Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Besieged by tourists, venice starts charging day trippers to visit. Is this the way forward for overwhelmed cities . In fact, we are going to start in europe. The french president , emmanuel macron, has painted a rather bleak picture of the European Union today. Despite the big strides he believes the eu made towards closer integration post covid and in response to the war in ukraine, it needs to be much more aggressive, he said, in defending its own interests. The wake up, he said, has been too slow and there is mortal danger, as he put it, if the union becomes a vassal of the United States and fails to stand up for itself on trade. Translation we must be lucid to the fact that our europe today is mortal. She can die. Echoing his past calls for europe to plot a third way between the us and china, the french president called for a scaling up stronger, more integrated European Defences, a more sustainable economic model
And Manchester City close the gap at the top of the Premier League with a convincing win, away to brighton. On bbc london. On newsnight at 10 30 p m. This morning, the Surprise News that the snp and Green Coalition collapsing. At bedtime, what is left of homes thats coalition which are marked and what does it mean for the coalition . The snps Power Sharing arrangement, with the scottish greens. He now leads a Minority Government a predicament seized upon by scottish conservatives, whove called a vote of no confidence, which the scottish greens now say theyll back. If he loses the vote, due next week, his position could become untenable barely a year since taking over as First Minister from nicola sturgeon. So, how did it come to this, and could he still cling on . With the very latest, lets joinjames cook, our scotland editor, live in edinburgh. Well, its been a day here of harsh words and of recriminations, of allegations flung, of defences and indeed of some political drama, with the
We have just found out theres a car into the water, just south of Candlestick Park here, right here just before candle stock. It looks like several people have stopped to help this man whose car was in the water. Its an elderly male. The Fire Department is on the way and traffic has come to a stop here coming up, northbound 101 just before Candlestick Park. Traffic is backed up to south city because of this incident. The Fire Department is not there, neither is chp, this is all reported. This is a serious incident. If you want to avoid the whole thing use 280 into San Francisco. A car into the water south of Candlestick Park. And traffic is coming to a standstill on the bay bridge freeway. , the lower deck of the bay bridge not a problem. All lanes are open. The traffic is moving well. 7 04 lets go to the desk. The search is expanding for a missing boy missing off the frigid waters from the beach. Hes been missing, crews have been looking for a 14yearold march co. Terry you just got an
This is managrjory Stoneman Douglas. So many students dont have i. D. On them. So that makes it much tougher for authorities. At least 15 others are hospitalized as we speak. Five of them with life threatening injuries. This 19yearold suspect will make his First Court Appearance in just the next hour. Prosecutors have now charged him this morning with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Obviously that means he knew what he was doing when he went into this school with an ar15. Earlier this morning authorities transferred the suspect to the Broward County jail. This is the video, chris, that were watching right now of this perp walk, as we call it. Hes in custody, handcuffed and shackled probably. You and i have talked about this a lot. We dont say the names, you and i chosen not to, because it could increase notoriety. There are copy cat fears. Whats the point . Its unusual, though, i must say, because he survived this massacre. So often they dont. They shoot themselves or go down from po