Inappropriate conduct. The education secretary asks universities to review fire safety in all their buildings after 200 firefighters spent more than nine hours tackling a fire at a student hall in bolton. Leading labour and trade union figures are meeting to decide which policies will be included in the partys election manifesto. Competing on green policies the conservatives say they will plant 30 Million Trees a year by 2025 but the liberal democrats say they can plant twice that. Good afternoon. The duke of york has told the bbc he has no recollection of ever meeting the woman who says she was made to have sex with him when she was 17. In an exclusive interview with newsnight, to be broadcast tonight, Prince Andrew insisted he didnt remember Virginia Roberts, despite the existence of a photograph showing the two of them together, said to have been taken in 2001. He also said it was wrong to stay at the home ofjeffrey epstein, after he was found guilty of child sex offences. At the ti
Prince andrew said he had no recollection of meeting virginia roberts, who claims she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17 after being groomed by epstein. The duke denies any inappropriate conduct. The education secretary has ordered all universities to review fire safety in their buildings after two people were hurt when fire ripped through student halls in bolton. Jeremy corbyn has led a meeting of senior labour figures to decide the partys manifesto promising a vision for a better britain for everyone. Competing on climate change. The conservatives pledge to plant 30 Million Trees a year by 2025, but the lib dems say they would plant twice as many. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello. Youre watching sportsday on bbc news with Lizzie Greenwood hughes and ben croucher. Our top stories this saturday. As the home nations euro 2020 qualifying campaigns draw to a close, theres a morale boosting win for scotland. Could this be a changing of the guard in tennis . As St
And click looks at a new technology called object based media. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Crowds of demonstrators have gathered in locations across the uk to protest against the Prime Ministers decision to suspend parliament. Organisers hope tens of thousands of people will take to the streets in dozens of towns and cities. The shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, was among those addressing the crowd outside the gates of downing street. Well, our correspondent simonjones is there for us. The protests a re the protests are continuing this afternoon. We are just outside downing street where people are still at the gates. They have been chanting they want boris out, they have been charting stop the code. Earlier, people took to the stage, we heard from politicians, trade unions and general members of the public who wanted to have their say to. They say they want to stop the coup. Protesters outside downing street claim borisjohnson is tr
And in half an hour, the Victoria Derbyshire programme looks at controversy over new Relationship Education in schools good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. Crowds of demonstrators have gathered in locations across the uk to protest against the Prime Ministers decision to suspend parliament. Organisers hope tens of thousands of people will take to the streets in dozens of towns and cities. The shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, was among those addressing the crowd outside the gates of downing street. From there, our correspondent simonjones reports. Yes, the protests are continuing this afternoon. Were just outside downing street, where still people are at the gates. They have been chanting they want boris out, theyve been chanting, stop the coup. Earlier, people took to the stage. We heard from politicians, we heard from members of trade unions, and people, just general members of the public, who wanted to have their say, too. The shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, says that dictat
League. Tens of thousands of pro democracy demonstrators have taken to the streets in hong kong in defiance of a police ban. Petrol bombs were thrown at officers, who responded to the protesters by firing tear gas and water cannons. The event was called to mark five years since beijing ruled out fully democratic elections in the territory. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonnell gave this update from hong kong. I am beside a couple of officers here. You can see water cannon is being deployed. People here are ducking down beneath the parapet to also avoid tear gas which is being fired. You can see from above. To the right here, you can see the protesters coming in and they are moving forward towards the government headquarters, where they may be able to throw molotov cocktails at closer proximity to the police at times. There goes one now, catching fire on the barricades. This is the violent showdown people predicted when permission was denied to have this march today and also follows the a