match of the tournament here in three days time. and good morning. remaining in charge at manchester united. after speculation he wouldn t be there next season, the club s board decides erik ten hag will stay on as manager. and she s the queen of funk who s been getting us on the dance floor for more than five decades. we hearfrom chaka khan in her new role as a music festival curator. good morning. it is a cloudy start for many of us this morning. the cloud will hang around in the east where we will see most of the showers. it will brighten up in the west, but it is still going to feel cool forjune. i would west, but it is still going to feel cool forjune. iwould have west, but it is still going to feel cool forjune. i would have all the details later. good morning. it s wednesday the 12th june. our main story. the green party will launch its election manifesto in brighton and hove today. they re promising a £50 billion a year investment into the nhs and social care. they
up their campaigns out across the country. let s take you through some of todays key events: rishi sunak and sir keir starmer go head to head in their second live tv debate later facing questions from voters on sky news in grimsby this evening. will either man change tack, or will it be more of the same? we ll be discussing all of that during the course of the day. and the green party launches its manifesto promising to raise taxes on higher earners and the wealthy to help fund 50 billion a yearfor the nhs and social care. also today: the cost of living is always important, and we ve just had figures out this morning showing that the uk economy failed to grow in april after particularly wet weather affected consumer spending. the office for national statistics recorded no growth for the month, which was in line with economists expectations. nevertheless it will be disappointing for the conservatives. here is hannah minna. the green party are pledging to mend what i call brok
A new government is this the beginning of the end for transfer uncle americal bring you the latest. Also coming up on the program zimbabwes deepening political crisis president Robert Mugabe defines pressure from his end of p. F. Party to step down his opponents are now threatening protests and impeachment. And International Concern grows over the hundreds of thousands of group him who have fled violence in myanmar germanys foreign minister visits a refugee camp in bangladesh ahead of a major crisis meeting. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us exploratory talks on forming a new Coalition Government for germany have collapsed the business friendly f. T. P. Bailed out of negotiations saying it failed to find common good. Around on key issues with chancellor im going to michaels conservative alliance and the greens michael and out she would talk with the german president later today its not exactly clear what theyll discuss one option is to call pressure elections or talk about
This is the news hour live from coming up the next sixty minutes fighting in syria as another round of talks to end almost seven years of war. The killing of children and Doctors Without Borders they were among almost seven thousand victims and. South koreas president makes his first visit to china. North korea over its nuclear test. Top story in sport. One of the biggest prizes american football. A short break. Both the government and opposition are present and juta meet un special envoys to find them a story hes urging russia to convince the Syrian Government there is no time to lose on reaching a peace deal speaking through a Swiss Television channel and the story said failure to end the war quickly could lead to a fragmentation of syria. Our correspondent David Chaytor is in geneva joins us live from there so another day another round are they making any progress though david. Sami im afraid to say that the socalled Peace Process is fully again on rocky ground the sides have not ev
From. The talks on syria. Not with. Sites one of the Big Questions has been the future of president assads government. Said that no one can tell them what to do were live in geneva. Also the scale of myanmar as a military offensive in its troubled state is thrown into the spotlight. All Doctors Without Borders now believe these six thousand seven hundred. Killed during just one month of violence a figure the. Official tally plus the mysterious interstellar. Space that suiting through our solar system will tell you why a strong. Powerful telescopes are trying to determine if its more than just a rock. And people across india are glued to state elections waiting to see if the Prime Ministers party will succeed or fail in the place he calls home i made a chapell send us your questions and comments throughout the show using the hash tag. Youre with a news group or live on air were streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com its looking like the same old stickin