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and its going to be a hot and humid weekend, but without heat and humidity there is a chance of some thunderstorms and what you get those thunderstorms and what you get those thunderstorms there could be quite nasty. they will bring all the details the programme. good morning. its saturday the 10th june. borisjohnson has quit as an mp after he received the commons report into whether he misled parliament over lockdown parties at downing street. the former prime minister is accused of d...

And we were told he had two weeks to respond stops so we were not expecting to hear anything from him just yet, but clearly he has digested the information from the privileges committee and decided to jump privileges committee and decided to jump before any process pushed him. but while doing that he has heavily criticised the chair of the privileges committee, the labour mp harriet harman, he has also criticised sue gray, the author of the report into lockdown partying, and he has criticised hi...

I want to begin by repeating my apologies. mr speaker, i want to apologise. i once again offer a full apology. but is saying "sorry" enough to save his job? for now, cabinet colleagues think so. its not defensible, and he has paid that fixed—penalty notice. the question, i suppose, in my mind is, you know, as individuals, none of us are perfect, no—one does... you know, we all err, were all human. the question in my mind therefore is, did he set out with malice to break the law? answer — n...

A day after sri lanka suspended international debt repayments, its central bank has urged sri lankans overseas to send money home. the bank said foreign exchange was urgently needed to fund food and fuel. in delhi people are sweltering under an early heatwave, with the temperature reaching 39 degrees on wednesday after breaking the ito—mark earlier in the week. indias meteorological department has issued heat warnings for several parts of northern india where temperatures were recorded at six ...

With raw materials prices overheating globally, there is little the bank of england can do to cool them by raising interest rates in the uk alone. most economists think this worldwide surge in the cost of living will get worse before it gets better. andy verity, bbc news. the transport secretary, grant shapps, has defended borisjohnson, who yesterday became the first sitting prime minister to have been found to have broken the law. mr shapps said mrjohnson hadnt acted with malice or intent. but ...

The laws of the land that he himself set, because he presided over a culture in number 10 where there was persistent lawbreaking and because he went and told both the parliament and the country that no laws had been broken when they clearly had been. and he knew that they had been. mrjohnson, safe in number 10 for now, but the police investigation is far from over. vicki is in westminsterfor us now. the prime minister has been damaged, perhaps very damaged by the revelations he broke the law ove...

Enough to save his job? for now, cabinet colleagues think so. its not defensible, and he has paid that fixed— penalty notice. the question, i suppose, in my mind is, you know, as individuals, none of us are perfect, no—one does... you know, we all err, were all human. the question in my mind therefore is, did he set out with malice to break the law? answer — no. but not everyone is brushing it off so lightly. tonight, justice minister lord david wolfson resigned over what he called the sca...

Russia says more than 1,000 ukrainian marines have surrendered in mariupol — but kyiv maintains it controls the key port city. the search for survivors continues in south africa as the president calls the flooding there a catastrophe of enormous proportions. in the uk, a minister has resigned from prime minister borisjohnson�*s government over the breaking of covid rules in downing street. lord wolfson, who was justice minister, resigned a day after the prime minister and the chancellor were...

On amounts to hypocrisy. injune 2020, the uk was in lockdown — the month they lost their newborn daughter, just four days old. covid restrictions kept the family apart. to know that through that time, i when we were literally only getting a section of time with our baby girl and knowing she was going to die, j and there were people having - parties, and who made the rules? theyre the ones who put that in place. - were not the only people that lost somebody. - conservative mps insist they under...

That they will be dealt with forcefully if they fail to comply with the citys strict coronavirus lockdown measures. while some of the citys 25 million residents are now able to go outside, many are still confined to their homes. heres our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. well, the latest numbers are unfortunately not good. yesterday, we reported a slight drop — so it was the first day since april that the official daily new cases had come down. well, theyre back up again. so those that ha...