At the cricket world cup englands bowlers make steady progress as they take on new zealand hoping for a place in the semi finals. China and britain have become embroiled in a heated war of words over the demonstrations in hong kong. Its after the foreign secretary jeremy hunt warned of serious consequences for china if the rights of People Living in the territory were infringed. Today beijing accused the uk of indulging in colonial era fantasies and warned it not to interfere in its domestic affairs. The Foreign Office in london summoned the Chinese Ambassador over his comments on the matter. Hong kong have now returned to the embrace of the motherland connects the special administration of china. Its not part of the uk. So i would call them to say hands off of hancock hong kong and show respect of whats been achieved in hong kong and one country to systems. Lets speak to our diplomatic crrespondent james landale, after that he was called into for a meeting, he described it as unaccept
i don t think sunday will be the end of it, from what i can see. if we can negotiate a deal this week, it can be, but otherwise we ll have to look at what campaigns we are going to put on going forward, and we think that other unions are going tojoin us in this dispute on the railway, and more broadly in society. it wasn t the employers that called the strike action. we wanted rmt. .. we wanted to do reform earlier. they have been discussing it with us, but they have not came forward with meaningful reform. in other news, ukraine is on the verge of losing control of the key city of severodonetsk. its troops have been pushed back to just one factory there. allegations of corruption and sexual abuse at the united nations whistle blowers call for an independent panel to investigate. an inquiry finds that the belfast health trust failed to intervene quickly enough on misdiagnoses by a consultant neurologist, resulting in northern ireland s largest ever patient recall. and princ
a photo of the duke of cambridge with his children is released to celebrate father s day. good afternoon. the transport secretary says it s not for the government to intervene to try to prevent three days of strikes on the railways this week. grant shapps dismissed calls from the rmt union to get involved in the dispute as a stunt saying it s for the employers and unions to reach an agreement. mr shapps says the strikes would be an act of self harm. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the government wants the strikes to go ahead to sow division in society. here s our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday, they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. government says children heading to take exams or patients to medical appointments will face disruption. but, under pressure to take part in talks with the unions, it says it w
# eastenders theme and there is a new couple in albert square, as the duke and duchess of cornwall star in a specialjubilee episode of eastenders. good morning. ithink good morning. i think many parts of the uk will see the sun at some stage today, particularly the further south and east you are, but will that sunshine sparked off some thundery showers for you this afternoon? more details on what is happening where coming up. it is sunday 22 may. our main story: the long awaited report into gatherings in downing street during lockdown is expected to be published within days. the senior civil servant sue gray has given people she intends to name in her report until 5:00pm today to respond. meanwhile, pressure is growing on the prime minister to explain what was discussed at a meeting between him and ms gray several weeks ago. our political correspondent iain watson reports. the long awaited report into gatherings at the heart of government is being finalised this weekend an
Uncovered new evidence that could prove his innocence. There are big plans to change our railways to ease pressure points for passengers. We will be speaking to the transport secretary about the details. Good morning. In sport englands women maintain their perfect start in world cup qualifying, super sub fran kirby scoring with her first kick of the game, in a 5 0 win over kazakhstan. And a new drive to get us to reduce the amount of food we throw out. Items that should be stored in the fridge will get new labels. And it may be freezing, but that hasnt stopped matt. He is out and about with the weather. Good morning. Good morning, and we are at hampton pool in west london, with foakes a little bit raver than myself. Folks. A few showers to the north and east but for many of you a lot of sunshine as well. Your full forecast is coming up. Good morning. First our main story the bbc understands that the government has significantly increased the amount of money it is offering to the Europe