Hello, good morning. Welcome to bbc news. One of the front runners in the race to become the next prime minister, michael gove, has admitted taking cocaine on several occasions, 20 years ago. In an interview with the daily mail, mr gove said he deeply regretted his actions and insisted it shouldnt rule him out of the contest to succeed theresa may, which begins next week. Our political reporter peter saull explained why mr gove may have decided to talk about his past. His message really in that interview is, judge me on my record in parliament and not what i may or may not have done. Michael gove is clearly one of the front runners in this conservative leadership contest which gets under way this week, with the first round of voting taking place on thursday. He may feel that this is about clearing the decks, so to speak. Putting it out there, past misdemeanours, and i suppose he will still rely on the support of a lot of his colleagues within the conservative party. He does have quite
ukrainian military sources have told the bbc their forces are carrying out a series of small scale armoured attacks against russian occupiers and shifting to offensive actions in some areas along the front line. we ll take a look at claims from moscow that a full ukrainian counter offensive has begun. joining me on my panel tonight for the next hour, is the writer and broaddcaster chris morris and stephanie bolzen, washington correspondent for the german newspaper die welt. we will say hello to both in just a moment. also tonight, prime minister rishi sunak announces that two new barges have been bought to house up to 1,000 migrants. he says his plan to stop small boats crossing the channel is working. we ll ask a migration expert if she agrees. and more peoplejoin the race to be the next us president. former vice president mike pence files his papers to run, putting him in direct competition with his former boss, donald trump. but first the war in ukraine. looks like
Enough to get phase one of the negotiations over the line, and, assuming it gets the nod from the European Council next week, to start talks about a trade agreement, rested and refreshed. Heres our political editor, nick watt. When everyone else is having fun, breaking up can be so hard, as theresa may discovered at an eu summit last year. Or maybe we do have friends after all . At the end of a week of heartache, theresa may finally pulled off a deal with the eu on stage one of the brexit negotiations. Sufficient progress has now been made on the three terms of the divorce. I very much welcome the prospect of moving ahead to the next phase, to talk about trade and security, and to discuss the positive and ambitious future relationship. But after mondays humiliation, how did it happen . Shortly after pm in downing street last night, theresa may finally achieved a breakthrough when she sort of won over the dup in a telephone call with Arlene Foster. At around midnight, she left downing s
ukrainian military sources have told the bbc their forces are carrying out a series of small scale armoured attacks against russian occupiers and shifting to offensive actions in some areas along the front line. we ll take a look at claims from moscow that a full ukrainian counter offensive has begun. joining me on my panel tonight for the next hour, is the writer and broaddcaster chris morris and stephanie bolzen, washington correspondent for the german newspaper die welt. we will say hello to both in just a moment. also tonight, prime minister rishi sunak announces that two new barges have been bought to house up to 1,000 migrants. he says his plan to stop small boats crossing the channel is working. we ll ask a migration expert if she agrees. and more peoplejoin the race to be the next us president. former vice president mike pence files his papers to run, putting him in direct competition with his former boss, donald trump.
and the afghan president was in uzbekistan today, | but the military reality is that there is a real. human cost of this. very brief last word. really brief. 0n afghanistan, the concern is there are several thousand people, contractors, translators who have been working primarily for the americans. they cannot be left behind. there is a real worry because there is not an active plan to get them out. michael, stephanie and james, thank you very much. thank you very much for your company. dateline london back the same time next week.