Threshold. Now is not the time, says borisjohnson. Meanwhile the labour party pledges to compensate nearly four million women who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. Voters in hong kong turn out in record numbers to cast their ballots in District Council elections. Five teenagers have been arrested after a large brawl at a cinema in birmigham last night which saw a number of Police Officers injured. Good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson has unveiled the conservative manifesto with a speech in which he promised to spend more money on Public Services without raising income taxes. He also pledged repeatedly to get brexit done, and vowed to keep the United Kingdom intact. The headline promise of this manifesto is the conservative pledge not to raise income tax, National Insurance contributions or vat. The so called triple tax lock. They also kept up the pressure on labour over the nhs by promising 50,000 nurses more than double what labour were proposing.
Is at its highest level for five years the vast majority were women. And, in the film review Downton Abbey on the big screen. See what mark kermode thinks of it, and the rest of this weeks releases, at quarter to six. The former Prime Minister David Cameron says a second referendum on brexit cannot be ruled out. In an interview with the times mr cameron breaks his silence about his controversial decision to call the Eu Referendum three years ago. I think about this every day. Every single day i think about it, the referendum and the fact that we lost and the consequences and the things that could have been done differently. On the possibility of a second referendum he says im just saying that you cant rule things out right now because youve got to find some way of unblocking the blockage. I think there are certain things you shouldnt do to unblock the blockage. In his book David Cameron says Boris Johnson and michael gove behaved appallingly and on his relationship with them now he say
I nigel, thank you. Well, the top story tonight on gb news is that we can exclusively reveal 80 migrants are currently being housed at a former raf base in essex. Housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than a month after the first group of migrants arrived there, the wethersfield base near braintree in essex is meant to house up to 1700 people. The home office says therell be a gradual increase in the numbers, but sources suggest the pace will be significantly slower than was first envisioned. The site has had problems with disease amongst the first group of arrivals and there are problems with the utilities not working properly and gb news can reveal 550 people have crossed the engush 550 people have crossed the English Channel in ten small boats over the last 24 hours. That brings the number of migrants whove made the journey this year to more than 17,500 uk border force say theyre on red alert during an extremely busy time
moving, frequent lightning, gusty wind and, again, hailat times. it won t last very long because this will quickly turn back to sunshine. a bit of a mixed bag for some of us over the course of the weekend. overall, it is a hot one. 22 degrees in newcastle on sunday. how long is this warm weather going to last? well into the week ahead, we can see those temperatures hovering about above average, with one or two ago showers still lingering into monday. so summer is well and truly here. back to thanks, tomasz. and that s bbc news at ten. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the ten team it s goodbye. newsnight with faisal islam is just getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodnight. boris johnson resigns from parliament, alleging a witchhunt. is this the end for the former pm, or a return to a full blown conservative civ
hello, i m mark lobel. ukraine s president zelensky has arrived injapan where he s meeting world leaders at the g7 summit. he s said that peace will become closer , after the us agreed to train ukrainian pilots on american f 16 fighterjets, paving the way for european countries to supply the warplanes to kyiv. moscow said western countries will be running colossal risks if the jets are sent to ukraine. our political editor, chris mason, reports from hiroshima. the airport here has welcomed rather a few leaders in the last few days. and here came another one. after a tour of europe and a trip to the middle east, president zelensky arrived in japan today. long haul diplomacy amid a long, drawn out war and ongoing pleas for help. they met on monday in the uk and they met again here. the president and the prime minister made it. ukraine s leader said enhanced cooperation would bring victory for him and claimed peace is closer and closer to peace. for months, ukraine has been a