than 100 years. the reason for that, thatis than 100 years. the reason for that, that is probably quite a deep, dark story but prince harry has always maintained he was prevented from taking legal action against newspapers by buckingham palace. that they didn t want him giving evidence in the witness box went the argument. of course, buckingham palace denied that. it has tried to settle claims here and there when it could come against the many newspapers who have been involved in this long saga. just to give you some of the background to this, before we get into what s happening here today, back in 2006, it became known that newspapers had been accessing people s mobile phone voicemails. most of us don t leave voicemails. most of us don t leave voicemails any more, do we? we leave text messages or we do video calls. but in the 90s, and 2000s of the people often left voice mail messages and journalists worked out that because the pin numbers were not changed very often, they c
tv debate this evening. a cargo plane carrying weapons has crashed in northern greece killing all eight people on board. translation: there were flames, we were scared, a lot of cars came| but they could not approach because there were continuous explosions. hello and good evening. an amber warning for extreme heat is now in force across most of england and parts of wales, as the uk braces for record temperatures in the coming days. the alert will extend to southern scotland from tomorrow, when the first red extreme heat warning issued by the met office will take effect in england, from london to manchester and york. a national emergency has been declared, with temperatures predicted to reach up to 41 degrees celsius. our correspondent jon donnison reports. an amber heat warning for much of the country, so what better to do than limber up for a half marathon? runners in london s richmond park undeterred, with hydration the order of the day. stayed cool yesterday by drin
the moderator is going to join us live. plus, why it matters what a media owner thinks. we re going to get in the reports about him saying one thing. and we ll talk about the effort to relaunch an african news channel. media brian coming up later. but first, what the mar-a-lago search reveals about america. donald trump has so often taken us into unchartered water. and that s what we re waiting to find out, what was he hiding, what were in the boxes, will the justice department indict him? can me mount a coherent defense? the details are come out. let s zoom in on this morning s front page. hints about the fore coming prosecution. the reactions of that headline as well. talk on the right is darkening the times says, and violence is rising. it really can t get much darker than it is right now. media outlets that are far from right-wing are issuing stark warnings. an assault of legitimacy of the american state and set the stage for violence. fox is saying what happened at mar-a
like because it in effect puts a border down the irish sea. now on bbc news, it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than interrogation of someone whose political thinking shapes all of ours. this week my guest is a symbol of the modern labour party, a symbol if you like of a party of two eras. on the one hand, 13 years in power. on the other, 12 years of powerlessness. yvette cooper was once a young rising star of the new labour blair and brown years, but what followed was the wilderness years of opposition, summed up for many by the night on which her husband ed balls lost his seat, as a neighbour of hers in yorkshire. cooper ran to be labour leader againstjeremy corbyn and lost and lost badly. keir starmer brought her back to front line politics, asking her to become shadow home secretary. yvette cooper, welcome to political thinking. good to be here, nick. i m sorry to mention the powerlessne
good to be here, nick. i m sorry to mention the powerlessness! when you watch the tory infighting this week, who is going to be leader? and nobody says keir starmer. it s, will it bejeremy hunt, will it be borisjohnson? does it increase that sense of frustration, of not being in power? the frustration of not being able to do things is huge, and you re right, we ve had 12 years of this now. we are nearly going to have been as long out of power as we were in power. and yes, there s just this massive difference, and it is incredibly frustrating. i think it s also. it s frustrating in terms of all the things that you can do in government, but also frustrating watching them right now, because it feels like they are damaging everybody. we re going to talk about politics, as it were, in a while. but just talking about you, do you ever feel, as these years have passed on, years of opposition, maybe i had my moment, maybe it s time to do something else ? and seeing your husband ed