Greens will tackle the climate crisis, greens will remain and transform, greens will build a better britain. Borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn go head to head in the first tv debate of the Election Campaign tonight after the lib dems and snp failed in a legal bid to be included. And how will it all go down here in southampton . Its a key Battle Ground in the coming weeks. Were here on the latest of our visits around the uk to answer voters questions on the big topics, today were looking at education. And coming up,the renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough tells the bbc the world is beginning to tackle the threat of Plastic Waste. Its a bit of a litmus test to see whether, in fact, the population care about this sort of thing, and people do. And so i think its very encouraging. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im joanna gosling. An alleged victim ofjeffrey epstein has appealed directly to Prince Andrew to come forward and give a statement to us investigators. The duke is f
The tsb it meltdown which left nearly two Million People without Online Services the bank faces severe criticism in a new report. And we speak to the prize winning Sir David Attenborough, about the threat still posed to the environment by plastic products. We still have to dispose of the wretched material. Somebody, surely we could invented, somebody somewhere has got to have a way of dealing with it. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, theres a huge night ahead for wales. Win against hungary in cardiff and theyre going to the european championships. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Dozens of demonstrators are still barricaded inside a hong kong university, which has been under siege by the police for three days. Activists have been inside the campus since last week, initially preventing police from entering by lighting fires and throwing petrol bombs. 600 protesters, including minors, have now given themselves up. Police say that any adults who leave will be arre
Where they want shoppers to boycott com pa nies they say are pro beijing. Cities around the world will close their streets to traffic for world car free day organisers want to promote greener travel alternatives. Three of the home nations begin their Rugby World Cup campaigns today ireland v scotland is has just got ireland v scotland has just got under way, and england play tonga later this morning. And our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9. 35am this mornings reviewers are anne ashworth, the associate editor of the times and the business commentator josie cox. Good morning. After the first day of its Party Conference was dominated by infighting, labour will try to move the agenda back to policy today promising to abolish nhs prescription charges in england if it wins the next general election. Its also planning to scrap ofsted and replace it with a new School Inspection system. Yesterdays business was overshadowed by a failed bid to oust deputy leader tom watson and last n
The s p is fairly flat, up by 1 10 of 1 . 1 . We are keeping a firm eye on brussels. European leaders are at work again. They just started there may meeting to decide to leave the European Council and european commission, and by extension, the European Central bank. The current head of the imf is being talked about seriously as a contender to take over from mario draghi. Lets get the latest from maria. The main meeting has started after a series of side meetings. What we know on account of how much information we have at this point . Maria in terms of official information, we have nothing. It is speculation swirling around. Weve spoken to a number of diplomats who say Christine Lagarde is being considered to her crate replace mario draghi. She was now the name of the running yesterday, but appears to be now the frontrunner. Conditionality, if Angela Merkel manages to get her defense minister to become the next commission president. Surprise. She was not on the list. The good thing, it