And on the markets those comments from fed chair Jerome Powell boosting stock markets in the us and asia. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. It will be a very busy day ahead. And you can be part of the conversation as a perk, a Marketing Agency here in the uk allows its employees to take hangover days. If theyve been out the previous evening theyre allowed to work the next day from the comfort of their own sofa or even bed. Good idea, orflexible working gone mad . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Polls open here in the uk in a couple of hours as Voters Decide who will form their next government. Candidates in the general election are contesting 650 seats in the house of commons the lower legislative chamber. Polling stations close at 10pm gmt and an exit poll will be released then, by the bbc and other uk broadcasters. Our Election Results special broadcast will begin just ahead of that. Jo
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Growing tensions between the uk and china as a british consular worker tells the bbc he was tortured by chinese secret police. And we talk to the star of a hotly tipped film at this weeks singapore Film Festival. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore and midnight here in london where Prince Andrew has decided to step back from his royal duties for the foreseeable future. It follows controversy surrounding his friendship with the convicted paedophile, jeffrey epstein. And his disastrous interview at the weekend with the bbc. The prince has denied having sex with a 17 Year Old Girl procured for him by epstein. But a number of organisations linked to his work have begun to distance themselves. Nicholas witchell reports. Driving himself into Buckingham Palace yesterday, the only sighting of Prince Andrew since the newsnight interview was broadcast. Hostility towards him has shown no sign of lessening. Poison prince and pari
And we talk to the star of a hotly of england in the west midlands, tipped film at this weeks into west country and wales through singapore Film Festival. The day. Thats an area to watch as things get wetter. Those temperatures, 9 10 degrees. Lets set into the weekend. Its a weekend dominated by low pressure. We got one slow moving area of low pressure which is why we are seeing that rain developing. How far north the rain gets, a little bit uncertain. Most of the rain across england and hello, and welcome to the programme. Wales, perhaps heading towards northern ireland, as far north as its 9 00am in singapore and 1 00 the central belt, allowing something in the morning here in london, drier and brighter to arrive across parts of the window and wales and where Prince Andrew has decided to step back from his royal duties temperatures again typically 9 11 for the foreseeable future. Degrees. Some rain around on it follows controversy surrounding his friendship with the convicted paedoph
France says it has no plans to withdraw around 1,000 of its soldiers based in niger where they are part of an International Effort to fight islamist militants. Aichatou kane is the nigerian ambassador to paris and the uk she has been in contact with president bazoum in niger and just before we came on air she told me how he is doing. The president of niger. Effectively, we have a daily call and is still a serious threat. But he is well and his morale is high as well as his familys morale. Does he think there will be a solution . And does he know when hell be freed . No, no, he dont talk with us on his terms. But as you know, the Prime Minister of niger is here in paris with him. We exchanged on the prevailing situation in niger, which is most worrying. And what is the Prime Minister saying . 0ur exchange is about the niger situation. We think together that this unfortunate event for our country cannot be caused by any internal crisis on all fronts. We are on a good trajectory, particul