Despite her being in the next room. I said, if it was your 19 year old son, or your son, no matter what age, you would be doing the same as me, and he was holding my hand at the time, and he said, yes, i would. Chaotic scenes in Hong Kongs Legislative Council meant the chief executive carrie lam had to leave and deliver a pre recorded annual policy address. A severely brain damaged girl who the nhs believed should have her life support withdrawn has arrived in italy to continue her treatment. And the fallout continues from englands game with bulgaria. Fifa calls racism and obnoxious disease, and Jordan Henderson says england wa nted and Jordan Henderson says england wanted to make the home fans suffer for their behaviour. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Ahead of thursdays Crucial European Union summit, talks between eu and uk negotiatiors to try to thrash out a last minute deal will continue this morning. Discussions went on late into last night, until well past the dead
India, a country of more than a billion people is expected today to begin an initiative to clamp down on single use plastic including bags, cups, straws and disposable cutlery by 2022 but at a time when the government is concerned aboutjobs its rumoured the Modi Administration will hold off from introducing an outright ban. India creates almost 26,000 tons of Plastic Waste a day, thats roughly 115 times the same weight as the statue of liberty. And they arent alone. According to the un the world throws away 300 million tons of Plastic Waste each year thats enough to fill 65 million shipping containers. A lot of that ends up in the ocean, with Marine Plastic pollution estimated to costs the world between 500 billion and 2. 5 trillion a year in lost earnings. But even the thought of a proposal to limit plastics in india has already spooked businesses and manufacturers. Suranjana tewari travelled to gorakhpur in northern Uttar Pradesh to speak to some of them. India has one of the Fastest
Wraps up his africa trip of the visit to the Indian Ocean Island of nourishes he is honoring the memory of the mystery who worked for tolerance and interfaith understanding. And political leaders in germany are demanding answers to how a town council could have elected a neo nazi as its had the man elected unanimously with both from the stablish one partys. Plus in tennis an epic u. S. Open find in the final battle beats a downhill medvedev in 5 good in sats its the spaniards 19 grand slam title i just missed one more to equal the mens or time record. 100 thought she was good to have your Company Reporters and ended admits to me a struggling to do their jobs with die. Out internet phone lines or mobile phone service was a month off to india suspended the regions autonomy reporting from crush me still faces severe restrictions and an unprecedented communications shutdown detail because funny Michelle Jess was travelling to srinagar in india instead kashmir and she found the lack of acce
To do and they did it well. Fighting back to take the first set. On mistake turkeys ruling party is set to lose course to tap his comeback with control of istanbul after a re run of the mayoral election. Silver. First set. Murray on course to cap his comeback with silverware. David five people are arrested over ornstein, bbc news. Alleged accounting fraud at the bakery chain, patisserie valerie. Ican ornstein, bbc news. I can tell you it is going would and england beat cameroon 3 0, serve in the second set after murray and lopez took the first on a in the womens world cup. Tie break. Earlier in the day, alfie hewett beat gordon reid in the wheelchair singles final. Lewis hamilton was at his unstoppable best, winning the french grand prix, his fourth succesive formula i victory in a row. He led from start to finish, the conservative leadership with team mate Valtteri Bottas finishing second. Candidatejeremy hunt says his rival mercedes have now won borisjohnson must be prepared all eigh
I may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges. Particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country and particularly of its military history is being widely ignored and thats got to be fixed. And one of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in this 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation, on memorial day we honored americans who had paid the supreme sacrifice in all of our wars. But weve always felt a particular closeness to what we call the greatest generation many of whom are slowly passing from the scene. Steven ambrose, biographer said the quality of character that we impute to them is one which has grown increasingly rare in our culture. Namely, modesty. More than one of these gentlemen is said to me that when people thank him for his service, he is embarrassed. He thanks them for their thanks. But what else wo