Is the process of becoming a british citizen too complicated and costly . Thats the question a Cross Party Group of mps is asking, as the government reviews how the process works. Currently, people hoping to become uk nationals have to pass a test about life in the uk but is it too difficult . Our home editor mark easton has been to wakefield to find out. God save our gracious queen. Around 150,000 foreigners are turned into british citizens every year, often at a ceremonies like this one in wakefield. But becoming british takes at least six years and, typically, can cost between £5,000 and £10,000, making it among the most laborious and expensive in the world. I will be faithful and bear true allegiance. The home office even charges an extra fiver to take the oath . To her majesty the queen, elizabeth ii. The government is reviewing parts of the citizenship process so a good time to ask, how difficult should it be to become british . What does a good british citizen look like . And
There are other viruses that are talked about, and when you go for your appointments and other things yourre made aware of. But i dont recall much being said about cmv. Most babies born with cmv dont have symptoms or develop problems. But if this programme proves successful, the team hopes that could pave the way for wider cmv screening in future. She has done great today. You can see how well she is doing. So how do you feel as a mum seeing that . Immensely proud of her. Richard westcott, bbc news, cambridge. You can find out more about this story on the bbcs inside out programme in the east this monday night at 7 30pm, and on bbc iplayer afterwards. Some of us are seeing some heavy rain so far today, theres a with system with lots of heavy rain affecting parts of scotland, especially at the north, ticking a band of rain through england as well. This afternoon, the rain turns lighter. Behind all of that, sunnier skies coming through for many of us, with a few showers. The heavier rain
Stocks are taking a hit around the world to mid fears of an escalation in the trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies china has been letting its currency slide raising concerns that they could be used as a weapon in the trade standoff with the United States on monday washington designated beijing a currency manipulator its 1st such move in 25 years chinas official communist Party Newspaper responded saying the u. S. Is deliberately destroying International Order that u. S. Announcement came hours after beijing let its currency we can fell 2. 3 percent in 3 days since president declaration that he would be expanding tariffs from september the 1st and beijing says Chinese Companies have also stopped buying u. S. Agricultural products as the trade war intensifies on monday wall street suffered its worst day in 2019 alan fischer with more now from washington d. C. Well donald trump said he was going to call china come see manipulator on his 1st stay in office its taken until now y
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Liverpool fans are estatic after their team became champions liverpool fans are ecstatic after their team became champions of europe for the sixth time. Liverpool claimed that title after beating fellow english side Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League final in madrid. A contrversial early penalty from mo salah and a late finish from divock 0rigi gave them a 2 0 win and a first trophy for managerjurgen klopp at anfield. Tim allman reports. For liverpool fans, this truly was the joy of sex. Six. For liverpool fans, this truly was thejoy of sex. Six. No english clu b thejoy of sex. Six. No english club comes close, and winning the Champions League never gets boring. Iam Champions League never gets boring. I am buzzing, i cant put it into words. I went to the final last year, i was there and it was, not the worst time, but sad times. Tonight was amazing, not the best game ever, but fine. Six time Champions League winners. game ever, but fine. Six time C
That members are being careful not to mistep in either direction, whether that is cutting Interest Rates too soon or too little too late. He will have more to say in front of the Senate Banking committee on thursday. In other news making headlines, a former Google Software enginer has been indicted in california on charges of stealing Trade Secrets related to the compay s Artificial Intelligence technology. Our Asia Business correspondent katie silver has been tracking the developments and joins us live from our newsroom with the latest. He was arrested at home in california charged counts of stealing on behalf of two Chinese Companies stealing ai. We understand he worked as a Software Engineer from 2019. In 2022, he started being courted by a chinese start up to be their chief technology officer. From then until may 2023, he uploaded or stole about 500 different confidential documents, particularly pertaining to systems and chips that are needed by google to build their data centres t