also tonight: inflation jumps to a four year high squeezing family incomes and outstripping wages. how children are starving in a country with one of the largest oil reserves in the world. president trump s attorney general denies allegations he colluded with russia in the election campaign. i have never met with or had any conversations with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any inferference with any campaign. interference with any campaign. and harry kane scores a double in paris but was it enough to beat france? coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, it s now two defeats in four matches for the lions on tour, and just over a week and a half to the first test against the all blacks. good evening. talks today between theresa may and northern ireland s democratic unionist party about enabling the prime minister to form to get a working majority in the commons haven t yet resulted in a deal. both sides, though, said the talks had gone well
with 37%. they enjoy support across the country in the cities and highlands alike. in north east fife the snp won byjust two votes. in a first past the post system a win is a win. here and across scotland. of course it s disappointing we ve lost a number of seats but still winning more parliamentary constituencies than all the other parties put together. essentially a westminster election is not a home game for the snp and we won the election nevertheless. it was inevitable the snp would lose votes but they fell further than anyone expected. it feels now as though the tide has turned against their plans for another independence referendum. spanish prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the portugal and real madrid foot. cristiano ronaldo, accusing him of tax fraud worth £13 million. he s denied any wrongdoing. as we heard earlier the prime minister has been attending a friendly football match in paris as pa rt friendly football match in paris as part of her visit to france
in parliament, our round up of the highlights of the day. on this programme. renewed anger over the involvement of private providers in the nhs, as the commons reacts to the loss of 700,000 items of medical correspondence. are these not an example of when the ideological agenda of the party opposite to contract out our nhs services has failed and as a result of that the patients are suffering? what happened at sbs was totally unacceptable. it was incompetent. the first minister of scotland announces a re setting of the timetable for a second referendum on scottish independence. we will not seek to introduce the legislation for an independence referendum immediately. and more new mps make their maiden speeches in the commons. today sadly we have a society in which the middle class are told to blame the working class. the working class are told to blame the benefit claimants. and the benefit claimants are told to blame the asylum seekers and refugees. the rapid changes of 21st
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