no chemotherapy throughout the pandemic. i don t have much of a choice. and john lewis has warned of further store closures after it made a record annual loss of more than £500 million. good afternoon. prince william has insisted the royal family is not racist, in his first comments since the duke and duchess of sussex told us television that a member of the family had questioned what colour their child s skin would be. william also revealed he hasn t spoken to his brother since harry and meghan gave the interview to oprah winfrey, but said he would do. the duke and duchess of cambridge were visiting a school in east london when they were asked by a reporter about the controversy. have you spoken to your brother since the interview? no, i haven t spoken to him yet, but i will do. and can you just let me know, is the royalfamily a racist family, sir? no, we are very much not a racist family. our royal correpsondent, sarah campbell, joins me now. they are the first comments th
From the perspective of scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. Scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has been keen to remind theresa may of all of her previous comments on the idea of an early election. All statements that theresa may must surely now be regretting. Well, the Prime Minister says she is not regretting that, she has taken the decision reluctantly, recently, and she says in the national interest. Here, though, is more of Nicola Sturgeons alternative analysis. The question of what kind of country we wa nt the question of what kind of country we want to be is at stake in this election campaign, and whether we wa nt election campaign, and whether we want that to be a country the future of which is steered and directed by a tory party moving ever more to the right, or whether we want the people of scotla nd right, or whether we want the people of scotland to be in charge. This is an opportunity to make scotlands voice heard and make sure we have mps from scotland who will
From the perspective of scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. Scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has been keen to remind theresa may of all of her previous comments on the idea of an early election. All statements that theresa may must surely now be regretting. Well, the Prime Minister says she is not regretting that, she has taken the decision reluctantly, recently, and she says in the national interest. Here, though, is more of Nicola Sturgeons alternative analysis. The question of what kind of country we wa nt the question of what kind of country we want to be is at stake in this election campaign, and whether we wa nt election campaign, and whether we want that to be a country the future of which is steered and directed by a tory party moving ever more to the right, or whether we want the people of scotla nd right, or whether we want the people of scotland to be in charge. This is an opportunity to make scotlands voice heard and make sure we have mps from scotland who will
Policeman was killed. Security has been stepped up today. The Interior Ministry put 50,000 extra Security Personnel at the Polling Stations up and down the country. It seems to have done the trick. Some healthy cu es have done the trick. Some healthy cues up and down the country. The turnout rate which has been predicted so far somewhere near where it was in 2012. Yet again, in the face of terrorism, the french people showing themselves to be hugely resilient. Which is a good thing because we can focus on the election, the candidates, the policies that matter to the french people. Not since 1958, in the founding of the Fifth Republic, have we seen Something Like what we are witnessing here tonight. Politics in france has been dominated by the two party system but it could well be this evening that the main two parties are eliminated in the first round. We see. Lets talk about the focus candidates we need to focus on. Emmanuel macron, 39. He would be the youngest president of modern tim
We begin here in berlin at the annual Literature Festival which is a platform for presenting contemporary developments in all full names of the written word right as an academic from around the world come to the festival as well as of course the literature loving public the nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi adichie is one of the top African Writers around today and we met up with her at the festival. Their presence is enough to feel the holes like here with the Literature Festival in the early Chimamanda Ngozi adichie is greeted like a pop star as one of the great voices of World Literature is also a feminist icon. And really just a writer you know i want to stay home and write poetry and dream but there are things about the wall that make me so angry that i then want to try and make a difference in her books a deal she deals with racism and sexism at 19 she left nigeria to study in the us
and it was there that she learned for the 1st time what it means to be black she talks about this