Also on the programme. Israel kills a top islamichhad leader in gaza and braces for retaliatory rocket attacks. After nine years at sea, a message in a bottle finally receives a response. Thankfully, it wasnt an 505. Hello and welcome. Im Christian Fraser in Bishop Auckland, and Michelle Fleury is in new york. We are just over a month from the uk general election and its in places like this County Durham where the vote could be won and lost. Bbc news will be visiting ten areas of the uk where seats will be closely contested. Today, weve travelled beyond the bubble to Bishop Auckland in the north east of england. Its a marginal labour seat which voted decisively for brexit. Well, yesterday the brexit party announced they would not run candidates in seats won by the conservatives in 2017. But they will stand in Bishop Auckland, making the seat even more marginal and more unpredictable. Last week, we were in leeds on the doorstep with the canvassers. This time, we have steered clear of th
So the big cities do well, smaller communities are bound to lose out. Well be reporting live from the village of fishlake near doncaster, one of the worst affected areas. Also tonight life sentences for the parents of six children, who murdered two teenage sons, a day after trying to poison them. In hong kong, police warn that the rule of law is on the brink of total collapse, after months of pro democracy protests. And the spats between Raheem Sterling and joe gomez are just like a family disagreement, according to the england manager. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news. Well bring you the latest as wales, Northern Ireland and england women are all in action this evening. Good evening. The Prime Minister, whos facing criticism for his response to the severe flooding in parts of northern england, has announced more support for the communities affected. Boris johnson was speaking after chairing a meeting of cobra, the cabinets emergency committee. He said the situation was an absolu
That the rule of law is on the brink of total collapse after months of pro democracy protests. And the spats between Raheem Sterling and joe gomez are just like a family disagreement, according to the england manager. And at 11 30, well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers henry zeffman, Political Correspondent for the times, and kezia dugdale, the former scottish labour leader. Stay with us for that. Good evening. The Prime Minister, whos facing criticism for his response to the severe flooding in parts of northern england, has announced more support for the communities affected. Boris johnson was speaking after chairing a meeting of cobra, the cabinets Emergency Committee. He said the situation was an absolute tragedy but labour and the liberal democrats have again said that a National Emergency should be declared. Following a months worth of rain in just 2a hours last week, rivers burst their banks, flooding parts of South Yorkshire, nottinghamshire, derbyshir
Is feeling like it was just a publicity stunt. On the uk government site. A man opens fire outside a synagogue in germany at least two people have been killed. All thomas cooks stores are bought by hayes travel, in a move that could save 20,500 jobs. Coming up, ive been speaking to some of the People Living in one london borough thats been hit hard by knife violence. And also coming up, well speak to a former sun journalist about Coleen Rooney accusing rebeka vardy of using her private instagram to obtain stories about her,and selling them to tabloid newspapers. The fighting in syria has taken a new turn with turkey launching airstrikes and us allies accusing america of betrayal. Turkey has begun a major offensive against Kurdish Forces who control the north east of the country. The kurds are currently involved in joint military operations with american troops in syria and have played a key role capturing thousands of is fighters. Its unclear what will now happen to those fighters. The
Its back to 32 a share. Down 6. 58. Overall, the markets holding pretty steady as the profit reports roll in. In fact, id say stock prices are real solid and some of the profit reports, thats keeping the market at very high levels. No big pullback at this point. The dow industrials will open up about 40 this morning, s p up 6. By the way, the s p is only 22 points away from the alltime high. Whats that, just one big rally . The nasdaq, look at it go, up a half percentage point premarket. Big deal. Now let me lay out what we have for you. An important speech from Vice President pence on china. He may take a hard line. That could affect the market. And here comes amazon, perhaps the most important Earnings Report of them all. How strong is Consumer Online buying . Very important and we are going to find out today. Of course, we are going to watch apple hit new highs and unless something dramatic happens, we are hardly even going to mention impeachment. Here we go. Varney company is about