Hello. This is bbc news. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, but first the headlines. The Foreign Office orders an inquiry, after what it calls a disgraceful leak of memos, criticising the trump administation. The emails written by the British Ambassador to washington, call the president S White House inept, insecure and incompetent. It is obviously very disappointing that this correspondence has come out into the open, but it is also important to say that it is the job of ambassadors to give frank, personal opinions about what is happening in the countries they serve. The shadow chancellor, John Mcdonnell sasteremy corbyn must get on and back another public vote, over brexit. One of the citys biggest employers, Deutsche Bank, announces it will cut up to 18,000 staff, worldwide. Exit polls suggest greece has elected a new centre right government, ousting the leftist syriza party, in a snap election. At the womens world cup, the United States prove too strong
Begins, cheltenham roar, is the festival begins, kicking off four days of racing. Begins, kicking off four days of racing, culminating in the gold cup on friday on friday. Good morning. A fairly on friday. Good morning. A fairly cloudy day for most of us today. Patchy light rain in the north. Heavy rain in the south. The temperature continues to climb in the next few days. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its tuesday, 12th march. A long awaited report into Veterinary Services will be published this morning, after concerns pet owners are facing expensive bills when paying for treatments. The Competition And Markets Authority launched the review last year, and has previously said that fees were rising faster than other goods and services during the cost of living crisis. Nina has the details. Good morning. Are you paying too much to care for your furry friend . Why have vet costs been rising faster than general inflation . Are you getting a fair deal when it comes to costing
Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. The Prime Minister called the comments racist and wrong. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made com
campaign here in the uk. all parties out again this weekend vying for support. rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each if the conservatives are re elected. he says the money would go towards the long term regeneration of the areas, under the government s levelling up scheme. a topic labour leader kier starmer hasn t been able to escape is dianne abbott. there s been a lot of controversy over the terms of the re admittance of the veteran labour mp into the party. keir starmer has been tackling that issue as well this morning, denying that his party is blocking left wing candidates. 0n diane abbott you said last week you weren t going to get involved in her case. you said the days when the leader rolls up his sleeves and gets involved are well and truly over, that s what corbyn did and ended badly. you said it was a matter for the nec on candidate selection and you avoided having a view becausejeremy corbyn expressed a view and that leads to a
here by andrew from belfast. we sought an answer from bbc news and they told us: the number of competing and contested claims being made by politicians during this election campaign makes it hard to work out what is accurate. thatjob is made considerably harder by the phenomenon of fake videos images and quotes being circulated online. take for instance this appearance by labour s wes streeting on bbc two s politics live last week. what she did was wrong and what she said was wrong and it was right there was a disciplinary process. she apologised repeatedly. but it took five months. it did take a while, but look. if you didn t hear wes streeting describe dianne abbott there as a silly woman , that is because he didn t. but a doctored version of his comments on the programme was widely shared on x, which made it sound as though mr streeting did say those words under his breath. the fake video was supported by a number of comments, endorsing it, including one from someone cl