The week in parliament. Hello and welcome to the last week in parliament before decembers general election. Coming up. The new speaker takes his seat in the commons biggest chair. I hope this house will be once a great respected house, notjust in here but across the world. In the final days of the session mps push through a bill to compensate Abuse Victims in Northern Ireland. And a former conservative demands a report into alleged russian interference in uk democracy is published. The Prime Minister does not have Carte Blanche to alter our reports or remove material from them. And we talk to three of the 70 mps who are standing down about what prompted them to go. I thought somebody is trying to tell me something, i think i better pop off while i can still make it out on my own. But first. In the dying days of whats been a most turbulent parliament, mps elected a new speaker. John bercow, whod done the job for ten years had decided to stand down from parliament. 7 mps put themselves f
Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week. We devote most of the programme to discussing europe, since the fall of the berlin wall. But well leave a few minutes at the end, to distil week one of a British Election campaign. My guests today, Stephanie Baker of bloomberg news. Italian journalist, annalisa piras. Author and long time correspondent for die welt, thomas kielinger. Political commentator alexander nekrassov. 9th november 1989. The day the berlin wall came down. Those who poured across it made history, others watched and wept. Europe whole and free proclaimed the United States. Some observers heralded the end of history, a conclusive victory for western liberal democracy. But three decades on, is europe still celebrating . That is the question we will consider but before we do that, thomas start us off by giving your recollection of that day, because of course you were already halfway through your adult life and indeed the wall had been there for all of
New images reveal the bravery of members of the public tackling the convicted terrorist on the bridge and in the hall where his attack began. You get andy and lukasz starting a fightback. They used fire extinguishers, they used chairs, they used these narwhal tusks ripped off the wall in the heat of the moment, and they took the game back to the knife wall. Police say theyve arrested a man in stoke on trent following a review of the existing licence conditions of convicted terrorism offenders. It is not believed to be connected to the London Bridge attack. Maltas prime minister, joseph muscat, says he will resign following mass protests over the murder of an anti corru ption journalist. Now on bbc news, Judith Moritz looks back on the history of the hillsborough disaster. 96 football fans were unlawfully killed at hillsborough stadium. But after 30 years, a jurys decided the man in charge on that april day in 1989 is not criminally responsible for their deaths. 96 were unlawfully kille
Been the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company for almost 15 years. In that time the company has bought some of the biggest media brands in the world pixar animation, marvel and lucasfilm, and most recently 21st century fox. Hes been speaking to the bbcs media editor amol rajan about his career and what hes learnt along the way. Who is the most powerful person in global media today . You could say is someone from a tech giants but theyd be run very close by the boss of the Walt Disney Company. Its ceo is bob iger. He has been in charge since 2005 and has pulled off some of the most outrageous acquisitions in immediate history. He persuaded stevejobs to sell him pixar and bought marvel and even persuaded george lucas to sell him star wars and even got 21st century fox. If there is one person who understands the past present and future of media it is bob iger the disney ceo. Welcome to bbc. There is a century of heritage and sound anywhere from the beatles to adele, led zeppelin, ro
Its already been a busy day on the Election Campaign trail, with less than five weeks until the general election. The conservatives have unveiled plans to train more gps while labour and liberal democrats are focussing on better support for childcare. Heres our Political Correspondent iain watson. Its enough to raise your blood pressure. You know what its like. Try to get a non urgent appointment with your doctor and you can wait days, sometimes more than a week. Today, the conservatives promised an injection of more gps into the Health Service in england by 2025. The package will deliver 6000 more doctors in primary care and that will lead to 50 million more appointments. I know how frustrating it is when you cannot get a gp appointment fast enough. But hang on a minute what happened to the 5000 gps the conservatives promised at the 2015 election . That target has not been reached. The reality will be seeing these delivered on. Whichever government we have it a few weeks time, we need