welcome to newsday — reporting live from singapore — i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... a new prime minister in number ten. liz truss promises a bold plan to see britain through a range of challenges. iam i am confident that together we can write out the storm, we can rebuild the economy and i am confident that we can become the modern, brilliant written that i know we can be. after a visit to ukraine's zaporizhzhia power plant — in russian—held territory — the un's nuclear watchdog calls for a safety zone. canadian police urge local

residents to stay indoors — as the manhunt continues for one of two suspects following a mass stabbing. and no more pcr tests for international visitors to japan. but will that be enough to encourage tourists to come back? life from our studio in singapore, _ life from our studio in singapore, this - life from our studio in singapore, this is - life from our studio in singapore, this is bbc life from our studio in- singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsdaw _ welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it's 7am in the morning here in singapore and midnight in london, where the new british prime minister liz truss has moved into downing street, having accepted the queen's invitation to form a government, and she's already made some key cabinet appointments. in herfirst speech as prime minister, liz truss promised that britain could ride out the storm caused by

severe global headwinds. speaking outside number 10 she said she would transform britain into an aspiration nation. our political editor in chris mason begins our coverage. a day of ritual and weather. a cloudburst puncturing the choreography of the new prime minister's arrival, her supporters hunkered under umbrellas, the lectern wearing a bin liner. it was even taken back inside. her motorcade playing for time with a detour and then a break in the deluge. the damp stage reset. within moments, a first glimpse of the new era. good afternoon. i have just accepted her majesty the queen's kind invitation to form a new government. let me pay tribute to my predecessor. borisjohnson delivered brexit, the covid vaccine, and stood up to russian aggression. history will see him

as a hugely consequential prime minister. i am honoured to take on this responsibility at a vital time for our country. we will transform britain into an aspiration nation, with high—paying jobs, safe streets and where everyone everywhere has the opportunities they deserve. i will take action this day and action every day to make it happen. "action this day" — a phrase borrowed from winston churchill. liz truss then set out her key objectives. as prime minister, i will pursue three early priorities. firstly, i will get britain working again. i have a bold plan to grow the economy through tax cuts and reform. i will cut taxes to reward hard work and boost business—led growth and investment. next... i will take action this week to deal with energy

bills and to secure our future energy supply. thirdly, i will make sure that people can get doctor's appointments and the nhs services they need. we will put our health service on a firm footing. and with a nod to the weather, both economic and meteorological, the prime minister sought to describe the country she now leads, how it is, how she wants it to be. we shouldn't be daunted by the challenges we face. as strong as the storm may be, i know that the british people are stronger. our country was built by people who get things done. we have huge reserves of talent, of energy and determination. i am confident that, together, we can ride out the storm. we can rebuild our economy and we can become the modern, brilliant britain that i know

we can be. i am determined to deliver. thank you. applause and cheers. on a day of two prime ministers, a little over eight hours earlier, the departure at breakfast time of borisjohnson. his most loyal ministers and advisers here to cheer him off. what we were about to witness was a premiership terminated prematurely against mrjohnson�*s will. his frustration, his anger, buttered with self—deprecation and wit. thank you. this is it, folks. thank you, everybody, for coming out so early this morning. the baton will be handed over in what has unexpectedly turned out to be a relay race. they changed the rules halfway through but never mind that now.

the rules weren't changed, the simple truth is no prime minister has ever been able to stay in office without the confidence of their party — and he lost that. he remains defiant, almost willing his audience to wonder why on earth his party wanted rid of him. so, what of his future? i am now like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function and i will now be gently re—entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the pacific. and like cincinnatus, i am returning to my plough. it turns out cincinnatus was a roman politician who, yes, you guessed it, made a comeback. it's time for politics to be over, folks, it's time for us all to get behind liz truss and herteam and her programme, and deliver for the people of this country. commanding attention is boris johnson's greatest skill —

it seems improbable he'll lose that knack now. but this morning's man's time in office had come and was going. going via a highland handover at balmoral. hello, prime minister. "hello, prime minister," the greeting, perhaps for the very last time. within minutes, he'd resigned. enter next the wobbly plane of liz truss, flying in to be prime minister by royal appointment. an audience with the queen and the assumption of office. her majesty's 15th prime minister, the country's fourth in six years. applause and cheers. liz truss, alongside her husband, hugh o'leary, on the threshold of government. her challenges in office both instant and colossal. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster.

