While bushfires burn in his country. You are seeing pictures of the home secretary meeting harry dunn. The queen attends a Church Service in sandringham, while the duke of edinburgh spent a second night in hospital receiving treatment for a pre exisiting condition. Coming up in half an hour, well bring you some of the highlights of the Victoria Derbyshire programme over the last year, including election blind dates and our interview with new zealand Prime Ministerjacinda ardern. Hello, good afternoon. A six Year Old Girl has opened a pack of Tesco Christmas cards to find a message saying they were packed by prisoners in china being forced to work against their will. Tesco says its stopped production at the factory while it investigates. Greg mackenzie reports. Ready . Uhhuh. It was six year old schoolgirl florence widdecombe whod sat down at home to write out her Christmas Cards to her friends and family when she discovered one of the cards had already been written out. We were writing
Australias Prime Minister apologises for holidaying in hawaii as wildfires continue to sweep across three states. If the queen attends a Church Service in sandringham while the duke of edinburgh spent a second night in hospital receiving treatment for a pre exisiting condition. And coming up, rhe bbcs media editor meets the editor of private eye magazine at 17 30. A walk through the year in media with ian hislop. Hello, good afternoon. A six Year Old Girl has opened a pack of Tesco Christmas cards to find a message saying they were packed by prisoners in china being forced to work against their will. Tesco says its stopped production at the factory while it investigates. Greg mackenzie reports. Ready . Uhhuh. It was six year old schoolgirl florence widdecombe whod sat down at home to write out her Christmas Cards to her friends and family when she discovered one of the cards had already been written out. We were writing in them and about on my sixth or eighth card, there was. Somebody
Oui clear up some of the obstacles in our path. The uks biggest airports will install sd baggage scanners to make security checks quicker. 40,000 troops begin a major operation to fight fires in the amazon. We report from above the brazillian rainforest. Its a huge task for the troops who are supposedly reaching this region. This is a Global Crisis because these are considered the lungs of the world. And focus on farming examines issues facing uk agriculture,s including brexit and climate change. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. Borisjohnson has told the bbc that its now touch and go whether the uk will leave the eu with a deal on october the 31st. Speaking at the g7 summit in biarritz, the Prime Minister said he had to be prepared to leave without a deal in order to convince brussels to scrap the current Withdrawal Agreement. The Prime Minister, who this morning had his first face to face meeting as Prime Minister with president trump, also admitted it would take more than a y
Hello. Fresh from an election victory, that critics say was rigged, Vladimir Putin has been addressing supporters in moscows red square. He has another six year term in office, having already led russia longer than any ruler since stalin. The kremlin says he won more than 87 of the vote. But there was no real opposition, with his main critics either injail, in exile, or dead. So, with such an iron grip on power, why bother with elections at all . Its about claiming legitimacy, say his opponents, for his war in ukraine. Steve rosenberg has the latest, from moscow. Vladimir putin after the landslide came the love. Vladimir putin portrayed by the kremlin as a national hero. At a concert marking ten years since russia annexed crimea. Long live russia, he cried. Cue the National Anthem and some kremlin choreography to make it look as if putin is russia and russia is putin. Earlier we saw the crowds pouring towards red square. Thousands of russians had been given free tickets for the putin e
Hello. This is bbc news. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. In the past hours, weve heard that the heads of the us and Israeli Security agencies have met to discuss the hostage situation. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office said the cia and mossad bosses met on friday in efforts to advance another hostage deal. In cypius, final preparations are being made for the first aid vessel to use the sea corridor to gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. This is the scene live in larnaca in cyprus where 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies have been loaded onto a barge. It will be towed by a Spanish Charity ship to gaza. The sea corridor is a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and united arab emirates, aiming to take supplies from cyprus to the gazan coast. This video shot today along the Israeli Border into gaza shows more aid being dropped. The parachutes carrying the boxes of supplies to the people of