spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immig
and back at last after being delayed by the pandemic we speak to the creator of line of duty about covid challenges and the brand new series. and coming up on bbc news: as rachel blackmore makes history as leading jockey at the cheltenham festival, she is beaten by the horse she didn t choose in the gold cup, minella indo. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the leader of the scottish conservatives at holyrood, ruth davidson, has called for nicola sturgeon to resign as first minister, saying it was clear she misled parliament. a majority of the committee investigating the scottish government s handling of harassment claims against alex salmond is understood to have voted last night that she didn t give them accurate information. a spokesman for nicola sturgeon has accused the committee of peddling baseless smears. the final report is due to be published on tuesday. nicola sturgeon says she stands by every word of her evidence. our scotland editor sarah smith re
After a global Computer System failure. Ba says it hopes to get passengers onto the next available flights over the weekend. As you can see behind me there is a huge Queue Waiting for any information. My main concern is that i dont want my 80 year old grandma spending the night on heathrow floor. The Terror Threat level in the uk which was increased to the highest status of critical following the Manchester Bombing has been reduced to severe. There will be more arrests and more searches, but theres greater clarity and progress has led jtac, the independent body that assesses threat, to come to the judgment that an attack is no longer imminent. Police and Army Bomb Disposal experts evacuate an area of moss side as part of an ongoing search linked to the Manchester Arena bombing. There are new revelations about president trumps son in law, jared kushner, and his alleged involvement in secret dealings with russia. Us media is reporting that the fbi is investigating claims he discussed ope
After a global Computer System failure. Ba says it hopes to get passengers onto the next available flights over the weekend. As you can see behind me there is a huge Queue Waiting for any information. My main concern is that i dont want my 80 year old grandma spending the night on heathrow floor. The Terror Threat level in the uk which was increased to the highest status of critical following the Manchester Bombing has been reduced to severe. There will be more arrests and more searches, but theres greater clarity and progress has led jtac, the independent body that assesses threat, to come to the judgment that an attack is no longer imminent. Police and Army Bomb Disposal experts evacuate an area of moss side as part of an ongoing search linked to the Manchester Arena bombing. There are new revelations about president trumps son in law, jared kushner, and his alleged involvement in secret dealings with russia. Us media is reporting that the fbi is investigating claims he discussed ope
Police charge 47 year old Darren Osborne with terrorism related murder over the attack outside Finsbury Park mosque. Gary haggarty a former loyalist Paramilitary Commander Turned Supergrass pleads guilty to 200 charges, including five murders. And mark kermode gives his verdict on the latest Transformers Film and other releases in the film review at 5. 45. Our main story at five detectives investigating the Grenfell Tower fire say they are considering a number of possible criminal offences including manslaughter after revealing that the cladding on the building has failed initial fire safety tests. Scotland yard has also confirmed that the fire thought to have killed at least 79 people started in a hotpoint Fridge Freezer. The government has ordered an immediate examination of the unit by technical experts to establish what went wrong but says there is no reason to believe there is a generalfault. Fourteen buildings across the country are now known to have cladding which gives cause fo