It will be very different. It will be a very different way of doing things. Well have the latest from the campaign trail. The other main stories this lunchtime. The Climate Campaign Group Extinction Rebellion wins a legal challenge against the metropolitan polices ban on their protests in the capital. The man accused of murdering british backpacker Grace Millane goes on trial in new zealand. He claims her death was accidental. A big fall in profits at marks and spencer, down i7 , after a drop in demand for clothes and homeware. And coming up in the sport on bbc news. Double Olympic Boxing champion nicola adams calls time on her career over fears she could lose her sight. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. In the last hour a cabinet minister has resigned from the government. Alun cairns quit following claims he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. It comes as borisjohnson met the queen to mark the dissolution of parliament formally beginning fi
The police ban on protests by the Climate Group Extinction Rebellion across london last month, is ruled unlawful in the high court. Nicola adams has announced her retirement. And the weather. We have been looking at the latest climate statistics. And also the forecast over the next few days with particularly heavy rain for england and north wales. Thanks, chris. Also coming up anger as firefighters responding to an out of control bonfire are attacked by a gang of young people throwing fireworks. Idid not i did not define what young actually meant there. We will talk about that later on. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. Its not what anyone would want minutes before they launch their Election Campaign. As borisjohnson prepared to address voters from downing street the news that a cabinet minister was resigning. Welsh secretary alun cairns quit following claims he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. Certainly not the best start for a campaign which was l
Qualification event in tokyo after crossing the finish line hand in hand. Good evening. New figures out today reveal the extent of britains drug crisis in the starkest terms possible. Deaths caused by the mis use of drugs mainly heroin and cocaine hit a record high in england and wales last year. In scotland too, drug related deaths are at their highest. Almost 3,000 people died from illicit drugs in england and wales last year. Thats a rise of 17 on the previous year. Throughout the week weve been reporting on one of the key factors behind this crisis the supply of drugs from the cities to britains towns and even villages or what police call the county lines. All too often children are involved and today our special correspondent, ed thomas, has been showing the police what hes discovered. As heroin deaths reach record highs, for three months weve investigated the rise in county line drug dealing, exploited teenage drug runners, vulnerable, long term users. Just taking it to feel norm
Demonstrators shut down two major highways here in new york city culling for justice for Michael Brown. In boston, 1400 people shut down traffic in the center of the city taking over the streets. The early hour of the protests were reportedly peaceful, but in the last hour, reports of arrests there, apparently, some protesters tried to push through police lines there in boston. Here was the scene in northern california. In oakland, second night of demonstrations in that city. Images like this from all over the country. A hundred cities have protests scheduled for tonight. Also in nashville, reports of protesters shutting down interstate 24 in that city. You see them gathered. Also in the streets of nashville, again, Peaceful Protesters there. Images like this from around the country tonight from denver and atlanta and seattle and kansas city. These protesters shut down a main street in new mexico. That southwestern city has been wrestling for a few years now for fatal shootings by poli
Weve shown images of places like los angeles theres long standing issues with the police. Give us issues on that for dallas. Caller sure, about half the protesters, it seemed, in fact, had some sort of specific example that they could give where they felt that they or a friend or Family Member had been mistreated by dallas police. There were a number of officer involved shootings here over the summer, and there have been, as there are in many major cities, officer involve shootings of teenagers who are unarmed, whether hispanic, black, or white here, theres been a number of over the summer, and so, yeah, about half of them had that specific feeling that thats what they were there for, and i got to ask you, in the time we have, how were the authorities locally responding to this sort of ferguson solidarity protest there in dallas . Caller we spoke to them before it happened, very unimpressed what they thought would happen. Didnt they it would be violent or cause serious disruption, but