In terrible conditions for stealing vanilla beans. China is hosting enormously lavish events to mark october 1st, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china. The communist leadership has organised a huge military parade in beijing, and is hoping the big day isnt overshadowed by demonstrations in hong kong. Transmack today, a socialist china is standing in the midst of the world. And there is no force that can shake the foundation of this great nation. No force can stop the Chinese People in the chinese nation forging ahead. In a moment well speak to the bbcs mariko oi in hong kong, but first lets go live now to beijing. Our correspondent robin brant is there. Robin, significant not only what the president was saying but where he was standing on what he was wearing. In exactly the same spot, where chairman mao, the revolutionary founding father of the peoples republic stood in 1949 to declare that the communists had one a civil warand it that the communists ha
hundreds of thousands of people in somalia are facing extreme hunger after the worst drought in a0 years. 300,000 people are living in famine conditions with another 2 million on the brink of famine. it s hard to imagine the situation more desperate, more urgent, more compelling. twitter confirms that the world s richest man, elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. reaching for the sky. the man who spent 16 years building his own spit fire from scratch and finally taking off. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start in ukraine where the country s forces have retaken more territory from the russians in the south. the focus is near the city of kherson in one of the regions unlawfully annexed by russia last week. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says his troops are making rapid and powerful advances against russian forces. in his nightly video address, he asserted that in the
amnesty international demands fifa should pay hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate migrant workers abused during world cup preparations in qatar. as india and pakistan face blistering temperatures of 50 degrees celsius, experts warn such heatwaves are now 100 times more likely because of climate change. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news, it is newsday. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore, and 4:30am in afghanistan, where the number of restrictions imposed on women, under taliban rule, is growing. the ministry for preventing vice and promoting virtue, has been behind a raft of new, hard line laws, and among them, ordering afghan women to wear the islamic face veil. our correspondent, secunder kermani, has been given exclusive access to a team of inspectors, from the ministry and begins our programme. meet the inspectors of the ministry of vice and virtue. with branches across the country, they are remoulding afghanistan to fit in with the taliban s
serve, allowing mr assange to return to australia, his home country. i mjoined by return to australia, his home country. i m joined by our north american correspondence. looks like this long running saga could be coming to conclusion. us more. we received conclusion. us more. we received the conclusion. us more. - received the breaking news in the last couple of hours and there are so many layers to the julian assange story. to recap what you said there, it looks like he will be a free man at some point this week, striking a plea deal with the us. he spent the last five years in a high security prison, belmarsh prison, in the uk. remember, he has been long accused by the us of exposing sensitive secrets about the war in iraq and afghanistan through the wikileaks website, the whistleblowing website. and they claim it put american operatives in danger. and almost all the charges he faced, by the way, 18 charges, were under the 1917 espionage act. but he, now, this plea deal
And say that these should be put in effect within two yes from the time of the elections. From the time of swearing and as we speak now we are left with six months to go past the did late surge by the spill now but the value of israel had something to that. We can. Nice and one willing to tax and once again and here we are coming from bobby hands free. For the benefit of our people listening in uganda under love of the world we are talking about article one zero two b. And b. This is an article that limits the president ial age limit yet you are talking about. Discrimination but i mean the constitution is twenty two years old it has never come up until now when president museveni is being excluded by the no the same thing happened when president was seven was finishing his second term in power that is when the Ruling Party Members to scrap of term limits and now they are trying to scrap of the age limit you see it is rather shameful for a lawyer like my brother jackson a fool to try an