Sometimes simplicity is genius. Hundreds of volunteers spend saturday night sleeping outdoors as part of a Charity Event in londons Trafalgar Square to raise money to tackle homelessness. The United States and iran have carried out a Rare Exchange of prisoners, despite the tensions between washington and tehran. Massoud soleimani, an iranian scientist arrested over alleged violation of trade sanctions, was freed by the us. He was swapped for an American Academic xiyue wang, who had been in prison in iran for ten years on spying charges, which he denied. More from our washington correspondent chris buckler. Both iran and the us have made the most of this brief thaw in the relationship. The Iranian Foreign minister even pictured himself with Massoud Soleimani. As he made his way back to tehran, the us posted a photograph of the prisoner starting his own way home. The Princeton University academic was charged with spying on iran more than three years ago and since then his family have mad
Scientists say a new report which shows the earths oceans are becoming starved of oxygen is further evidence that urgent action is needed to cut Greenhouse Gas emissions. The findings suggest larger fish are being affected both by Global Warming and pollution. Questions are being raised about russian interference in the uk election after possible links emerged between russia and leaked documents detailing trade talks between the United States and the uk. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. A leaked government document, highlighted by labour, containing details of initial discussions on trade between uk and us officials. Its authenticity is not disputed. What it proves has been hotly debated. How it came to be made public is unclear. Jeremy corbyn campaigning in wales today as the online news site reddit, where the document first surfaced, said it was posted by an account linked to a campaign originating in russia. He insisted publishing the document was in the public in
The problem of homelessness. The United States and iran have carried out a Rare Exchange of prisoners, despite the tensions between washington and tehran. Massoud soleimani, an iranian scientist, arrested over alleged violation of trade sanctions, was freed by the us. He was swapped for an american academic, xiyue wang, whod been in prison in iran for ten years on spying charges, which he denied. More from our washington correspondent, chris buckler. Both iran and the us have made the most of this brief thaw in the relationship. The Iranian Foreign minister even pictured himself with massoud soleimani. As he made his way back to tehran, the us posted a photograph of xiyue wang starting his own way home. The Princeton University academic was charged with spying on iran more than three years ago and since then, his family have made several public appeals for him to be allowed to return to his wife and son. He was barely three when my husband left home for his research, and he is now six.
lazio are into the semi finals of the coppa italia after a narrow victory in in the rome derby which had an ill tempered finish. a penalty from mattia zaccagni just into the second half was the enough to beat rivals roma 1 0. three players sent off in stoppage time there, two from roma. who ll playjuventus or frosinone. they play on thursday. the other quarterfinal between milan and atalanta is underway. the winners will play fiorentina who beat bologna on tuesday. and in the semi finals of the spanish super cup taking place in saudi arabia, we re into the second half of real madrid, against their city rivals atletico. four goals shared in the first half. antoine griezeman becoming atletico s all time top scorer, with the equaliser to make it 2 2. the score remains 2 2. the winners face either barcelona or osasuna who play on thursday that match also taking place in riyadh. mark selby and robert milkens are in action for the last of the first round matches, in snooker s
emperor, one of the greatest players of all time stop tributes are flooding in for him at the moment. here s someone who has the unusual accolade of winning a cup as both player and manager. accolade of winning a cup as both playerand manager. news accolade of winning a cup as both player and manager. newsjust coming in that germany s franz beckenbauer, has died at the age of 78. we will bring you more on that and bring you more tributes as they come into us. for the momentjust bringing that sad news for you. let s get a quick look at the business news. we start with boeing shares in the us aircraft giant have sunk almost 9% wiping nearly $13 billion off its stock market value after the grounding of some of its 737 max planes on safety concerns. a door panel or plug on an alaskan airlines 737 max nine blew out mid flight over the us state of oregon on friday forcing the jet to make an emergency landing. there were no major injuries among the 177 people on board. late on sun