Welcome to bbc news. The Democratic Unionist Party has agreed the terms of a deal to support theresa mays minority conservative government. The deal involves more than a billion pounds of extra spending in Northern Ireland on health, education and infrastructure. The first ministers of scotland and wales have condemned the deal in the strongest terms calling it cash for votes. Theresa may has also been accused of undermining the search for stable government in Northern Ireland as our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. 18 days since the election, nearly three weeks of waiting, a political lifetime for the Prime Minister. Deal or no deal, mrs foster . But the dup, power on their side, have been taking their time. Notjust friends but this a snap of a political family now. A deal agreed at the Cabinet Table no less. We also share the desire to ensure a strong government that is able to put through its programme. A strong government . Well, less wobbly perhaps. The Northern Irish pa
Welcome to bbc news. The Democratic Unionist Party has agreed the terms of a deal to support theresa mays minority conservative government. The deal involves more than a billion pounds of extra spending in Northern Ireland on health, education and infrastructure. The first ministers of scotland and wales have condemned the deal in the strongest terms calling it cash for votes. Theresa may has also been accused of undermining the search for stable government in Northern Ireland as our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. 18 days since the election, nearly three weeks of waiting, a political lifetime for the Prime Minister. Deal or no deal, mrs foster . But the dup, power on their side, have been taking their time. Notjust friends but this a snap of a political family now. A deal agreed at the Cabinet Table no less. We also share the desire to ensure a strong government that is able to put through its programme. A strong government . Well, less wobbly perhaps. The Northern Irish pa
London, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Thanks forjoining us. It is sam Thanks Forjoining us. It is 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 3am in mosul, where iraqi forces have made a breakthrough in their offensive against the so called Islamic State, in iraqs second city. Theyve taken the airport, a key point in the battle to drive the militants from the western half of the city. This report from the front lines. Before the attack came the air strikes, rockets and artillery. Its day five of the offensive to retake western mosul. Slowly, the forces make their way past a suspected is car bomb, talks en route. These armoured columns are now moving forward to mosul airport. The attack of the airport is under way. All night long weve heard Coalition Aircraft and iraqi artillery slam this area just to the north of us. And in daylight, they didnt let up. This factory flew the is flag yesterday. Today it burned. In less than four hours iraqi forces had breached the airport perimeter,
of the secret service prostitution scandal goes public with lurid new details. sh he says the scandal has ruined her life too. we begin with today s much anticipated update on the economic recovery. the numbers say the recovery is still alive but barely. the unemployment rate ticked down to 8.1%. mostly because thousands of people left the labor force. employers added 115,000 new jobs in april. tens of thousands fewer than most experts predicted. any way you or the presidential candidates look at it, the numbers could be better. there are still a lot of folks out of work, which means that we have to do more. if we are going to recover all the jobs lost during the recession and if we are going to build a secure economy that strengthens the middle class, we are going to have to do more. anything over 8%, near 8%, anything over 4% is not cause for celebration. this is a sad time in america when people who want work can t find jobs. all right. our chief business correspon