we will have more on that story for you with our respondents —— correspondents looking at the reaction around the world. an update for you now on a developing story we've been covering in canada — where police investigating the fatal stabbing of ten people on sunday have urged people in the indigenous community ofjames smith cree nation to stay indoors after a reported sighting of one of the suspects. myles sanderson is thought to be wounded but still very dangerous. his brother, also suspected of the murders, was found dead on monday. the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau urged residents to heed local authorities' warnings. our north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, is in saskatchewan. we have just come from the area where most of the victims lived. james smith cree nation,

home to about 2000 indigenous people. police say the two suspects, the brothers, also came to this neighbouring village of weldon which is about a 15 minute drive, where at least one man was killed. local residents described him as a kind—hearted man who owned a local coffee shop. now, the manhunt has gone from two brothers to one. myles sanderson is still on the run, police believe he is either in this area or in that city of regina, which is around three hours away from here. we still get these alerts on our mobile phones warning us of the latest update and warning people to keep safe. now, people here are understandably angry, they are upset, they are calling on the government to do more to help. canada's prime minister justin trudeau has said that the government is ready to assist in any way it can but, so far, we have not received any details of that. an emergency session of the security council is under way at the un in new york to discuss the situation at the russian occupied zaporizhzhia

power plant. they are considering a report from un inspectors that recommending a security zone be set up immediately to secure the facility from fighting. russia has been urged to allow that to go forward. the inspectors who have recently visited the plant say they have found extensive damage caused by the war and are worried about the potential for severe nuclear accident. the report is not expected to attribute any blame for attacks on the facility but it is the most detailed assessment at what the war has done to the plant. they have looked at the roofs of buildings and they said there was no immediate risk of any possible leak of nuclear material. russian military personnel and equipment have been deployed around the complex and there was a special concern about the

conditions for the ukrainian staff who are still operating the plant. they are working under high stress and pressure which could raise the risks of human error, a situation that the monitor not sustainable. for the first time, the agency called for the creation of a protection zone around the facility and said it was very to start working on that. it is hard to see it happening without difficult negotiations. for weeks, the ukraine has —— ukraine has recommended the demilitarisation of the zone, something rejected by russia. russia is buying millions of rockets and our territory shows from north korea, according to us intelligence. this would violate us sanctions, which

russia itself help to impose. the dev has risen to 66 after an earthquake in south china. rescue teams are searching for survivors among the rubble, some 21 million people in sichuan�*s capital were ordered to stay at home because of covid rules last week. children have returned to school in uvalde in texas since the first time since the mass shooting. the school where the shooting. the school where the shooting happened will never reopen but a new school has opened its doors, it is protected by a two and a half metre feints and state troopers. now to pakistan, where the government says floods across the country have now killed more than 1300 people.

the authorities in sindh province in southern pakistan have made two more cuts to the embankment of manchar lake to try to stop a catastrophic overflow. an earlier breach, aimed at protecting two nearby towns, worsened flooding in dozens of villages to its north—east, and at the airport of the town of sehwan. the breaching of the lake has already displaced up to 100,000 people. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... we go on the prowl with a chinese detective, but this is no ordinary sleuth — he's a pet detective. freedom itself was attacked this morning and freedom will be defended. the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible. bishop tutu now becomes spiritual leader of 100,000 anglicans here — of the blacks in soweto township, as well as the whites in their rich suburbs. we say to you today in a loud and a clear voice, enough of blood and tears.

