Universities write to the uk education secretary calling for more money to help with the cost of taking in extra students following a government u turn on a level grades. And coming up this hour, the three victorian forts originally built to defend england against the french going up for sale. Hello and welcome. If you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The number of people being randomly tested in the community to track the prevalence of covid 19 is to be incased up in england. From october, 150,000 people will be tested every fortnight as part of the office for National Statistics programme which is separate from the Mass Testing Programme of people who have symptoms. The figure is up from the 28,000 in england who are currently sent a home testing kit. Testing will also be expanded in scotland, wales and northern ireland. The health secretary, matt hancock, says the expansion of testing in the
Years debating over brexit in parliament. There will be crucial votes again tonight but if mps reject a proposal to speed the withdrawal bill through the commons by thursday borisjohnsons deal is unlikely to be passed by the october 31st deadline. Im joanna gosling, the other stories developing this morning on bbc newsroom live. Northamptonshire police are to travel to the us to question under caution the american diplomats wife who fled the uk after being involved in a fatal car crash. Abortion has been decriminalised in Northern Ireland and same sex marriage has been legalised after westminster voted for the changes in july. Canadas Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, wins a second term in office but loses his majority in parliament and will need support from smaller parties to carry on governing. Good morning to you. Welcome to westminster where borisjohnson will urge mps to back his brexit deal, as he launches a final bid to get the uk to leave the eu by the end of the month. Today he
Hello and welcome. Senior politicians in hong kong have been celebrating the moment the city returned to chinese rule 22 years ago. Led by chief executive carrie lam and joined by officials from china, they attended a reception a few hours ago. Outside, a flag raising ceremony was held at the harbour front. In her toast, carrie lam wished success to the motherland and to the stability and prosperity of hong kong. Away from this, though, the mood is quiet different. This is the scene live as crowds of activists have been gathering from early this morning. Theyre now in a peaceful stand off with police. There were a few skirmishes and clashes reported earlier, but we believe this is protesters just outside the entrance of the Hong Kong Convention centre where that ceremony to mark the 22nd anniversary of the handover took place, and you can see a number of protesters in hardhats, and that was because those protests last month did turn violent, there were some altercations with Police Off
Following the shooting down of a us drone. A British Foreign Office Minister will meet senior officials in iran tomorrow to call for an urgent de escalation of tensions. Campaigners have joined Richard Ratcliffe outside the Iranian Embassy to show solidarity with him as his Hunger Strike over his detained wifes plight enters its eighth day. The government announces a new permament memorial to mark the First National windrush day which honors the british caribbean community. Good afternoon. In just a few minutes time, the first of a series of hustings events around the country will begin in birmingham. Mrjohnson and jeremy hunt, the two surviving candidates for the leadership, will be questioned by conservative Party Members, who vote next month on which man will become their party leader and the countrys Prime Minister. Boris johnson arrived in the past ten minutes or so. Here he is coming in. Creating some of the members there. A lot of this coming as it emerged that police we re comi
As it marks twenty two years since the british handed it back to china. And Sir David Attenborough joins kylie and the cure on the final day of the glastonbury festival. This is bbc world news, it is newsday. Good morning. Its 1 00 am in london, and 9 00 am in seoul where about 50 kilometres to the north of here, President Trump made history by becoming the first sitting us president to cross into north korea. Mr trump and kimjung un posed for handshakes before talking for nearly an hour in the heavily fortified demilitarised zone. Its the two leaders first meeting since a summit between them collapsed four months ago. Our correspondent nick bryant has this report. Meet me at the dmz, said the president. His impromptu invitation on twitter to the north korean leader, like a diplomatic form of online dating. Donald trump was savouring this moment, a smile of satisfaction as his choreography came together, because the chance of this brief encounter had kim jong un almost skipping down th