To dateline london. Im jane hill. This week well be discussing general elections the campaign is in its early stages here in the uk, rather more advanced in france. Well assess Donald Trumps first 100 days in office and look at the under reported tensions between india, and china. With me today are ashis ray, the indian broadcaster the north american broadcaster jeffrey kofman, ned temko, the political commentator and eunice goes, the portuguese writer. Just a few days, it feels like coming to a british general election. Ned, dont look bored at the start it is low key . It might get even lower, you never know. The British Press often talks about a phoney war before an Election Campaign really starts. What is odd about this is it is kind of a phoney election. Despite the prospectus, theresa may saying i need this mandate to strengthen my Negotiation Position with the eu, even she must know that it has nothing to do with the eu. Even if she were to get putin sized majorities in this elec
There is no punishment, there is no brexit bill, the financial settlement is only about settling the accounts. Im nicholas owen. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. A 20 year old student is found guilty of Planting A Home made bomb on a busy London Underground tube train. Ten years on from the disappearance of Madeleine Mccann we return to praia da luz as British Police say their investigation remains open. A big fall in profits at sainsburys. The Supermarket Giant blames tough Market Conditions and a fall in the value of sterling. Good afternoon imjane hill at westminster on the day that the general Election Campaign officially got underway. Theresa may has launched an attack on european officials accusing someone on european officials accusing someone to try to influence the outcome of the british General Election by using threats. She said that talks would be tough and the position of the uk had been represented the standards of the European Commission hardened. The Prime Minis
Hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. She Wont Take Part in a televised Leaders Debate. If she wont, then he wont. Will the bbc do more to make a head to head happen . And are the green party being given a fair share of airtime on the bbcs special election programmes. There has been a bit of a phoney war feel to the Election Campaign so far. Before the parties began publishing their manifestos. Many questions had been fobbed off with this answer, given to Laura Kuenssberg byJeremy Corbyn on tuesday. Well, you will have to wait for the manifesto for the details. You were expecting that answer. Those manifestos will be officially unveiled next week, but on wednesday night we got a Sneak Preview of what labours might contain. Somehow, an earlier version had ended up in the hands of chris mason. I cant claim ive read it all, but here it is. Stamped right through the middle of the document, about 20,000 words in total, draft, confidential. In other words, they hadnt quite an
The show and it is just wonderful to have all of this support. I really thank everybody for it. That is the winner of masterchef, 2017. Now we can see what the Weather Forecast is holding for us. Im so looking forward to my salad, you have no idea. I will still be hungry afterwards. We have a mixed bag of weather, we have some low cloud and damp conditions across Northern Ireland, but the sunshine has been developing more widely. In the south west and across wales. The sunshine will move into england and wales. The rain is transferring north through Northern Ireland into scotla nd north through Northern Ireland into scotland where we have a few showers and the wet weather will move north through scotland. Some thundery showers possible in the highlands. Cool and damp to enter the afternoon, but improving in northern england. Across Northern Ireland it will brighten up briefly and left those temperatures ahead of the showers which arrive in the evening. That is knocking on the door of c
The show and it is just wonderful to have all of this support. I really thank everybody for it. That is the winner of masterchef, 2017. Now we can see what the Weather Forecast is holding for us. Im so looking forward to my salad, you have no idea. I will still be hungry afterwards. We have a mixed bag of weather, we have some low cloud and damp conditions across Northern Ireland, but the sunshine has been developing more widely. In the south west and across wales. The sunshine will move into england and wales. The rain is transferring north through Northern Ireland into scotla nd north through Northern Ireland into scotland where we have a few showers and the wet weather will move north through scotland. Some thundery showers possible in the highlands. Cool and damp to enter the afternoon, but improving in northern england. Across Northern Ireland it will brighten up briefly and left those temperatures ahead of the showers which arrive in the evening. That is knocking on the door of c