enough! the difficult decision - we reached together was one that required great- and exceptional courage. it's an exodus of up to 60,000 people caused by the uneven pace of political change in eastern europe. iam free! this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines... in herfirst speech as britain's prime minister,

liz truss promised what she called a bold plan to see the country through its economic troubles. let's pick up on some of the international challenges that face liz truss — none more so than the war in ukraine. leaders have also been congratulating liz truss on her appointment as prime minister. within hours of entering number 10, ms truss held a call with president volodymyr zelensky and accepted an invitation to visit ukraine. she also spoke with us presidentjoe biden. earlier, i spoke to our political correspondent, ben wright. i asked him how significant it is that liz truss spoke to mr zelensky before mr biden. i think president biden was the first world leader to tweet his congratulations. the actual first phone call was between ukraine's president and the new british prime minister. and i think it simply states the obvious, which is, right now, the single most important relationship that the british prime minister has is probably with the ukrainian president because the two countries are bound together at the moment as they try and face down russian aggression. the uk has given ukraine full support from the

moment that invasion happened, providing arms and training. liz truss as foreign secretary was vociferous in the need to have very, very tough sanctions on russia. so, i think continuation of borisjohnson�*s policy on ukraine was a given from the start and i think perhaps, it was fairly unsurprising that president zelensky and she had the first phone call of her premiership. during that phone call, downing street said that liz truss said to the ukrainian president that ukraine would have the uk's full backing, that they would face down russian aggression, do whatever they could to cut the funds building putin's word machine — the words of number ten. and as you said, an invitation to liz truss to visit the country, which she has accepted. the new prime minister spoke to the president. in a moment, we

will hearfrom our the president. in a moment, we will hear from our russia is at her, steve rosenberg, but first, we hear about the us response to the news. cynics would say that the special relationship amounts to little more nowadays than the obligatory phone call that follows shortly after the appointment of a new british prime minister, but the statement from downing street suggests that this was a conversation just as much about substance as symbolism, the two leaders agreeing that the special relationship was based on shared values, and promising to work together to build global freedom and ensure that vladimir putin fails in ukraine. but, in a way, that is the easy stuff, there is plenty of scope for friction and tension as well. the statement went on to say that they spoke of the need to preserve the good friday agreement. in british terms, that is a pretty positive spin on an area of deep concern for washington. joe biden of course very proud of his irish roots, he has spoken before of how he is concerned about

the potential of undermining the peace process. it will be interesting to look, when we get the read out from the white house here of that conversation, how much the language compares and contrasts with that out of downing street. and contrasts with that out well, one thing is for sure, in the building behind me, they will not have been breaking out the champagne over liz truss becoming prime minister. the russian leadership does not like liz truss, it doesn't like her strong public support for ukraine, it doesn't like her strong public criticism of the kremlin, the fact that she has called for vladimir putin's defeat in ukraine. so, what has the kremlin been saying? well, president putin's spokesperson has said that with liz truss in downing street, the best russia can hope for is that relations with the uk don't get even worse than they are now. now, meanwhile, the russian government newspapers have been saying all kinds of things about liz truss today. it called her the pseudo iron lady, the margaret thatcher mimic and poor liza was another nickname, based on the name and a major character of the famous russian short story, a love story that has a tragic engine.

you can see there is little optimism in moscow tonight. 0ur russian editor and moscow. there is plenty of the story on bbc news online, there are details about the expected energy bills and there is a live page with the latest appointments to the top job is said to have a look at that. go to our website or download the bbc news app if you have not already done so. let's turn to japan now which is finally easing restrictions to welcome more international tourists back. from today, they will no longer need to take a pcr test to enter the country. but they will still need to book travel through a tour group. the move has been welcomed by many, but some business owners are sceptical — saying more needs to be done to revive japan's tourism sector back to its pre—pandemic levels. a short time ago, i spoke to dai miyamoto.

he's the founder ofjapan localized — a company that organises running and walking tours all around the country. i began by asking him how much the move will help tourism. today is a kind of big baby step day for reopening japan but still i am very suspicious and sceptical about whether it will really help to recover our business because still, the amount of people arriving, arrival per dayjust go up to 20k to 50k. and still people have to book a package tour to travel to japan so we are still not sure what this will look like from this coming september and october. indeed, lots of uncertainty. what would you have liked

to see the government do when it comes to easing restrictions for travel to restart? so, if necessary, to bring back everything back to before covid, 2019. right now, the japan government still requires a visa from all around the country but this time, before arrival to japan, pcr test is not required if you get three doses so that will be a big step for people coming to japan and also for people going back to japan, but still, japanese government cash to ease my restrictions. just talk us through, dai miyamoto, the past couple of years, how it has been full for companies like yours having to deal with the restrictions with the restrictions and the pandemic? after the pandemic, most of us had to shift domestic business.

