on russia to help bring an end to the ukraine war. a woman s suing a rape crisis charity because she felt she couldn t speak at a support group after a transgender woman began coming to the same meeting. coming up: i m at wimbledon for day two to as two of the greats of the game, serena williams and rafael nadal, return. and coming up on the bbc news channel, england s women are currently in action against south africa on day two of their one off test. we will bring you all the latest from taunton. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. an abandoned lorry has been discovered in the us state of texas close to the border with mexico with the bodies of 46 people, believed to be migrants, inside. the fire chief in the city of san antonio described finding stacks of bodies after someone heard a cry for help. 16 survivors among them four children are being treated for heat exhaustion. richard galpin reports. dozens of emergency vehicles try to get to the aban
Of the day in the commons and the lords. On this Programme Labour call on tory mps to rebel against the chancellors decision to increase National Insurance contributions for Self Employed people. And no one will ever believe a tory Election Promise ever again. Opposition peers have advice for a work and Pensions Minister to make the introduction of Universal Credit fairer. It will transform their opportunity to get the money that that will help them back into the Labour Market as we all want, and not instead have a lifetime of debt hanging over them. And snp mps appeal for people to come to scotland. Not to visit, but to stay. Scotlands population has been getting a raw deal. Scotland needs to get out from under that and create a welcoming, Entrepreneurial Environment. But first, a key issue on the second day of the Budget Debate in the commons has been Philip Hammonds controversial changes to National Insurance for those whore Self Employed. The change, announced on wednesday, would m
saying. stats people love it, this is a great day for them so the population of england on that day was 56,a89,800. i think what is interesting about that number is that we had expected it to be a bit higher, the experts had projected the population would be about 57 million by now so 500,000 people have gone missing. the population of wales was the other thing we had today which is now 3,107,500, again, slightly lower than we had expected by about 100,000. if you add in the population of northern ireland, we know that because they had the results a few weeks ago, 1.9 million and our best estimate of scotland s population because their senses is a year later and we will get the results next year, we reckon the best uk total we can estimate for thatis best uk total we can estimate for that is now 67 million, more or less. as i say, the scottish figure is not a census figure so it may be
ons projections, the office for national statistics, obviously try and do their best guess of what the population is, but they thought it would be 57 million, so there are some people missing. in wales, the figure is 3 million, 170,500, three people thought it would be 3.2. the census of northern ireland, thatis 3.2. the census of northern ireland, that is 1.9 million, is the best estimate of scotland s population, because they are having their senses a year later than the rest of the uk, the best we have for that, is a 5.4 million, giving a uk total of 66,966,400. very close to 97 million. 67 million. people thought that would be a bit higher, but that matters because these numbers are used to decide how much money goes to local authorities, schools, gp services and or thing.