The daily mail carries the same story with the headline the labour veterans who plead vote tory under the title boris britain, the mirror shows 88 year old jill woolley, one of the victims, it says, of cuts to the nhs. In other news the Financial Times claims that french president Emmanuel Macron has opened a rift with germany and other nato allies weeks ahead of a vitalsummit, by warning that the alliance is suffering brain death. And alongside its election coverage, the times reports that more than 60 years after his death, the hollywood star, james dean, will star in a film about the vietnam war using a digital avatar. Lets start off with the vote conservative. Saying Jeremy Corbyn rebels. Already a pretty extraordinary time in politics. It is where the labour party has come out and encouraged traditional labour supporters to vote not for Jeremy Corbyn but for borisjohnson, saying that is the only patriotic way to behave considering the warnings that have come from the reports of an
In east london. Two others have been cleared. Flooding across parts of Northern England in sheffield, hundreds of people were stranded for hours in yorkshires largest shopping centre. And at 11 30pm well be taking another look at the papers with the broadcaster henry bonsu and the assistant comment editor at the telegraph, madeline grant. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Labour and the conservatives have both been setting out their plans for the economy today. Labour is promising a huge boost in spending, and whats its calling an irreversible shift of power and wealth away from london. The tories are also vowing to spend billions. Its now clear that whoever wins the election will spend and borrow far more than weve seen for a long time. Labour says it will invest an extra £55 billion a year on infrastructure like housing and schools as well as environmental projects. Now, thats roughly double what the conservatives are offering an extra £20 25 billion a year. Our economics edito
Hello this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. The headlines. The shadow chancellor sets out plans to borrow £150 billion over five years to replace, update and expand schools, hospitals, housing and care homes. The social Transformation Fund will begin the urgent task of repairing our social fabric thats been torn apart by the tories. Setting out his partys plans chancellor sajid javid also promised spending on infrastructure, but insisted his priority is control of government spending. There will be new hospitals, schools, railways, better broadband, new connections, and opportunities for every part of our great nation. Two teenagers have been found guilty of murdering Jodie Chesney in a park in east london. Two others have been cleared. Torrential rain has flooded roads in seen Rail Services cancelled and parts of northern england, across yorkshire, and derbyshire, 42 flood warnings have been placed. The met office is warning of prolonged rain into tomorrow. In a moment it will be tim
And International Conference host. Lets get started. The arab news, interesting to see their take on this agreement reached between russia and turkey. They call it historic. Lets remember why we are here. This is because of a phone call from donald trump to the turkish president that enabled the turks to feel they have the right to enter syria and create what they thought would be a chance to drive out the way pg who are considered by them to be linked to the so called terrorist pkk and they want to create a safe zone. That the bombardment they rain down upon this area has caused international consternation and with the absence of the americans, the russians have come in and that is why they had those talks. Syrians wa nt why they had those talks. Syrians want their territorial integrity protected but the turks say they wa nt protected but the turks say they want and existential threat vanquished which is why we see this cosying up between russia and turkey that highlights the fact tha
Sold out already. Its sold out already. Six oclock on thursday, the 19th its six oclock on thursday, the 19th of september. And coming up, John Humphrys has presented his final edition of radio 4s today programme after 32 years. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. Its extremely rare for Buckingham Palace to react to a news story, but today thats precisely whats happened. An official has expressed displeasure after David Cameron revealed that he asked for the queens help in the run up to the Scottish Independence vote in 2014. It has led to accusations that the former Prime Minister tried to drag the queen into what was a highly controversial matter. Mr cameron has been speaking to the bbc about his six years as Prime Minister and denies he did anything improper. Our deputy Political Editor john pienaar has more. But anyway, its very good to welcome you here. Its the highest relationship in britain, and certainly the most discreet. Only now, David Camerons been given a rare royal rebuke