Welcome to bbc news. Jeremy corbyn has been accused by some of his own mps of creating confusion after declaring that labour was not wedded to Freedom Of Movement for eu citizens and then adding that he wasnt ruling it out either. The Labour Leader insisted that the party did understand voters concerns about immigration. Earlier, mr corbyn had prompted further criticism from his own side when he suggested that Capping Earnings would be a way to tackle inequality. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has more details. A welcome for him on the platform, but will you welcome what was billed as his vision for britain after brexit . Whether you voted to leave or remain, everybody voted for a better future. On the biggest question how many eu citizens can keep coming to britain to move freely, what was his verdict . Were not wedded to Free Movement of the eu as a point of principle, but i dont want to be misinterpreted, nor do we rule it out. Well demand that these negotiations give us the
And we pay tribute to the journalist who first reported the outbreak of the second world war, who has died at the age of 105. Coming up in sportsday on bbc news weve had the first of the league cup semifinals, with wayne rooney given the chance to break the Manchester United all time scoring record. Good evening. There has been a significant increase in the number of people with Mental Health problems asking to be seen at accident and Emergency Departments in england. Figures from nhs digital, analysed for the bbc, show that in the year 2015 16, there were over 165,000 Psychiatric Attendances at a e departments, a rise of 47 over the past four years. And it includes a rise of 89 in the number of children and young people attending a e. Doctors say the reality is even worse than the figures suggest. 0ur social Affairs Correspondent alison holt has the story, and reports from birmingham. Its another day of unrelenting demand in the Emergency Department of Birminghams Queen Elizabeth hosp
Welcome to bbc news. Jeremy corbyn has been accused by some of his own mps of creating confusion after declaring that labour was not wedded to Freedom Of Movement for eu citizens and then adding that he wasnt ruling it out either. The Labour Leader insisted that the party did understand voters concerns about immigration. Earlier, mr corbyn had prompted further criticism from his own side when he suggested that Capping Earnings would be a way to tackle inequality. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has more details. A welcome for him on the platform, but will you welcome what was billed as his vision for britain after brexit . Whether you voted to leave or remain, everybody voted for a better future. On the biggest question how many eu citizens can keep coming to britain to move freely, what was his verdict . Were not wedded to Free Movement of the eu as a point of principle, but i dont want to be misinterpreted, nor do we rule it out. Well demand that these negotiations give us the
By President Elect trump yesterday at his first News Conference since july. Today, he tweeted that the Us Intelligence service said it was phoney and falsely circulated. In fact, James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, effectively distanced the Us Intelligence agency from the unverified video, saying it didnt leak it and hadnt made a judgement on its reliability. Since then, the spotlight has been shone on the man credited with producing the memo Christopher Steele, a former mi6 officer respected by British Intelligence agencies, the cia and the fbi. He has since gone to ground. The focus is now on what British Intelligence knew and whether anything made its way onto ministers desks. But the wider question persists is this a scandal of watergate proportions, or one of the biggest smears in the history of politics . Heres our diplomatic editor, mark urban. Were learning more about the world of private intelligence gathering and how information gleaned from across the globe
Its 9am in singapore, iam in london and 8 00 in the evening in washington, where the white house has vowed to fight the news media tooth and nail, over what officials see as unfair attacks on donald trump. The new president has taken issue with estimates of the size of the crowd at his inauguration on friday. His Press Secretary says it was the biggest in history for such an event, but as our North America editorjon sopel reports, the evidence doesnt support the claim. The weightiest issues on the planet were discussed at Donald Trumps inaugural address, but what the president is in a white rage about are suggestions that the crowds for him were not as big as they were for barack obama eight years ago, even though the evidence is incontrovertible, as these two photos, each taken 45 minutes before the inauguration started, make plain. But last night, journalists were summoned to the most extraordinary White House Briefing to be told they were lying. This was the largest audience to ever