at least ten people are killed after a glacial lake overflows in india. ., ., , ., in india. live from our studio in india. live from our studio in singapore. _ in india. live from our studio in singapore, this _ in india. live from our studio in singapore, this is - in india. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc - in india. live from our studio i in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in the us, in the us, republicans in the lower chamber of congress, the house of representatives, are already vying to become the next speaker of the house just a day after a group of hardline rebels ousted the previous incumbent, kevin mccarthy, in a historic vote. it's left the republican party in disarray and a vacuum right at the top of us government as our washington correspondent gary o'donoghue explains. the office of speaker of the house of the united states house of representatives is hereby declared vacant.

and with that, kevin mccarthy's nine—month term as speaker was over. the final straw — his decision to do a deal with democrats to keep the government open. he didn't hesitate to point the finger of blame at the eight republicans who ousted him, led by matt gaetz, his nemesis. look, you all know matt gaetz. you know, it was personal. it had nothing to do about spending. the unprecedented removal of the speaker has left congress in chaos. so much so, they've decided to take a week off while they work out what to do next. one rebel, though, was unrepentant. this was the right call. the american people deserve a leader and a speaker who will tell the truth, and so too does the international community. they need to know that the next speaker is going to be honest and won't go back on their word. with republicans focusing firmly on themselves, the question of funding for ukraine, which congress controls, remains undecided. it does worry me. but i know there are a majority

of members of the house and senate in both parties who have said that they support funding ukraine. the president was also asked if he had any advice for the next speaker. he could barely keep a straight face. that's above my pay grade. while some candidates have begun the frantic process of gathering support, others have suggested an extraordinary alternative option, given the speaker doesn't have to be a member of the house. a lot of people have been calling me that, speaker. all i can say is we'll do whatever is best for the country. congress has only agreed to fund the government for another six weeks with republicans at one another�*s throats. extending that has now become much harder. gary o'donohue, bbc news. staying in the us, a judge overseeing donald trump's civil fraud trial has pounded his fists in frustration with the former president's lawyers, for what he called the ridiculous cross—examination of a witness.

mr trump was back in court in new york for the third day of his trial, which threatens to dismantle his business empire. he, his two adult sons, and the wider trump organisation, are accused of gaining financial advantage by giving misleading valuations of their properties. donald trump is not expected to return back for the rest of the week. it did sit through their mining's proceedings and took the opportunity several times to address the camera is outside of the courtroom. you can slam the whole system, the judge and at the attorney general herself as corrupt. the teacherjames had her own words for donald trump and after he left she declared the donald trump show was over. the attorney general said his entire presidency had been nothing more than a political stance and fundraising start and she vowed she would not be

bullied and called his comments offensive. meanwhile, inside the courtroom, there were few heated moments. thejudge at one point clearly becoming agitated, pounding his fist on the bench is that it was ridiculous that the defence was basically stringing out and dragging out their questioning and said there was no jury presents a question why they were performing in that way. donald trump threw his hands up, it clearly exasperated. the defence team said they needed to take that line of question because they accuse awareness of being evasive. it is important to remember donald trump has a ready lost the core of this case when the judge ruled last week that he did commit fraud. today we saw that his legal team has formally now filed a notice of appeal. they said they will be challenging every aspect of the judge's ruling. at least ten people have been killed and more than 80 missing after a glacial lake overflowed triggering catastrophic flooding in the state of sikkim.

more than twenty indian soldiers were among those missing in the flooding. a hydro power dam has also been breached. our south asia regional editor anbarasan ethirajan has the latest. videos on social media show how catastrophic the flooding was. it was washing away everything on its way. a number of key bridges connecting this mountainous state have been washed away. and more importantly, a key hydropower dam was breached. now, what the authorities are saying is that because this is a glacial lake at the height of about 5,000 metres sea level, and it overflowed. and because of the impact, all the water suddenly emptied from this lake and the entire water, the power of this water carrying all the boulders and whatever one was on the way, it hit the hydropower dam. it breached and it happened at the middle of the night. so that did not give time

for many people living along this river, on the banks of this river to escape. now we are hearing that dozens of people are still missing, including 20 indian soldiers and one of them was rescued late in the evening. and the impact, the economic impact has been severe because many houses were damaged. and the capital of this province of sikkim state, gangtok, has been cut off by road because the main national highway has also been breached. so the authorities are still carrying out search operations for those missing. right. sikkim also is fairly popular with tourists now, and we've seen a spate of natural disasters in india of late. what are officials saying in terms of climate change triggered incidents? so this particular one, they're talking about the cloudburst, which means on the one hand, you have excessive amount of rain falling at the same time in one single place. and in the himalayan region, what we have been seeing

