Also tonight, france finally has a prime minister. You will know him he is the former Brexit Negotiator Michel barnier. Parliament. He will need all his skills to Negotiate a raucus french parliament. And not entirely immune from prosecution. Trump pleads not guilty, as his Jan 6 case returns to court in washington. Welcome to the programme. The Waterways here in britain are awash with Records Amount of sewage. Today, the governement announced a new bill that will beef up the powers of the Water regulator. In future the Water Bosses in england and wales will face 2 years in prison if theyre found to have obstructed an investigation into a Sewage Spill and their bonuses will be blocked if they fail to meet environmental and financial standards. But activists say it is not enough. The system is broken, and that current regulations arent being enforced. Heres our environment correspondentjonah fisher. Profits and pollution. For years, our Water Companies have paid out dividends to shareho
French authorities say at least 12 people, including a pregnant woman, have died after a Boat Carrying Dozens of migrants capsized in the english channel. Around 50 people were rescued in an operation involving boats and helicopters. The french coastguard says the boat got into difficulty off Gris Nez at around 6am local time, and everyone on board ended up in the water. An emergency medical Care Centre was set up at Boulogne Sur Mer. The latest Uk Government figures show the number of people crossing the channel in small boats so far this year is 21,403. Thats more than in the same period last year, but fewer than 2022. But in the first six months of 2024, theres been an 18 rise in the number of arrivals, on 2023, and its now clear more migrants are getting onto each boat. An average of 51, with the vast majority, being young men. From Boulogne Sur Mer in northern france, heres andrew harding. French Rescue Helicopters busy once again today, bringing casualties from the sea to the sho
Of cracking the uk market. Live from London, This is business today. It This is business today. IS Packed. Im saLLy bundock. This is business today. Lets get going. We start with AL Chip maker nvidia. Its Record Rise to one of the worLds most vaLuabLe companies has wowed WaLL Street. Now, its breaking records again, but not in the way it wanted. On tuesday, nvidia Lost the most Stock Market VaLue in a day of any company in us history aS Part of a steep seLL off that Hit Tech shareS ParticuLarLy hard. Nvidia continued to faLL after hours as bLoomberg reported that it has received subpoenas from the Department Ofjustice, which is investigating whether it has been abusing its dominance of the market for AL Chips. Lets just show you the numbers because they are pretty staggering. ALmost 279 BiLLIon that was the amount wiped off the vaLue of nvidia over the course of the trading day. It adds to Losses Last week after the companys forecasts disappointed investors. Nvidia has been the corners
Hello and welcoMe to Bbc Hello and welcoMe to bbc news. Hello and welcoMe to bbc news. You oin us in Central London you join us in Central London outside the building where for more than six years the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire has been taking place. More than seven years on from the Grenfell Tower Disaster which claiMed 72 lives. Theirfamily their family and friends are hoping for answers from this report. SoMe of them did not want this public inquiry to coMe first. They wanted a Police Investigation to coMe first because they want accountability and want answers. They are looking for a path towards potential prosecutions as a result of what happened on that night. We will have lots of reports through the day and will bring you up to the moMent when the second report is published at 11 and we expect to hear from the chair of the inquiry. There will be reaction from the groups, the community groups that forMed in the aftermath of the fire. We expect a stateMent from th
Know, for the 72 people, the community and i think, if were honest, for the whole country. If you are living in a Block Thatis if you are living in a block that is dangerous today, how do you feel when you hear about what is happening in catford right now, how do you feel when you hear about dagenham . And the fact that there was advice, there was warning and there were guidelines. None of them were guidelines. None of them were taken on and that is 72 people dead and the community traumatised. Traumatised. Thank you very much. Appreciate traumatised. Thank you very much. Appreciate your much. Appreciate your experience talking about this. You are watching Bbc News. It was the worst disaster of its kind in modern british history for set more than seven years on, the Public Inquiry into the fire that destroyed Grenfell Tower has published its second and final report. The conclusions are damning. The Blaze Injune 2017 which was the result of decades of failure is. Fear is by successful g