The greens will become the first party to launch its manifesto later, with a pledge to reach net zero Carbon Emissions in the uk by 2030. Ahead of the general election bbc news is in southampton today, looking at the issues concerning voters there, with a focus on education. Renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough tells the bbc the world is beginning to tackle the threat of Plastic Waste. Its a bit of a litmus test to see whether, in fact, the population care about this sort of thing, and people do. And so i think its very encouraging. Coming up in sport, a big day for wales. If they beat hungary tonighttheyll qualify for the european championships for only the second time. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. An alleged victim ofjeffrey epstein has appealed directly to Prince Andrew to come forward and give a statement to us investigators. The duke is facing renewed calls to tell the authorities about his friendship with epstein, a convicted sex offender. Heres our lo
Al blackman was known as marine a he served more than three years in prison for shooting the taliban fighter in the chest at close range, and is here to tell us how hes now helping other ex Service Personnel. Huddersfield University Students tell Prince Andrew to quit as their chancellor. And the hollywood actor whos made allegations of abuse against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, rose mcgowan, tells us she doesnt believe prince annrew. My my response to the interview Prince Andrew gave is one, like many, of shock and dismay, but also disbelief in my opinion. And facebook Vice President Nicola Mendelsohn defends the social media platforms decision not to ban political adverts. In elections, as you know, theres always been scrutiny about what politicians put out and discuss and debate. We think thats important, we think thats healthy. And we think freedom of expression is a very important part of what facebook is. In a democracy, we dont think its right that a private company should make
From westminster and cardiff, and will be talking to three now former parliamentarians, with more than 80 years of experience between them. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. The Climate Campaign group, Extinction Rebellion, wins a legal challenge against the metropolitan polices ban, on their protests in london. And the two time olympic champion, nicola adams, retires from boxing because of fears she could lose her sight. Its five oclock. Our main story is the official start of the Election Campaign, with the dissolution of parliament and the imminent launch of the conservative campaign this evening in the West Midlands with borisjohnson. But the day started badly for the Prime Minister, with the news that his cabinet colleague the welsh secretary alun cairns had resigned, following claims he knew about the role of a former aide, ross england, in the collapse of a rape trial. Mr cairns had claimed originally that he knew nothing about the matter. Mr england was subsequently sele
The new radicals, that is who we themselves, they got a play off are. We want to bring politics and place by winning their nations the group and in the draw, they got oui are. We want to bring politics and our democracy into the 21st century. Israel. Scotland have beaten israel three times out of the last four times they played, so that is promising. The match will be at hampden so a home match on march 26 im an norwich healing from voters with the winner going through to about the issues that matter most to face either norway or serbia, so them, Mental Health services and the thats pretty tough, and that will impact of Climate Change. Be for a place in the finals next a man who shot his heavily summer. Scotland are 36 places above pregnant ex wife dead with a crossbow has been found israel in the fifa ranking so that guilty of her murder. Bodes well for them. Some of the coming up on afternoon live ties but already determined by seedings, including Northern Ireland and republic of ire
Speaks to me about the challenges of implementing real world Foreign Policy and americas place in diplomacy. To see america from the inside out, and to see whats good and even great in america, but also to see america from the outside as well i think is an important part of being an effective diplomat. Plus italy becomes the first country in the world to make Climate Change lessons for schoolchildren compulsary. Hello and welcome im Michelle Fleury in washington and Nuala Mcgovern is in london. Its not what anyone would want minutes before they launch their Election Campaign. As borisjohnson prepared to address voters from downing street, the news broke that a cabinet minister was resigning. Welsh secretary alun cairns quit following claims he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. Certainly not the best start for a campaign which was launched after mrjohnson met the queen to mark the dissolution of parliament. We now face five weeks of campaigning the Prime Mi