is that the glacial lakes are filling up fast because the glaciers are melting. so the water level, the water content has been expanding and unable to hold this amount of water. then this kind of breach happens. what we witnessed in uttarakhand state further west a couple of years ago that saw torrential rainfall as well as this water gushing, taking away small towns and villages and this kind of phenomenon they are witnessing for the past few years. and also the environmentalists are now questioning what is the purpose of having these huge hydropower dams in an ecologically sensitive himalayan region. and they are now studying and they are advising government just because for the sake of development, you cannot go and build these things in these areas like in the himalayas. some pictures from japan said to release a second batch of water from the crippled fukushima nuclear. looking at live pictures. the plant

operated said the first water releases been completed and the second will take place on thursday. authorities in turkey say the operation poses no risk but after the first release, china had banned alljapanese seafood imports. we will keep a close watch on that as well. the other story we are looking at... at the start of a three—week summit, the pope criticised global decision—making bodies for being ineffective as well is calling out climate deniers. it started with pope francis presiding over messier in saint peter's square and then at the beginning of a major gathering of catholics from around the

world, mainly bishops but some laypeople as well and for the first time women. we will be spending the next 26 days considering some of the key questions about how the catholic church moves forward and then at lunchtime, pope francis published a major document on climate change. it is an issue that the pope has talked about throughout the ten years of his papacy. in 2015 in fact publish an encyclical, the highest level of document that the pope can publish on the issue of environment where he called for much more to be done. this really was an assessment of what has happened since then and it was pretty bleak and he did not mince his words. he was critical of global governing bodies, saying they were ineffective. he did praise some of the acute agreements made but set off the recommendations were very vague, there were not enough sanctions for those countries who did not abide by the

agreements. he was critical of politicians who denied climate change and acted too slowly to, in his words, risk looking like they were doing diversionary tactics rather than actually doing what was right for the globe. but he was also critical of individuals, particularly in the west, where he said the lifestyle and he talked about the us in particular, meant that climate change was still a perilous issue to deal with and unless there was a change in that lifestyle, then things were heading in a very bleak direction. and he talked about the fact that already, some of the fact that already, some of the impact of climate change was irreversible and of the need for much more urgency of dealing with the issue. catholic church leaders from around the world have gathered in rome for the month—long synod which will consider questions

ranging rom the role of women, priestly celibacy, and blessings for lgbt catholics. 0n international women's day this year that report was presented to pope francis by one of its authors, tracy mcewan. we conducted the survey for the catholic roman speak network, and it is the largest survey of catholic women ever surveyed. and i guess the large number of responses came as a bit of a surprise, but also not because pope francis had encouraged people all around the world to contribute to dialogue for the synod process. and i think the large number of responses was largely catholic women, you know, wanting their voice heard in this synod process. and how important would you say is it that this synod in rome will allow women to vote for the first time? i think it's really highly significant. the women who completed the survey, you know, had a really strong sense of catholic identity. you know, nine out of 10 of them said that their catholic identity was really important to them, but they also had, like really

quite diverse lived experiences of catholicism. and even though they that that lived experience reflected the cultural context which they were placed around the world, we saw that there was a sense of harm and they a lot of women felt that they'd been silenced in the church. so i think it's really important that some really important things that are happening at this synod, you know, that there's 70 lay members which include lay voting members, which includes, i think there's about 56 or 36 women or something like that who are able to vote for the first time. but there are also some notable absence. we're not seeing any lgbt people, openly lgbt people voting at the at the synod itself. right. and think we also found that... sorry. your survey also found younger women

in the church were found to be more conservative on issues. how did you see that as well? and yeah, that was really interesting. that was younger women in western english speaking countries. so countries like australia, the us and the uk. there was this trend that young women were more conservative, that when we removed those western english speaking countries from the sample, that same trend wasn't present. so it was something that was influenced by the high number of respondents from western english speaking countries. and it was really prominent and somewhat surprising to us. but then i think when you look at some of the cultural changes that are happening in the church with, you know, less people, less young people in those countries in attending church, it might not be so surprising. around the world and across the

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you are live with bbc news. premise to rishi sunak has announced he is scrapping a major part of one of europe's biggest infrastructure projects, confirming a key leg of the high—speed rail project which would have went to the london birmingham stretch of the light of the northern city of manchester has not been axed due to its soaring costs. prime minister sunak also pledged to reinvest every penny and other transport projects in the north, midlands, and across the country. the speed was widely seen as an opportunity for the prime minister to revitalise his party ahead of a general election expected next year. here are some of his speech. i am ending this long—running saga. i am cancelling the rest of the hst project. in its place, we will reinvest every

