and herzegovina at stjames park, with the tournament just 11 days away. hello and welcome to the bbc news at one, live from salford. the conservative party is promising to tackle what it calls the confusion over the legal definition of a person s sex, if it wins the general election. equalities minister kemi badenoch said her party wants to crack down on what she described as predatory men who claim to identify as female to gain access to women only spaces. with more details, here s our political correspondent ione wells. should only biologically female be able to use women s services? just people who are biologically female, also those who have change their legal sex on a birth certificate? conservatives say that women s services should be able to refuse any one of is biologically male without facing legal challenges. it is quite clear that the intentions in the law are being misinterpreted just because of changes, social changes, and what we are trying to do is reemphasise
we start though with the tributes to leeds rhinos legend rob burrow. as you ve been hearing, burrow, who d been battling motor neurone disease, has died at the age of 41. the rugby football league say they are finalising plans to celebrate his life at the challenge cup finals next saturday. tributes have been flooding in from the world of sport including from wigan warriors, a team rob played against many times, who said they are deeply saddened at the news. rugby union side leicester tigers, where burrow s close friend kevin sinfield worked as a coach, said rob inspired communities across the world. and chris sutton, who played for blackburn rovers and celtic amongst others, said rob had done so much to raise awareness for the debilitating illness. jamiejones buchanan, who played alongside burrow at leeds rhinos spoke to bbc breakfast this morning, and paid tribute to his former teammate. we spoke many times about how small he was, and how people, as a young person, doubted his abilit
the key to why boris johnson and donald trump get along very well, because they are just so totally unconventional, they are willing to sort of take on campaigns that are the regular politicians would never dream of touching and of course brexit, all the experts much like all the experts, all that for this was not going to happen, not something anybody needed to worry about and we remember all of the people in the united states saying the same thing about donald trump. and these guys, they are both guys that like to be discounted and they like to have people say that they don t have a shot at something and then they love proving everybody wrong, especially the experts. martha: is going to have an uphill battle and as david rightly pointed out, he will go to form a government. we will go to buckingham palace and meet with the queen to do that. she s been down that road many, many times, but as she watches all of this unfold and the rest of great britain does as well, they have a v
in northern california deemed too dangerous, delta fires scorching both sides of the highway, fire fighters fighting blaze, right now 5% contained. president trump congratulating north korea after the country celebrated its 70th anniversary and without nuclear missiles. him and kim jong un will, quote, prove everybody wrong, rebecca joins us with what this means for negotiations for. the threatening piece has really kind of died down at least during diplomatic engagement between u.s. and north korea, it doesn t mean that will dismantle but definitely means the ball is still in play and so the trump administration does deserve credit for that. rob: as as secretary of state mike pompeo received a positive letter from kim jong un which he handed to the president. president trump set to speak at
not really going to work, fine. pass it. prove everybody wrong who has been crying out for some kind of regulation. senator rubio will not do that. a couple of things to point out. there are 27 states that allow 18-year-olds to buy long guns. three of those allowed to buy at 16. there are two pieces of gun legislation in congress. they argue loosen gun restrictions on conceal carry and make it easier to buy a silencer. let s listen to florida governor rick scott. surprising some on the right and the left. everything s on the table. all right? i m going to look at every way we can make sure our kids are safe. it is a lot of things. it is looking at who should have guns. should individuals with mental illness have guns? what can we do to create more