The competence of national governments to do with visas, length of stay, for instance, where certain things can be negotiated. But you are right, overall in terms of the big barriers to access to the european market, including the german market, that will require a negotiation with the European Union. So there are certain things they can do on the economic side with the Germans Today but The Big Picture is a European Picture and that Trade Agreement that borisjohnson signed with the European Union back in 2020. In terms of that conversation with the European Union, is that what the Labour Government want to do, or is this just a softly softly approach and just a realignment of what was a rather turbulent relationship when the conservatives were in power . To be honest, i dont know any more than you do about what they intend to do. Its clear they want to improve bilateral levers with key european statesmen. Today in germany with olaf scholz. Keir starmer will be visiting Emmanuel Macron
Hello, welcome to the Bbc News at ten. Tens of thousands of people have gathered on the streets of Paris Tonight to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 paralympics. 4,400 athletes from 184 delegations will compete over the next 11 days of competition with these games featuring a Record Number of delegations and of female athletes. Our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss is watching in paris. A perfect parisian evening and a paralympic Curtain Raiser like no other. Welcome to paris at Place De La Concorde an Opening Ceremony exploring attitudes towards disability. French Star Christine and the queens with a modern take on an Edith Piaf classic. And soon it was time for the athletes. Parading down the champs elysees, more than 180 countries united by a commonjoy. And here comes great britain. The british team, led by Terry Bywater and lucy shuker, were welcomed by the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Paralympics gb have 215 athletes competing here and after finishing second in the Medals
Papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firms yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. Lets get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. What did you find . This is about a Power Station in england. This is the worlds biggest woodfired Power Station. It does say by burning wood pellets. It receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. The Power Station gets through an awful lot of wood pellets each year, about 6. 5 million tonnes. All of these are imported into the uk from overseas, many of them coming from the us and canada, where drax runs 17 pell
don t. the prime minister has a big decision to make. the british citizens trapped under fire in the sudanese capital khartoum as food and water run out. buildings have been obliterated and pounded continuously. hundreds of people line the streets of kent for the funeral of the entertainer paul o grady. and coming up on bbc news: two own goals in the quarterfinal first leg. can manchester united turn their fortunes around against sevilla in the second leg of the europa league? good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the biggest and most powerful space rocket ever launched has blown up on its maiden flight. spacex s starship exploded just minutes after lift off from texas. there was no one on board. elon musk, the man behind it, declared the test flight a success. he is trying to develop a reusable space vehicle that will eventually be able to carry up to 100 people on interplanetary flights as well as allowing travel to anywhere in the world in one hour or less. rebe
more than £2 billion in levelling up cash for projects around the uk the government defends how it s been shared out. as britain sends more missiles to ukraine, we have a special report from the front line that s seen the bloodiest battles of this war. and battles of this war. a five set up a bit, and incredible and a five set up a bit, and incredible comeback for andy murray at the australian open on for almost six hours. his longest ever match. coming up on the bbc news channels, huge changes are coming in rugby union as the are a few bands above the waist tackling. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the jury at the inquest of a young blogger has concluded that she died from suicide contributed to by neglect. beth matthews, who was 26, ordered a poisonous substance from russia, had it delivered to her secure ward at a private hospital run by the priory group in greater manchester, and then swallowed the contents in front of staff. she had told them it was a