single penny. £36 billion in hundreds of new transport projects in the north and the midlands across the country. this means that £36 billion of investment in the projects that will make a real difference across our nation. —— hs2 project. across our nation. -- h52 project-— across our nation. -- h52 ro'ect. �* , ., ., project. but news from india were campaigners _ project. but news from india were campaigners say - project. but news from india i were campaigners say tuesdays police raid in the home of prominentjournalists an attempt by the government too, quote, muscle free speech. the founder of news website newsclick has been arrested under an anti—terror law as part of an investigation into its funding. human rights campaigners have called it a ruthless crackdown against independent journalists. ministers have insisted police are simply doing theirjob. the co—ordinated raids at 30 locations were some of the largest on india's media in recent years. staying with india. the cricket

world cup is under way later on with reigning champions english play new zealand. the host india are among the favourites to win the tournament but must overcome the reputation as chokers having flopped in the last decade of the icc tournaments. more, we can go to a presenter and journalist with espn cricketjoins us from mumbai. good to have you. i understand it earlier india but that's the excitement of the cricket world cup. how big is this in india and wants to move like across the country?- like across the country? thank ou for like across the country? thank you for having _ like across the country? thank you for having me _ like across the country? thank you for having me here. - like across the country? thank you for having me here. it - like across the country? thank you for having me here. it is i you for having me here. it is an exciting morning for those of us who cover cricket. the men's world cup comes across every four years, the marquee event on the calendar. the buzz is compared to previous workups quiet in the median. you could attributed to several factors. this is the fourth time of a

man's 0di world cup has been staged in india, the previous three times they cohosted with many neighbours such as pakistan, sri lanka and bangladesh and this is the first time npr seoul hosts of the world cup but a slightly quiet buildup. a lot of it might have to do with the fact that tickets for this world cup went on sale a little later than usually expect with world events, but having said that, england versus new zealand in a repeat of the 2019 man's 0di world cup final at the narendra modi stadium in ahmedabad which can seat up to hundred and 30,000 people so once the action kicks off you can expect the bus to continue and definitely pick ones india and the commission on sunday when they play australia —— 130,000. they play australia ——130,000. india are the reigning champions. you otherfavourites champions. you other favourites and champions. you otherfavourites and strong teams? you champions. you other favourites and strong teams?— and strong teams? you have to look at england _ and strong teams? you have to look at england and _ and strong teams? you have to look at england and india - and strong teams? you have to look at england and india who l look at england and india who seem to be cut above the rest of the field. england have been

many champions notjust in 0di but t20 format in men's cricket. the other first men's team to have both 0di and t20 well titles of the same time. india are hosts and, to the tournament of the back of having won the asia cup and done so quite dominantly, they're batting in particular has kicked into gear, there are big concerns into the tournament around the fitness of a lot of their key players but some of them have, and the notion seems to be india are peaking at the right time. england with the way they transformed 0di cricket in the last seven to eight years is what led them to be favourite at the 2019 world cup which they went on to win and have continued to do that. these two teams stand above the rest of the park but australia only well—developed intricate will always be a big force to reckon with. ., ., ., , with. he mentioned the formats. intricate there _ with. he mentioned the formats. intricate there are _ with. he mentioned the formats. intricate there are test _

intricate there are test matches, 50 (1—dayer and short and massively popular t20 format. with all this, do you think that one format is still fighting for relevance? absolutely. the irony about the world cup is that the 0di world cup remains the most prestigious draw on the cricket calendar and yet this is the format which is, whose future is in the greatest amount of doubt because you've got test cricket which is the oldest format which still maintains its old world charm and is considered the toughest by those who play out, there is obviously t20 cricket which is cricket stepping into a world sport, it is a short format, you see packed audiences all the time and 0di, 50 over cricket is in a weird middleware it's neither this nor that. the frequency of 0di cricket has also reduced in recent years. if you look at this odi recent years. if you look at this 0di world cup cycle since the end of the previous one to

the end of the previous one to the start of this one, there is been less 0di cricket played than any previous world cup cycle. but that had a bit to do with the pandemic but it's also a sign that 0di viewership has been at a lower point than it has been in the last few decades. in that sense this world cup does hold key, you'd imagine, to the sport because future, whether or not crowd struggle in more than intended in the last couple of years importantly from a global point of view whether the viewership numbers across the world are of the level we have been used to with world cups. we the level we have been used to with world cups.— with world cups. we will leave it there but — with world cups. we will leave it there but thanks _ with world cups. we will leave it there but thanks very - with world cups. we will leave it there but thanks very much l it there but thanks very much for getting us your perspective and joining us on the programme here on bbc news. appreciate it. cricket is big business and will have more on the world cup in asia business report coming up in asia business report coming up in a few minutes. cricket has regular tourism boom, apparently so hard to find hotel rooms these days that

people are resorting to all sorts of credit ideas to travel and stay close to the games and will tell you more about that on asia business report at the bottom of the hour so stay with us on bbc news. for now, let's look at other stories in the headlines. european union leaders have welcomed an agreement between member states on asylum and irregular migration. the pact on migration and asylum seeks to relieve the pressure on gateway countries such as italy and greece, by relocating some migrants to other eu states. countries not wanting to accept their share will be required to pay other nations to do so. a kenyan hospital worker caught by the bbc trying to sell a baby has been sentenced to 25 years in jail. fred leparan, who worked at nairobi's mama lucy kibaki hospital, was filmed accepting $2,500 around £2,000 to sell a baby boy under the hospital's care. he was arrested in 2020 and found guilty of child trafficking, child neglect, and conspiracy to commit crime.

