Coming up at 9. 15, nearly four and a half Million People in the uk go without dental care, new bbc analysis has revealed. The foreign secretary summons the Chinese Ambassador after a former employee of the uk consulate in hong kong claims he was detained and tortured by chinese officials. And the mission to save thousands of animals from australias bushfires. Well have the latest on the desperate efforts. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have traded verbal blows over brexit in the first tv debate of the general election campaign. The Prime Minister said the labour leader is unclear about whether his Party Supports leaving or remaining in the eu and mr corbyn said the nhs isnt safe in conservative hands. The two leaders also locked horns over trust and leadership, the future of scotland and the royal family. The public response suggests that neither man emerged as an obvious winner. Iain watson has this report. This election has produced
More than 2 million adults in england are unable to see an nhs dentist, because appointments arent available or its too expensive, figures suggest. The foreign secretary summons the Chinese Ambassador after a former employee of the uk consulate in hong kong claims he was detained and tortured by chinese officials. I have been shackled, i have been handcuffed and i have been blindfolded, you know, so they make me hooded. And the mission to save thousands of animals from australias bushfires. Well have the latest on the desperate efforts. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have traded verbal blows over brexit in the first tv debate of the general Election Campaign. The Prime Minister said the labour leader is unclear about whether his Party Supports leaving or remaining in the eu and mr corbyn said the nhs isnt safe in conservative hands. The two leaders also locked horns over trust and leadership, the future of scotland and the royal family. The p
We hear from the british woman who was brought back to life after her heart stopped beating for six hours. And in sport, var played its part in newcastles 2 0 win at Sheffield United prompting the manager to criticise the technology. Good morning 7 and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00am. Boris johnson and Jeremy Corbyn will go head to head in a live bbc Election Debate this evening. It will be the last time the tory and labour leaders share a stage before next thursdays general election. It comes as borisjohnson faces renewed pressure to agree to an interview with the Bbcs Andrew Neil, in his series of programmes Challenging Party leaders. Well, we begin with our Political Correspondent iain watson. Good correspondent iain watson. Morning to you. A lot i this good morning to you. A lot riding on this head to head tonight between the two leaders. Thats right, the final head to head between the two people who could be Prime Minister a week from now. And i think it is going to be a crucial
Blocked in by this enormous area of High Pressure covering a large swathes of russia. And because this is so big and fast it will not be butting any time soon. Cloud and rain today across western areas, the heaviest rain across Northern Ireland but it will get into western fringes of scotland and wales and into cornwall as well. Otherwise a largely dry afternoon. The best of the sunshine across Eastern England and eastern areas of scotland. Tonight the rain tends to move away from Northern Ireland and it becomes dry for many but staying pretty cloudy. But it does cloudy skies and temperatures falling to between two and 6 degrees but in any lengthy clear breaks there could be some frost around particularly in the north of scotland. Tomorrow the rain band will at times be affecting the south of england but in Northern Ireland we get much cooler air. So highs of around 7 degrees heading through tomorrow afternoon. Still a lot of crowd around, perhaps some drizzle around north sea coasts.
Predicts borisjohnson for the times. Yougov pole. It predicts Boris Johnson could for the times. Yougov pole. It predicts borisjohnson could get a majority. We always have to be a bit cautious about these polls. When i look at the stories that are appearing on the front pages of the media, of course you realise that you have got to be very careful that they are giving a certain view and it is all a bit skewed and slanted. I think it is becoming ever more noticeable that it is sort of moving really extreme, and i think for anybody who really wants to keep abreast of what is going on it is important to read several media sources. Otherwise we are never going to get a balanced view in the lead up to the election. Absolutely, extremely important. This times article which i read earlier, it is looking out the fact that the yougov poll on the 2017 elections was one of the few that are addicted they would be a Hung Parliament outcome, which of course was correct. That predicted there would be