A second cinema chain pulls the gang themed film blue story after a brawl at a complex in birmingham at the weekend. And an apology from new zealand for englands jofra archer, who says he was subjected to racist abuse at the end of the first test. And coming up on bbc news today is the day that we are finding out who is up for this years bbc Sports Personality of the year. The six nominees for the public vote are being revealed throughout the day. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. A lorry driver who is accused of the deaths of 39 migrants found in a refrigerated lorry in essex has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist illegal immigration. Maurice robinson, from craigavon, is accused of being part of a larger plot to bring people into the uk illegally. He was not asked to plead to 39 charges of manslaughter, which he also faces. The bodies of 39 people from vietnam, including children, were discovered last month in the back of a lorry in essex. Daniel sandford reports.
There are different ways of going around it and having it affect our exa m around it and having it affect our exam week. Labour says it will bring in rent controls and improve conditions for tenants in privately owned accommodation in england, if it wins the general election. Pro democracy supporters celebrate, as they win overwhelmingly in hong kongs local elections. And coming up later, treasures worth up to a billion euros are stolen in a daring robbery of ancientjewellery in dresden. Its 5 oclock our main story is that a lorry driver accused of the deaths of 39 migrants who were found in a lorry container in essex has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist illegal immigration. Maurice robinson from craigavon in Northern Ireland is accused of being part of a larger plot to bring people into the uk illegally. He was not asked to plead to 38 charges of manslaughter which he also faces. The bodies of 39 people from vietnam including children, were discovered last month as our Home Affa
The pro democracy parties of hong kong showed up to the polls in Record Number and swept the board in weekend elections a stunning rejection of the citys beijing backed government. Also on the programme. Uber and out. The ride sharing app has been told its licence will not be renewed in london. It plans to appeal. And the priceless jewellery of augustus the strong, has been stolen from a museum in dresden, where the security was anything but. Hello and welcome im Michelle Fleury in new york, Christian Fraser is in london. Michael bloomberg, the three term mayor of this city has announced he is running for president. The 77 year old is making a late entrance, but he has the money to make up for it. Take a look at this graphic. It shows you the tv ad spending by 2020 democrats thus far. And you will see, there is Michael Bloomberg, second in the list, and he has only just entered the race. Rather than trying to win early states, he will be focusing all his attention on super tuesday, whe
Has had to say about that. Hong kongs Pro Democracy Movement delivered a landslide victory in local elections this weekend. Across hong kong, turnout was over 70 thats a record. Nearly three Million People voted, and they voted overwhelmingly for pro democracy candidates. Just have a look at this. This is the electoral map. The yellow shows us the electoral map. The yellow shows us the progress made by pro democracy politicians. They took 17 out of the 18 districts. Compare that to 2015, when all 18 were controlled by pro beijing groups. Weve also seen some of the territorys best known politicians defeated by young inexperienced pro democracy candidates. And of course, the context for all of this is that pro democracy anti beijing protests have been going on for over five months. And these results represent yet another blow to the authority of hong kongs chief executive carrie lam. Shes said. And while shes reflecting, the protests go on. Jonathon head is there. Today, Office Workers i
A Russian Missile Defense System the s 400 instead of a western Missile Defense system and they blame the west for forcing them into that they said the u. S. Didnt want to sell its system and there is some talk that the European Union having put a partial arms embargo on turkey is going to do even do to push that even further that theyre going to look even more closely at russia as an arms supplier so its a very complicated situation right now and i think thats why were not hearing more Crystal Clear ways forward nobody knows exactly what to do youve got to keep turkey inside nato nato is better off that way the thinking goes and turkey is better off that way so theres really no discussion of of turkey leaving nato or being kicked out but nobody knows exactly how to truly bring it back psychologically politically into the fold of western allies yeah its a its a geo political love hate story. In brussels covering the nato summit force thank you. Still ahead on the day another face to fa