Dame tessa jowells message, in herfirst interview since being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport, including. Phil neville, a rather controversial appointment . Absolutely, and definitely not the best start for the new england win ins manager. He has apologised for comments he made about women on social media and says they are not a true representation of his character. More on that later. See you later, holly. And the weather. Yes, hail storms, severe gales blowing through scotland. Things will get better later on but more on that in about half an hour. Thanks very much, tomasz, and coming up, whats with the big pout . 1000 camels a dozen camels have been disqualified from a camel beauty pageant in saudi arabia for receiving botox injections. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live and i am simon mccoy. I thought things had changed and it is absolutely clear that they havent. We have to send a clear message that this is unacceptable. The words of g
And im joined on this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the un will investigate accusations of war crimes in yemen but its had to make a lot of compromises. If anybody out there is listening to us. We are dying. As puerto rico struggles with the off the mouth of Hurricane Maria a war of words between son fans mayor and the u. S. President. Here in coxs bazar with an update on the wrecking the crisis. Spains government is cracking down on the band secession vote in its catalonia region on sunday describing it as a mockery of democracy. Its warn volunteers at polling stations they could be fined more than three hundred fifty thousand Dollars Police of ready with gun deploying ahead of the ballots and sealed off more than half of the schools designated as Polling Centers offices say they will remove voters in madrid thousands of people in favor of united spain are holding a rally were holding rallies so far neither side is backing down. Lets bring in Tony Berkeley he is in madri
About their campaign. The kind table, and pupils across the country are competing to be crowned a rocky roads. Crowned rock heroes. Good morning. Its thursday the 6th july. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live the chairman of the iraq inquiry, Sirjohn Chilcot, has told the bbc that the former Prime Minister, tony blair, was not straight with the nation, or his inquiry, about the decisions made in the run up to the iraq war. Speaking for the First Time Since the publication of his report a year ago today, sirjohn told the bbc why he thinks mr blair made the decisions he did, and about mr blairs State Of Mind at the time of the inquiry. The iraq inquiry by Sirjohn Chilcot took 7 years and ran into two million words. The Main Findings were that policy on iraq was made on flawed intelligence and assessments. And the planning and preparation for the country after Saddam Hussein was wholly inadequate. in response to sirjohns interview with the bbc a spokesman for mr blair highlighted that the report
A dc10 laying down thousands of retardant. Meanwhile dozens of bulldozer desperately scrape around town. While hand crews use muscle to form breaks. We just watered everything down. Reporter and those doing what they can to save their homes. This woman owned this historic home for six generations. My dad has done a lot of hard work, hard work on it. Reporter their bay Area Neighbors also staying put and fighting for their summer home. We will be here until it gets too hot to stay. Reporter ever where we turned we saw bay area firefighters helping to protect properties. Th this house has been here for 120 years and i think it will be here after this fire. It is special. Very special. Reporter continues to actively burn here in the hills. Both coulterville and mariposa not out of the woods. Although the chief says mariposa is looking better. But it is heading north towards coulterville and that is the concern. Thank you very much thom. Want to show you this. This is one of their cars tak
It is that logic that perhaps explains why there are now only 42,000 staff in the National Offender Management Service in england and wales, while there were 19,000 back in 2010. But the logic of cutting prisons has perhaps reached a limit. The pressure of fewer staff in overcrowded jails has seen violence rise towards staff, other prisoners or in the form of self harm. Bad things are happening in ourjails, and its no surprise the president of the Prison Governors Association has written an open letter attacking the governments management of prisons. Heres elaine dunkley. Violence and rioting, volatility has gripped prisons in england and wales. Run. The pressure in our Prison Service building for staff and inmates. Get down. A breakdown in Law And Order caused by a shortage of staff and a growing Prison Population. A toxic mix according to the Prison Governors Association. Attacks on prison staff and drugs academic increasing concern around Mental Health and overcrowding, resources an