political thinking helps to shape ours. once again, london and brussels are at loggerheads. once again come row between the uk and the eu is about the status of northern ireland. once again, politics in belfast is deadlocked, with unionists refusing to share power with sinn fein. my guess is someone whose life and career is based on your refusal to take sides in the political battle to stop it is a decision that has paid dividends for naomi long, who leads the alliance party, which won a record number of seats in the recent elections. brought up in one of the most fiercely loyal as parts of east belfast, she insisted that politics should not be defined by whether you want northern ireland to stay in the uk ought instead to be united with the rest of ireland. but does she and her party really represent anything more than simply none of the above? naomi long, from belfast, welcome to political thinking. hi there. do you everfind welcome to political thinking. hi there. do you e
gatwick airport cancels hundreds of holiday flights this summer. it says staff shortages are still a major problem. covid infections jumped 43% in the week of the four dayjubilee bank holiday, according to the latest figures. that one sounded so good! england s cricketers break their own world record for runs scored in a one day international. and today s warm weather in the south of england has now been officially classed as a heatwave. coming up in the sport later in the hour on the bbc news channel, callum tarren is making a name for himself in the second round of the us open. the englishman s battling to stay at the top of the leaderboard. welcome to bbc news at ten. there s more evidence today of the sharp rise in the cost of living, with the price of petrol and diesel breaking new records, and the rate of inflation heading to levels not seen for decades. ministers have urged people to be sensible in their demands for higher wages, but a major new survey for the bbc in
in london in which 72 people died. music. and could the best be yet to come? after nine years together, the k pop supergroup bts announce they re taking a break to focus on their solo careers. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 6am in the morning in singapore and ”pm in the evening in the uk, where the first scheduled flight due to take migrants from britain to rwanda under a controversial agreement was stopped at the last minute. the flight was meant to be removing dozens of people, but a series of legal challenges progressively reduced that number to zero. the flight was due to take off from a military facility in the south of england. our correspondent duncan kennedy is there. thank you very much for coming up for us. there has been lots of surprises in store really, and what is the latest and what are you seeing at the moment? surprise hardly does seeing at the moment? surprise hardly does it seeing at t
debilityable. laura: texas lieutenant governor dan patrick was grabbing the microphone to speak at the same time beto o rourke went on an unhinged rant. dan patrick will join us in moments. but first we go straight to uvalde texas where lieutenant chris with the department of public safety is standing by. lieutenant, there s one witness i know that you desperately want to speak with and that s the gunman s grandmother who he shot in the face. it was a dispute, apparently, over wifi. she was on the phone with a cell phone provider complaining about wifi. what is her medical status after being shot in the face, and how important is she to this equation? right. so good evening, laura. so she is a key component to this investigation. right now she is critical. our prayers are with her as well as the entire community here in uvalde is also with the victims and the families. but we are hoping that she pulls through because she will be a key witness to this investigation because