china's government is investigating the former chief of interpol mung hong way for bribery and other crimes a spokesperson for china's ministry of foreign affairs says that the investigation shows the government's just terminations to quote fight corruption. was reported missing by his wife after leaving france for a trip to his native china she says that he sent her a text message with a knife. on the day that he went missing. well this has been a bizarre case from the very beginning with little known about the circumstances of many hong ways disappearance east asia correspondent phoebe kong told us more about the reaction from chinese officials. you know the chinese public security of the apartment has just issuing this official statement just hours ago to give us a further pictures over mons case as they are the statements they the most insist on doing things on his own way so he's the one who brought the follow up on so and it's also stated that there is no place for any negotiation and bothering with a party and lowell's actually ties to party and the police so however the state

mung huung weigh, who's chinese and a senior figure in the ruling communist party, went missing after leaving interpol headquarters to travel to china last month. the south china morning post, a honghat mr meng has been detained in china. interpol has asked beijing to clarify the situation. the headlines on bbc news: president trump's supreme court nominee is expected to be approved by us senators later today, despite allegations of sexual assault. toxic air pollution is much worse in eight areas of england than previously thought, a government review reveals. the opera singer montserrat caballe, ray galton, one half of the writing duo behind hancock's half hour and steptoe and son, has died at the age of 88. and lewis hamilton —— hamilton is on pole position again. fran kirby scores for england. and it is understood jose mourinho does have the backing of the manchester united board head of the game against newcastle this evening. i will be back with more sport in the next hour. some patients could see theirgps in groups under plans being considered by the nhs. doctors have been trialling shared appointments for up to 15 patients with the same condition, ranging from raised blood