i made a huge error ofjudgement. an aide to the prime minister tells us he s sorry over betting on a july election reportedly three days before it was called. all smiles at the g7 with italy s prime minister, where leaders agree the interest on frozen russian assets should be used for ukraine. # once more you open the door. and celine dion on the illness that s kept her away from the stage and how she s determined to sing again. on bbc london. and stay with us here on bbc news for continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good evening. sir keir starmer pledged a steady as she goes government if labour wins the election, as he unveiled the pa rty s manifesto. there was an absence of policy surprises, but a promise that wealth creation will be the party s number one priority. among the previously announced details were 40,000 more nhs appointments each week in england, and the recruitment of 6,500 new teachers, as well
spells of rain in northern ireland. temperature is about ten to 12 degrees. tomorrow, for northern scotland we have persistent rain, some brisk winds and it will be a cool day, 12 or 13 degrees. away from that, probably a dry start but it won t stay that way. showers in the west moved eastwards. some heavy with hale and thunder and our temperatures continue to be below average for the time of year, average for the time of year, average is 17 to 2ajune. the weekend, more of the same. the same area of low pressure. a few changes, eastern scotland sees heavier rain, the wind is not as strong across northern scotland and sir keir starmer says labour s manifesto is a serious plan for government. is it ambitious enough for you? and it has just finished, the latest seven way election debate on itv where labour s angela rayner attacks on all sides on tax and migration. welcome to newsnight, live with insight and interviews. let me introduce you to our panel this evening. the politica
of illegal migrants. less than five months from now and we re going, and i ll tell you what we have to change the system. we have to straighten out what s going on in these courts. we got a rigged deal going, this whole country, and we ve got to do it. and those appellate courts have to step up and straighten things out, or we re not going to have a country any longer. but we re going to win the great state of arizona, and we re going to tell crooked joe biden, you re fired you re doing a lousy job, the worstjob the worst president in history. joe, you fired! our correspondent emma vardy, was at that rally in phoenix and gave us this update there were several thousand people queuing outside this building in extreme temperatures. and infact, over1,000 people didn t get in. some people were taken to hospital by emergency services. but for the people who did make it inside this event, the energy is very high, the volume is very high. they re clearly also relishing the op
we start in the us, where the british tech tycoon mike lynch has been cleared of fraud charges in a san francisco court. once hailed as a uk bill gates, mr lynch was facing fraud charges over the $11 billion sale of his software firm, autonomy, to hewlett packard back in 2011. mr lynch had been accused of inflating the value of his firm ahead of the sale a jury has found him not guilty on all counts. our north america business correspondent erin delmore has the details. when autonomy was sold to hewlett packard 13 years ago for $11.1 billion, it was one of the top 100 public companies in the uk. the sale marked the la rgest ever takeover of a british technology business. but hewlett packard later wrote down the company s value by more than $8 billion, leading to criminal charges that mike lynch had defrauded hewlett packard by inflating the value of autonomy. the businessman was extradited from britain to the united states to stand trial on the charges, which could have put
thank you. now, you have had phenomenal success around the world since the arab spring, which propelled you to global fame. what is it now that still drives you to want to shake people? so many things. i guess, first of all, my passion for people and music and connecting. i feel that nowadays, more than ever, we need to connect with each other, and i feel that if we have this sense of union and empathy towards each other, i feel that the world could be a much better place. well, let s go back to 2010, 2011, and at that time your music was banned in tunisia. you were on avenue habib bourguiba in tunis, you were surrounded by crowds who were all chanting and then this happened. she sings in arabic. we are seeing you there, singing, with a candle lit in front of you, and to the crowds. when you watch it, how do you feel about that moment now? i ve always felt, um, kind of distant because ijust.me, i just remember the tension, and ijust remember that it wasn t all friendly around