PA Media By Dominic Casciani Home and legal correspondent The Home Secretary Suella Braverman is facing a potentially major court battle over the safety of women and children at the Manston centre in Kent. Details of the first legal case were released by lawyers as she toured the overrun facility on Thursday. The action, which
Month: November 2022
Mahsa Alimardani/Twitter By David Gritten & Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani BBC News & BBC Monitoring Iranian security forces have opened fire on crowds near Tehran marking the 40th day of mourning for a woman shot dead while protesting, witnesses say. Videos showed thousands walking along roads to reach the grave in Karaj of Hadis Najafi, who
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Dearbail Jordan & Daniel Thomas Business reporter, BBC News The Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most in 33 years.
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been shot and wounded in the leg in an attack on his protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad. A senior aide told AFP news agency it was “an
Getty Images By Tessa Wong in Seoul and Yvette Tan in Singapore BBC News North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) but it failed mid-flight, says the South Korean military. The ICBM launch, the North’s seventh this year, sparked an alert in Japan – but fell short, landing in the sea. Tensions are
Getty Images By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes Tokyo Correspondent It has been a confusing and nerve-wracking morning for people living in northern Japan. At 07:50, air raid alarms went off across Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures and TV programmes were interrupted to tell people to take shelter. The Japanese coast guard said a missile fired from North Korea
Getty Images US President Joe Biden has warned any candidates who refuse to accept defeat in next week’s midterm elections could set the nation on “the path to chaos”. He also urged Americans to unite in opposition to “political violence” in the vote on 8 November. Mr Biden, a Democrat, said former President Donald Trump
AFP By Alys Davies BBC News Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has appealed to truckers protesting against Sunday’s election results to clear the roads and protest elsewhere. Supporters of the far-right president have erected hundreds of roadblocks across Brazil since it was announced that Mr Bolsonaro’s left-wing rival Lula won the election. Mr Bolsonaro said blocking
By John Sudworth North America Correspondent Ten days ago Xi Jinping walked out in front of the world’s media – depleted somewhat by his government’s growing intolerance of foreign reporters – as the most powerful Chinese leader in decades. A tradition that limited his recent predecessors to two terms had been broken. And third term
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man who fought to save a victim of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing has said “big mistakes” were made on the night of the blast. Ron Blake is telling his story for the first time since
Getty Images By Natalie Sherman Business reporter, New York The US central bank has approved another sharp rise in interest rates as it wrestles to rein in fast rising prices. The Federal Reserve said it was raising its key interest rate by 0.75 percentage points, lifting it to its highest rate since early 2008. The
Reuters By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News The gunman who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. A jury last month recommended the defendant be spared the death penalty, in a decision that took many by surprise. Ahead of the sentencing,
AFP By Cecilia Macaulay & Anne Soy BBC News A surprise deal has been reached in the Ethiopian civil war with both sides agreeing to halt their two-year conflict which led to thousands of deaths and warnings of a famine. The African Union (AU) has called it a new “dawn”, AFP news agency says. The
Reuters Rishi Sunak will review the pledges he made during his summer Tory leadership campaign, No 10 has said. The prime minister will examine “whether now is the right time to bring them forward,” his spokeswoman said. Mr Sunak lost to Liz Truss in a ballot of Tory members – but was selected to replace
ERDEM SAHIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock By Paul Kirby BBC News Days after Russia suspended support for grain exports through the Black Sea, it has agreed with Turkey to restart its participation in the agreement. Russia accused Ukraine on Saturday of using a safety corridor for grain ships to attack its fleet in Crimea. However, the UN, Turkey and
Reuters The prime minister has reversed an earlier decision not to go to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt. No 10 had said Rishi Sunak was too busy preparing for the 17 November budget to attend the event which opens on Sunday. But this had been widely criticised by climate campaigners, opposition parties and climate