more than 200 items belong to the late sir roger moore are being auctioned today items in london. the items include one of the costumes worn by the actor when he first played james bond in live and let die with the sale taking place exactly 50 years since the film was released in 1973. celestina 0lulode went along for a preview. daring, dangerous, and yet irresistibly suave. the late sir roger moore as james bond in the 1985 hit a view to a kill. it's a role he would play more than any other actor. a total of seven times. and this is one costume his son, geoffrey, remembers well. well, i was there with him when he wore it on set and i worked on the film too. not many people know that. but in his, in his contract,

he wasn't allowed to ski in case of injury. and here he is in the film, jumping off mountains with a parachute and skiing. so once he was able to, it was, you know, a kid in a candy store, you just couldn't get him off the skis. it's a collection that includes a hollywood hall of fame plaque, lamborghini skis, and the first item of clothing roger wore as bond. bond girl susie vanner remembers his humour. what's happened? where are you going? it was just the most fun ever. he's so funny, so charming. but, james, i need you. so does england. i'm actually a little bit distressed to find there are no red underpants, because that's what he wore when we did our love scene together! and for collectors, there's a number of limited edition items.

so this watch was created for the 50th anniversary of the bond franchise. i'm curious, how much is it expected to go for? well, we've got an estimate of £20,000 to £30,000 and we'll see how it goes on the day. the auction will take place at bonhams, central london, later today. celestina 0lulode, bbc news. that's all on this edition of newsday. find more on the bbc newsday. find more on the bbc news website. stay with us. hello. some of you may be forgiven for thinking that summer has returned this weekend. yes, for some of you, the weather is set to get a lot warmer. but before you get there, at the moment, cloud is thickening to our west and we have rain on the way as well for quite a few. now we're starting to see rain edge into northern ireland. that's going to be turning steadier and heavier over the next few hours, but some patches of rain also for the southwest of scotland,

the north—west of both england and wales. with extensive cloud around, its a mild start to thursday morning, with temperatures into double figures widely. but across the northern half of scotland with some clearer skies here — we're starting on a chilly note. now, through thursday, this low pressure is the system that's bringing the rain. so it's going to be quite windy. you can see some fairly tightly packed isobars there. the rain at its heaviest in the morning across northern ireland. that wetter weather then swings across scotland, northern england, wales and some damp weather too, for the midlands for a time, east anglia and southern parts of england probably staying dry until after dark with some bright spells coming through the cloud. and for many areas of the uk, temperatures are running above average. now eventually you might see a little bit of rain thursday evening trickling down across parts of southern england and east anglia, but it won't really amount to very much. 0n into friday's forecast, we've got another zone of rain pushing into western scotland. the rain now clearing further southwards as this ridge of high pressure starts to build in and that should mean that the weather becomes increasingly dry. there'll be a bit more sunshine to go around and those temperatures are creeping up — 22 in london, while the average

for this time of the year in the capital is 16 degrees. now, the process of that high pressure really starting to flex its muscles continues into the weekend. pushing the band of rain ever further northwards across scotland where it could be quite wet across northern areas of scotland on saturday. otherwise, lots of sunshine around and those temperatures climbing, well, we could see highs of 26, maybe a 27 this weekend in the very warmest areas. certainly those temperatures are a long, long way above average. and if we look at temperatures in october — now, we often see temperatures, the highest temperatures in a month getting to the low 20s. but it's quite rare to see temperatures up to 26 or 27. that would make it one of the hotter days that we've seen in october in this country.

indians are bowled over with cricket madness as they play host to the world cup this month. the first witnesses take the stand in the trial of the ftx founder samuel benjamin bankman—fried. the 31—year—old is accused of stealing billions in what amounts to be one of the largest financial crimes in us history.

hello and welcome to asia business report with me, arunoday mukharji. to india now, which is set to host the 13th cricket world cup after 12 years on home soil starting today. it is an event also likely to generate big business across various sectors. from mumbai, my colleague nikhil inamber, with this report on how the world cup will impact india's economy. when they say cricket is a religion here in india, that is not in evidence just on big cricketing fields and grounds like these, as the world cup begins here in this country, its cities like ahmedabad where india will face off against pakistan, people have begun booking hospital beds and why is that? because there are no hotels available. they have all been sold out. in fact, airline ticket prices, hotel room rates, they have

all shot through the roofs on key match dates, up three