the next generation. hello there, and welcome along to the programme premier league football resumes this evening with implications for the top and bottom of the table. with leaders liverpool in action tomorrow arsenal or manchester city could re take the lead. we ll talk city s game with fourth placed villa in a moment but the gunners who are now two points behind liverpool take on luton town at the emirates later. luton themselves desperate for three points in their search for safety as they try keep pace with nottingham forest who won last night. a tall order, given arsenal s sensational form winning eight from nine in the league this year. this is where we want to be, and now we want to take this opportunity and make it happen. we work every single day with passion to make it happen, and i m enjoying the moment as well. i see the team really flowing and they are really excited about playing this game, and that has two drive this journey to the end. the ars
hours‘ time. unemployment falls again it s now at its lowest level since 1975. but for the first time in three years pay is lagging behind inflation. i m simon mccoy. also coming up the sexist world of horse racing it s a sport worth more than £3 billion, but why do women looking for a career, rarely get to the finishing line? and what would corrie‘s cash strapped cleaner have to say about this? as soap busybody hilda ogden s pinny and curlers go up for auction. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the chairman of an influential us congressional committee is demanding that the fbi hands over all records of contacts between its former chief, james comey, and president trump. the documents are at the centre of claims that the president asked mr comey to drop an investigation into links between his former national security adviser, michael flynn, and russia. the allegations, in the new york times, have been denied by the white house. wyre davies reports. donald] tr
i think it s a watergate size and scale. we need the facts, it s obvious there are people out there whio want to harm the president. we have an obligation to carry out our oversight regardless of which party is in the white house. unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in 42 years, but wages aren t keeping up with inflation. chelsea manning, the former us soldier, who passed hundreds of thousands confidential diplomatic documents to wikileaks, has been released from a military prison in kansas. and items worn by one of television s best loved characters, coronation street s busybody hilda ogden, have sold for more than £4,000 at auction. it s five o clock. our main story the liberal democrats are putting another eu referendum at the heart of their general election manifesto which was launched earlier today. the party said it would let the people decide whether brexit happens, once negotiations have finished. the party s leader tim farron says the decision to leave
dismay about what theresa may plans to do. the extreme version of brexit thejeremy to do. the extreme version of brexit the jeremy corbyn to do. the extreme version of brexit thejeremy corbyn and ukip backed as well. the lib dems are the only people offering hope that the future of britain can be brighter and better. but could not be that we would just leave without a deal at all? our policy is that theresa may has the best policy to get the best dealfor britain. but has the best policy to get the best deal for britain. but our view is that if the people reject that deal, we should have the right to remain in the year. it is a simple choice. isn t the problem for you that when this election was called, lots of liberal democrats i spoke to really felt that the remains voters would swing behind your voters in huge numbers. that is simply not happening. our membership as increased rapidly since the brexit election. in the local elections, we well the only party to go forward, tw
revival mean that the independence tide has turned? in some ways, the conservative resurgence seems to suggest that actually the constitutional issue matters perhaps more than it ever has because it s the conservative party, more than any other party, that are talking about independence and the threat of independence and that helps them, they feel it s helped them to be the party of choice for those who are, first and foremost, in favour of scotland remaining in the united kingdom. the conservatives and the snp together have changed scottish politics. the fault line is not so much left versus right, independence, for or against, is what divides scotland now. allan little, bbc news, edinburgh. they are known as ‘bots‘ fake profiles created on social media posting millions of automated messages. they re increasingly being used to spread propaganda, sometimes by foreign powers and often without us knowing who is behind them. today, the information commissioner said she wou