Delegates at the nut Conference Vote in favour of a ballot on Strike Action in england, because of concerns about funding cuts. More throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. Coming up now its sportsday. Good evening, spurs reduce the gap with chelsea as bournemouth get thumped 4 0 at White Hart Lane. Stoke city with a win, and Valtteri Bottas claims Pole Position for the first time in his career to deny team mate Lewis Hamilton Pole Position on the grid in bahrain. And britains cyclists add to the medal tally at the World Track Cycling Championships in hong kong and defending champion mark selby makes a blistering start to this years snicko World Championship. Good evening, lots of neutral fans would like to see the race to win the Premier League title go to the final few matches. Spurs have done their bit to make sure it does. They beat bournemouth 4 0 in the days early kick off to move to just four points behind League Leaders chelsea who dont play until tomorrow. David ornste
Of authoritarian rule. And nico rosberg shocks the world of formula one days after winning the drivers championship, announces his retirement from the sport. We will find out why. My name is christopher, good to have you with us. All eyes are on sunday with two important votes taking place, one in italy, the other in austria. We start with austria first. Voters are electing the new president on sunday in a rerun of a vote originally held last may. Last may, the dependent candidate independent candidate for him, but it was overturned in court. And now the two candidates emphasize their proand antie. U. Stances. The race is too close to call. The presidency in austria is largely ceremonial, but the popularity shows how many austrians in beit embrace antiimmigrant rhetoric because of effective campaigning. Reporter hofstadter is an oldschool politician. Right now he is feeling very optimistic. we are getting a lot of support from the people. Everyone is saying, i hope he wins. That is wha
2set lead to stumble out of the grand slam. Starting with the latest of the refugee crisis. German Police Expect 10,000 Asylum Seekers on saturday, across the border from austria into hungary. 4,000 crossed the border saturday morning into austria. As they continue their journey west across europe, some of these people are meeting in luxembourg. E. U. Foreign ministers looking for a more unified response. Lets start with john howard at the meeting in Jacky Rowland at the meeting in luxembourg. We use the word unified response. Difficult for the parties involved. Yes, really, they are trying to develop a policy in response to the crisis, generally things can move slowly. Theres a way in which decisions are reached through consensus, meaning everyone has to agree, and these things can take days and days or weeks and months. On this occasion theres a clear and urgent need. The fact that there is an e. U. Policy regarding Asylum Seekers, which is out of date given the current situation. At
Voting for a new president an election overshadowed by corruption claims in sport its been a dominant day for Lewis Hamilton. His closest rival went up in smoke, Lewis Hamilton celebrated yet another win hello there. Warm welcome to this hour of news. Breaking news out of turkey. The armed Kurdish Group p. K. K. Said it killed 15 turkish soldiers, fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party used mines to attack an armed convoy close to the iranian and iraqi borders. Turkeys president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said forces would respond in a different and determined manner. Its reported that turkeys air force launched retaliatory air strikes. Now to bernard smith, joining us on the phone. What else do we know at this stage . The p. K. K. Have claimed responsibility for this. There is no official confirmation of the number of soldiers killed. The p. K. K. Says its 15. They said they ambushed vehicles, two armoured vehicles carrying soldiers out on patrol. The government has said that the vehicle
Catalans on the path to independence and in sport Lewis Hamilton equals Ayrton Sennas record to a championship lead of 14 the United States and the European Union approached iran to help find a solution to the syrian conflict. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry and e. U. Foreign policy chief discussed the issue with their iranian counterparts in new york. Talks are expected to take place in russia as the diplomatic editor james bays explains. All eyes will be on russian president Vladimir Putin, when he makes a whistlestop trip to new york, spending less than a full day in the u. S. To attend the United Nations General Assembly. Everyone wants to know what his intentions are recording syria. On the one hand a russian build up. Vladimir putin sent marines, helicopters and tanks to a base in latakia on syrias coast. On the other he says he wants a political solution. In an interview with talk to al jazeera, i asked the e. U. s high representative, federica mogherini, if she had been giv