Its about 2 30am. Now its time for a look back at the day in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to monday in parliament, as borisjohnson tries and fails to force an early general election. The electorate will, im afraid, have a sense that we are all like charlie brown, endlessly running up to kick the ball, only to have Parliament Take it away. The lib dems want an early poll too, but its not their first choice. If there is not the support for a peoples vote in this parliament, then we need to look at the other way to do that. And in john bercows last week as speaker, an mp finally discovers how to impress him. He really is an encyclopaedia of arguably useful information. But first, Boris Johnsons latest attempt to persuade mps to vote for an early general election has failed. 0n the very day the Prime Minister had to accept a delay to brexit. We are not now leaving on thursday. Mrjohnson wants to hold an election on december the 12th, but under the law to thirds of mps, 434 of them,
Why fewer shoppers and more closures made july an especially tough time for retailers. Ill have the details. A Fabulous Four and a perfect start to the new premier League Season for Manchester United, who thump chelsea at old trafford and inflict a first defeat for Frank Lampard. Good morning. Today we are looking ata good morning. Today we are looking at a mixture of sunshine and showers. Showers in the north and west, have very heavier and thundery showers in the south east, in between some sunshine, and this weeks weather remains unsettled. Ill have more in 15 minutes. Its monday, august 12. Our top story drug crime has risen in rural areas but fallen sharply in major city centres. A bbc investigation has found that in some villages in england and wales it has more than quadrupled in five years. The findings highlight concern about the spread of so called county lines gangs which traffic drugs using children and vulnerable people. Dan johnson reports. The latest frontier in the figh
Women going through the menopause face a National Shortage of hormone replacement therapy. And why sales of Indoor Plants are blooming, especially among younger people. Its 5 oclock. Our main story Hong Kong International airport has cancelled all flights, as Anti Government protesters continue to occupy the main terminal. Thousands of demonstrators have gathered at the airport which is one of the busiest in the world. It follows another weekend of violent confrontations between police and protestors across the former british colony. The unrest shows no sign of abating, more than two months after it was sparked by a controversial extradition bill. A warning that you may find some of the images in this report from our Global Affairs correspondent, naomi grimley, disturbing. Ground to a halt. Usually Hong Kong International airport is one of the busiest hubs in the world, but today its planes have been stopped because of another growing democracy protest. Hundreds of black clad protester
The british teenage gamer whos won almost a million in the fortnite world cup finals. She thought i was spending eight hours in my dayjust wasting my time so now hours in my dayjust wasting my time so now that i have proved to her that i can do stuff, i am really happy. Today, more rain in the forecast, turning shari through the day. Dry weather as well but i will have more inis weather as well but i will have more in 15 minutes. Weather as well but i will have more inis minutes. Weather as well but i will have more in 15 minutes. Sharla ri. Showery. Its monday the 29th july. Our top story Boris Johnson will travel to scotland today to announce 300 Million Pounds of new funding for scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. Yesterday, the conservative leader in scotland, Ruth Davidson, said she couldnt support a no deal brexit. Today the business organisation, the cbi, warned the government that neither the uk or eu is ready for a no deal brexit on october 31st. Heres our Political Correspo
Off into the evening. 0verall, persist into the afternoon, tapering off into the evening. Overall, a day featuring lots of dry weather and sunshine. Temperatures quite unremarkable, high teens, low 20s, perhaps 21 in the south east of england. Here we go with evening, the rain comes rolling in from the south west, a wet enter of the night to the south west of england. Motor to the south west of england. Motor to hear the couch, quite chilly to the north east into wednesday, three 01 the north east into wednesday, three orfourin the north east into wednesday, three orfour in some more rural spot in scotland. The wet weather really rolls the way through england and wales on wednesday, more scattered shallots for scotland and Northern Ireland with better drier spells for the majority of the day and really heavy, potentially thundery reign for the midlands and Eastern England wednesday afternoon, further north, the system rolls across Northern Ireland and scotland through the evening, wet