Make Funding Pledges to tackle Cash Shortages in schools in england. The boss of barclays will be facing pressure today over his pay and also his handling of a controversy surrounding recruitment in the bank. Ill have the details shortly. In sport, the french opens a fortnight away and andy murray says he still needs to get better but hes through to the third round in madrid. Our build up to this years Eurovision Song Contest starts here the bbcs Steve Rosenberg is in kiev with all the tunes and all the facts you need to enjoy the worlds biggest singing competition. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Thank you. Iam in kew gardens next to the Japanese Gateway. I will tell you more about it through the morning but if you adjust stepping out it is a chilly start although most of us will have a day of plenty of sunshine, except in the north of scotland where we have some patchy rain. Good morning. First our main story. President trump has fired the head of the fbi james comey in a mo
environment reporter, esme stallard. and also live now to dr ella 6ilbert a climate scientist researching how the arctic and antarctic climates may change in response to climate change. esme, a very powerful speech, just talking about the era of global boiling, which has arrived. what does he outlined in that speech? what does he want the country is responsible to do about it? it is not unusual responsible to do about it? it is not unusual to responsible to do about it? it is not unusual to hear responsible to do about it? it 3 not unusual to hear strong and powerful words from him, but you can see that he is incredibly concerned. he is calling on the richer nations in the world to take more ambitious action to cut their emissions, so moving away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. also calling on them to commit to those funding pledges that they have previously made at climate agreements, to help those countries already struggling
VinFast, an electric vehicle maker of the Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, said on April 26 that it had got a fresh round of funding pledges worth 2.5 billion USD serving its future development.