before covid, japan, tokyo was preparing the welcome for the tokyo olympics 2020, and the number of tourist arrivals was double digits since 2013, but after the pandemic, it completely went to zero and almost right now it is 30 months that japan started to close since covid, so we are doing business tours for international travellers, we have to shift to the domestic tourists, domestic business, or try to find another business to survive. still we are waiting for more travellers. and finally — the heartbreak of losing a pet. if you own one, you'll know what i mean. well, in china — where's there thought to be over you 68 million people now owning cats or dogs — there's now

a pet detective not too far away, ready to track down people's missing beloved pets. michael bristow reports. this is sunjinrong, pet detective. he is on the hunt for a runaway cat that goes by the name of dee—dee. the treasured pet was last seen at 3:44pm. his owner shows mr sun the last photo. translation: when are you moving out? | tomorrow. tomorrow? so we have to find it today. there is great pressure. there is no time to lose. dee—dee's family who live in shanghai is moving home tomorrow. he has to be found today. mr sun started out by helping stray dogs. he has adopted some of them. translation: a lot of the time i am disappointed in human - beings, it feels nicer to be with animals, they have brighter eyes. then china's growing army of pet owners created a job opportunity —

desperate people searching for their lost cats and dogs started contacting mr sun. they wanted him to find them. back on the hunt for dee—dee, mr sun and his team try to guess where the prized feline might have run off to. he also has to work out if there is more to the story than he has been told, something that might make his search more complicated. some cases are more ethical issues. for instance, the father kicks the pet out and lies to the daughter, saying it is lost. 0r dramas like, "the neighbour ate my dog." suddenly, a breakthrough, a cat has been spotted under some decking. mr sun takes a picture of the frightened animal. is it dee—dee? "that's him, that's him," confirms a visibly relieved owner. you feel settled? i feel much happier, as a mother. but the drama isn't over.

mr sun and his assistant spent three hours trying to extract dee—dee, who doesn't seem completely overjoyed to be caught. dee—dee! cat miaows. there are no such reservations at home. dee—dee's owner lovingly scolds the runaway cat. "where have you been you smell so bad!" "thank you, thank you," she tells mr sun. another satisfied client for the shanghai pet detective. michael bristow, bbc news. what a relieved pet owner, if you have been through that experience i am sure you can imagine what that feels like. fix, imagine what that feels like. a reminder of ourtop imagine what that feels like. a reminder of our top story, president biden has spoken to liz truss by telephone to congratulate her on becoming prime minister, downing street said mistrust looks forward to

working with the —— liz truss looked forward to working with the president. she also spoke with president zelensky. low pressure has dominated the weather story so far this week and don't expect any significant change over the next few days to come. if you see skies like this, you will know what is coming, some pretty intense possibly thundery downpours are likely to continue. with the winds strongest in the far south—west, because you are closest to the centre of the low and on that southern flank of the low is where we will see the strongest winds, maybe gusts in excess of 30 miles an hour at times, that will drive in the bands of showers around low pressure, like we had seen over the last few days. 0ne band of rain in scotland, another hot on its heels, further showers in the

south—west and some will move inland as we go through the afternoon. blustery winds, particularly when you get the showers, but the strongest of the winds are likely to be down around the southwest. in terms of the feel of the weather, perhaps not quite as humid, a little bit fresher, 21 degrees generally but we might see highs across england of 23 celsius. into the evening, the risk of some sharp, thundery downpours coming in across the channel, particularly where we have seen the warmest of the weather but the story will slowly start to change as we move out of wednesday into thursday, our area of low pressure will drift further east, centring itself across london and wales. the winds were full little lighter and we won't see quite as many organised bands of rain. yes, we have one band moving its way through north—east england and scotland but the showers are hit and miss across england and wales. not all of us will see them, but if you do catch one or two of them, it could be quite potent,

top temperatures 15—20 celsius. moving out of friday and the start of the weekend, the low pressure will ease away, a region of high pressure will build from the west, mist and fog could become more of an issue as we get into the weekend, those autumnal conditions, but saturday into sunday certainly a drier story. in terms of the feel of the weather, not as humid but nevertheless the temperatures peaking in the low 20s. take care.

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