uk intelligence agencies are accused of tipping off indian authorities about the british national jagtar sinthohal before his abduction and alleged torture by punjab police. we ll be speaking to his brother later this hour. and ready for blast off to the moon nasa says it will go ahead and launch the most powerful rocket its ever built. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a man hunt is under way in liverpool after a nine year old girl was shot dead. police say an unknown man is reported to have fired a gun inside a house in the dovecot area of the city at around ten o clock last night. the young girl is the third person to be shot dead in liverpool in less than a week. a man and a woman also suffered gunshot injuries in the attack. ian byrne is the labour mp for liverpool west derby, where this attack happened. he spoke to the bbc a little earlier. i think devastating is a good way of putting it. we are still going to process what we have hea
Of their europa conference newsnight at 10 30pm, Election Night fever as the bbc gets ready to report the results of a last big vote before the General Election. Will it be boomtime for starmer or doom time the sunak . Good evening. The polls have just closed in local elections across england and wales, the biggest test of political opinion, ahead of the General Election. Police and Crime Commissioners will also being chosen, there are mayoral elections, and a by election in Blackpool South. All the results will be coming in over the next couple of days, with Party Leaders looking for indications, of what a General Election might bring. Well chris is here with his take on what we should be looking out for, over the next 48 hours. Chris. Evening, clive. For the last 15 hours, millions of decisions have been taken and thousands of aspiring Decision Makers politicians await their fate. This is a Patchwork Set of elections around england and wales with a long tail of results, going on unti
To going ahead with the full hs2 line and we have been asking them for some time what their commitment is and they said they wanted to study the numbers and see how they looked before making any sort of long term commitment. I want to bring another conservative mp, greg smith. I know you are not the biggest fan of hs2 but can you understand why some people see this as a betrayal . The understand why some people see this as a betrayal . As a betrayal . The argument is the Prime Minister as a betrayal . The argument is the Prime Minister put as a betrayal . The argument is the Prime Minister put forward as a betrayal . The argument is the Prime Minister put forward at as a betrayal . The argument is the Prime Minister put forward at the l Prime Minister put forward at the arguments i have been making for years and years and years, no point spending all this money to connect a handful of places in the United Kingdom when with my transport select committee hat on, i visited leeds and bradf
Good evening. After weeks of speculation we understand tonight that the Prime Minister is going to scrap the plans to build the h52 high speed rail line between birmingham and manchester. He is expected to make the announcement in manchester at the conservative Party Conference tomorrow. Our Political Editor chris mason is there for us now. For the last couple of days, the Government Machine has felt quite low key, even underpowered, from the Prime Minister down, when it has come to the announcements they have had to make but tonight, that looks like it is about to change, not least with the confirmation is widely expected over the last couple of days, of the scrapping of the h52 rail line between the West Midlands and manchester. My understanding is the mayor of the West Midlands, a conservative, we included his views on our reporting of this last night, saw the Prime Minister this afternoon and tonight is distraught. Expect rishi sunak when he sets out his announcement to say that in
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