Across the league also chose to kneel during the playing of the star spangled banner. Its the biggest demonstration since the protests first began in 2016. Well the president has spoken to reporters and responded to the widespread day of action across several teams. One of those involved the new England Patriots owner robert kraft who released a statement backing his players. I watched a little bit, and i will say that there was tremendous solidarity for our flag and our country. Your friend robert croft said he was disappointed by the remarks on friday. Thats ok. He has to ta ke remarks on friday. Thats ok. He has to take his ideas and go with what he wants. I think its very disrespect for to our country. I think it is very, very disrespectful to ourflag. I like him very much, he gave me a super bowl bring a month ago. He is a good friend of mine. Iwant month ago. He is a good friend of mine. I want him to do what he wants to do, but we have a great country. We have great people repre
They say theyre protesting against racism in the us and he says theyre unpatriotic. Good morning. We bought more than £500 million worth ofjune last year, thats doubled in the last six yea rs, year, thats doubled in the last six years, so year, thats doubled in the last six years, so ive come to a distillery in london to find out why its booming jim. In sport, the rain stays away in bristol. Fifa have held talks with the home nations in time for matches in november to have poppies. And carol has the weather. Rain in central uk this morning, some of it heavy. In the west, although we have fog in Northern Ireland, that will lift and Western Areas today generally seeing sunshine. More details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Labour will set out to unite its members over brexit today as it looks to calm growing anger over the issues that will be voted on at the party conference. The shadow brexit secretary sir keir starmer will give a speech on the issue, but there will
The united mileageplus explorer card. Imagine where it will take you. Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. It is just about every family and schools horror story. A family in shock this mothers day. A school in mourning. A car crash sends a mother to the hospital and kills her teenaged daughter. Good evening. Im eric thomas. And im kate larsen. The mother was driving home with her 18yearold daughter after what should have been one of the happiest nights of the year, senior prom. Abc 7 News Reporter lilian kim sat the intersection of fremont boulevard and darwin drive with more on this tragic story. Lillian . Kate and eric, they were less than two blocks from home when a car hit them here on fremont boulevard. Friends stopped by earlier this evening to place flowers and candles throughout the intersection. It was 2 30 a. M. A mother and daughter were in this toyota yaris, making a left turn from fremont boulevard when a chevy malibu plowed right into them. Maria marcelino was behind
Change in Public Sector pay policy, despite several Cabinet Ministers including the foreign secretary borisjohnson, calling for the 1 pay cap to be scrapped. James bird kuchar, the Northern Ireland secretary, says a deal can be reached despite the deadline being missed. In a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. Well have the latest developments on president trumps war with the media on 100 day plus at 7pm. A report into seven decades of Child Abuse Injersey claims that children in the islands care system may still be at risk. Well speak to a former Chief Minister at 8pm. And well have the first look at tomorrows front pages at 10. 1i0pm with christopher hope, chief Political Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and Financial Times correspondent miranda green. Thats all ahead on bbc news. Now on bbc news its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to wimbledon sportsday, im katherine downes. Opening the show andy murray
This whole area is the subject of territorial disputes between china and vietnam and the philippines. And others. China claims all the Maritime Territory inside this dotted red line, but its neighbours dispute this. A us warship has sailed close to triton island, which is claimed by china, taiwan and vietnam. In response, china sent military vessels and Fighter Planes to the area in response. Last night the Chinese Foreign ministry put out this statement they called it a serious political and military provocation. This was hours before a phone call between the leaders of us and china in which apparently none of this came up. I asked vincent ni from the bbcs Chinese Service to explain. They did discuss that in a very discreet way in a sense that both sides do notjuantorena relationship, they dont want a confrontational approach. It is also partly for mass consumption because this isnt the first time that it has sailed through the South China Sea and china have objected. It shows that bo