In england are the worst in five yea rs. Hes a showboat, hes a grandstander. President trump lays into his former fbi director and says he always intended to sack him. And Manchester United keep their Champions League dream alive, beating the spanish side celta vigo. Coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News andy murray is knocked out of the madrid open in the last 16 by borna coric, so hes failed to reach the Quarter Finals in two of his last three events. Good evening. Labours Election Manifesto has been formally approved by the Party Leadership and will be published next week. Jeremy corbyn said the policies would be fully costed and would prove to be very popular with voters. Some of the main parts of the manifesto had already found their way into the public domain, after a version of the document was leaked overnight. It included proposals to re Nationalise The Railways and to scrap University Tuition fees in england. Our political editor, laura kuenssberg, has more on the Campaign Event
And any ties to Trumps Campaign. The former tv presenter rolf harris is being released on bail tomorrow. The veteran entertainer is currently on trial accused of indecently assaulting three girls between 1971 and 1983. Retail sales rose by 2. 3 last month defying Market Expectations that rising inflation would cause a consumer slowdown. Hello and good morning. Welcome to bbc news. Im sophie long, in West Yorkshire. Where theresa may will promise to address the rising cost of social care in england and curb immigration when she launches the Conservative Manifesto shortly. It has been delayed due to Travel Problems and there have been a couple of protests which have sprung up. Small protests at this stage. One to the side of the building and another to the entrance. Shortly theresa may will arrive here and unveiled the Conservative Party plans for the election. Lets take you through what we are expecting to hear from theresa may at this stage. The party is promising that no one will have
Almost a year on from the murder of jo cox, her parents speak about what they have gone through as a family. There is a piece missing. To the outside world, we appear strong, olive us, but there are days when it is bad. And bees on her bonnet a 20,000 strong swarm makes its new home on car in hull. Good morning, were live at Downing Street, Arlene Foster and other members of the dup will be here at Downing Street a little later for those crucial talks. Crucial for theresa may if she is to form a Working Government with time pressures very much at the forefront of everybody passed my mind. Watching the developments, our assistant Political Editor norman smith. The timescale is very tight. What is the key objectives. Us through how you see it going injust a key objectives. Us through how you see it going in just a few hours. There will be a deal. The idea that Arlene Foster will turn up that they will emerge scowling at each other and checking first, that is not a runner. The reason Arle
Program walks on two legs, the leg of policies and the legs of debt sustainability. Autos power ahead at the open after european car sales get back into gear with a near 8 rise in may, while the steam comes out of the tech selloff. Nestle loses its sweet tooth as it looks to sell 900 million u. S. Confectionary business in a potentially significant effort to focus on its health strategy, sending the shares higher. Uk chancellor Philip Hammond is arriving in luxembourg. Lets get out to willem. Thats our main dominating theme today, it will remain so over the weekend as bodies are recovered, we start to get a sense of the scale of the tragedy. My presence here today is a sign of other continued engagement with the European Union while were members of the union, its a sign of our commitment to being close partners with the European Union after we left and i can confirm that as we enter negotiations next week, we will do so in a spirit of sincere cooperation, taking a pragmatic approach tr
Pausing. Not a lot of action in the u. S. Major averages. The nasdaq modestly higher. The dow and s p trading a little lower. They all opened up just slightly. The Energy Sector is weighing down markets. It will be interesting to see how the day trades at. As for two of the big laggers, boeing and nike. , while a downgrade boeing is lower after the president elect tweeted that costs are out of control for the new boeing air force 1. Cancel the order. Turning now to why the Energy Sector is the worst drag. Oil down for the first in five days after the opec supply cut last week. Out interestingly, after that deal was cut, news came today that production just hit a record for of 34. 6 one Million Barrels million 34. 61 barrels a day. Looking at g btv 399. In blue, the xop. In white, the uso, and oil etf. S have it appears investors would rather own Oil Companies rather than oil it self. Mark love that chart. I was going to do it myself. European equities rising a second consecutive day. T