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welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. 2024 is shaping up to be a year of elections. two billion people one in four of the world s population will go to the polls this year in votes that could change the global political landscape. 50 nations will hold elections. starting with bangladesh, the polls include seven out of the world s ten most populous nations india, the united states, indonesia, pakistan, russia and mexico. and the uk will go to the polls at some point this year. british prime minister rishi sunak has said his assumption is that a general election will be held in the second half of this year, despite some speculation it could take place in the spring. opinion polls put mr sunak s conservatives well behind the opposition labour party. with the details, our political editor, chris mason. can i welcome to you this morning, rishi sunak, the prime minister? mansfield in nottinghamshire a town the conser ....
to announce his resignation in early july following repeated criticism of his conduct in government. the decision on who the new prime minister will be is down to a relatively small group of 160,000 conservative party members. borisjohnson will formally resign tomorrow and the the queen will then ask liz truss or rishi sunak to form a government. u nfortu nately, we unfortunately, we have some technical issues with our link to huw, but there is a picture of the door at no 10, who will be walking into it as the new prime minister? we are half an hour away from that announcement. and as huw mentioned, it will be the fourth prime minister in six years. so, the scene is set at the qeii conference centre, which is just around the corner from downing street. as you can see, there is a large press contingent gathered there, waiting for the announcement. and around the corner is where the announcement will be made. we can see all of the journalists lined up, the cameras trained ....
Own walkabout with wife meghan on a visit in nigeria. And why classes across the uk are being cancelled and schools closed because of cyber attacks. On sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, Firm Favourites in the old firm match, but can rangers beat celtic for the first time this season to send the title race to the final weekend . Good evening. The economy grew more strongly than expected at the start of 202a. It means the uk is out of recession thats when the economy shrinks for two three month periods in a row, as it did towards the end of last year, when people faced higher prices in shops and higher interest rates. The Prime Minister said the uk economy has real momentum, but admitted there is more work to do. With more, heres our economics editor, faisal islam. The recession is now over, because the economy, all the goods and services we buy and sell, was officially ....
welcome to viewers on bbc two, bbc iplayer and bbc news. let s start with this headline which you also heard at the top of the programme. bbc announces dates for election tv debates. yes, the first programme is this friday evening, seven parties having been invited. there is a question time debate later with the largest four parties, and a head to head debate between the prime minister and labour leader keir starmer onjune 26. as well as the bbc election debates, stv are also holding a televised debate in scotland this evening, and itv are hosting the first head to head debate between rishi sunak and keir starmer tomorrow. that was exhausting. let s start with this opening question, kemi badenoch, will they change anything? debates can chance will they change anything? debates can change things. will they change anything? debates can change things. i will they change anything? debates can change things. i remember- will they change anything? debates. can change things. i ....
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