Opportunity to build a better, brighter future. Well bring you the very latest from the campaign trail. Also in the next hour. The us speaker of the house of representatives announces that impeachment proceedings against President Trump will go ahead. The president has engaged an abuse of power in our National Security and jeopardising the integrity of our elections. Frances largest strike in years brings much of the country to a standstill workers are angry about planned Pension Reforms that would see them retiring later orfacing reduced pay outs. And two british pilots land back in the uk after flying around the world in a newly restored spitfire. Its 5 00, our top story. With one week to polling day, the Political Parties are beginning theirfinal push for votes. Boris johnson is promising to pass his brexit deal and to bring in a tax cutting budget within 100 days, if the conservatives win the election. Labour have outlined plans to recruit almost 20,000 extra teachers in england ov
through the english channel, otherwise the winds fairly light and those temperatures in scotland will continue to rise. this is bbc news, the headlines: prince harry said it was his claim for phone hacking and the breach of privacy with mirror group newspapers. settled his claim. israel s prime minister orders his military to devise a rafah evacuation plan hours after new strikes on the southern gaza city. they chant: pay restoration, doctor retention! junior doctors in england will again walk off the job part of their ongoing pay dispute with the government. and 80 years in antarctica a milestone for the uk s first base on the coldest and most remote continent on earth. we have a special report. and a french model maker who was denied recognition by guinness world records for his creation of the tallest matchstick eiffel tower receives some good news. sport and for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan. christian horner s internal hearing into
urged the chinese leader, xijinping, to make president putin see reason. later, the european commission president, ursula von der leyen, encouraged china to promote what she called a just peace . she warned beijing not to sell weapons to russia. the chinese leader said beijing was seeking a political solution to the war. rebecca choong wilkins is an asia government and politics reporter at bloomberg news. well, we have seen beijing really rolling out the red carpet for macron, scenes of that great fanfare in tiananmen square a and at the great wall wall of the people, and macron s endorsement, he earlier said that he expects china to play a major role in the resolution of the russian war in ukraine. his endorsement is significant for ukraine, because xijinping is seeking to restore ties with europe and portray china as a neutral mediator, a responsible world actor that can actually help to mediate and end the the war in ukraine. and of course, the vague blueprint for peace t
good evening. projections following parliamentary elections in france show president emmanuel macron is on course to lose his absolute majority. his coalition is on track to win the most seats, with between 210 and 250. but that s short of the 289 needed for a majority in the national assembly. projections show the left green alliance ofjean luc melenchon is set to win 150 to 180 seats, becoming the main opposition. mr melenchon says the result marks an electoral failure for mr macron. a hung parliament will make it difficult for the president to press ahead with his planned reforms in his second term of office. we re nowjoined by peter conradi, the europe editor of the sunday times newspaper, who joins us from paris. thank whojoins us from paris. you thank who joins us from paris. you forjoining thank whojoins us from paris. you forjoining us. i guess surprising thank you forjoining us. i guess a surprising result? surprising result? yes, i mean eole surprising result? y
Winning squad have decided to end their strike. Returning to play for the National Team after the countrys Football Federation said it would make immediate and profound changes to its structure. Now only two of the players called up despite their boycott of the team say they wont play in the Nations League matches against sweden and switzerland following a series of meetings that ran through to the early hours of wednesday morning at the squads Training Camp near valencia. Those two are barcelonas Patri Guijarro and mapi leon, neither of whom played at the world cup. Translation it is a fact the situation is translation it is a fact the situation is different translation it is a fact the situation is different to translation it is a fact the situation is different to the i translation it is a fact the | situation is different to the rest of our colleagues. We know it has not been the right way to return, so we are not in a position to say ok, now you come back. This is a process. We a