That is not at all relevant to the current election campaign. His views on homosexuality have clearly not impacted his policies. He is absolutely not in favour of any person of any orientation, sexually, being discriminated against. So he should not be pressurised into saying something that conflicts with his personal beliefs. But most of our correspondence this week has been about the treatment of the labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Last friday, deputy Political Editor john pienaar was on his tail. He stood by what is called the Triple Lock Pensions up every year by inflation, or average earnings, or 2. 5 . Can labour afford this, along with other promises . He hopes he can win this argument. Sorry, im not quite sure where im going. The use of that comment from Jeremy Corbyn was picked up by some viewers who considered it an example of an insidious tendency to snipe at the labour leader. One anonymous caller left us this telephone message. You make it a cheap shot on corbyn, just little
I will be talking to the British Chambers Of Commerce about their manifesto. The sound of spring, but for how much longer . Wejoin the sound of spring, but for how much longer . We join the the sound of spring, but for how much longer . Wejoin The Dawn Patrol as they go in search of the nightingale. In sport a third Crucible Crown for mark selby. He fights back to Beatjohn Higgins and become only the fourth man in the modern era to successfully defend a world title. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Again today we are looking at a fair bit of cloud coming in across the east of the uk, accompanied a noticeable breeze. There will be a few showers, but for many of us it will be dry. There will be some sunny spells, the lions share of which will be again gcioss lions share of which will be again across the north west of the uk. I will have more details 15 minutes. Inis minutes. Good morning. First, our main story there has been further fallout from last weeks talks on brexit between
There is no punishment, there is no brexit bill, the financial settlement is only about settling the accounts. Im nicholas owen. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. A 20 year old student is found guilty of Planting A Home made bomb on a busy London Underground tube train. Ten years on from the disappearance of Madeleine Mccann we return to praia da luz as British Police say their investigation remains open. A big fall in profits at sainsburys. The Supermarket Giant blames tough Market Conditions and a fall in the value of sterling. Good afternoon imjane hill at westminster on the day that the general Election Campaign officially got underway. Theresa may has launched an attack on european officials accusing someone on european officials accusing someone to try to influence the outcome of the british General Election by using threats. She said that talks would be tough and the position of the uk had been represented the standards of the European Commission hardened. The Prime Minis
Well, you can argue about who started it, but there has been a decided deterioration in the governments relationship with the eu in the last few days. The Prime Minister thinks there are people in brussels not from all the other Member States but brussels itself whove been stirring things up, and in the process, interfering in our election. If that was the case, the effect has probably been to help her. But for the europeans, the point is simply that they have now agreed their shared negotiating position that was over the weekend and if it appears tough well, thats not their doing, thats brexit. You might say this is alljust the dynamics of nationalism one side asserts itself, then so does the other. But has it poisoned the atmosphere for the real negotiation about to hit us . Well hear eu and uk perspectives, but first heres nick watt. Dont know why theres no sun up in the sky, stormy weather. The outlook for theresa may in this election has so far been pretty benign but an ill wind l
Spotlight. And this is a rare old talent, isnt it . Our colleague Steve Rosenberg not only knows all the winners at the eurovision song contest, he can play them as well. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The Us National Security agency was watching in real time last week as the russians hacked into the servers of the french President Elect emmanuel macron. Theyve also determined that the russian president Vladimir Putin personally directed the attack last year on the us election. Today in front of the Senate Armed Services committee the director of the nsa, admiral mike rogers, was questioned by senators and this was how he described his agencies warnings to french officials. He had become aware of russian activity, we had talked to french cou nterpa rts activity, we had talked to french counterparts prior to the public announcements of the events that we re announcements of the events that were attributed last weekend, the russians were seeing them, penetrati