About slapping a female reporter. I deeply regret the comments i made. Thats certainly not the person who i am. And why china is experiencing a baby boom, driven partly by older mothers. Coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news a vote of confidence over three months before the start of the womens european championship, england name theirfinal squad. Good evening. At least ten people have died in a suspected Suicide Bombing on the metro system in st petersburg. President putin, who was in the city at the time, said all causes, including terrorism, were being investigated. The explosion happened in a Train Carriage as it travelled between two stations. Within minutes the entire network was closed and police later found and defused a device at another station. Our correspondent, steve rosenberg, is in St Petersberg with the latest. 2 Million People use the Saint Petersburg metro every day. This city relies on this underground. Earlier today metro train left the station behind
Strips the person of their personality. And as ukip call for a ban on full face veils one woman who wears a niqab tells us it will lead to a rise in attacks on muslim women. Hello. Welcome to the programme, throughout the programme, the latest Breaking News and developing stories and as always, really keen to hear from you. A little later, well be talking about scoliosis. If you were watching britains got talent on saturday night, you will have seenjulie, the dancer in the middle, talking about her curvature of the spine. That is what scoliosis is. As a result of discussing that on prime time telly on a saturday night, people are learning about it sometimes for the first time. If youre affected by scolosis, do get in touch this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Voters in france have chosen the two candidates who will go through to the final round of the president ial election in two weeks time. The
that it a reserved matter. therefore meaning thatitis a reserved matter. therefore meaning that it is basically a matter for the government in london nationally. we have seen of course they had a row with scotland with your gender recognition law, the uk government intervened to block that. the snp was highly critical of that, saying that they were acting to try to protect a disadvantaged, discriminated against minority. so, that aspect of it could cause some eyebrows to be raised. we haven t heard yet what the other parties say about this. but it is one thing that this is something the conservatives have been talking about for some time. they talked about this and approach poster equality and human rights commission about this change, who had said it might be happy to have some clarity but it could also cause confusion in some areas. that in itself. it has been raised before. the interesting thing i guess your question is who is this poster, and i think it is preached
LONDON - As a growing number of countries start giving women menstrual leave to deal with period pains, Britain is considering going one step further, saying that severe menopause symptoms could be a disability. On Thursday, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), an independent watchdog that enforces legislation in the United Kingdom, published guidance saying that if menopause symptoms “have a long term and substantial impact on a woman’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activit