Top grades have nudged up slightly despite concerns opening day of the third test but about the difficulty of exams. The rain is playing havoc at ryanairs uk pilots have walked out in a 48 hour strike, headingley. Thanks. But so far theres been little disruption for passengers. Record numbers of fires also coming up are burning in the amazon, the microscope thats sparking brazils president claims opponents a biology revolution as it captures images at previously of his government are unseen levels of detail. Lighting them deliberately. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport. Hello. An early wicket for england and after rain delays, the third hello everyone test at headingley has just got back this is afternoon live. Borisjohnson is in paris under way. Thanks. Where his efforts to try and break the brexit impasse have met plus all the weather. Opposition from the french president , Emmanuel Macron. Mr macron has insisted and it is warming up. Good news for that the controversial iris
The front page of the times, wrote to tell revolution. What is this about . A longstanding theme which has been going on for ages and never quite been realised about having road risings. They are charged per mile. Theresa road risings. They are charged per mile. Theres a lot of logic to that because of people are creating more pollution by driving more than theoretically perhaps they should pay more. Hitherto it has always been difficult to have the technology to make that work, things advance with the congestion charge in london overseen by cameras, perhaps it becomes more and more possible, clearly the road haulage association, lorry drivers are complaining about it, lorry drivers suggesting they will be penalised u nfa i rly suggesting they will be penalised unfairly and so on. Given the move towards electric cars, the amount of tax that the government will get from phil be one of those areas they are looking at at to tinker with, that will go down. Theyve got to make up that money
The head of the fbi has defended its work after a classified memo was released accusing it of bias against president trump, and abuse of power. The memo, written by republican members of congress, says the fbi got permission to wiretap one of mr trumps advisers in 2016 by using unsubstantiated evidence which had been paid for by his political opponents. Our correspondent peter bowes reports. This is the memo that sunk relations between the president and the fbi to a new low. The document, written by republicans, makes the case that the Justice Department and the fbi showed bias towards donald trump while buying on one of his advisers. A warrant for the surveillance operation was based on a dossier of information compiled by a former British Intelligence agent who was desperate for donald trump to lose the election. I think its a disgrace whats happening in our country, and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things, whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed
To them and slung them out. Because theyve taken down major, they took down cameron, two great leaders, neither of whom stood up to them. All this on the day Michel Barnier has come to downing street to warn us that the time has come to choose. Without the Customs Union and outside the Single Market, barriers to trade and goods and services are unavoidable. Not avoidable . We will ask lord lamont if theresa mays vision for brexit is getting clearer or cloudier. Also tonight. Look how far women have come in the last one million years. Tonight, on the eve of the suffragette centenary, we ask our panel what we got right, what we got wrong and where were heading now. Good evening. Suddenly, everyones stopped mincing their words. As the government clarified there would be no Customs Union post brexit. ,Michel Barnier, the chief eu negotiator arriving in town, said that would cause unavoidable barriers to trade. Out the bunting . As for the rest call them remainers or soft brexiteers or what
Likely miss the rest of the season because of his ongoing hip injury. The world number 2 says its the best decision for his long term future. I did my first ever commentary for Bbc Television from this very gantry. And in those days, nobody had heard of the internet, although i can vouch for the fact that i did say once upon a time, its in the net. And, the unmistakeable voice of football for half a century john motson decides to call it a day. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that Hurricane Irma one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the atlantic is now causing major damage on a number of caribbean islands. It first hit Antigua And Barbuda, before moving on to saint martin and st barts. Communications with those islands are down, but irma is believed to have caused widespread flooding and damage to buildings. The category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185 mph, and gusts of up to 225mph is now heading towards the British Virgin islands, puerto rico and then may hit florida b