Well have the best from this years stirling prize. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Theresa mays most senior minister, damian green, has angrily denied a claim that pornography was found on a computer when police raided his Westminster Office nine years ago. Mr green is currently being investigated for alleged inappropriate behaviour towards a female tory activist, a charge which he denies. Among the other new allegations to appear in todays papers is one from a journalist who says sir Michael Fallon once tried to kiss her. Our Political Correspondent iain watson reports. The allegations in the times that pornography was found on a computer in damian Greens Office dates from 2008. This was during a controversial enquiry into home office leaks which briefly led to mr greens arrest. As theresa mays second in command she would not want to lose him from the cabinet and he has responded robustly to the allegation. In a statement he said that the story was completely untrue and he calle
Weaker, but the shanghai composite was up by about 0. 2 . In europe in the early trading, at least right now youll see there are green arrows across the board, being led by the dax in germany, which is up by 0. 7 . Also, take a look at crude oil prices. Right now it looks like wti is up by about 2 , but youre still looking at it just above 37. Story of the morning, story of the day, story of the year. Big wins for donald trump and Hillary Clinton in yesterdays primaries. John kasich winning ohio. Marco rubio dropping it out of the race. Joining us now for the hour, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. , currently with Morgan Stanley. And republican strategist joe watkins. Before we get to them, lets get to john harwood, who has not slept, i bet, with a recap of last nights results. John . Andrew, very big night for Hillary Clinton. She went a long way toward snuffing out the challenge from Bernie Sanders a week after that surprise defeat in michigan. She won four out of five c
Approach that the European Union is looking at. So if you take a look at what the e. U. Is currently looking at, we intend to work with them and in concert with them and other major markets to address that issue and address, you know, the argument that if you do it unilaterally the trades will move to another financial center. I mean, interestingly, you know the Financial Sector is pretty good. I dont blame them, they go over to the european markets, they say dont do this because otherwise all the trades will flow to the United States, and then they come to the United States and say dont do this because all the trades will flow over to london and european markets. So thats why we need to do this together. But in addition to the revenue as i indicated, there are important policy reasons to be imposing this small fee dampening excessive speculation and, as i said dealing with this issue of computerized highspeed trading which essentially, skims value out of the economy for the highspeed
Has triumphed at the Cannes Film Festival, france wins the award for the first time in seven years. Also this hour in business, well be reporting from shanghai on the rise of chinas startup scene and fears of a bubble in the Technology Sector there and as yet, another bank holiday for the french today, but some people have decided to work to help the elderly and the disabled. Radical left wing parties have made significant gains in spains local and regional elections. Many voters punished the Ruling Conservative Party angry over soaring unemployment, corruption scandals and cuts in public spending. Celebrating dramatic gains in local elections, spains newcomers the leftist group, its a punishing blow to the countrys Ruling Popular Party and its main rival and been dubbed a magical night by pablo iglasius. The major partys have had one of the worst results in their history. Today, we can confirm that the people of this nation have put an end to the twoparty system in spain. This is the
The course of each year. We are looking holistically as to how we are going to manage water in the major event of storms. Thank you. Mr. Cruz, do you have any timeline for the assess ment of existing assets that we have . Yes, we definitely want to complete this assessment of what would be impacted within a matter of months then the next step to determine the level of impact which will also be a matter of months and then start to come up with the adaptation plan. That plan will take longer because of the potential dollar volume that we are talking about. If we have identified plans that would cost a few Million Dollars to implement and this those to go forward on and there are those that would be hundreds of millions of dollars and in which case we will do a whole holistic analysis and tell you what this is what phase one and phase two look like. I would like to add as part of the Sewer Improvement Program we have experienced sea rise as it relates to water intruding in our systems. Be