Universities to review fire safety in all their buildings after 200 firefighters spent more than nine hours tackling a fire at a student hall in bolton. Jeremy corbyn is leading a meeting of leading labour and trade union figures to decide which policies will be included in the partys election manifesto. Competing on green issues the conservatives promise to plant 30 Million Trees a year by 2025 but the liberal democrats say they can plant twice as many. Prince andrew has told the bbc he categorically denies having sexual relations with Virginia Roberts who says she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17 years old. In an interview with bbcs newsnight, hes answered questions for the first time about his links with the convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein. The duke of york said a sense of honour led him to continue his assocation with the disgraced financier. Our royal correspondent Nick Witchell reports. The year is 2010. Prince andrew is in new york. He is videoed staying at
Trees. [ laughter ] thats right President Trump has fired National Security adviser john bolton and you have to appreciate the irony of john bolton being taken out by a preemptive strike. [ light laughter ] so National Security adviser john bolton is out no word yet on what he plans to do next. Oh, man, the patriots . [ laughter ] President Trump and Vice President mike pence held a rally in North Carolina last night ahead of the states special Congressional Election though do you really need pence to pump up a crowd when you already have trump having trump and pence at a rally is like having the rock and Malcolm Gladwell help you move i think the rock can handle it at a Campaign Rally in North Carolina, yesterday, President Trump said the democrats are, quote, not big believers in religion. Before adding, unlike me, who loves whats his name you know, the boy who was born on christmas, in a trash can or whatever [ laughter and applause what was it . You know who im talking about [ chee
Trees. [ laughter ] thats right President Trump has fired National Security adviser john bolton and you have to appreciate the irony of john bolton being taken out by a preemptive strike. [ light laughter ] so National Security adviser john bolton is out no word yet on what he plans to do next. Oh, man, the patriots . [ laughter ] President Trump and Vice President mike pence held a rally in North Carolina last night ahead of the states special Congressional Election though do you really need pence to pump up a crowd when you already have trump having trump and pence at a rally is like having the rock and Malcolm Gladwell help you move i think the rock can handle it at a Campaign Rally in North Carolina, yesterday, President Trump said the democrats are, quote, not big believers in religion. Before adding, unlike me, who loves whats his name you know, the boy who was born on christmas, in a trash can or whatever [ laughter and applause what was it . You know who im talking about [ chee
Unpunished. The Bbc World Service Latin America regional editor Leonardo Rocha reports. Mr villavicencio was shot dead as he finished a rally in the capital, quito. He was approached by a gunman who shot him in the head three times be or they escape. He was a former union leader, a former journalist who clashed with other politicians in the past for his role as an investigative journalist, and he was a current member of congress. He was running on an Anti Corruption and Pro Environmental campaign. He was one of several candidates running for president. The first round of the election will take place on august 20, he was Opinion Polls put in Third Orfourth place but he had a chance because there would be a second round of votes probably later this year. He is the latest victim of this crime wave in ecuador, he survived an attempt on his life before, and ecuador is going through a serious crisis, triggered mainly by the increasing involvement of mexican drug gangs in the country. There h
And the soil is waterlogged. One farmer in wiltshire says the losses are heart breaking. Our reporter liz beacon has the story. So this is our wheat thats been damaged by the wind and the rain, as you can see. For a farmer, august should be one of the busiest times of year, harvesting crops. This year, the Unrelenting Rain has put paid to that and everythings ground to a halt. Its pretty depressing and its pretty heartbreaking because weve gone to lot of effort to grow this wheat and, of course, weve spent all the costs on it, so were completely cost stacked now, and without selling it, we cant, you know, we cant reclaim those costs. So we are. Yeah, its actually a lot worse than i thought. Tom collins is a fourth generation farmer here on his family farm. He knows it can rain in august but, after one of the wettestjulys on record, he believes Climate Change is having huge consequences for his business. What we really want is a level price at a time like this. If you worked in a shop a