rose is ahead in the desert but Tommy Fleetwood is still in the chase. Also coming up in the programme. It wasnt perfect. Head coach Trevor Bayliss on a difficult day for englands bowlers in theirfinal warm up match. And david beats goliath. Goffin sends the great Roger Federer packing at the world tour finals. So, plenty to come in this evenings spo
With me Lizzie Greenwood hughes and hugh woozencroft. The headlines this evening england make it five wins in a row over australia with a comfortable victory in rugby unions autumn internationals. North london bragging rights go to arsenal as Arsene Wengers side get their first win over tottenham since 2014. Ruling the race to dubai justin rose is ahead in the desert but Tommy Fleetwood is still in the chase. Also coming up in the programme. It wasnt perfect. Head coach Trevor Bayliss on a difficult day for englands bowlers in theirfinal warm up match. And david beats goliath. Goffin sends the great Roger Federer packing at the world tour finals. So, plenty to come in this evenings sportsday, but we start with rugby unions autumn internationals and an impressive win for eddiejones england at twickenham. They scored four tries as they ran out 30 6 winners over jones native australia. But as joe wilson reports, it was a closer encounter than the scoreline suggested. The bricks and mortar
And where the athletes eat, sleep and train well get a guided tour behind the scenes. And nick has the weather. Good morning, it is the weekend so there is another weather system coming into the uk. Rain at some stage for all of us. The chance of snow, especially later. And after being less cold today, tomorrow is much colder again. I have yourfull forecast coming up. Good morning. First, our main story. The department for International Development is reviewing its work with oxfam following claims the charity covered up the use of prostitutes by some of its staff. Oxfam has insisted it publicised the action it took against the workers, some of whom were fired. However, the times is reporting several went on to work for other charities who were unaware of their past behaviour. Jessica parker reports. An advert to the charity giant oxfam, it got nearly £32 million from the Uk Department for International Development in the last financial year. To be the Sexual Exploitation scandal, the